The sunshine law as it stands now is so weasel-worded and weak that it amazes me that anyone thinks it is a threat or needs to be weakened. Most people do not have time to go to these meetings anyway. If they went, they would probably not get everything that is going on behind the scenes either unless and until they made it an obsession. Most people are just going to get the short and sometimes filtered version from the press anyway.

The threat of an open meeting is vital to having confidence in the system even if it is misguided confidence. Representative government means that we can confidently delegate to elected officials but it does not mean that decision making is necessisarily going to be within the public interest.

This push for greater secrecy is just another proof that the government thinks of itself and being separate from the people who pay for government. The people that we pay to be more informed about public policy seem to be so impressed with their achievement that they can justify locking out or ignoring those who made it possible for them to spend so much of their time learning the system.