My apolgies for the brevity and if this has already been diaried, I'll take it out...
According to the Washington Post Sarah Palin is being sued by a fellow Republican for using private email accounts to conduct public official state business.
Update: Wow... I flung this up over at my girlfriend's house and had to get home to feed the pooties and y'all rec'd it up! Thanks guys!
A bit mo' below...
Sarah Palin would seem to now have another legal problem, that's in addition to Troopergate. The interesting thing is that it's being filed by a fellow Republican who, it would seem, doesn't like Mrs. Palin all that much.
That would be one Andrée McLeod, who filed suit against Mrs. Palin over how she handles her email accounts.
"Rather than using her state e-mail account, throughout her two-year tenure as Governor of Alaska, defendant Sarah Palin, as a matter of routine, has used, and, on information and belief, continues to use, (at least) two private e-mail accounts... to conduct official business of the State of Alaska," the suit alleges.
McLeod thinks Palin is doing this on purpose and if so, I must say it's, well... very "Cheney-esque":
McLeod has questioned whether Palin was using private e-mail accounts to conduct state business in a manner that would skirt open-records laws. In one notable e-mail, a Palin aide apologized for discussing state business on a public account. "Whoops!" Palin aide Frank Bailey wrote, after addressing an e-mail to the governor's official state address. "Frank, this is not the Governor's personal account," a secretary reminded him.
This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons: The first is that obviously Mrs. Palin is probably being quite devious. She's hiding these emails for a reason. The following happened back in June, long before Palin's nomination:
(McLeod) filed an open-records request and received four boxes of redacted e-mails. But more than 1,100 others were withheld, an action Palin justified by claiming executive privilege. McLeod appealed that claim last month before going to court last week.
The other reason is that Andrée McLeod is a Republican. One wonders if Palin's nomination hasn't caused a schism in the Republican party between the Fundie wing and the Reagan Capitalists. If that's the case, perhaps it can and should be exploited as much as possible.