Straight from the JSOnline report:
The vote for a sales tax came at 2 a.m., after the Democrat-controlled committee was bogged down for 12 hours in closed-door meetings. The budget meeting was to begin at 11 a.m. Thursday but did not start until 11 p.m.; the motions on transit weren't unveiled until after 1 a.m. Friday
Ummnnhhh....
Gee. Tax-and-spend in "closed-door" meetings?
I don't care if it's the (D) or the (R) party which controls the committee. There is NO GOOD REASON to have "closed-door" meetings (read: "who-f&^%s-who" logrolling) while conducting this business.
Personnel stuff can be closed, for the obvious reasons.
Not this.
Maybe it's time to have a TEA-Party invasion of those "closed" meetings.
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Yes, the Capitol doesn't abide by the rules they place on the rest of us. Caucus meetings aren't open. They keep email for 30 days, tops, whereas your average state/city is expected to keep it for 7 years. You'll need more than tea bags to write a bill or find a vote for this. Maybe one of those patrons funding the CFG or AFP can pay for and deliver as many lobbyists and campaign contributions as, say, ATT when they want a bill-mill law passed in our state.
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