Perry’s Emails: Dive in!
January 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Ever wanted to read the governor’s email? Now’s your chance.
Milwaukee open records activist John Washburn has posted the first received batch of Gov. Rick Perry’s staff emails — minus the correspondence which the governor’s people are appealing to the state attorney general’s office.
The emails were sent or received by Perry’s office (according to Washburn’s request): “on or after 12:00 am (midnight) Friday, November 2, 2007 and received before 12:00 am (midnight) Tuesday, November 6, 2007.”
The emails are in .pdf format and as I understand it, there are some 1,900 of them. We are calling on readers to dive in. If you find something find that you want to share with your fellow citizens post it as a comment to this blog post.
Washburn paid $568 for these babies, so they are certainly valuable in that sense. What’s more, Washburn’s requests have single-handedly stopped (for a while, anyway) the governor’s policy of shredding the emails every seven days — which is of value to all Texans and to the open records policy of our great state.
So click through. Let us know what’s in there. We will also be reading through them and trying to determine what’s news and what’s not. But we need your help.
Happy hunting!
January 25th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Man, I love John Washburn!
I’ve sent many requests for emails to Mr. 39% over the years, and he’s always claimed he didn’t have any emails I asked for. What a snake.
I poked around in there and saw some pics of babies…who the heck is sharing baby pics on our dime?
Sal “The Muckraker” Costello
http://salcostello.blogspot.com/
January 25th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
[…] Perry’s Emails: Dive in! - from another Texas blog, The Texas Observer. I was saving the best for last. This post is about the documents that local blogger John Washburn requested (and received months later) from TX Governor Rick Perry. Ever wonder if staff in the governor’s office are using e-mail appropriately? Dig through the messages and decide for yourself! […]
January 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Looks like Barak Obama isn’t Victor Alonzo’s pick for president. (See Picture_worth_a_thousand-words)
Why all the redaction regarding the Iran Divestment Letter? (See julie_inboxR, starting page 6)
January 31st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Well, somebody lost the keys to the basement again (see email “Keys to basement are missing AGAIN!!”)