More than a year ago, the Pennsylvania Republican Party requested specific documents related to Katie McGinty’s schedule and e-mail correspondence. As one might imagine – the Democratic Governor’s office hasn’t been very cooperative in complying with Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know law. In fact, they are appealing the decision in court today to protect McGinty instead of following the law.
The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records says nearly 15,000 emails should be released, but the governor’s office has only released 71. What is Shady Katie hiding?
Of the 71 emails, the Governor’s office conveniently released mostly correspondence unrelated to any official business. Instead, they provide emails like this:
Read more from Penn Live:
Katie McGinty email flap heads to court as GOP demands access
Penn Live
The long-simmering battle over U.S. Senate candidate Katie McGinty’s emails will make its way to a Harrisburg courtroom on Tuesday.
Last July, the state Republican Party requested work schedules and emails from McGinty’s six months as Gov. Tom Wolf’s chief of staff, a time that coincided with a drawn out budget impasse with Legislative Republicans.
The Wolf administration balked at the Right-to-Know (RTK) request, claiming it was over-broad, included personal emails and contained internal deliberations that were exempt from release. After a series of exchanges, in which the GOP agreed to supply keywords to guide the search, the governor’s office supplied a redacted schedule and several dozen pages of email messages.
But the GOP argued that Wolf’s office withheld materials in order to protect a favored Senate candidate. McGinty faces incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in a hotly contested race in November.
"This seems to me to be running out the clock," said Cumberland County DA Dave Freed, at a GOP-sponsored press conference on Monday. "They’re trying to run out the clock so they don’t have to turn over the emails prior to the election."
The governor’s office has released 71 of as many as 15,000 pages of emails, the GOP says, much of which is innocuous or irrelevant.
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