From Bluefield Daily Telegraph:

Gov. Joe Manchin isn’t sold on requiring public servants to disclose their spouses’ employers and financial interests.

Manchin told reporters Tuesday that he understood the concerns of senators who killed a pending ethics bill just before the legislative session ended Saturday.

“They have their own lives, they have their own careers. They didn’t put their names on the ballot,” the governor said during a post-session press conference in his Capitol office.

The bill was the first to pass the House, and did so unanimously. Besides extending existing disclosure requirements to spouses, it called for greater reporting by officials of their financial holdings and income sources. It also proposed a one-year wait before an array of public officials could become lobbyists.

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