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Name: John Washburn
Location: Germantown, Wisconsin, United States

I am a simple county boy transplanted from the Piehl Township in northern Wisconsin to the Milwaukee metropolitan area who came down "sout" in 1980 for college and have stayed in the area since.
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Messin' With Texas

Counter to all bumper sticker urging me not to, last week I messed with Texas.

Specifically, I asked Governor Rick Perry for the emails from his office for the prior several days. This is now big news in Texas and is now an AP wire story.

Here is how this devolped.
The Purge: Part One,
The Purge makes The Carnival,
The Purge: Part Two,
The Purge goes old stream, and
The Purge: Part Three.

To follow this developing story please refer to The Political Junkie

I have been warned that Governor Perry does not have the good humor that this letter would indicate.

8 Comments:

Anonymous elise said...

John, I am sending you a "Don't Mess With Texas" bumper sticker in the mail.

Mon Nov 12, 05:40:00 PM CST  
Blogger STCB4B said...

Texas government needs transparency and accountability to the taxpayers. It starts with the governor's office. Thank you for "Messin' With Texas"!

Sat Nov 17, 05:19:00 PM CST  
Blogger John Washburn said...

Still no eamils at this point to any of the four public information act requests.

Sat Nov 17, 07:50:00 PM CST  
Blogger Linda Curtis said...

Hi John: Just a quick thanks for what you are doing in doggin' the corrupt Governor of Texas -- Rick Perry (Mr. 39% -- the percentage he got in the last election in a 4-way race). The independent political movement is doggin' him here too. We're at ImpeachPerry.com and IndyTexans.org. If there's anything we can do to help, please know we're here. Thanks again! Linda Curtis, Independent Texans

Tue Nov 27, 08:37:00 AM CST  
Anonymous nosaints1 said...

Thanks for encourging this joker to waste our money here is Texas. Why don't you move up to Wisconsin and have fun with your friend.

Mon Dec 03, 10:01:00 PM CST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like sour grapes in Texas and more wasteful spending on the horizon by the spoiled brat crowd.
Lets see. Perry won with 39%, more then twice the 2 independent candidates total. Can't win the normal way, so lets try to impeach him instead. Want higher taxes, try reviewing the cost of impeachment proceedings to the tax payer. This effort will get no where, except to spend LOTS citizens cash in the long run just to make a few crybabies happy and feel important. Tisk Tisk

Tue Dec 04, 11:34:00 AM CST  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just read your story on this FOIA request from our illustrious governor and his staff and was amused and inspired to donate to your cause. I wish I had your computer knowledge to do what you have done with this simple constitutional right/request. I applaud you sir. By the way, I work with DHS, yes I know, it's and oxymoron and am also an Ex-supervisor that stepped down to fix/fight the system from within as a Union officer.

Sun Jan 27, 09:13:00 AM CST  
Blogger Dan said...

One Man's Fight to Open Government Data

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/One-Mans-Fight-to-Open-Government-Data-64172.html

from Linux Insider

Sat Aug 16, 10:23:00 PM CDT  

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