In coming weeks, Dewhurst will continue touring Texas, mainly in a rented Cessna 421 airplane. But come October, amid an oncoming blitz of Dewhurst radio and television commercials, it's back on the bus for a final round of rolling retail campaigning. Electronic campaign funding report sought A pair of public interest groups Tuesday asked candidates for statewide office and the Legislature to agree to file campaign finance reports electronically with the Texas Ethics Commission. Public Citizen and Texans for Public Justice said such a filing would make it possible for voters across Texas to get copies of candidates' campaign funding reports over the Internet from the ethics commission's Web site. Surely political information that cuts to the heart of the democratic system is at least as important as the commercial information that's already online.
Disclosure delayed is disclosure denied.
Today's system denies most of us access to information when we want it and need it.