Editor, Gazette-Journal:
As reported in your paper, at the June 20 Mathews County Board of Supervisors’ meeting, there was discussion about going into “Closed Session” to talk about an issue involving Hole in the Wall. The county attorney said that they (the BOS) could not go into closed session to discuss the particular and, so far, undisclosed issue.
Supervisor Tom Bowen said he didn’t want to discuss this issue in open session and suggested the BOS could “get around” the open meeting rules by not bringing it up and having him talk to each supervisor individually about the issue.
Beam me up, Dear Leader: This sounds like a crooked legal workaround, something a lawyer would propose. Oops, I forgot, Tom B. did graduate from law school.
Icing on the cake: He ran as a member of the Common Good last year, promising transparent governance. And this is a two-layer cake with more icing. Tom B. is now seeking to block a FOIA request by this newspaper of an email that apparently has something ...