Republican Senator Jason Gant getting an award today
The Madison Daily Leader has an article noting that State Senator Jason Gant is being feted today in Pierre for his work on openness in State Government:
Jason Gant, a state senator from Sioux Falls, and the South Dakota State University Collegian staff will each be given the Eagle Award Saturday in Pierre. Each year the award recognizes an individual or group demonstrating outstanding efforts to protect the public's right to know.Read it all here, as the SDSU Collegian is also being honored as well.
Gant is being recognized for his work in the legislature to promote open government issues. In 2006 he sponsored legislation that directed the attorney general to conduct a study of what records held by state and local governments are open and accessible to the public or confidential.
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It's funny how republicans want to keep studying this issue to death. Anything to delay and avoid actually passing an open records bill - as the Democrats proposed this year.
If delay tactics make you a champion for openness then the whole republican party deserves the award.