GOP banishes public from first caucus meeting under new speaker

AJC reports its the same old same old from Republicans.

The House Republican Caucus just convened its first meeting of the 2010 legislative session and its first action was to banish the media and anyone not actually in the caucus.

Caucus rules require that their meetings be open to the public, unless its top leaders vote to close the doors. Those top leaders — new Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge), Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones (R-Milton), Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons), Caucus Chairwoman Donna Sheldon (R-Dacula) and Majority Whip Ed Lindsey (R-Atlanta) — were there.

Despite promises of a new beginning and of openness and transparency, Sheldon announced that anyone not a caucus member had to leave.

I'd quote from Karl Popper's Open Society and its Enemies but I'm on the way to my economics class...

Posted via email from Jim Nichols for GA State House