Governor's office statement following Star, P-D, AP stories

Shorter Baby Blunt flack: Who are your going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

What is it about Matt Blunt and Ed Martin that keep them from just telling the truth?

Matt hasn't read his own staff's emails.

Luckily his reign ends soon. Goodbye Governor Blunt, we hardly knew ye. And what did did learn about you makes us glad you are going away. Don't look back and don't think about ever coming back.

Yawn only you and your mind numbed robots thinks this is a story. A governor fired a staffer (his right without question) and his staff sent some e-mails BFD. I wonder if the Star would share all of their emails between staffers with us, or would they scream bloody murder about sources and right to prviacy.

You dipsticks are pathetic, just because Blunt had the gall to defeat McCaskill you have never let up on him.

What goes around comes around people. Laid any folks off lately? How are revenues? Hmmmmmm?

I'm no fan of your Boy-Governor. But you've got to admit the haeadline claiming that the e-mails vindicate Eckersley doesn't match the story.

Printing the Governor's Office's response in its entirety is commendable (if that's what you did).

The following are quotes from the Star article which call into question its headline:

Eckersley appears to have been the first administration official to stipulate internally that e-mails must be saved. ["appears"??? So what? Even if he was the first, that doesn't prove he wasn't fired for doing outside work while getting paid by MO taxpayers, or for chronic tardiness!]

Eckersley, 31, was fired on Sept. 28, 2007. He has said the termination was linked to his stand on e-mails, although administration officials blamed the dismissal on his job performance and for doing private work with state resources.
The e-mails contained correspondence from Eckersley regarding that outside work. [Supporting Blunt's reason for termination]

E-mails from Blunt himself are relatively scarce. When he does appear, he’s seen frequently correcting staffers on spelling and grammar, once insisting that the first letter of ”Internet” be capitalized. [Which is correct!]

The e-mails show Eckersley receiving repeated praise from Martin, as well as Eckersley expressing remorse for sometimes being late to work. [More support for Blunt's decision to terminate]

Eckersley had e-mailed his boss, legal counsel Henry Herschel, apologizing “again” for showing up late: “I know how unprofessional it is to show up late...” [More support for Blunt's decision to terminate]

“every record made …… in connection with the transaction of official business of state government …… shall be retained in accordance with Missouri law.” ["Official business", not personal e-mails]

Robinson said Messenger’s request did not specifically ask for e-mails on state backup tapes. “We had not ever been asked to go to the backup (tape) before and when we were asked to go there, we did,” said Robinson.

Several e-mails show Martin corresponding with members of the Federalist Society, a Washington-based legal think tank, to undermine Breckenridge, the only Republican among the nominees from the state judicial nomination panel.
In one, from July 25, Martin includes a short biography of Breckenridge and says, “We need to frame her tomorrow as ‘‘out of the mainstream.’ [So? The appointment process is a political process. If Blunt doesn't like her, so what?]

In a later e-mail, he criticized her for sitting on the boards of nonprofit organizations “that serve illegals” and jokes, “Yup, she’s a real republican alright —— a mccain repub!” [So? The appointment process is a political process. If Blunt doesn't like her, so what?]