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Lawmakers lock up their records and toss key
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Question for Burnick: Which Legislators are voluntarily cooperating? November isn't that far off.
Thanks to Bernick and the Deseret News for reporting the abuses that pervade the Utah legislature and its one party power politics.
Meanwhile, there's no reason that "sensitive discussions" can't take place regardless of whether GRAMA hides the phone records. No one would be surprised to find, say, that Valentine and Curtis spend hours on the phone together. It's the other folks that legislators spend hours on the phone with--at taxpayers' expense--that is rightly our concern.
It's too bad we can't assign a watchdog to each one to keep an eye on them 24/7, but with a part-time legislature, that hardly seems fair. Still, they should at least agree to conduct themselves appropriately while on our dime.
And of course, our elected officials should be able to use taxpayer money to buy phones and pay the monthly bill for the phones and since they are such honest and upright individuals and have nothing but our best interests at heart, we do not need to know who they are calling and how often or what secret deals are being struck while they are doing the people's work and who cares if they conduct personal business on public funds?
Gee - I wish my employer felt that way about the stuff he provides me to enable me to do my job instead of making me accountable for my time and usage...
And as to the "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" that is, I'm sure, the stated reason for the denial of the telephone records, the Legislator waived their right to privacy when they made the phone call on their publicly funded telephone.
Bob, I know the appeals process is long, but the DNews should take heart in knowing that the Legislature also passed a little provision recently that will allow you guys to recover your attorney fees when you win (and probabilistic thinking tells me that a judge won't likely hold her nose and let the Legislature hide behind that GRAMA provision). I hope you pursue your appeal, please. The press is there to do exactly what you do week in and week out, Bob, dig for the truth and disseminate it widely when you find it.
I'll look forward to your follow-up story next Spring, just in time for the session wrap-up!
If you are right, then Bernick is wrong. Of course, this wouldn't be his first error/deception. I'm tiring of his inaccurate, self-righteous rants.
Time for some sunshine disinfectant for the DNews.
This delayed faux outrage seems a little out of place. Wake up and smell the postum.
If it stinks, clean it up.
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