Some conservatives are true believers in open government

It’s surprising that more “limited government” conservatives aren’t bigger proponents of open meetings and open records. Isn’t shining sunlight on government activities a key to keeping its power in check? But at least conservative Sens. Tim Huelskamp, R-Fowler (in photo), and Kay O’Connor, R-Olathe, get it. They, along with Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, received the Kansas Sunshine Coalition’s Friend of Open Government Award for helping make needed changes last year to the Kansas Open Meetings Act, including passing the “Lew Perkins” law that discloses compensation agreements of anyone in a public position. Now these lawmakers and others need to make campaign-finance records more open and timely, so that voters can know who is funding campaigns. To his discredit, Hensley helped blocked these new reporting rules last session.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

3 Comments

  1. Pancho Villa
    Posted January 16, 2006 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

    That Conservatives want small limited government is a myth. I could fill the pages of this blog with things the conservatives want the gov. to ban, control ect. Increasing spending on pet projects, expanding police powers on so on.

  2. Ian Santiago
    Posted January 16, 2006 at 4:36 pm | Permalink

    Ther is only ONE true Conservative in Washington and that is Dr. Ron Paul. Bush and the others are zionists/wall-street firsters and the Dems are zionist/neo-Marxists, traitors and globalists all!

    V.L.R.B!!!

  3. Ed Friedemann
    Posted January 17, 2006 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    This is laughable.

    “There’s no doubt that the source of most of the anti-Semitism being expressed today, as well as the source of most of the Holocaust denial being expressed today, is the Arab/Muslim world.”http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=670656