Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Another FOIA Fishing Expedition

Halburn is well known for his FOIA fishing expeditions. And since the Secretary of State now has a searchable database of all requests filed with WV government agencies, his demands can now be read online.

His latest vendetta seems to be against West Virginia State University. He was demanding copies of emails and their criteria for what they constitute as working press.


The focus of his ire this time is WVSU Director for Public Relations Jack Bailey.
Once we saw the request shown below, it all made sense.

FOIA Request Items

Subject 
Inspection of Email
Details
“In response to your response to my March 16, 2016 FOIA request: As stated in my FOIA request, the author and recipient of requested emails is Jack Bailey. Additional authors and recipients can include Jerry Waters, Scott Edwards, Benjamin Newhouse, Raymond "Joe" Haynes, Steve Andes, Chris Walters, Kelli Sobonya, Bill Cole, and Mitch Carmichael. I am specifically looking for any emails that discuss Mark Halburn, Mark Hallburn, PutnamLIVE.com, DM, DH, PutnamLIES, PutnamLIES.blogspot.com, the PutnamLIES Facebook page, as well as discussion of any and all Facebook posts discussing all of the above.” “You can also add the phrases "the publisher" and "psycho publisher" to my list.”“Please see attached for two of the email addresses that I am looking for emails to and from. One of DM's email address is L****************2@gmail.com. Another could have a "tasty blends" or "Tasty Blends foods" as part of the email address.” “Other names include Lee Mays, Mark Sorsaia, Tyler Hollywood, Lawrence Smith, Cryptic Vullshit, Mark Smith, and Travis Castle.


Last month when WVSU was celebrating its 125th anniversary, we thanked WVSU for adding us to to the press list and giving us full access all to the events. The Blobby Blogger begged to be on the press list but was repeatedly denied.
That's what started his latest crusade.

Many of those who have stood up to him also get a shout-out.
Surprising that he left out Danny Jones and Judge Michael Kelly.

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