Where does privacy start and end.

The assumption that County Commissioner Tommy Adkisson should give anyone access to his private emails is ridiculous. The tax payers DO NOT pay for his private email account. From my understanding the account that the Express News is requesting access to is a Hotmail, AOL or GMAIL account. Hotmail and AOL are paid accounts and have NOTHING to do with his county business and are not the property of the people of Texas. Why does the Express News assume that there is anything of relevance in his private email accounts?

The emails sent from his personal email account are private.

I understand that we are going through a time when we are being led not to trust our public officials, but we should trust them. I can make a case that the Express-News is requesting these emails because they know that a paper or a website with TOMMY's name on it sells papers. We are in a time where firestorm media rules and accusations and innuendo matter more than facts or even common sense.

I can tell you for a fact that you cannot trust what you read or see in the Media. Let's play a game… we will call it where in the world is Tommy Adkisson? Take a look at this picture from an event a few weeks ago

http://media.mysanantonio.com/images/BILL-WHITE-650.jpg. I was at that event and Tommy was standing over Bill White's left shoulder then entire event.

I thought something looked weird so I looked at Tommy's facebook pictures http://facebook.com/electtommyadkisson or Tommy's website http://tommyadkisson.com/photos/view/24.html and in all comparable pictures Tommy is there.

So where in the world was Tommy Adkisson? Can you say photoshop? Where is the journalistic integrity of the Express News? Why turn over PRIVATE emails? Can we trust the Express News?