EXCLUSIVE

Consumer and government ethics advocacy group Public Citizen has been conferring with the incoming Obama administration about new ethics measures for the executive branch, says the group's departing president, Joan Claybrook, in an exclusive interview with Under the Influence. Claybrook Interview.pdf.

Claybrook announced on December 9 that she's stepping down from the group Ralph Nader founded in 1971 and which Claybrook has headed for 27 years. In the interview, Claybrook also reflects on the strides the consumer and clean government movements have made, names the top remaining agenda items for the movements and assesses some early measures taken by President-elect Obama. Claybrook's own statement announcing her departure from Public Citizen is here.

                                                                                                              -- Julie Kosterlitz