This is not daily running commentary, but …
When first asked by the Post-Dispatch about the Scott Eckersley/Ed Martin recording last week, the response from the governor’s office, from two spokespeople, was that the governor’s office was not going to offer “daily running commentary” on the issue.
To the credit of the governor’s office, Lowell Pearson did speak on the record concerning the digital recording in which former chief of staff Martin fired former deputy counsel Eckersley.
And now, here is a statement from the governor’s office about the Post-Dispatch story. Just don’t call it “daily running commentary.”
One correction by the way. The statement from the governor’s office implies the Post-Dispatch story offered a characterization of whether or not it was ethical by Eckersley to record the conversation. The story pointed out that under Missouri law the recording was legal. The story did not make any contention as to whether or not it was ethical. Eckersley’s lawyers, however, have defended the practice.
The last days of a dying regime are often very bizarre…..
Maybe it’s legal but it really speaks to this Eckersley’s character. I’ve met the type, recording conversations where there is an expectation of privacy, sending emails over a supervisor’s head, melt downs with your boss. And then of course once he burns the last bridge behind him, he files suit….prince of guy. I’m sorry for you too Ed.
When you are dealing with lying liers, secretly recording something in order to defend yourself and your reputation is the only option. Now the Gov is complaining about Eckersley’s ethics? Delicious irony. This is a young guy with a career and a license. The Gov’s office wasted no time in sending all the written material it could find to the media to try to take him down personally and professionally, and I have every confidence that the campaign of destruction was only getting started. Mr. Eckersley just leveled the playing field. One should only be required to be as ethical as the folks one is up against, and the interlude on the tape was not a good time to take the high road.
Penelope,
I was thinking the same thing. Is it unethical to record a conversation outlining other unethical behavior?
Anyway, the Guv’s plan seems to be not to address the underlying accusation but to question the accuser. Something they did to Eckerley from the get go back in September.
I’m sure it became obvious to Mr. Eckersley prior to his altercation with Ed Martin, et al. that he was dealing with very devious people. He rightly assummed, in my opinion, that he was being manipulated over this email debacle and soon would be terminated.
I think he made the right decision to record the conversations. Mr. Eckersley had to protect his own self interests and more importantly his good name.
My sources tell me the expletives that fly out of Mr. Martin’s mouth would make a sailor blush. This is so delicious.
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