October 29, 2007

Let's Hear It For Open Government

The Memphis Commercial Appeal had an excellent editorial Sunday regarding the attempt by Tennessee Democrats to gut the state's open meetings law. Here is what the Tennessee Republican Party had to say about that same issue:

This week state Democrats have voted to make meetings conducting the people's business less open to the public. A legislative study committee addressed the issue of the Sunshine Law and voted to weaken the current law and allow more members of state and local boards to meet in private to discuss the business of the public.

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