Hillary Clinton was asked when she plans to release her income statement. Why is that important? Because people want to know how much money she and Bill made last year, and how she could afford to loan $5-million to her presidential campaign. She refuses to release the details.
What is she hiding?
Voters want to know how much money they have and where it came from. Hillary doesn’t want them to know. Not yet, anyway. After she’s nominated or lost to Obama? Sure, why not? How can it hurt?
Hawaii’s Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection pushed Bill 1789 out the door today. The bill would exempt Oahu’s PEG providers (public, educational and government) from the procurement disclosure process. In other words, PEG access provider Olelo could spend money and not have to disclose why or how or to whom.
What are they hiding?
Granted, Olelo does a wonderful public service by presenting locally produced television programs on six local cable channels (49, 52, 53, 54, 55, and 56). Oahu’s citizens have access to information not otherwise easily available. Civic groups, organizations, and others have free access to video production equipment to deliver non-commercial messages to the community.
That’s all good, right?
The State’s procurement law is designed to make visible that which has been mostly invisible, behind the scenes, non-public, sometimes buried. Procurement details. How much money went to whom and for what.
Eventual passage of Bill 1789 and a variety of companion bills would exempt all of Hawaii’s PEG providers from the State’s procurement (and disclosure) process.
What are they hiding? And why?
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