Public Advocate Bill de Blasio on Member Item Transparency

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 28, 2010

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wants the City Council to post all their requests for "member items" to his office's Open Government NYC website.  Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, joins him to talk about the web's role in making government more transparent.

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