We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
He argued they include private exchanges with lawyers, details about policy-making decisions and information that would reveal how the state entices companies to invest here. Releasing them to the public, he wrote, “would have a chilling effect on the frank and open discussion necessary for the decision-making process.”
Holy shit, that’s definitely an argument in favor of making it public.
“If I can’t say ‘You take the taxpayer from the front and I’ll take them from the back’ then our communication will be chilled and it’ll take so much longer to screw you to the same degree 😩”
Holy shit, that’s definitely an argument in favor of making it public.
“If I can’t say ‘You take the taxpayer from the front and I’ll take them from the back’ then our communication will be chilled and it’ll take so much longer to screw you to the same degree 😩”