Friday, July 25, 2008

Legislative Special Session to ignore ethics; again.

Four hundred million tax dollars will be spent by legislators
when they convene in August.

They will do much of the spending in secret.

The cameras that are supposed to cover the proceedings;
long since paid for by taxpayers, will not be up and running.

Conference committees where bills passed by the house
and by the senate are melded into one, often will added
or missing elements, will be conducted in secret.

All of this despite the expressed wish of stakeholder voters
that the process be transparent.

It is an unusual interpretation of the concept of public
in-servitude. The servants make the rules and call the
shots.

Why do we tolerate it?

Are we simply too lazy to do anything but bitch about
the results?

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