Wednesday’s meeting saw the entire committee — which also includes Abe McGull, Callie Carroll, and Heather Hardinger — express support for the law, which Hosmer has said is necessary to prevent the appearance of “impropriety” in local government.
The only real sticking point was implementation — McGull, Carroll and Hardinger were all reticent to create more roadblocks to running for Springfield city council, a volunteer position which all three said was complicated to run for as is.
“The point of this [rule] is to create more opportunity for folks to run, create campaign committees, and be elected to offices locally…I’m not sure if creating additional steps in the process is necessary,” said Hardinger…