As your mother may have told you, you are known by the company you keep. <\/p>\n
The same applies to politicians. The public can learn a great deal about a politician by the donors who give him or her money. <\/p>\n
But voters trying to track politics in Sacramento County will have a hard time. Not surprisingly, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors doesn’t care to make it easy. <\/p>\n
The state of California, and several cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento, post donations to candidates and incumbents online in searchable form. <\/p>\n
Sacramento supervisors refuse to make campaign donations available on the county’s Web site. <\/p>\n
The Voter Registration and Elections Department has requested money to upgrade its site for years. <\/p>\n
The Bee’s county government reporter, Robert Lewis, reported that the cost would be modest, perhaps $50,000. But as Lewis noted, an electronic system also would save labor costs. County workers spent 388 hours handling paper versions of the campaign finance statements in 2008. <\/p>\n
It’s not that they don’t raise money. Supervisor Roger Dickinson, hoping to win a state Assembly seat, raised $102,000 in his last run for the board in 2006. Susan Peters raised $163,000 in 2008. <\/p>\n
It is way past time that the Board of Supervisors enter the 21st century, check out these newfangled machines called computers and discover the Internet. <\/p>\n
The board might find that there is public benefit by using the Internet to let a little sun shine on the way they do business. The public deserves no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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