{"id":139,"date":"2011-09-18T09:07:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-09-18T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:07:32","slug":"make-open-meeting-law-apply-to-the-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Make open meeting law apply to the legislature!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was first appointed to Milford\u2019s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee, I had to take a short course in compliance with the open meeting law. I was angry when I found out that the legislature had exempted themselves from that law, and given the corruption we\u2019ve seen on Beacon Hill just since I found that out, I think it\u2019s well past time to take a look at it.\u00a0 Well, someone in the legislature thinks so as well, and it will come up in a hearing this Tuesday at 11 am &#8211; see <a title=\"AmberPaw's post at BMG\" href=\"When I was first appointed to Milford\u2019s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee, I had to take a short course in compliance with the open meeting law. I was angry when I found out that the legislature had exempted themselves from that law, and given the corruption we\u2019ve seen on Beacon Hill just since I found that out, I think it\u2019s well past time to take a look at it.\" target=\"_blank\">this post at BlueMassGroup.com<\/a> for further discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The person who wrote that post is Deborah Sirotkin Butler, a long time Democratic activist and lawyer.\u00a0 I am unable to attend the hearing, but she has offered to take a white paper for me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll email the executive committee for input, I think we should weigh in on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was first appointed to Milford\u2019s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee, I had to take a short course in compliance with the open meeting law. I was angry when I found out that the legislature had exempted themselves from that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/?p=139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news-ma","tag-open-meeting-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbvdems.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}