People filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Data Practices Act (DPA) requests over the past few years have wondered how it is that Governor Walz leaves such a light state-documented electronic trail.
Could he just be old fashioned? Or, like Paulie Cicero in Goodfellas, maybe he just never does business electronically?
Well, no:
Because information is privilege. And privilege is power.
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Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
The RUSSIANS are going to hack his private email server and his opponent (whoever that will be) will have put them up to it.
C’mon man, you think that’s far-fetched?
Well, it worked before.
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
The Strib, MPR, WCCO and KARE will all pretend “that it’s just something completely new to politics.” and they will be aghast that anything like that could happen and breathlessly cover the story for years.
He only uses it to exchange photos of grandkids, and recipes.
Strikes me that what we need to say to politicians is that whether they like it or not, it’s the law. We shouldn’t have to prove that their refusal to abide by the law caused big problems, because the communications they make as government officials are government records, period.
Put differently, if you don’t like the fact that your emails are becoming public, maybe you should consider twice what you’re writing and doing. And if you’re hiding public records from public view, we’ll have public housing available for you–complete with guards and gray bars.
Powerline guys posted this:
https://bit.ly/30mGQ0v
The first comment is
“Kyle Barker
@kyle_barker
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3h
Replying to
@MNUpNorthLakeG1
@SenatorBenson
and
@drscottjensen
Policy leads the science. Science does not drive policy. This is just more proof. And if they don’t have the data, they make a model. Remember they thought 15% of Covid cases would end up in the hospital and 5% in the ICU.”
I made a futile effort to google the MN law governing official emails…. but didn’t find anything for my google-fu is weak.
But if I had, wanna bet it’d be like Federal Law where, yeah, it’s required that politicians only use official email but there is no actual legal consequence if they tell us to pound sand?
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