Rogers avoids showdown with FOG

Modrall Attorney Pat Rogers has resigned from the Board of Directors of the NM Foundation for Open Government, the proximate result of his involvement in the brouhaha over emailgate.

The FOG notified its membership in an email today.

In his resignation  letter, Rogers argued that his actions, conducting public business using private email accounts, "were always lawful"; the problem in a nutshell. Nevertheless, he offered his prompt resignation to ... "avoid further distractions... for the FOG and its volunteers"


By resigning, Rogers avoids what certainly would have been a very awkward discussion about whether FOG Directors can serve on the FOG Board while at the same time personally engaging in the very conduct the FOG is fighting to eradicate.

Also breathing a sign of relief. I suppose, that there will be no discussion of Board of Directors members embarrassing the Foundation with their personal efforts to obfuscate open government; Marty Esquivel and Kent Walz. 




photo Mark Bralley