House Ethics Committee convenes

The House Ethics Committee has convened, and gone into executive session to consider two preliminary complaints, one against Rep. Phil Hart from political opponent Howard Griffiths over a judges’ meeting, and one against Rep. Eric Anderson from Hart supporter Larry Spencer. The closed-door session is scheduled to last just 20 minutes; then the Ethics Committee will reconvene in open session. Among the agenda items it’s then scheduled to take up: Both preliminary complaints, plus the pending ethics complaint against Hart filed by Anderson.