E-MAIL ADDRESSES

STEVEN A. McCALEB
103 ALVERADO DRIVE
LONG BEACH, MISSISSIPPI 39560
PHONE & FAX: (228)-868-8428
E-MAIL: mccaleb4thdist@aol.com
WEB SITE: www.mississippiwebsite.com

Should elected officials and state agency employee's treat
E-Mail addresses as being owned by them?

or

Should "We the People" of Mississippi
which allows our elected officials and state agency employee's
 to have E-Mail addresses which they treat as there own.

I am sure that if you asked each of our elected officials and state agency employee's if they believe the email addresses belong to them, they would say yes.

It has gotten to the point where our elected officials and state agency employee's expect to be given everything they want. Which means they are there to serve themselves and not the Mississippian's which provides everything they have to perform there jobs.

I have sent our county chancery clerk, John McAdams, several emails. I have, in the past, been able to send email to the Chancery Clerks but it seems he felt the I was harassing him. 

This was stated by him over a phone conversation when I called to ask why my email keep coming back telling me the email address was not a good address.

I asked John McAdams if he thought he owned the email address since he had blocked me for sending email too him. He said no he did not own the email address, but since he had not taken a oath of office to perform his job.

I do not understand why, not taken an oath, has anything to do with blocking a voter and taxpayer which provides him with an email address in the first place.

Another person which had blocked me from sending email is Mr. B. Litton, he is on our Governors legal staff. I was requesting information from Mr. Litton and I did receive some information but when I placed a web page concerning attorney's, WANTED, DEAD OR ?????, I was soon after blocked.

What do you, the voters and taxpayers of Mississippi think about whether our officials and state agencies need email address. If you request information, and if the elected official or state agency doesn't feel like answering you, all they have to do is block you from send request.

My feelings are that all email address should be open to the public. Anything and everything paid for by voter and taxpayers belong to the public. But convincing our elected officials and state agencies they do not own the email address, "We the People," provide them.

The below are two section of the Mississippi Constitution.

It's sad having elected officials and state agencies thinking, "We the People," work for them, instead of them serving the public.

Sec. 5. All political power invested in, and derived from, the people; all government of right originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole.

Sec. 6. The people of this state have the inherent, sole, and exclusive right to regulate the internal government and police thereof, and to alter and abolish their constitution and form a government whenever they deem it necessary to their safety and happiness; Provided, such change be not repugnant to the constitution of the United States.

STEVEN A. McCALEB