Why Gov. Greg Abbott Won't Release His Emails With Elon Musk

[still-prayin4rain]

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-governor-greg-abbott-elon-musk-emails-foia


"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want to reveal months of communications with Elon Musk or representatives from the tech mogul’s companies, arguing in part that they are of a private nature, not of public interest and potentially embarrassing."

"The language Abbott’s office used appears to be fairly boilerplate. Paxton’s office, in an explanation of the common-law privacy exception on its website, mentions that “personal financial information” that doesn’t deal with government transactions “is generally highly intimate or embarrassing and must be withheld.”

Why would Texas government officials be corresponding with Musk's representatives from their work/government accounts about personal finance transactions? Isn't that, in and of itself, problematic??

[BoRaGard]

1. Why is a public official like Abbott writing embarrassing emails?

Oh wait I forgot, he's a republicon

[SheltieLover]

2. Probably talking shit about slobby with Fleaon.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. It seems to me

that if he was using an official government email account, the content does not matter, it becomes the public's business.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Excuse me, but wasn't he talking about finances?

What if he was cutting deals? What if he was trying to woo Elon Musk in by offering inappropriate government access?

Someone on the Democratic side should have the right to check on Abbott's story.

[lostnfound]

7. But her emails...

only applies to Dems.

[spanone]

5. Kickbacks.

[in2herbs]

6. Would these emails have occurred during the time that Musk wanted to buy and build a private city in TX?

There was a public vote on it but I never could find the results. The vote was only a few months ago.

If so, my guess is Abbott wants to keep the emails hidden because he helped Musk.