Boston city councilors are mulling a scheme to keep their business secret from the taxpayers who elected them, creating a cone of silence that would make the Hub the only city in the commonwealth exempt from the state’s Open Meeting Law.
An 80-page report the council takes up today recommends asking the Legislature for an exemption from the law that requires all cities and towns to conduct their business in public. An exemption would mean citizens have no legally guaranteed right to attend council meetings, or even receive meeting minutes.
Got that? They want complete and total freedom from review. No press. No public.
Gee, why would anyone object to that? I mean, all that pesky publicity... With those... those... rabble actually allowed to attend the meetings?
It's hard to imagine the kind of horrors the Boston City Council has had to endure that they feel the need to invoke Maxwell Smart's "Cone of Silence". Can anyone see any possible good coming out of this? Of having the government arbitrarily and capriciously excuse itself from the very laws it is sworn to uphold?
And, next question, is Joe Biden going to want the City Councilors hauled off in irons? This seems to be the very sort of thing he gets all worked up about...
That is all.
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No good will come of this...
Alright everyone, time to call your congress-critters and raise holy hell.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Seems these vermin prefer the rot...
Guys in the analogy Palin is the lipstick and the Republican Party is the pig.
I think it is picture perfect.
Sure they are in a mad scramble now to reform and redefine themselves and only a fool would blame them for that.
They themselves have said that this campaign would not be decided on the issues and they had damn well better hope it is not.
Republicans like to see themselves as the party of God and they are like God in that they are the same today, yesterday and forever.
Lipstick nothwithstanding.
It's "FOR THE CHILDREN"(TM)
So, buck..... what does lipstick have to do with the price of rubber dog doo in Hong Kong, or Jay's post on Boston City Council's attempt to do away with open meeting law? Or has McCain's pick of Palin (and it's effect on BO's poll numbers) comletely unhinged you? Are you obsessed with Sarah Palin, or lipstick? Or is just a knee-jerk reaction for you to lash out at the Republican Party any time a liberal gets called on doing some undemocratic things? Take a minute and wipe the foam from your mouth, get your thoughts in order and your ducks in a row before you jump into a discussion flailing away at those evil Republicans....
As soon as they can fund themselves, I say let them do it.
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