Guess who uses private email accounts ? Alabama Republicans, that's who !

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Gov. Robert Bentley has a Hillary Clinton problem


By John Archibald | [e-mail]
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on October 13, 2015 at 8:33 AM, updated October 13, 2015 at 8:51 AM

Gov. Robert Bentley has a Hillary Clinton problem.

As in ... he thinks the state's business is his business. And not your business. Which is bad business for the state of the state.

Alabama's governor does not have a state email account.
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There's only one reason why a public official would not use official government email to carry out the duties of his office: because he wants to pretend his correspondence is not the public's business. Because he believes using his own private address will allow him to slide around that pesky part of the law that says writings (electronic or not) created while running the state are public property, and officials have a duty to preserve them for the people and for posterity.

It's not just the governor that has a Hillary problem. As WBHM's Gigi Douban reported last week, more than half of Alabama's representatives and almost a third of senators choose private email instead of state-issued accounts.
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more: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/10/gov_robert_bentley_has_a_hilla.html





Many Alabama Legislators Use Private Email, Limiting Public Access

Posted 10-9-2015 by Gigi Douban.

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“What we found in many cases is that it is used to conduct public business, but to do so in private,” says Bevarly.

State prosecutors are using emails as evidence in an ongoing corruption case against House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Last month the Chicago Tribune sued Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for access to private emails about city business. Bevarly says getting emails from a third party can be a long process.

“Not only does it take time, it also takes money. Time is money,” says Bevarly, potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. If a public official fights a records request, those legal fees are often on the taxpayer’s dime.

Bevarly says public officials could just delete messages. Whereas with a .gov email address, those messages would still be available on a government server.

In Alabama, official emails are permanently kept on servers at the Alabama Supercomputer Authority.
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more: https://news.wbhm.org/feature/2015/many-alabama-legislators-not-using-official-government-issued-email-addresses/

[Turbineguy]

1. Yeah

But who the fuck wants to hack them?

OK, stand-up comedians maybe.

[randys1]

2. THe email issue is similar to Benghazi in that NOBODY did anything wrong, on purpose or

not, but maybe you learn from your mistakes, etc.

THere is no story, at all, with the email OTHER than a way to figure out a uniform system for govt officials and email.

It just blows my mind people are dumb enough to fall for this shit

[GummyBearz]

3. Yea, national security doesn't matter

pfft... who cares about sending classified information to the open internet? Hillary doesn't for one.

[yeoman6987]

4. He will have to answer this when or if he runs for president

[randys1]

5. Sigh...Me thinks you are on the WRONG website

wow

[GummyBearz]

6. Me thinks you are just a clinton fanboy

I am a Sanders supporter, if I am on the wrong website then so be it. I also have worked with classified information and know the procedures for distributing it. I know when the FBI has to redact parts of emails found on her server since they were classified, that she broke procedure. And I know this wouldn't have been acceptable at my previous job. I don't think holding her to my standard is being unfair.

[snooper2]

7. where do you work? you use email?

At your current or future employer, just say-

Eh, fuck your outlook account- You want to send something to me send it to my super awesome Yahoo account mkay!


LOL

[randys1]

8. Just like all the scandals that were NOT scandals with Obama and co, this email thing

is just another way to BASH a Clinton and the Democratic Party.

This has NOTHING to do with anyone knowingly or intentionally doing anything wrong, just like Benghazi, but is a situation where if lessons can be learned and systems changed, fine, but ANYONE attacking HIllary over email, well, just let me put it this way

dont talk to me, we have NOTHING in common