The crowd of 2,200 people at the Paris hotel included Republicans as well as Democrats, elected officials as well as people who have worked to elect Bryan to one job or another over the past 32 years. One bill would require that when government entities pay tax dollars to settle lawsuits, the sum becomes public information. Most of the time, those settlements are confidential. Another would require that votes be approved by a majority of any government board, not just the majority of who is left after a bunch of folks abstain for one reason or another. He says some elected officials are prone to game-playing, finding reasons not to vote and thus making it easier for laws to pass.
Care wants the same standard to apply to other government entities.
If the county operated like that, the initial ban of the superstore would have died, instead of being overturned later by the courts. Care, a Democrat and local attorney, said he's not yet sure how government officials will respond. I might get my head kicked in, I don't know. But he wants to try anyway. Republican Scott Scherer's decision to leave his job as Gov. Kenny Guinn's chief of staff and accept a job on the Gaming Control Board makes it more difficult for him to run for attorney general in 2002, as he had thought he would do.