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TALLAHASSEE A Tallahassee judge this week ordered Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to stop fighting attempts to allow Google to turn over basic information about the private email accounts used by the governor and his staff to conduct state business.
Circuit Court Judge Charles A. Francis ordered the company last month to disclose when the email accounts held by the governor and his staff were established and by whom. The action is part of a public records lawsuit filed against Scott and Bondi by Tallahassee lawyer Steven R. Andrews.
But the Jacksonville attorney hired by the governor to fight the effort refused to agree on the language of the subpoena, delaying it for weeks. Andrews then asked the judge to intervene. Francis overruled Scott's attorney, Thomas Bishop, on Thursday.
The two-page order allows Andrews to seek subscriber information for the Gmail accounts used by the governor and two of his former staff members, Sarah Hansford and Brad Pipenbrink.
Andrews alleges that the governor's office encouraged staffers to use Gmail accounts to circumvent the public records law. He thinks determining when the accounts were established and by whom will help determine who was involved.
Scott has said his account, gov.rls@gmail.com, was used to communicate with his family members, not for public business, and that he has "followed the law."
However, emails to Scott's Gmail account have surfaced from his former chief of staff, Steve MacNamara, after MacNamara left the governor's office.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/judge-orders-scott-to-stop-fighting-request-for-records/2196393
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Repugs have been doing this for a while now. Multiple incidences of them using private email to circumvent the law.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)They are all so low.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)when he left office as governor of Massachusetts.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)He DIDN'T follow the law. And if he only used it for family communication, he should be eager to prove it. After all, if you're innocent, there is nothing to fear...
rocktivity
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)the conclusion he's guilty as hell!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)for government business? Hmmm...
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)If his staff members or other government employees are among Scott's subscribers, he's got a problem -- especially if he endorsed it.
rocktivity
dballance
(5,756 posts)Rick Scott is a known liar and presided over the largest Medicare fraud in history. He took the fifth in depositions about it. I'd say the people of FL have every reason not to trust him when he says he only used it for family. Especially since e-mails from his former chief of staff have be revealed.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I wanna read sex mail from this guy
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]If you don't give yourself the same benefit of a doubt you'd give anyone else, you're cheating someone.[/center][/font][hr]
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)oh yes, I do believe I did....
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Evil and scary as hell.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)nightmare visitor.... with a sweet greeting through a screen door.... argggggggghhhh!!!
Trying to convince Florida voters he's on their side.... hahahahaha so very Rick Scott
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)My friends and I would always do an imitation. Too bad the movie isn't better because he is a great character. Thanks for posting, I was going to look it up.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)I also see Lindsey Graham in there as well -- the voice, etc
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)He has the Southern lilt that is so compelling. I wonder what the character was based on--a book or perhaps a real figure.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)That if I use my personal e-mail account at any time for government work in FL, the entire account becomes public record subject to discovery in a trial. This is why I never do that.
randome
(34,845 posts)Incontrovertible evidence that he is a liar could be his death knell.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]If you don't give yourself the same benefit of a doubt you'd give anyone else, you're cheating someone.[/center][/font][hr]
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)the emails away!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I so hope he ends up in prison.