May 12, 2010, Philadelphia City Council, Committee of the Whole
Testimony on Proposed Ethics and Campaign Finance Bills (testimony
delivered by Zak Stalberg)
...they include protecting whistle blowers, regulating attack ads by
venomous 527 committees, requiring greater disclosure of the
relationship between elected officials and non-profits receiving city
money... (pg 2 of transcript)
http://www.seventy.org/Downloads/Policy_&_Reform/Testimony/EthicsBillsTestimony5122010.pdf
The Clark Park Partnership could have never seized Clark Park if this
city adopted ethics and these specific suggestions of the Committee of 70!
Currently, the mayor, department of Recreation leaders, water
department, etc. can completely ignore citizens right to transparency
(behind locked doors with phones and e-mail which never works) by
handing over taxpayer money to secretive organizations like the Clark
Park Partnership. These entities like UCD and The Clark Park
Partnership can conduct all of their business in secret even though they
take over the roles of government and preside over our rights as
citizens. They lobby the city officials daily like K St. does, but are
currently excused from accountability as if they were charities.
I can now see why the committee of seventy is in the cross hairs of
corporate bulldogs!
Corporations set-up these front groups, like UCD, to enact their
agenda. Accountability requirements based on the principles of a
democratic republic are completely circumvented. Transparency is the
worst enemy of these ruthless soulless corporations. If you consider
the local evidence of the past 10 years, you also see the corporate
cheerleaders going to extraordinary efforts to attack transparency
requirements. It's boring, wasteful, inefficient, and only crazies and
"wankers" waste everyone's time by demanding transparency. The body of
evidence from BID, the hotel, historic designation, Clark Park, etc. is
overwhelming!!!
Before we forgot history and civics, people understood that a republic
must stand on transparency like a building stands on a foundation. The
building crumbles without a foundation.
The apparent Public Record/West scheme to discredit proponents of
transparency makes perfect sense!
Glenn (aka: the leftist wanker in the writing of intrepid reporter, Tony
West)
PS: Good work Tony. I hope you get a door prize and an award.
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