During his campaign for State Representative, Joe said that increasing openness and transparency in state government operations would be one of his top priorities during his first year in office. Joe delivered on that promise, passing of legislation that will create an online, searchable database of state contracts, budget, and spending information. Joe believes that taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent by government agencies. Providing easy-to-use, online access to this information to the general public is essential to efforts to identify and eliminate waste in government spending.