Sunshine Portal closed.

Actually the Sunshine Portal, link, has never opened.

I have run into more than a few people who are stunned to
learn that the Sunshine Portal, a basic accoutrement of
governmental transparency, still has not opened. Most
think the portal opened when it was signed into law.

Though passed and signed into law on March 5, 2010,
the actual opening does not take place until July 1, 2011;
effectively two fiscal years after by Lt Gov Diane Denish,
signed it into law; and long after the budget knives are
put away in the next legislative session; long after citizen's
real need for the numbers has passed.

While only a step forward in governmental transparency,
the portal will be a monumental step, once it has been taken.

One wonders then, why Denish is no longer claiming any credit
for it, or association with it?

One reason; if she brings it up, someone is likely to ask;
why is it not open?

She has no good and ethical answer for that question;
so she will avoid the question. She will avoid bringing
an unwanted attention to still unopened, open government.

Also avoiding the question; Denish's opponent DA Susana Martinez.

Why does she not care whether Denish's Portal is actually a portal, or simply a plan for a portal?

Does she share the politicos aversion to searchable databases that are actually open and doing business?