Everything’s bigger in Texas, including attempts to exclude taxpayers

May 14, 2010 by · 2 Comments
Filed under: Sunshine Review, sunshine review 

Taxpayer money helps fund a lot, more than taxpayers know about. Cities use taxpayer-money to lobby states and the federal government (a practice called “taxpayer-funded lobbying“). Anything that government does should be open to the government, that is our stance. Unfortunately, this practice is anything but open and there is little information available on it and taxpayer-funded lobbying associations.

And taxpayer-funded lobbying associations are making it so that government is less open. In Texas, the Texas Open Meetings Act is under assault. The Texas Municipal League is behind an effort to get cities to sue the state in order to weaken the open meetings law.

To put this into perspect: Texas citizens are funding an organization, which is encouraging Texas cities to sue the state, which are suing the state using the money of Texas citizens in order to prevent these citizens access to government meetings.

We’ll make sure to continue following this story. And make sure to tell us what you think.

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