In the end, booting up to go online with their campaign finance reports was as easy for legislators as keyboarding in a password. A password like relax. Relax, no need to worry about the World Wide Web.
Politicians can survive the Internet.
This state is the nation's high-tech capital, after all, where microchip pioneers discovered the new gold. Finally, after three years of hand holding by Secretary of State Bill Jones, the Legislature overwhelmingly has decided to file campaign contribution and expenditure reports by computer so they can be placed on the Internet. That produces 550,000 pages of election-year data that get buried on shelves in the secretary of state's office in Sacramento. The public has a right to know what's there, but good luck trying to find it. That's the plan, at least.