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WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) — The Wausau Ethics Board has decided Mayor Doug Diny violated the city’s ethics code when he removed a ballot drop box from outside City Hall on September 22, 2024.
The board met in closed session on Wednesday afternoon for roughly 30 minutes. Afterward, they determined Diny’s actions constituted an ethics violation.
Specifically, the Ethics Board said Mayor Diny violated Wausau City Code 02.03.030 Paragraph J , which states, “No official/employee shall in his or her official capacity do any act or use his or her official title in performing any act, which he or she knows is in excess of his or her lawful authority or which he or she knows he or she is forbidden by law to do in his or her official capacity.”
Ethics Board Chairman Calvin Dexter added, “Mayor Diny,
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