Sanford staffers used private e-mail to talk state business

[sabra]

Source: Miami Herald/The State

Former staffers for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said they routinely used private e-mail accounts to discuss sensitive political and policy decisions with Sanford.

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But the disclosed e-mails contained little discussion of state business between staff and Sanford, and mostly dealt with daily news stories and other media-related issues. Sanford sent or received about 230 e-mails a month over the 13-month period contained in the request.

Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer said the office does not regularly use private e-mail to avoid open-records laws and most decisions are made in face-to-face meetings or over the phone.

But former Sanford spokesman Will Folks, now editor of FITSnews.com, said he checked his private e-mail at least 10 times a day while with the governor.

"That's where I was getting the vast majority of political e-mails," Folks said.



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[Captain Hilts]

1. That's a no-no. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. "Used to be" a no-no. Apparently the whole Rove/Repub/WH e-mail

investigation has been quietly...disappeared.
Odds are good Sanford isn't the only Guv. to do this.
come to think of it, wasn't there some brouhaha about Pain' e-mails?