Sunday, February 01, 2009

Is webcasting a partisan issue?

I have no statistics to draw upon; nobody has surveyed
the entire legislature on the issue of webcasting.
It would be as interesting a survey as most.

My impression is that the line is not drawn on party lines,
but rather on power lines; the more power one controls,
the less likely they are, to want to be filmed (ab)using it.

That conclusion seems both consistent with the data and
logical.

Beyond that, my impression is that
when Republicans speak in favor of webcasting, they do so
with more conviction than Democrats.

The problem so far, is that not enough legislators in either
party, are speaking with conviction on the issue.


Which would seem to indicate that they do not want to be
webcast; that they do not want there to be, a public record
of their public service.

Either that, or
they just don't have the cojones wikilink to pick a side at all.


You pick a side, when you don't pick a side.

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