Finally the North Carolina Senate is moving on ethics reform.  However, they're not exactly moving in the right direction.  

In a bill introduced yesterday, the Senate proposes to create an ethics commission to monitor the executive, judicial and legislative branches.  Great, right?  Well, not quite.  It seems the commission wouldn't have the ability to investigate lawmakers, who already - and would continue to - fall under the power of the Legislative Ethics Commission.

It's great that the NC Senate is doing something on ethics reform, but if a commission is going to actually have any teeth and be able to fully hold all public officials accountable, then it needs to go farther and have truly independent and comprehensive oversight.