Should Todd Palin's e-mails be public?

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

He’s been called the shadow governor. Now Todd Palin’s role in state government is at the center of a lawsuit seeking e-mails the governor’s office has withheld for reasons such as “executive privilege.”

Does being the husband of Gov. Sarah Palin give Todd Palin special access to internal communications off limits to the general public?

Andree McLeod, a former state worker turned activist, has gone to court arguing it does not. She is seeking an untold number of state e-mails that were copied to Todd Palin but withheld from a public records request she made in June.

“This latest refusal by the governor’s office to hold back official state e-mails has left me no other choice,” McLeod said. “And this is real important: The state can’t cloak these communications in secrecy when the governor and her staff have broken the chain of custody by sharing them with a mere private citizen, who is not ... a state employee. Therefore, that entitles all citizens the right to examine these documents in the light of day.”

In essence, McLeod is arguing that if Todd Palin was copied on the state e-mails, the governor’s office can’t keep them from the public for reasons such as “executive privilege” and “deliberative process.”



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[BlooInBloo]

1. Todd *who*?

[nc4bo]

3. Not Todd - Toad and yea, those emails should be made public. Toadie email and other shadow dealings

should have been exposed then but weren't.

Sista's should have also have been made public.

[ohio2007]

2. I think all e mails should be made public .....LOL

[CitizenPatriot]

4. whatever happened to the guy who hacked

her yahoo account? you know he knows what was really going on. I always wondered why he didn't bargain better, having all of that info at his disposal.

Yes, his emails should be public.

Transparent and accountable. That's the democracy she signed up to govern. She swore to be both. If she refused to live up to her oath, she should be impeached or recalled.

[agentS]

5. Well, well well...Palin's "Cheney" has been revealed.

I knew she was too dumb for the job all along.
When DU members were calling Palin "Bush in a dress" I thought they were metaphorical.
Turns out they were literally right! Palin IS Bush in a dress and Palin is the brains behind the operation, just like Cheney.

[norepubsin08]

6. yes!!!!!!

[bemildred]

7. All emails are public. nt

[chat_noir]

8. They can not have it both ways.

JULY
wrote on 12/11/2008 03:45:19 AM:

ak_boker
wrote on 12/10/2008 08:23:28 PM:

Didn't the personnel board find that Todd was considered an ordinary private citizen, and not under the control of the Governor, and therefore she could not stop him from pursuing his inquiries into Trooper Wooten? If this is the case, then I find it hard to fathom how he can now be defined as an adviser during the same time period. If he was an adviser, then he, by definition, would hold more sway than an ordinary citizen. So, did the personnel board err in their judgment of ethics violations by Sarah, or is the administrations current view in violation of freedom of information request? They can not have it both ways.


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[Orsino]

9. I would have said no, but the claim of Executive Privilege makes it official business.

WTF is an unelected spouse doing conducting official business?

Alaskans, own your government. Palin has made a terrible admission with the privilege claim.

[hamsterjill]

10. He should not be copied on state emails

I know...I know...I'm being Pollyanna here, but why is the jerk copied on state emails? He's not an elected official. He's just an overbearing husband.

But yes, anytime that there is a state email where he was involved, it should absolutely be made public. If he's gonna play...then he can at least play by the rules that govern public information.

[MissMillie]

11. Not now!

Wait until she's running for something again!

[hughee99]

12. The repukes would love this...

a small price to pay for access to Hillary's emails while she was first lady. And just before confirmation hearings, too.