Maybe He Didn't Delete His Emails Frequently Enough

More upheaval in the Matt Blunt legal shop, as Crazy Eddie Martin reportedly gave the old heave-ho to Deputy General Counsel Scott Eckersley over the weekend.

First order of business today in the Governor's office was the changing of the locks, presumably in conjunction with Eckersley's receiving his keys to the street. 

Eckersley was engaged in some fashion in managing the Blunt administration's (non)compliance with laws requiring the provision of public records.  And it appears as though Eckersley is being used as a scapegoat for folks in Bluntworld who don't believe it's necessary to comply with record retention laws, and who should know better (Ed Martin is a lawyer, right?).

A 1961 Missouri law requires all government records to be kept open for public inspection. Officials who violate the law can be impeached, removed from office and charged with a misdemeanor crime punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $100 fine.

That law was passed long before anyone envisioned e-mail as a replacement for paper. But modern laws treat e-mails no differently than paper documents when it comes to public records.

Looks like Blunt, Martin and crew are battening down the hatches and offloading any of the players who they fear might fold under the pressure of the oncoming deluge of inquiries about their document retention practices.  

I wonder if anyone ("hello, mainstream media...") has yet requested taped back-up of Eckerlsey's deleted emails before they, too, disappear forever into the ether?