Let My Bloggers Go

There has been a lot of activity in the blogosphere the last few days regarding the stadium debate. Some on the pro-stadium vote side want the many anonymous bloggers and websites on the negative-stadium vote side to identify themselves in the spirit of campaign finance disclosure. Bloggers like Tony's Kansas City have been very critical of the stadium financing plan. Someone has put up a site called saveourowners.com to parody saveourstadiums.com. There is another site that is a bit too adult that I will not link to here. Even our federal House of Representatives has taken up the debate this week. Are blogs and websites subject to the same rules as Political Action Committees, or are they protected from campaign disclosure laws in the same way that news editorials and columns are? I think that those who would attempt to reign in the bloggers do not have a grasp of the World Wide Web. It's vast. It's as anonymous as you want it to be. In the end, you the reader have to make the judgement call as to the veracity of the claims you may read on any given site. I say leave the bloggers alone. Of course I haven't been brutally attacked (yet!) by any of them so I understand it's easy for me to say. The worst I've had to endure is to have my blog called "vanilla" and being called a "white guy." I really can't dispute either claim. I guess I should just consider myself lucky(?) that I'm not a multi-millionaire asking for public subsidies.