Remember this:
Nixon appointed the three-person investigation team, which he says is independent, that is probing e-mail retention in Blunt’s office.
The team filed the suit Monday accusing the governor’s staff of refusing to comply with numerous open-records requests and of ordering the destruction of backup tapes containing e-mails sought by the team and the news media.
The team has cleared Gov. Blunt of any wrongdoing.
“Finally, after making false accusation after false accusation and wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars, the e-mail team brings this political case to a conclusion two days before Christmas,” said Gov. Blunt’s spokeswoman Jessica Robinson. “After falsely accusing many the only real outcome is that the governor’s office was telling the truth. This agreement comes just as the office was seeking to question an official in the Attorney General’s office over his destruction of e-mails. One can see why they would be embarrassed by the result of their 13 month long legal fiasco and would seek to bury the story during the week of Christmas.”
Now here is the most ironic, but typical part of the whole non-scandal. Jay Nixon created the team, but isn’t participating in e-mail retention:
Gov.-elect Jay Nixon is not using Missouri’s new comprehensive, e-mail archiving system that makes easy to find and provide e-mails in response to public records requests.
The reason, essentially, is it would be inconvenient for Nixon’s transition team to start using it before he becomes governor.
Under normal circumstances, the computer servers used to send and receive e-mails by an incoming governor might not be an issue.But Nixon’s situation is far from usual. Special investigators for his current office of attorney general are suing the outgoing occupant of his new office – Gov. Matt Blunt – to determine if the governor’s e-mail practices have complied with Missouri laws.
There is a term for this: hypocrite. Jay Nixon is demonstrating one of the primary rules of being a Democrat, that the rules that apply to everyone else, don’t apply to him.
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