Crumley: Cooper should respond

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on March 14, 2008 - 8:29am.
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Bob CrumleyBob Crumley says Roy Cooper should respond on a public records flap. 

The Republican candidate for attorney general accused the Democratic incumbent of not doing enough to preserve public records.

A Cooper spokeswoman said earlier this week that he had no comment on the deletion of e-mails under a policy set by Gov. Mike Easley because of potential litigation.

In a press release, Crumley said that public records belong to North Carolinians, not to "Raleigh bureaucrats."

"Public records belong to the public,” he said in a statement. "Public officials who destroy them are breaking the law.  As Attorney General, I will stop them cold in their tracks."

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Re: Crumley: Cooper should respond

Submitted by FFC1304 on March 14, 2008 - 9:59am.

Sleazly and Cooper are in this to PROTECT EACH OTHER!!! THAT's the WAY it WORKS with CORRUPT democrats in RAWLEIGH!!!

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Crumley should be specific

Submitted by Isaac136 on March 14, 2008 - 9:23am.

Great, another blow-hard politician pipes up with meaningless blather. Or maybe Crumley can't be specific because he actually doesn't know what he's talking about and his interest doesn't extend much farther than attacking Roy Cooper.

As a Raleigh bureaucrat (that is, a worker bee, a person required to keep files, follow rules, ensure that the law is followed), I'm really tired of hearing politicians putting down the "bureaucrats" instead of the fat cats (in other words, each other). It isn't the bureaucrats (worker bees) who have a problem sharing public records; it's the politicians like Governor Easley.

It's the worker bees who get punished by the politicians when said politicians' personal druthers are resisted by the lowly state employees who are trying to comply with the law.

How are you going to "stop them cold in their tracks?" when the scapegoat is always the folks who are going to lose their jobs if they don't indulge the politician's wishes? You think you're going to find an EMAIL or something in which the Governor says, "Destroy that public record," and signs it "Mike?"

How, Mr. Crumley, just HOW are you going to "stop them cold in their tracks?" You can't prosecute what you can't prove, and you're never going to be able to prove that the governor or any other politician in Raleigh exerted pressure to bend the law. They make known what they want by suggestive phrasing and the worker bee either "gets it" or gets fired.

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