In case you missed it, The Morning Call detailed the Wolf Administration’s refusal to comply with the state’s Right to Know law in an effort to protect McGinty. In several instances it has been ruled that the Governor’s office needs to release McGinty’s e-mail and schedule records from her tenure as Wolf’s Chief of Staff, but the office has been stalling for more than a year.
What is Shady Katie hiding?
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Are there unreported details from the record-breaking, middle-class tax hike plan she championed that would have raised taxes on everything from nursing home care, to college textbooks and daycare services?
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Could it be more details about McGinty’s effort to cash in on the revolving door between government and private companies?
- Or, is it more information about the Pennsylvania state ethics commission’s rebuke of McGinty for funneling taxpayer dollars to a group that employed her husband?
Katie McGinty and the Wolf administration need to comply with the order from the Office of Open Records and release McGinty’s emails instead of stonewalling.
Read more from The Morning Call:
The state Republican Party has been trying for more than a year to get emails and work schedule information from Katie McGinty’s tenure as chief of staff for Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.
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The governor’s office released some emails and schedule listings. It withheld or redacted others, saying they were not related to government activity or were exempt from release. The person who requested the records, state GOP deputy communications director Paul Engelkemier, appealed to the open records office seeking access to more documents.
In separate decisions in December and April, the office ruled in his favor and ordered the governor’s office to release additional emails and schedule listings.
The governor’s office did not release more records. Instead, it appealed to Commonwealth Court, where the cases are pending.
Republicans say Wolf’s Democratic administration is protecting his endorsed candidate and trying to extend the cases until the election passes.
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I’m not taking sides here, but as someone who relies on the Right-to-Know process working, it should run more smoothly than this.
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I get the governor’s office withholding stuff about McGinty’s personal life. But I don’t think it should be withholding much involving her work as chief of staff. The law allows some records to be withheld, but it also says they can be released if they are in the "public interest."
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In December, the Office of Open Records ruled his request was sufficient and that while some emails could be withheld, the governor’s office hadn’t proven others could be.
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