Ethics panel still not inspiring confidence

More than 15 months on, and we finally have a county Ethics Commission — sort of.
Last week, the Board of Supervisors approved the third member, Todd Spitzer’s nominee, retired Superior Court Judge Barbara Tam Nomoto-Schumann. The five-person commission now has the quorum required to hold its first meeting, as reported by Voice of OC. But it has been a bumpy road to get this far, and now we worry that much of what we warned about when cautioning a vote against the proposal seems to b