Question 5:

The Internet. Getting beyond the hype, what role, if any, should state government play in the development, promotion, use, taxation, and regulation of the Internet?

BORRELL Response 5:

Our Minnesota State government should use the Internet as an information tool, a tool that will open our government to the eternal vigilance of the people. That may buy us the essence of a better government, one that serves, not governs.

Governor Dick Borrell would support:

1. Use of the Internet for citizens to obtain information about any state department, its policies, public meetings, schedules, etc., etc.
2. Posting of transcripts of all public meetings.
3. The net as a method of public comment to public meetings.
4. Posting the synopsis of legislative sessions, legislative hearings, proposed bills, committee meetings, and committee chair’s action, or lack thereof, on these proposals.
5. The net to post results of trials, ratings of judges, lawsuits filed, lawsuit settlements (even if settled out of court), etc.
6. Live video streaming of House and Senate proceedings. The summaries would be available later under item 4 above.
7. I would like to see every Minnesota Law posted on the net, but I don’t believe there is enough memory in all of Cray Research’s super computer’s memory to fit that much information (even in a condensed format). There are 15 volumes of indexes to our Minnesota Statutes! Tell me we are not over regulated and subjected to "Regulatory Socialism"!

Governor Dick Borrell would oppose:

The automatic e-mailing of unsolicited sex ads, pornography, and invitations for phone sex. I will not get the net at home for that very reason. I will not expose my children at home to the continuous stream of smut that comes across the net at work.

Prepared and Paid for by Borrell For Governor, Mike Wanchena, Treas.