Keeping with the theme of legislative contempt for the voters who elected them to public office, this weekend we learned that Senate President Robert Stivers said during a media tour of a temporary workspace necessitated by renovations to the Kentucky Capitol that a gallery for the public “ ‘didn’t seem like a relevant expenditure that we wanted to incur’ and that the public would still be able to see what is happening via live-streams in two large rooms†in the Capitol Annex.
That information came from citing reporting from the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Amye Bensenhaver is a retired Kentucky assistant attorney general who wrote open records and open meetings decisions for 25 years. She is co-founder and co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
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Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
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