Those of you who know my background know where I stand on openness in government. I'll go to court over it, even get fired from a job over it.
It is difficult for me to even comprehend that our lawmakers are behind closed doors in the closed capitol and SOB crafting nine major budget bills that contain provisions that none of us are privvy to.
You may wonder how the meetings are not subject to the open meeting law. I think I wrote about this earlier, but there's a slight twist to the law, so these meetings can be closed. Those that are really interested in the subject, I suggest you follow Rich Neumeister's blog....Open Secrets. I have a lot of respect for this citizen lobbyist who is always out to cover privacy issues.
Anyway, I understand that even the Democrats are not involved in the meetings. BUT in some of the reporting I have read that "others" are brought into the meetings.... I hope that by "others" they don't mean "lobbyists." But I saw for sure one in the SOB the other day..... Just thinkin' that's all.
The bills are to be posted on line before the special session for public review. But let me tell you, as someone who has to write about these bill.... they are pages and pages long, and the language is cumbersome for anyone to read. I'll let you know when they are up online.
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