The effort to get Kentucky's government spending posted to the internet has been quite interesting. The mainstream media, whose legal staffs regularly do battle to protect their own right to information, have been largely silent on this effort.
And despite politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties claiming to favor rooting out corruption and waste, until a couple of months ago there were only two legislative bills to post spending online. In the 2008 session, there was a decent effort by Rep. Jim DeCesare to start toward open government, and a pitiful joke of a bill by Rep. Don Pasley that made a mockery of the idea.
So it is interesting now to see some indication of a slowly-developing partisan battle to be more transparent than the other guys in Frankfort.
Just pick up the pace, okay guys?
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Smell of success in Kentucky
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"The mainstream media, whose legal staffs regularly do battle to protect their own right to information, have been largely silent on this effort."
This is because these elitists at the Heraldo-Liberal and the Communist-Journal adn elsewhere know well what they are doing.
They know they are part of a large leftist movement that is, through illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, and un-American practices, moving America from the Land of the Free where Liberty and Justice exist for All "people" to the land of the oppressed where socialism and humanism exist for the "state" to be the great controller of everything.
They cannot accomplish their task and continue to lie to the people about what is really going on in the gubbament cheese monster if there is transparency, real unadulterated transparancy.
I believe these leftists, both in the gubbament cheese monster and in the mainstream media (their enablers), will do everything they can to stop this or, if it gains popularity among the uninformed populace, do everything they can to water it down to the point it is ineffective.
Trust me, these self serving elitists will do all they can to protect their "turf", which has been stolen from the people.
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