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January 13, 2006
Center-Right Bloggers Join Together In Joint Statement
Topics: BlogosphereWe are proud to announce that Hyscience is joining other center-right bloggers in a joint statement on the House leadership election:
We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time. But we do agree on this: The new leadership in the House of Representatives needs to be thoroughly and transparently free of the taint of the Jack Abramoff scandals, and beyond that, of undue influence of K Street.
We are not naive about lobbying, and we know it can and has in fact advanced crucial issues and has often served to inform rather than simply influence Members.
But we are certain that the public is disgusted with excess and with privilege. We hope the Hastert-Dreier effort leads to sweeping reforms including the end of subsidized travel and other obvious influence operations. Just as importantly, we call for major changes to increase openness, transparency and accountability in Congressional operations and in the appropriations process.
As for the Republican leadership elections, we hope to see more candidates who will support these goals, and we therefore welcome the entry of Congressman John Shadegg to the race for Majority Leader. We hope every Congressman who is committed to ethical and transparent conduct supports a reform agenda and a reform candidate. And we hope all would-be members of the leadership make themselves available to new media to answer questions now and on a regular basis in the future.
This statement was originally published at The Truth Laid Bear.
Posted by Richard at January 13, 2006 9:17 PM
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Comments
The Florida legislature finally passed legislation to restrict gift giving and lobbying by perks/other benefits. They are still figuring it out, according to local press. The free drinks and meals, and lavish parties with no expense to them, and the bigger contributions made by lobbyist - - all will be in the past. Tallahassee businesses will suffer some - without the wineing and dining - won't be as much spent at local establishments, but the corruption or appearance of same will no longer occur, at least not from things that can obviously be tracked. I am proud of them for their leadership and commitment to do something about this problem.
Posted by: shonane at January 14, 2006 12:08 AM
Here is an article in the Tallahassee, Florida, newspaper today about the new lobbiest gift ban passed by Florida legislature. It is the supposed to be the strongest anti lobbying influence law in the nation. When reading the article, it appears that one week back into town after it has taken effect, they are already looking at ways to work around it. Congress really does have a challenge. Their perks are much greater than those for the state legislatures.
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060115/NEWS01/601150324/1010
Posted by: shonane at January 15, 2006 2:26 PM
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