This is inevitable; it's long overdue; and the public has a fundamental right to have access to information,

It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

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