Speaker: Ex-Assemblyman Kite's complaint against Wheeler won't be heard

Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick informed ex-Assemblyamn Kelly Kite last week that his complaint against the man who replaced him, Jim Wheeler, will not be considered by the Select Committee on Ethics.

In the letter, posted here with an analysis from the Legislative Counsel Bureau, Kirkpatrick informs Kite that the panel has no jurisdiction to consider the complaint, which involves Wheeler's residency and financial reporting.

The argument essentially is that the secretary of state has primary authority to probe financial reporting questions and that the Assembly never gave the ethics panel the authority to judge the qualifications of a member. (Whoops.)

So now the ball is in Ross Miller's court.

 

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