NMI transcript of ABQ Charter Review Task Force webcast and live blog

NMI was webcasting and live blogging Thursday night from the Albuquerque Charter Review Task Force meeting at City Hall. Click below to read a transcript of the live blog.

On the agenda for tonight’s meeting is a proposed amendment to the charter that would require any group to register as a measure finance committee if the group communicates any information (by mail, in print, on TV or on the web) in support or opposition to a political candidate within four months of an election.

Registering as a measure finance committee would mean that the organizations would have to disclose their donors, something many groups have protested.

Mayor Martin Chavez has said he supports the amendment.

But, as NMI’s Trip Jenning’s reported yesterday, several local nonprofit organizations have protested the proposed amendment, saying it would limit their free speech.

Also, a draft opinion from the Albuquerque City Attorney’s office says that the amendment would be redundant and could end up limiting the city’s power to regulate organizations.

Thank you to videographers/bloggers Mark Bralley of What’s Wrong With This Picture and Ched MacQuigg of Diogenes’ Six for providing the fine audio stream today.