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factfinder_77

(841 posts) Tue Sep 19, 2017, 10:49 PM Sep 2017

Kris Kobach Defends Using A Private Email For Government Business - surprise [View all]

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) is defending using a personal email account to conduct business as the vice chair of a commission convened by President Donald Trump to investigate voter fraud, continuing a trend of shielding his communications from public view.

In a statement provided to ProPublica ― which first reported Kobach’s use of private email ― last Friday, Kobach defended his practice, saying he was serving on the voter fraud probe not in his official capacity as Kansas secretary of state, but as a private citizen. Kobach told ProPublica that using his official email would be a “waste of state resources.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kris-kobach-private-email_us_59c15bfbe4b0f22c4a8d1dbd?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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Kris Kobach Defends Using A Private Email For Government Business - surprise [View all] factfinder_77 Sep 2017 OP

Typical GOP hypocrite! BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #1

I wish for once somebody from our side would confront them on this kinda thing Afromania Sep 2017 #3

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I think a precedent was set by Colin Powell. So, yeah. We can criticize GOP hypocrisy. LuvLoogie Sep 2017 #4