Governor Crist's Plain Language Initiative
Governor Charlie Crist gets kudos for requiring state agencies to use language in their communications that ordinary humans can understand.
However, his idea and effort are not novel. In fact, he borrowed the idea from the federal government and the efforts of the Clinton Administration. President Clinton created something called the Plain Language Initiative with a Memorandum For the Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies issued on June 1, 1998. Clinton effort followed attempts by several former presidents to bring plain language to the federal bureaucracy. Check out the history here.
Maybe Governor Crist will have more success than President Clinton did in reigning in bureaucrat speak.
In Key West, the problem is not merely city bureau-speak, but officials for whom truth sometimes seems to be a foreign language.
However, his idea and effort are not novel. In fact, he borrowed the idea from the federal government and the efforts of the Clinton Administration. President Clinton created something called the Plain Language Initiative with a Memorandum For the Heads Of Executive Departments And Agencies issued on June 1, 1998. Clinton effort followed attempts by several former presidents to bring plain language to the federal bureaucracy. Check out the history here.
Maybe Governor Crist will have more success than President Clinton did in reigning in bureaucrat speak.
In Key West, the problem is not merely city bureau-speak, but officials for whom truth sometimes seems to be a foreign language.
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