Issue Position: Transparency

Issue Position

TRANSPARENCY

As online technologies and tools like cloud-hosting get better and better, governments have started opening their books to the public. We need to encourage this trend to continue until we have complete transparency in state government.

We do not need to look any further than the national ObamaCare disaster, at a bill that gets written in the night when no one has time to read and understand the details. (That situation was made worse by Texas state legislators pressuring Congress to pass a bill that none of them had read.) And the Nancy Pelosi-type "we have to pass this bill in order to know what's in it" statements need to be a thing of the past. Open and honest government is the way to go in the future.

The Texas government began to minimally implement Lean Six Sigma in 2011 as a result of a bill inspired by freshman State Representative, Raul Torres. This bill was a great way to start getting the state government to operate leaner. The state and many Texas cities need to keep a careful eye on the pension plans in place and the funding for those plans. Increasing transparency is a perfect way to make sure we avoid disasters like Detroit. As the only candidate that has extensive knowledge of lean production and Six Sigma, I will use that to ensure we are sill moving forward in eliminating non-value added waste at all levels.

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