Governor's Office Ordered To Release Carrier Deal Emails

[jpak]

Source: wfyi.org

A Marion County Superior judge issued a deadline for the governor’s office to release emails former Indiana governor and Vice President Mike Pence sent connected to the Carrier deal.

The governor’s office has 30 days to release emails about the 2016 deal to ensure some jobs at an Indianapolis Carrier plant were not outsourced. Carrier was put in the national spotlight when then President-elect Donald Trump gave the company tax incentives to prevent jobs from moving to Mexico.

The Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) filed suit over a year ago, claiming the office violated the state’s Access to Public Records Act (APRA). CAC executive director Kerwin Olson says the four APRA requests made are for emails sent towards the end of 2016.

“We saw the sort of odd and bizarre announcements that surrounded the Carrier deal back in late November of 2016 after the presidential campaign had ended,” he says. “Thought things looked a little weird, didn’t quite smell right so we requested documents from the governor’s office related to discussions President-elect Trump or Vice President Pence had with Carrier and their parent company United Technologies.”

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[Gothmog]

1. This is great news

[Fred Sanders]

2. The stench of corruption and propaganda leak out eventually...media should take notice that

corruption is an election issue because it exists in mass quantity in America and not just because it is political.

[Codeine]

3. Stupid question, maybe.

So how can anyone be certain all the relevant emails are released? What’s to prevent the state only turning over the innocuous emails and saying “Yep, that’s everything!”?