Wow - at least we don't have to deal with this...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kimo <[email protected]> Date: 2009/8/6 Subject: [poliparse] California Assembly expunges votes on oil drilling bill To: [email protected] T A X P A Y E R U P D A T E . . . from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (www.HJTA.org) Los Angeles Times on August 6, 2009: California Assembly expunges votes on oil drilling bill The logs made available to the public do not show which 28 members voted for the controversial bill. One critic calls it 'a legislative coverup.' By Patrick McGreevy Reporting from Sacramento -- Although 28 members of the California Assembly supported a measure to allow new oil drilling off the Santa Barbara coast, their votes are nowhere to be found in the official state database. After the measure failed, Assembly leaders expunged the vote altogether, sparing lawmakers running for reelection an official record of their controversial decision. The voting logs made available to the public on the Legislature's website do not indicate who voted for and against the bill on July 24. It wasn't the first time the Assembly has done this. The little-known practice of purging votes, which experts say serves little purpose other than to allow lawmakers to hide actions from the public, is quite common in the lower house, legislative records show. In the last six years, 71 votes on bills in the Assembly have been cleansed from the record. "The message to the public is 'this vote was an inconvenient vote and we would rather you not look at the man behind the curtain,' " said Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine), who wrote the oil drilling bill. Read the rest of this story at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-purge6-2009aug06,0,1598055.story -------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the e-mail list of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association -- California's largest taxpayer organization with offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Visit our site at http://www.HJTA.org FORWARD THIS MESSAGE Please forward this message to your friends who are California homeowners or taxpayers. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HJTA LIST If this message was forwarded to you by a friend, please consider subscribing at http://www.HJTA.org/free-e-mail-updates/ JOIN HJTA If you are not already a member of HJTA you can join online at http://www.HJTA.org/join-us SUPPORT HJTA You can contribute to HJTA online via our secure page at http://www.HJTA.org/donatenow TO UNSUBSCRIBE simply send a blank message to [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to poliparse. To unsubscribe, email [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/poliparse -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
