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Stephen Farnsworth at the University of Mary Washington says any effort to increase transparency would be good for Virginia politics. “Well certainly if organizations are out there pushing lawmakers to do things, they may end up being successful,” he explains. “But this is a pretty tough slog to try to convince lawmakers to support a tougher ethics regimen that would make their own lives more difficult.”