To: summer
"There is largely a culture in state and local government that violating public meetings and open records laws is not the same as committing a crime," Chamberlin said. "It's largely treated as a nuisance rather than a law."Is anyone surprised by this at all?
Drive 5 mph over the speed limit, and they whack you with all the fines they can muster, but when they break the law it's just business as usual.
7 posted on
03/12/2007 10:31:09 AM PDT by
zeugma
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To: zeugma
Drive 5 mph over the speed limit, and they whack you with all the fines they can muster, but when they break the law it's just business as usual.
"Steal a little; they throw you in jail. Steal a lot; they make you king." Something like that. And, yes, I agree with you.
10 posted on
03/12/2007 5:18:46 PM PDT by
summer
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