February 04, 2013 11:56 AM UTC

Another Official Having Trouble with the Phrase "Public Records"

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• by: Colorado Pols

It's 2013. Cell phones, email, and the Internet tubes have been widely used for more than a decade now. So why do so many elected officials still have trouble understanding the concept of "public records"? As NBC News reports, Nebraska needs a new Lieutenant Governor because Republican Rick Sheehey (also a frontrunner for Governor in 2014) is a philandering idiot:

Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy resigned abruptly Saturday in a scandal involving thousands of calls to four women on his state-issued cellphone, including one woman who said she had a romantic relationship with the politician.

Gov. Dave Heineman announced Sheehy's resignation in a hastily called news conference Saturday morning. Sheehy, a Republican, had been considered the front-runner in the 2014 gubernatorial race and had been endorsed by Heineman…

…Sheehy resigned after questions were raised about the cellphone calls with four women, none of whom were his wife, who filed for divorce last year. The calls, made over the last four years, were first reported by the Omaha World-Herald, which had made a public records request for Sheehy's phone records.

Carrying on extramarital affairs is an awful thing by itself, but it takes a Grade A moron to do it with a state-issued cellphone — especially when you are making thousands of calls to the same women. Yeah, nobody will ever notice that.