Emails will become public, one way or another (Anchorage Daily News)

Published: June 8th, 2011 06:30 PM
Last Modified: June 8th, 2011 06:31 PM

There's an element of summer circus about the Parnell administration's handling of the Palin email records. After the governor refused to make the email records available outside of Juneau, Sen. Dennis Egan, D-Juneau, asked the governor to change his mind and even offered to cover the expense of shipping them to Anchorage and Fairbanks.

That was out of his legislative office expenses, of course, which legislators recently increased for themselves, so it wasn't quite as sacrificial as it appears at first glance ...

The administration has agreed to provide copies of records to Anchorage Reps. Mike Doogan and Berta Gardner, who have requested them, as a matter of course in response to a legislator's request. Doogan and Gardner aim to make the records available. Neither will have to pay for copying and shipping -- that's in contrast to the governor's office reply to private citizen Andree McLeod, who wanted to know if the records would be available for viewing in Anchorage. She was told no, that she would either have to fly to Juneau to see them or pony up more than $1,000 for copies and shipping to Anchorage ...

BOTTOM LINE: Email circus is funny -- except for the genuine public records issue at stake.

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