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Something I don't understand about use of the RNC email servers:
BushCO says the RNC computers were put in place because folks aren't supposed to use government equipment while conducting political activities.
Okay, fine -- but shouldn't the WH itself be off-limits for conducting partisan political activities? If we go for purity, shouldn't it be the place where elected officials and their staff conduct business for the people, all the people, with partisan political activities conducted off-site?
And don't the desk and chair where people sit while switching from one computer to another fall into the category of equipment? Technically, shouldn't they have to trot outside, off the people's property, to send those emails on the RNC servers?
And isn't there any problem with them sending those emails on the people's dime? Aren't those hours spent at work, doing the people's work, supposed to be the time we pay them to work for us? If we have people flip-flopping from one computer to another all day long, doesn't that indicate they're doing political work all day long rather than attending to what they're supposed to be doing?
If we look at the pre-RNC-computer rules, it seems the intent of those rules is to keep partisan political activities out of the work day. But rather than comply with that, BushCo looked at the rules as a way to circumvent those other rules re retaining documents. It's as if a rule put in place to clean up government was used as an excuse to get around complying with another rule aimed at preserving a record of what our prez, vp, and staff are doing for and to us.
Thus, my question:
Wouldn't what the WH folks did be akin to my going to the my office at, say, Widget Manufacturing, and spending the day in my company-supplied building, in my company-supplied office, at my company-supplied desk, in my company-supplied chair, switching back and forth between the company-supplied computer on which I performed company work -- and my personal PC, from which I emailed back and forth with Democratic activists and operatives all day long, meanwhile getting my full pay from the company?
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