Kobach Emails
| Submitted | Feb. 13, 2020 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Hannah Gais
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the The Kansas Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
All email communications between Kris Kobach and his staff with Ann Coulter (ann@anncoulter.com), Peter Brimelow (pbrimelow@vdare.com), Paul Nachman (pnbl48@hotmail.com), Jared Taylor (Taylor@aya.yale.edu), and Lydia Brimelow (vbrimelow@vdare.com) between January 10, 2011 and up to January 14, 2019. All email communications between Kris Kobach and his staff with Peter Thiel (peter@thielcapital.com or peter@foundersfund.com) up to January 14, 2019. All mentions of "Coulter," "VDARE," "Ann Coulter," "Brimelow," "Peter Brimelow," "Paul Nachman," "American Renaissance," "Taylor," "Jared Taylor," "Thiel," "AmRen." (All keywords should not be caps sensitive.)
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Hannah Gais
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following The Kansas Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 13, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: kansas secretary of state
Hanna Geiss
Muckrock
requests@muckrock.com
This is our response to your Open records request received 2/13/2020 for:
A) E-mail communications between former Secretary Kobach and his staff and
1. Ann Coulter (ann@anncoulter.com<mailto:ann@anncoulter.com>)
2. Peter Brimelow (pbrimelow@vdare.com<mailto:pbrimelow@vdare.com>)
3. Paul Nachman (pnbl48@hotmail.com<mailto:pnbl48@hotmail.com>)
4. Jared Taylor (Taylor@aya.yale.edu<mailto:Taylor@aya.yale.edu>)
5. Lydia Brimelow (vbrimelow@vdare.com<mailto:vbrimelow@vdare.com>)
6. Peter Thiel (peter@thielcapital.com<mailto:peter@thielcapital.com> or peter@foundersfund.com<mailto:peter@foundersfund.com>)
Response: We searched all e-mail memory sticks and disks for former Secretary Kobach and his staff, as well as the e-mail of current staff who were employed during the specified time period and found no responsive e-mails or other communications.
B) All mentions of
1. Coulter: None
2. VDARE: None
3. Ann Coulter: None
4. Brimelow: None
5. Peter Brimelow None
6. Paul Nachman: None
7. American Renaissance: None
8. Taylor: Hundreds contained the word "Taylor", but see #9 below
9. Jared Taylor: None
10. Thiel: Some referred to a "James Thiel," a party in litigation
11. AmRen: None
Response: We searched all e-mail memory sticks and disks for former Secretary Kobach and his staff and found no responsive e-mails or other communications, other than what is noted above
Clayton Barker
Deputy General Counsel, Secretary of State
Clay.barker2@ks.gov<mailto:Clay.barker2@ks.gov>
785-296-3483
From: Hannah Gais
Thanks for the quick response.