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Deep Dive: Lawmakers attempt to open up transparency with bills to make financial information public

How much money is in your elected official’s bank account – and more importantly where that money came from – could be key to unlocking where lawmakers’ true allegiances lie.

That’s the argument in favor of a package of bills up for discussion in the state Legislature today (Wed).

Cheyna (SHAY’-nuh) Roth gives us a deep dive on this shot at transparency that some lawmakers have tried to pass for decades.