That's pretty much what the legal briefs for defendants in two lawsuits are saying, and I pretty much agree. Everyone, including elected officials, has a right to privacy and nobody has any business rumaging through their personal effects unless there is a specific legal justification.

In the race for Tax Assessor, Robinette refuses to debate Teresa Kirkham without having her phone records. I'm going to have to go with "strange" as a description here, and give points to Kirkham in the quote department:

“He’s not sticking to the issues about running the office and what he knows because he doesn’t know anything,” Kirkham said.

Neither Mark Patton nor Steve Robinette have said what they are looking for in the phone records, merely that they want to see if anything wrong has been done. Putting aside the significant Constitutional issues regarding "General Search Warrants," these lawsuits simply look like grandstanding in a political year.

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