Seventy-six percent of the participants in an online poll conducted by the Daily Report said if they had represented the state ethics commission in a recent whistleblower case, they would have given a controversial memo to opposing counsel or at least asked the judge for a ruling.

In the real case, the state Law Department decided the memo—in which the ethics commission chief said top aides to Gov. Nathan Deal pressured her to quietly wrap up an investigation into his campaign finances—wasn’t responsive to the plaintiff’s discovery requests.

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