Ken Oliver should know better. The Baltimore County councilman indicted earlier this month for violating campaign finance laws has not yet submitted an annual campaign finance report due last week. He also owes two reports from last year, according to the Maryland Board of Elections. He should be going out of his way to comply with the law — and clean up his image. Delaying only makes it look like he has something to hide.
WHO: The Maryland Board of Public Works WHAT: The closed pre-meetings of the board were found to be suspicious by a state panel investigating Open Meetings Act compliance. WHY IT’S A BAD IDEA: Pre-meetings? Members say the meetings were primarily for social and housekeeping purposes. If that is the case, they’re welcome to chitchat to their hearts’ content — if the door is open. If Comptroller Peter Franchot stopped attending the meetings because he thought they were illegally conducted, then they were probably violating the Open Meetings Act. Why else would they make him nervous? The business of the public should be done in public. No exceptions. WHERE TO VENT: Call the Board of Public Works to complain at 410-260-7335.
“We view it as a basic life skill. … Given the current economic downturn, the problems in the mortgage market, we feel it is especially important that all students graduate with some financial literacy.” — Del. Dana Stein, D-Baltimore County, co-chairman of the Task Force to Study How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State
Outrage: The Board of Private Works
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