Gov. Steve Beshear dragged his feet last year on providing taxpayers much-promised transparency of government spending with a user-friendly, searchable web site. Then at the first of this year, he dragged his feet some more.
Well, the transparency web site is up, but Beshear's promise remains unkept. But don't ask me. Let's ask retired state employee Ralph Long, a Lexington Democrat who actually ran for the state House in 2004 against Rep. Stan Lee. Surely he was impressed with Gov. Beshear's effort, right?
Wrong.
Long said "it doesn’t go nearly far enough. We need a lot more detail. The information is available, a lot already in digital format."
From Ralph Long's site:
The Beshear Administration leaves a lot of information hidden from taxpayers with their "transparency" web site. This is very disappointing.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Beshear gets low grade on new web site
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I agree, there is a lot of information hidden on the transparency website. I wa comparing Kentuckys website with some other states and there was no contest. The other states were very detailed in where the money was spent, what it was used for, and how much money each department got. One even had their spending figured for this year. Kentucky needs to step it up and prove to all of us that they are not just full of hot air when it comes to transparency
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