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To: miraje who wrote (24840)	1/14/2011 9:31:49 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86355

Government at work: spend $500,000 to save $8,000 Posted on January 13, 2011 by Anthony Watts Gosh, it can’t be the money, can it? There must be something else going on. The juxtaposition is priceless. From Tom Nelson: UVA spends $500,000 on lawyers when it would cost only $8,000 to deliver public documents? Commonwealth Foundation – Mann: From Transparency Champion to ‘Bully’ Victim UVA has been resisting (spending about $500,000 on outside lawyers for the effort) a similar, previous request by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, who is investigating Mann under the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. Climate e-mails and public records – Roanoke.com That the e-mails are public documents seems clear. Mann, while a professor at the school, used an e-mail account at least partially paid for by taxpayers. Just as an elected official’s or state worker’s official correspondence is open to the public, so is a professor’s at a state school. … The school estimated it would cost up to $8,000 to deliver the e-mails. That sounds high, but then we do not know how much of a mess their backup servers are. Whatever the accurate cost, if Marshall and friends will pay it, they do not deserve any more hassle from UVa than any other citizen seeking public records. wattsupwiththat.com