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Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

chachalaquita — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:58:07 -0400

It seems that Mr. Easley keeps making more mistakes... Now, we are going from the mental health reform failure, the unfairly firing a committed public officer to the violation of the public records law. Is there an end to this snow ball effect? What else have this administration done wrong??? Pretty scary... it seems that the more the N&O investigates, the more we found out is wrong...
I hope Ms. Crane fights for her reputation and unfair dismissal.

Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

j1c2kp — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:00:52 -0500

I hope Debbie considers legal representation.

Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

j1c2kp — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:34:47 -0500

Let me see if I can wrap my brain around what I have read today. Mike Moseley is fired but continues to work for several more months drawing a huge salary. Seth Hunt Jr. fails to report 4 patient deaths (violation of state law), spends thousands of dollars to bulletproof and install panic buttons in his office and he is simply demoted. So what exactly is the heinous act that Debbie Crane committed? What justifies her firing? It is time for Easley to stand before the cameras and take it like a man, let them ask the tough questions, and better yet---actually answer them. I would like to know why what is good for the goose is not good for the gander.

Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

hayek66 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:33:33 -0500

"Seth Effron, a spokesman for Easley, denied the allegation and said that Crane was "dishonest, truthful and insubordinate" and hindered reporters from getting information from the department."

hmmm

Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

clare22279 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:14:36 -0500

Fourth paragraph--can you be both dishonest and truthful?

Re: Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

Isaac136 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:57:59 -0500

How does Seth sleep at night? It's not bad enough that they fire her for displeasing the King, now they have to smear her, too?

Aide: Easley office wanted e-mail trashed

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:34:47 -0500

A former public affairs director said Gov. Mike Easley's office ordered e-mail sent to him destroyed.

Debbie Crane, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, was fired Tuesday amid the fallout from an N&O investigation of the state's mental health system, Dan Kane reports.

"The governor's office, press office, to bypass the public records laws, they ask the second you e-mail them anything, to kill it, then kill it again out of your trash so it doesn't exist," she said. "That's what they tell all the public affairs people, that they don't want to create any public records."

Seth Effron, a spokesman for Easley, denied the allegation and said that Crane was "dishonest, untruthful and insubordinate" and hindered reporters from getting information from the department.

If Crane's contention is true, it would be a violation of the state's public records law, said Amanda Martin, a press attorney for the N.C. Press Association.

Several public information officers in state agencies said they had not been told to delete e-mail, but Ernie Seneca, chief spokesman for the Department of Transportation, said he deletes all of his e-mails at the end of the day.

N&O reporters have made numerous requests for e-mail to the governor's office only to be told no such records exist.

Correction: An earlier version of this post included an incorrect word.