Why should the public care about the private financial interests of state lawmakers?
The public should care about the private financial interests of state lawmakers because what they don’t know can hurt them. Lawmakers hold our lives in their hands, voting and making decisions every day concerning our pocketbooks, health issues, telecom issues – you name it and decisions are being made about every possible thing that affects our lives. If the public doesn’t have enough information, then they are in the dark about the alliances legislators have with interests that are not in the public interest. Many have jobs on the side, interests on the side that could taint their decision-making ability. And the fact is that we know more about our toasters than we do our politicians, even though sometimes we get burned by both.
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