— Circuit Attorney (@stlcao) May 4, 2023
Gardner’s office posted her resignation letter on Twitter, who said that “people outside of the city” have “targeted” her and the “fundamental rights of the city’s voters.”
“We have experienced an onslaught of records requests that no office in the country could reasonably fulfill, along with attacks on our hard-working line attorneys designed to demoralize these public servants,” she said. “There is no sign that the onslaught would stop for as long as I am in the office.”
Just the News was among those parties seeking information from her office. In 2022, Just the News Editor-in-Chief and CEO John Solomon scored a court victory against Gardner, securing a judicial order that she hand over a trove of documents she had withheld citing privilege after being ordered to comply with an open-records request.
[Well, I guess she can focus full-time on nursing school, eh? She’s quitting ahead of getting the boot from Missouri’s AG. — Ed]
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