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| Michael Corwin |
It seems that manufacturing an e-mail scandal is as messy as mudslinging. It is simply not quite as easy as Democratic Party operative Michael Corwin would have thought. More and more elected officials have been brought into the spotlight in recent days as questions abound about the proper use of public and private e-mail addresses.
Late last week New Mexico Attorney General Gary King held a press conference in which he accused the Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) of "intimidating" him by filing a public records request. Unfortunately for King, his use of private emails for public business were about to be brought to light.
Through its request, RPNM sought to determine just how common it is for public officials to use private emails. This followed Michael Corwin’s efforts to slap the "scandal" label on the Martinez administration for its e-mail conduct. The smear merchants were using e-mail data they knew was stolen.
Apparently the Attorney General and his staff routinely use private emails. Recently King directed a lawyer and $5,000 campaign donor to send him an email about official state business to his private email address. The lawyer previously emailed King at lglgking@nm.net — an address King indicates was incorrect. The subsequent email proves King had a private phone conversation with the lawyer and directed him to use "gary@garyking2010.com" to send him information about official state business. King then tells one of his government employees, "let's not forward the entire email." 
Since Michael Corwin attempted to establish the precedent that use of private emails is a "scandal," a number of revelations have come to light:
1. Legislators have always used, and now promise to continue to use, private emails. Many will not produce records via public records requests.
2 Neither Governor Johnson, nor Governor Richardson ever used state emails.
3. Attorney General Gary King uses multiple private email accounts.
5. Governor Susana Martinez remains the only elected official to order all of her staff to exclusively communicate via email on state emails for official state business.
6. Apparently King has sent and received so much private email about official business that he requested additional time to review emails related to GOP's public records request.
It would seem that all of the efforts of Michael Corwin to try to smear the Martinez administration have sort of blown up in his face.
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