Do you think Gasconade County elected officials and employees should be permitted to use county owned computers (or any county asset) for a personal business purpose? Do you think county officials and employees should be allowed to use their time at work, time for which the taxpayer pays, to conduct personal business with or wthout the aid of county computers or any other county asset? Do you think the county has written policies regarding the use of county assets such as computers and telephones?
Recently a loyal, long-time HH reader provided us six (6) emails which he has received over the course of the past several months. These non-business related emails were sent out to a personal distribution list by a certain elected Gasconade County official during regular office work hours. Our source, who prefers that his identity not be revealed at this time, received the emails when they were
forwarded to him by a person who was on the original distribution list. He is very upset about this and has taken these same emails to his elected county representative for further investigation into the matter. Because the investigation is ongoing, we are honoring our source's request that his name and the name of the county official accused of improperly using county computers not be used in this report at this time. Our source, whom we shall hereafter refer to by his code name "Mongoose", has independently confirmed to us that the author of these personal emails is in fact an elected Gasconade County official. We have verified that this is in fact the case.
We have on file copies of the emails which we can independently confirm and attest are definitely of a personal nature as alleged by "Mongoose" and not of a county business nature. The dates and times that the emails were sent out are as follows:
1. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:29:59
(Subject: Republican Pachyderm Club, Lincoln Day Flier)
2. Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:56:41
(Subject: Article "Organizing Kids for Barack Obama")
3. Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:44:18
(Subject: Article "After America , There is No Place to Go")
4. Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:44:32
(Subject: Article "Barack Obama Has Awakened a Sleeping Nation")
5. Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:25:21
(Subject: Food Nutrition Chart)
6. Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:18:11
(Subject: Article "British Press Report on Obama's G-20 Summit Meeting Trip")
As you can see from the date/time stamps of the emails which were sent out by the county official, all emails were sent during the regular office hours of the Gasconade County offices at the Gasconade County Courthouse. None were mailed out on "personal time", i.e. on weekends or at times prior to 8:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m.
We will keep you updated as the investigation procedes.
Jimmy Oldsun
NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor
http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/
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