Corruption news for Tennessee, from the Tennesseean:

Tennessee lawmakers have failed for two years to fill a seat on the panel responsible for regulating lobbying activities, financial disclosure requirements and ethical conduct within state and local government.

The Tennessee Ethics Commission was created in 2006 to help restore the public’s faith in government after the Tennessee Waltz bribery scandal of 2005 led to the convictions of nine state and local officials and a lobbyist. Appointments to the body, however, havn’t been treated with urgency in the years since, contributing to criticism that the commission is ineffective at fighting corruption in the executive and legislative branches.

Read the rest of the story at the Tennessean.