SR: Hell no to Vito secrecy bill

Free advice for Idaho lawmakers: Make quick work of state Rep. Vito Barbieri’s attempt to exempt your communications from the Idaho Public Records Act and boost your political careers at the same time.

Just say, “No.” Better yet, “Hell, no!”

Do it in an email or a text. Sit down with pen and paper. Rise up in a public forum. Then sit back and bask in the applause.

You’ll look like selfless heroes striking a blow for open government while looking out for the people.

If you’ve run on a Reaganesque platform of “government isn’t the solution, but the problem,” your proclamations will dovetail nicely with that theme.

Rep. Barbieri, of Dalton Gardens, has thrown many anti-government haymakers from the conservative stronghold of Legislative District 2, so it’s odd that he wants to make government more secretive.

How is that supposed to build trust?/ Spokesman-Review Editorial Board . More here.