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« There's a Solar-Powered Laptop PC In You Future | Main | A New Push to Limit State Budget Growth? » May 23, 2005The Smoke -Filled Room
Members of the committee claimed it wasn't an official meeting. Instead, Sen. Roy Herron, D-Dresden, called it "friends" getting together — friends who all sit on the powerful Senate panel.Herron has a blog. He ought to address this issue on his blog. Even if he doesn't you can still go visit his blog and tell him what you think about him and his friends meeting in secret to make decisions that are supposed to be discussed and voted on in public for real, not just as a prescripted and rehearsed reenactment of a done deal. Incidentally, the meetings were not just a handful of legislative co-workers going to lunch across the street from Legislative Plaza. his was a planned meeting held at a remote location in order to avoid being noticed. According to the Nashville City Paper, the group met at Ellington Agriculture Center, several miles from the state capital, and again at the offices of the Tennessee Municipal League. These were secret meetings designed to fly under the media radar, so that the people's business could be conducted in secret, unrecorded, and shielded from scrutiny. Posted in Tennessee Budget & Tax Policy
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Sounds like Tennessee Lege learned a lesson from their cousins in West Virginia Posted by: Don Surber at May 23, 2005 06:47 PMMakes you feel like your're watching reruns of "The Twilight Zone". Didn't the Dems try the same tactics during the income tax circus? Had it not been for open honest elected members like Marsha Blakburn they may have gotten away with it. So when the vote comes we all know that the real vote was conducted last Sunday. It will be no surprise how the attendees will vote. Posted by: Rick from E. Tenn. at May 23, 2005 11:20 PMPost a comment
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Tennessee's legislative dealings are supposed to be conducted in public, not in secret meetings, but it looks like that law was bent just a bit on Sunday and again on Monday when several members of the state Senate Finance Committee - enough for a quorum - met in secret to discuss the forthcoming budget vote. At stake: how the state will spend $25 billion of your money. The AP 