The saga of the Missouri Sunshine Law and the firing of Scott Eckersley by the “baby” Blunt administration continues. Let’s just say that damage control ain’t this administration’s forte.
Blunt’s office refused to provide records to fired lawyer [tiny URL]
When an attorney fired by Gov. Matt Blunt tried to get records from the governor’s office about his termination, he was told those documents were closed for personnel reasons.
The refusal to provide the records came the same day Blunt’s office released hundreds of pages of e-mails and documents to reporters that included intimate personal details about Scott Eckersley, the administration lawyer who was fired Sept. 28.
In a letter to reporters the day the documents were released, administration officials insinuated Eckersley may have liked “group sex” and illegal drugs.
Eckersley, the former deputy chief counsel for Blunt’s office, has said he was fired after challenging the administration’s position that it did not have to save e-mails and could routinely delete them. He said he is now the victim of character assassination in retaliation for speaking out….
Hmmm. They’ll release records to the media in order to smear a person, but they won’t release records to the person they smeared because it’s a “personnnel matter.”
One of these things is not like the other…
A three year old would understand that. Pass the popcorn.
Today’s Post-Dispatch editorial summed up all the deleted e-mail doings, even adding a few tidbits I’d been unaware of. They reamed the Blunt “administration”.