HOOSER: Secret meetings in secret rooms making secret decisions

HOOSER: Secret meetings in secret rooms making secret decisions

I’ll never forget my favorite uncle telling me shortly after my first successful election in a rather blunt kind of way, “Congratulations on your election, I hope you don’t turn out like all the rest.” Wow. In one short sentence, he said what 80 percent of people are thinking. All politicians are crooks. From that moment on, I redoubled my commitment to make my family proud and prove my favorite uncle wrong. And it’s not true, of course. All pol…