The following letter from Jane Vaughters appeared in the Aiken Standard today.
"House votes need to be recorded"
"I was glad to see your editorial supporting recording votes in the state legislature so for the first time taxpayers could know how their representatives vote. Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell has once again kept this from happening.
What puzzled me was that you did not take the next obvious step and poll our delegation to see where they stand. Again, their positions were not recorded. I noticed that one House member has been appointed to a committee chairmanship by Speaker Harrell so we have a clue there. How about a survey of each member of the delegation with these specific quetions 1)Do you support Speaker Harrell's policies which hide votes from the people?
2) What are you actually doing to allow votes to be recorded for all taxpayers to see?
The press will need to be of help and ask some hard questions before this system which caters to special interests will change.
Jane Vaughters
Aiken"
As usual, Jane Vaughters makes good old common sense. I agree - the local paper should do its job. Voters need to know what their representatives are doing for/to them.
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