Tony Evers "used a taxpayer-funded email account with the name “warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov” to conduct public business. From AP:You could not make this up! Tony Evers thinks he's Warren Spahn! Or something like that. https://t.co/xPXgRiytgz pic.twitter.com/i3atEQ2cwx
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) November 27, 2023
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has been using an alternative state email account under the name of a late Hall of Fame baseball player as a security measure, his spokesperson said Monday. Evers, a Democrat, used a taxpayer-funded email account with the name “warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov” to discuss public business with top-level Cabinet appointees and others, the conservative outlet Wisconsin Right Now first reported on Sunday. Warren Spahn is a Hall of Fame former Milwaukee Braves pitcher. ...Wisconsin Right Now reported that it asked for all communications to and from “warren.spahn@wisconsin.gov” from 2018 to September 2023. The governor’s office rejected the request as being too broad, saying in a response email sent Nov. 22 that more than 17,000 emails were found. The Department of Administration provided the outlet with more than 30 pages of emails which contained messages back and forth between Evers, Cabinet secretaries and others.Evers has always really creeped me out.
Exactly. If the governor's office has received open records requests asking for emails - or just topics - that Evers discussed in the secret Warren Spahn emails... and they did NOT provide them to the requesters, then they are in wanton and blatant violation of state open records… https://t.co/7beldGgR4C
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) November 27, 2023
#BREAKING The granddaughter of #Milwaukee Braves baseball legend Warren Spahn is calling on #Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to apologize for using her family's loved one’s name to communicate about state business. She called Evers’ actions “absolutely” wrong and “highly inappropriate”…
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) November 28, 2023
Apologize, Evers. So slimy.In a nutshell, Morgan Spahn emphasized that, while Warren Spahn is a historical figure to many, he was a beloved real person with a real, and still grieving, family who live mostly in Oklahoma. Warren Spahn worked hard for the positive reputation that is attached to his name, and…
— Wisconsin Right Now (@wisconsin_now) November 28, 2023
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