{"id":48528,"date":"2014-11-25T05:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/the-government-act-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html"},"modified":"2014-11-25T05:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:40:40","slug":"the-government-act-that-dare-not-speak-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/the-government-act-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","title":{"rendered":"The government act that dare not speak it&#039;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a government action has become so controversial, so troublesome for participants, so in violation of ethics codes, and so problematic that for-profit businesses won&#39;t touch it&#8230; maybe you should reconsider doing it any more, rather than granting legal and professional immunity and making the whole proceeding all sooper-sekret. <\/p>\n<p>Just a thought, Ohio.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/ohio-lethal-injection-execution-secrecy'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4IzzKvnlhsO_6bedfZSvC04ljfB-l-MgKlC_xr3y0WFYK5XvIlut7IyA6MUvwS1SJbjrHMW38tN_rhbWGky1A1HXbQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/ohio-lethal-injection-execution-secrecy'>Ohio Could Pass the Country&#8217;s Most Extreme &#8220;Secret Executions&#8221; Bill | Mother Jones<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA new law could make it almost impossible to know what really happens in the death chamber.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/894XXLmtUbb'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a government action has become so controversial, so troublesome for participants, so in violation of ethics codes, and so problematic that for-profit businesses won&#39;t touch it&#8230; maybe you should reconsider doing it any more, rather than granting legal and professional immunity and making the whole proceeding all sooper-sekret. Just a thought, Ohio. Ohio Could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/the-government-act-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The government act that dare not speak it&#039;s name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/ohio-and-the-electoral-college.html","url_meta":{"origin":48528,"position":0},"title":"Ohio and the Electoral College","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Nov-12 9:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently Husted is not going to press for changes in how Ohio allocates\u00a0its Electoral College Votes.I'll disagree with TP here, though, in that the scheme itself (allocate out ECVs by congressional district, with the senatorial ECVs going to the statewide winner) is not \"rigged\" -- but the gerrymandered congressional districts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30204,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/apparently-15-of-ohio-gopers-think-romney-killed-osama-bin-laden.html","url_meta":{"origin":48528,"position":1},"title":"Apparently 15% of Ohio GOPers think Romney killed Osama Bin Laden","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Sep-12 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really.The article does a bit of psychological both-sides-guilty handwaving -- but there's a difference between vague experiential mis-remembering (was unemployment \/ taxation \/ inflation higher or lower?) and getting Significant Historical Events flabbergastingly wrong. 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And, as it ties into Hispanic concerns, the GOP (and Dems) will need to do more than simply play nicer on immigration concerns and papers checks.\"For all the talk about ethnicity,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":48528,"position":5},"title":"There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}