Former Senate hopeful Milton Wolf has taken to Twitter to chide Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration for sharing a draft of the governor’s budget proposal with lobbyists three weeks before its public unveiling.
In a pair of tweets Saturday morning, Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist who unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts in the Republican primary last August, dismissed the administration’s official explanation about why it used private e-mails to share budget plans. He compared what the governor’s office did with former IRS official Lois Lerner’s use of private e-mails to conduct official business.
Don’t use private e-mails for public business http://t.co/znfPXll05P If it's wrong for Dems like Lois Lerner, it's wrong for Republicans.
— Dr. Milton Wolf (@miltonwolfmd) January 31, 2015U.S. House Republicans passed a bill in September to prohibit IRS officials from using personal e-mail accounts to conduct official business in response to the use of private e-mail by Lerner, an official who was accused of unfairly targeting Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny.
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Wolf also criticized the Brownback administration’s explanation for why it included David Kensinger and Mark Dugan, two former aides turned lobbyists, in budget talks.
“We sought the counsel of a lot of people…” Is leaking the budget to lobbyists by personal email seeking counsel or giving insider info?
— Dr. Milton Wolf (@miltonwolfmd) January 31, 2015Earlier in the week, Wolf expressed doubts about Brownback’s budget director Shawn Sullivan’s claim that he used his private e-mail address because he was home for the holiday.
It's hard to believe that KS govt officials cannot access work email from home. What system are they using, AOL & dial-up on a Commodore 64?
— Dr. Milton Wolf (@miltonwolfmd) January 28, 2015Brownback defended the inclusion of lobbyists in budget talks.
“I said in the State of the State we consulted broadly. We consulted government officials, business and industry. I asked a lot of people, ‘What do you think we should do?’ And they were frank with their suggestions,” Brownback said Friday morning at the Capitol.
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