Patricia Doxsey is reporting for the Daily Freeman Ulster County Legislator Joseph Maloney has proposed a local law that would prohibit elected officials from attaching their name to public service announcements. Announcements in which one elected official or another urges county residents to get their flu shot, use their seat belt or quit smoking. The county Legislature will consider adopting the proposal as county policy when it meets on February 13. “If we’re going to inform people of things with their own money, I think we should leave politics out of it, and that means leaving people’s names out of it,” the Saugerties independent said. Maloney sees the change as a way to hold the county more accountable. He said the the new law is not intended to impede government operations or to target a particular elected official. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.