Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (D)

This page is one of 50 articles that examine how America's governors do (or don't) respond to open records requests.

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John Washburn, Sunshine Activist, encourages all bloggers to take part in the Sunshine Blogger Project and examine their state governors.

Republicans Testing Schweitzer's Openness from the November 5, 2007 Flathead Beacon.

According to this article, Montana GOP executive director Chris Wilcox believes that, "Schweitzer puts on this facade of being a man of the people and open, but in reality he puts up barriers".

21 requests have been received under Montana's open records law in the last two years; the majority of them from Republicans.

One Republican, John Sinrud of Bozeman, asked for all e-mails from the governor's staff for a 45-day period. In response, he was told:

"...he would be charged a potentially hefty sum for the time to have an information technology staff member work on the request, and be charged for a lawyer to review the e-mails to redact items, such as personnel issues, that would be considered private under state law — effectively stalling the request."

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