When you go buy the list from Vern, (if memory serves) you have to sign a disclaimer that you're not using it for commercial purpose.

If I repost it on GHT, no such restriction is in place for the search engines who will inevitably index it.

I don't like the article very much, but I REALLY don't like the fact that the list was reposted here.

Good article.

I find it amazing that people demand and scream for transparency in government, then when something like this happens they get their tin foil hat on and cry that their info is available.

For some of us it has nothing to do with the information being available and everything to do with the correct information being available.

An elected officials home address, date of birth, voting and shopping patterns aren't what is meant by transparency.

Everything that an elected official does in their official capacity is my business.

Indeed. I have been told that at least one of the three Hoquiam councilmembers insists that he did vote. This could get interesting.

County Job apps are public record, that has all that info in it (except for vote and shopping info). All that info you listed is what transparency covers.

Actually, job applications are not public record. Only the salary that a public employee receives is public record.