Saturday, September 26, 2009
Over 5000 of them. As a commenter notes:
Now we know: Kineavy was deleting e-mails that relate to the public's business.
In the way we communicate today, this is the contemporary equivalent of shredding mounds of memos and letters. It is not a trivial matter, and even many of us who use e-mail as a lifeline to the world have underestimated what this says about the Menino Administration's lack of commitment to open government.
What this reveals, er, confirms, about the Menino Administration is its arrogance, insularity, and sense of entitlement to a public office. There's no sense of having done something wrong (at this juncture, it would be appropriate for Kineavy to step down), no sense of mea culpa (as in an apology for having made government less accountable). Instead, we get only a petulant 'tude of having been put upon...
As we've noted before, trouble following the public records law is a pattern with this administration. Like a lot of problems generally, but with Massachusetts in particular, electoral unaccountability causes rot.
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