The Maneater asks: What are they hiding?
From the editorial board at The Maneater:
All other government officials, including the governor, are subjected to the Sunshine Law, but the legislators are apparently in a league of their own. With the FBI looking into pay-to-play schemes among Missouri legislators, now is the time we need legislators to make their records public.
These legislators are dealing with thousands of dollars in campaign contributions, yet we cannot have the ability to know what is going on inside their offices.
Further, there is no way to make this situation look good for anyone who voted against it. The first and natural question that comes to our mind is what the politician might be hiding that they do not want disclosed...
In the same bill, the House voted to strengthen the penalty for violating the Sunshine Law from $5,000 to $8,000. Yet the legislators are not willing to abide by the law they wrote...
