It took several weeks, consultations with lawyers, charitable donations, a tangle or two with the AG's office and $611, but citizen activist John Washburn says he is finally expecting to receive -- any day now -- seven days' worth of email from Gov. Rick Perry's office.
Washburn's request for the records ensured the email was spared from the electronic shredders because Perry has a seven-day retention policy. My colleague Elise Hu has the whole flap explained here. The electronic purge policy was a holdover from the days when George W. Bush was governor. As it turns out, Bush has come under fire in the White House for erasing email from 2003-2005.
Washburn , an open government activist from Milwaukee, forced Perry to save emails while his multiple requests for records were being made, but huge bills and a mound of red tape finally stopped him.
Now, though a key deadline appears to have passed for it, Perry is fighting release of some of the records, and open government attorney Joe Larsen is aiding Washburn in seeking their release. In the meantime, Washburn opens the mail each day like a kid who just ordered his first pair of x-ray glasses.
Stay tuned.
-- Jay Root
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Posted by: Shredder | July 23, 2008 at 12:33 AM