The sponsor and co-sponsors of LD 1353: "An Act Regarding Salary Information for Public Employees" seek to hide the taxpayer-paid salaries of some 90,000 public government and school employees, concealing information that has been accessible to Maine citizens and taxpayers for hundreds of years.
One co-sponsor of this bill to blindfold the citizens of Maine is State Senator Deborah Simpson, of Auburn. Sen. Simpson's sponsorship of this bill shows a profound hypocrisy, however, as she has gone to great lengths to portray herself as a defender of government transparency.
Among examples of Sen. Simpson's supposed defense of gov....