But that all changed this week…
On Friday, the Wolf Administration was ordered to release the requested documents from Katie McGinty’s tenure as the Governor’s Chief of Staff.
Pennsylvania voters deserve to know what Katie McGinty was doing while in her taxpayer-funded job. From the little we already know, McGinty wasn’t shy about blurring the ethical line. As DEP Secretary McGinty used taxpayer money to prop up her personal interests, funnel money to a company that employed her husband, and secure future gigs in corporate board rooms.
In the coming days before the November 8th election voters deserve to learn if this habit of self-service before public service extended to Shady Katie’s role as Governor Wolf’s Chief of Staff.
In case you missed it…
Associated Press: Court orders more McGinty emails to be released
"Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has 30 days to produce copies of more emails sent or received by Katie McGinty when she was his chief of staff, before she ran for U.S. Senate, a Pennsylvania court ruled Friday. The emails, sought by the state Republican Party, do not have to be released before the Nov. 8 election.
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The Commonwealth Court’s ruling upholds a decision by the Office of Open Records."
WITF: Court orders Wolf administration to release more McGinty emails
"The Wolf administration has been ordered to release more of the emails Democratic US Senate nominee Katie McGinty sent and received during her short tenure as the governor’s chief of staff. The Commonwealth Court ruling caps a drawn-out battle between the administration and the state GOP."
"The judges sided with the GOP and ordered Wolf to comply with the order issued by the Office of Open Records.
The decision, written by Brobson, said the court relied on a three-part test to determine whether the emails are public: Did the requester specify a time frame for the emails? Was the scope of the inquiry specific enough? Were the keywords provided narrow enough to make the search doable by a government agency?
In all three questions, the answer is yes, Brobson wrote…"
Harrisburg Patriot-News: Katie McGinty’s emails should be released to Pa. GOP, court rules
"A panel of judges ruled Friday in favor of the state Republican Party’s public records request for emails from U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty’s time as Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff."
WHTM: Pa. court says governor’s office must turn over McGinty emails
"A state appeals court says the governor’s office must release thousands of emails Katie McGinty sent and received in the six months she was Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff. Commonwealth Court on Friday affirmed the decision of the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, which had sided with the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in saying the Wolf administration should turn over the emails."
FOX43: Commonwealth Court: McGinty must release more emails
"…the Governor’s Office will have to release more emails from the former Chief of Staff for Governor Wolf and current Democratic Senate Nominee within 30 days.
Last year, the Pennsylvania GOP filed an open records request to access emails sent by McGinty while she was Chief of Staff for the Governor. The Governor’s Office refused the request, initially saying the GOP’s request was too broad. An amended request, with a list of over 100 keywords was submitted. The Office of Open Records ruled in December the governor’s office was justified in not releasing certain emails, but said others should have been disclosed. This ruling will result in thousands of pages of emails being released."
Washington Free Beacon: Court: Governor’s Office Must Release Katie McGinty Emails
"A Pennsylvania court ruled on Friday that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s office must release emails sent by Katie McGinty that it has kept from the state Republican Party.
McGinty served six months as Wolf’s chief of staff before resigning to launch her campaign for U.S. Senate last summer. The Pennsylvania Republican Party issued an open records request for McGinty’s emails as chief of staff almost immediately on July 7, 2015. The request produced over 15,000 pages worth of emails but only 71 of them have been handed over to the state party."
PA homepage: Governor Wolf ordered to release McGinty emails to PA GOP
"Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s office was ordered Friday to release thousands of pages of emails from his the- Chief of Staff Katie McGinty to the state Republican party."