From the Saturday, January 27, 2007 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s office has been slammed with e-mails pertaining to proposed coal mining in the British Columbia headwaters that feed Montana’s Flathead River system.
The e-mail inbox at the governor’s constituency services office was overloaded with about 50,000 e-mails in the last week, Communications Director Sara Elliot said Friday.
Elliot said the office frequently gets e-mail “blasts” from various constituency groups, but the volume from the last week is unprecedented.
“It’s at least double what we normally get for blast e-mails,” she said. “It’s caused quite a backup in the computer system in our constituency services office.”
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