Public records reform is on the table

There is no reason that public records reform should not be included in the restructuring of state government.

Who is going to write the reform?

If we sit back and do nothing, it will be written in the traditional manner; a demonstrable failure, or it will not be written at all.

The same with webcasting. The same with open meetings.

We know where the battle will be. We know the time, and
the day, and the place. The only thing we don't know is,
if anyone from Team People will be there, ready to rumble.

A lot of people talk about their commitment to transparent accountability. It has come time to walk the talk.

There is an opportunity to stand up and defend the principle.

Sacrifice is the currency of commitment.

If no one is willing to sacrifice in defense of a principle,
what does that say about the value of the principle?

And if the principle is of value, what does it say about
the character and courage of those who have talked the talk,
and now balk at walking the walk?

Who is going to show up at the fight for transparent accountability?

Who is going to lead, and who is going to follow?

Someone needs to step up and lead the fight for transparency in our government.

Someone needs to put their pen(s) to a counter proposal from the people.

Someone needs to carry it to the table in room 307 in the Roundhouse.


"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible,
make violent revolution inevitable". John Kennedy

The leading cause of failed peaceful revolutions is the people who are not willing to fight for what they believe in.

Is fight the right word?

Either the restructuring will include transparent accountability to the people, or it will not.

Whether it does or doesn't depends on what the committee proposes, and what they are willing to do to defend it. If they are prepared to fight to deny transparent accountability to the people, then the people have to be willing to fight as well.

If what we are willing to do to compel transparently accountable government does not include fighting for it, you have to wonder what we would do with it, if we had it.

If someone does step up; someone else has to stand up behind and beside them. The responsibility to stand up falls upon all stakeholders equally.

With membership in a community comes dues; the obligation to share fairly the burdens that must be born in order for the community to survive.

Someone else first observed;

One can give without caring
but one cannot care without giving.

I would offer a corollary;

You can show up to the fight in Room 307 without caring,
but you can't care about the outcome of the fight, without showing up.

"All that is necessary for evil to prevail in the world, is for good men to do nothing"; Edmund Burke.

Or, all that is necessary to lose the fight over transparent accountability, is for good men to do nothing.