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No wonder Gov. Kate Brown wants to punish the whistle blowers!

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 15:25
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No wonder Gov. Kate Brown wants to punish the whistle blowers!

by In the news Wednesday, February 25. 2015

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by NW Spotlight

A few days ago we reported on Gov. Kate Brown’s chilling moves to silence & punish state employees who refused to delete Kitzhaber emails. KATU is reporting today on new findings about Kitzhaber’s dealings in those emails, based on investigation by Willamette Week’s Nigel Jaquiss:

“Emails that former Gov. John Kitzhaber tried to have deleted reveal that he turned decision-making for the troubled state health exchange, Cover Oregon, over to a campaign consultant.” [That consultant was Patricia McCaig – who was not a state employee]

“Kitzhaber secretly turned over Cover Oregon decision-making to McCaig.”

“‘These emails show that a lot of the state’s business was being conducted in secret on private email accounts and far from the scrutiny of the Legislature, or the press, or the public,’ Jaquiss said.”

Is Kate Brown trying to cover her own incompetence or worse in her prior role as Sec of State in overseeing elections?

Troubling stuff today coming from Nigel Jaquiss at Willamette Week: “In private, however, Kitzhaber handed oversight of the Cover Oregon mess to a secretive campaign consultant who liked to call herself the Princess of Darkness.”

Jaquiss is also reporting “Records show dozens of emails between Kitzhaber and McCaig on Cover Oregon. During this time, McCaig wasn’t billing Kitzhaber’s campaign. That enabled Kitzhaber not to disclose her work on his campaign finance reports, as required by law,” and “In August 2014, WW reported that McCaig was effectively running Kitzhaber’s re-election campaign and that Kitzhaber was not reporting her contributions. On Sept. 12, Kitzhaber emailed McCaig from the Pendleton Round-Up. He joked about that lack of transparency.

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