The Oakland Accessible Ethics Commission's Staffer Lauren Angius wants you to apperceive her, and about her Oakland political app, but not her politics.
"Open Disclosure" was the appellation and is the name of the new Open Oakland App formed out aftermost night. But above-mentioned to that event, a columnist absolution on the new arrangement was issued, and afore anyone could blot it, Oakland Mayor's Race applicant Joe Tuman took to his own email bang with this message:
According to a new address by the absolute "Open Disclosure" – an alignment committed to "shining ablaze on the allotment that fuels Oakland's balloter campaigns" – the majority of money actuality aloft by the arch Oakland mayoral candidates doesn't absolutely appear from Oakland. With one audacious exception: the Joe Tuman campaign. The numbers don't lie: Absolutely 74% of the funds we've aloft appear from Oaklanders – compared to a low of aloof 38% to a aerial of alone 57% by my arch competitors. Inquiring minds appetite to know: Why are my opponents so abased on out-of-town donors? And why are these donors so absorbed in influencing Oakland politics?
And so the political bold of application allegedly cold political abstracts by a applicant has started. Aloof don't acknowledgment that to the aggregation at Open Oakland. After this blogger abreast Open Oakland via meetup bulletin that they should acknowledge their politics, or it would be done for them, rather than respond, the alignment hunkered down, hid, and abhorred the issue. But the actuality is, one can't absolution a ample presentation of acclamation abstracts in the average of a afire Oakland Mayor's Race, and apprehend to go disregarded for long, or apprehend not to accept their abstracts acclimated for accessory political purposes.
But, it appears that's what Open Oakland's Open Disclosure Program is aggravating to do. What it does is appearance how abundant money anniversary Oakland Mayor's Race Applicant has raised, and it's burst bottomward such that you apperceive how abundant came from aural Oakland, and from what places in the Bay Breadth money was gained.
It lists the applicant in adjustment of money-leaders, as against to the politically-safe access of alphabetical order. Moreover, one can't see the best important advice of all: who was abaft the project, and what their backroom are.
At aftermost night's Oakland Accessible Ethics Commission affair in the Oakland City Council Chambers, this blogger aloft the catechism of what the backroom of the Open Oakland participants were who congenital Open Disclosure. Then, the Oakland Accessible Ethics Commission's Program Analyst Lauren Angius stepped to the belvedere and said that one could columnist on a articulation and see the acknowledgment to the question. When this blogger said "I beatific an email," Ms. Angius, tersely said "I got your email" while at the podium, with the alive mic. At that point, the able became personal, as this blogger never knew who Ms. Angius was above-mentioned to the affair Tuesday night.
Afterward, as the Open Oakland participants agitated out into the advanced accessible breadth in advanced of the Oakland City Council Chambers, the altercation with this columnist appear that the Open Oakland participants allegedly see coding, or the act of architecture a web app, as some admission to objectivity. That's not a universally-held belief, and absolutely not by Steve Spiker, Open Oakland's founder, but it does assume to be a appearance captivated by Lauren Angius, who represents the Oakland Accessible Ethics Commission.
When she was approached by this blogger for her to accompany Mr. Spiker in a abbreviate video about the Open Disclosure Activity (the one in this article), Ms. Angius said "Is this for your blog?" To which the acknowledgment was "of course." She pouted and said "I don't anticipate I can do that," as a rather afraid Mr. Spiker looked on. Lauren was abreast that the videos done at Zennie62 on YouTube for Oakland political affairs don't advance politicians while they're actuality interviewed, as a rule. To which she angry and asked Mr. Spiker, absolutely blank what she was aloof told by this blogger, "Has he anytime attacked you?" "No. Not to my knoweldge," he said. To which this blogger replied "Well, I did use your arch and bout it to the devil from South Park." At that point, Lauren said she didn't appetite to do it, this blogger said that was fine, and Mr. Spiker gave the interview.
That Lauren would go to such lengths was absolutely hilarious. But appropriately unfunny is the actuality that Open Disclosure does not accept a direct, up front, presentation of who's who alive on it, and what their backroom are. Without that, Open Disclosure is annihilation but that.
Title : Oakland PEC's Lauren Angius Wants Open Disclosure, Just Not Her Politics
Description : The Oakland Accessible Ethics Commission's Staffer Lauren Angius wants you to apperceive her, and about her Oakland political app, but...