Democrats decry delay in obtaining Palin e-mails
Story last updated at 1/30/2009 - 1:09 pm
The Associated Press
JUNEAU – The Alaska Democratic Party says a six-month or more delay in obtaining official e-mails from Gov. Sarah Palin’s office is inexcusable.
Party officials issued a press release Friday after hearing that their records request from last September may not be answered before the end of March.
In a letter to the Department of Law, Palin’s administrative services director, Linda Perez, asked for the extension because of problems converting e-mails into a format that can be easily reviewed and redacted.
Democrats accuse the administration of obfuscation and say staff should be able to identify the requested e-mails with simple search commands.
Their e-mail request is one of 18 pending public records requests.
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January 30th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Bush-lite
January 30th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
inexcusable? Yes! Shocking? No! What I want to know is why the Democrats took 6 months to raise a stink about it. Kinda old news by now don’tcha think? If it took 6 weeks I’d have her panties in a wad!
January 30th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Why isn’t she found in contempt? Or, better yet, why wasn’t anything done about her ethical violations to begin with? Get her outta here!
January 30th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
In case the Admin Dept was unaware, the state does have an IT department that could solve your problem. You should ask them for help when you are clueless about tech stuff. If you have trouble turning those emails into a big pdf document and redacting that, talk to IT. Should take them just a couple minutes (not 6 months), they already have the important email all separated out (including Todd’s if you want to include that, nice job using state resources to isolate a non-state employees non-state email accounts).
Oh wait I forgot… The idea is not to release the email… duh, carry on, it seems like you got this one covered just fine.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Palin drama never ends!!!!!!!!!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Alaska Democratic Party? What a joke! Are there really any democrats on areas other than Juneau? No, there arent. Please dont use ‘democrat’ and Alaska in the same sentence. It stains the image of our great Republican State. Thank you.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Is this why she initiated a hiring freeze so there isn’t anyone to run the requests?
January 30th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Nice public reminder arrow across the SS Palin. I guess they weren’t getting any response aye!?
January 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
… “our great Republican State”? The one that has several of its Republican elected officials currently sharing jail cells or awaiting trials?
Maybe you just accidentally left out something … perhaps it should go something like “our great incarcerated Republicans from the State of Alaska” … yeah, that’s more like it.
Of course, if you had your way, we’d pick up central Alaska (AKA “real Alaska”) and airlift it to the South so you could join the rest of the Republican base.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Why don’t they contact their democrat friend from Tennessee and just break into the Governor’s email account and read em any time they want..??..whats with the six months stuff..??
January 30th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Foolsaroundme…..you’re an idiot at best
The state of Alaska is rapidly turning BLUE…..git over it
January 30th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Why can’t the DOA or the Department of Law do anything about this? What on earth does it take to get any action on ethics done in Juneau?
November 7th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I keep listening to the news speak about public records so I have been looking around to read up on the topic. Thank you for your help!