State of Louisiana Legal Counsel to the Department of Administration discloses names in FOIA requests to Task Force Members, state department directors and the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce president.

Published 4-8-2019 search group

From: Adam Knapp [mailto:knapp@brac.org]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 7:18 PM
To: Pat Forbes <Patrick.Forbes@LA.GOV>; Dan Rees <Dan.Rees@LA.GOV>

Subject: Fwd: Wallace Aultman, PLEASE VOTE NO on CLOSING our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023

Pat and Dan-

What is this?

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knapp@brac.org
(225) 278-3708
Begin forwarded message:
From: <general@truckandtools.com>
Date: July 16, 2018 at 5:04:46 PM CDT
To: <knapp@brac.org>
Subject: Wallace Aultman, PLEASE VOTE NO on CLOSING our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023
Reply-To: <xyz@eatel.net>

(Reference Email: Please Vote No on Closing our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023)

FROM: On Jul 17, 2018, at 7:48 AM, Pat Forbes <Patrick.Forbes@LA.GOV> wrote:

I think he's taken my statement that our goal is to have all grant determinations done by this fall and all construction done by next spring as some kind of deadline for the program. That's all I can think. Do you think all the Task Force members got this?

-------- Original message --------
From: Adam Knapp <knapp@brac.org>
Date: 7/17/18 8:54 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: Pat Forbes <Patrick.Forbes@LA.GOV>
Cc: Dan Rees <Dan.Rees@LA.GOV>

Subject: Re: Wallace Aultman, PLEASE VOTE NO on CLOSING our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023

I would assume so if I received it. It came in this weird form like a form email. I got two of them almost at the exact same time. Let me know if you want me to forward the other one. I have not been planning to reply

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knapp@brac.org
(225) 278-3708

From: Dan Rees
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:31 AM
To: Adam Knapp; Pat Forbes
Subject: Re: Wallace Aultman, PLEASE VOTE NO on CLOSING our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023

The email was forwarded to you by Murray Westerlund who spoke at the task force meeting last Friday. We have received a number of public record requests from him, most recently for the task force member contact info.

Dan Rees
Phone 225 342 1718

From: Pat Forbes
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:30 AM
To: Adam Knapp
Cc: Dan Rees
Subject: Re: Wallace Aultman, PLEASE VOTE NO on CLOSING our HUD CDBG-DR Program before HUD's ALLOWED Time Estimated to be 1-18-2023

Thanks, we'll probably reach out

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