White House Deputy CTO Challenges Republicans, Tea Party to Openness Competition

A fast tip of the hat to White House deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin, who had this to say Friday at a forum on open government:
“I would be thrilled to make this a type of political competition … to see who can be more radical in their openness, in their data distribution models … trying to prove to the citizens they can run a better government,” reports Kim Hart of TheHill.com.
According to her post, “McLaughlin said Republicans and conservative Tea Party activists should strive to push the administration to make its policies more open. He also suggested Tea Party activists, who have called for broad changes to the government, could push the GOP to be more aggressive on the issue.”
McLaughlin said he would be “delighted if Republicans started pushing out great open-data models like the Conservatives have in the U.K.”