Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, an investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded. The inquiry found, however, that she was within her right to dismiss her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, who was the trooper’s boss.
A 263-page report released by lawmakers in Alaska found that Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, had herself exerted pressure to get Trooper Michael Wooten dismissed, as well as allowed her husband and subordinates to press for his firing, largely as a result of his temperament and past disciplinary problems.
“Such impermissible and repeated contacts,” the report states, “create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior’s displeasure and the possible consequences of that displeasure.” The report concludes that the action was a violation of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.
What now lies ahead is not fully known at this point. Ms. Palin could be censured by the Legislature, but that is unlikely…
No kidding.
Results like this are always complicated by politicians taking care of their own. The Legislative Committee which issued this report is bipartisan. Their trepidation about mandating sanctions for lousy ethics are probably bipartisan as well.
How will American voters react?
Paddy and Mustard, I’ll ref (keep your sticks on the ice):
Iraq: all Bush, all the way
Subprime Banking Mess: Clinton started it, Bush piled on and made it worse, Gingrich-Hastert-Pelosi all pretended it didn’t exist
Ummm but no criminal wrong doing occured.
Oh btw, have you noted that the two people heading up the investigative commitee are OBAMA supporters? That they’re connnected to the Obama campaign in Alaska?
Bipartisan ? Bull Crap!
And when will we hear even worse stuff about Obama?
If he’s elected….
Palin abusing her power as governor? And this is the woman who said (in her debate with Biden) that she wanted to expand the powers of the Vice Presidency. Just great. Just what America needs: a vindictive power-hungry hockey-mom as Vice President.
#93 “What’s funny is how there were no symptoms (even in hindsight) until Dumbay and his herpetic band of flunkies caused the infection to spring forth full grown.”
There was if you worked in Real Estate in the late 80’s – late 90’s.
You just were in your basement too much to see the indicators.
#97 – O’Realtor(R)
>>There was if you worked in Real Estate in
>>the late 80’s – late 90’s.
I wouldn’t stoop that low.
#98 “I wouldn’t stoop that low.”
And now, you are like a deer in the headlights…
#28, Ranger,
Hate speech is hate speech. Most of us can (and do) find something to be offended by.
Alright, but what did Wright say that wasn’t true? I notice you didn’t quote anything he had said.
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#29, Contempt,
From Audacity of Hope:
Obama – ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
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Alright, since you quoted it, what page is that on? What? You’re quoting someone else without ever having read the book? You don’t know if it is even true? Damn, and I bet you don’t even know the context IF it is true.
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NOTE TO OBAMA. Put pictures in your next book so contempt, Lyin’ Mike, Cow-Paddy, and ranger ricky can follow along.
#100 “Put pictures in your next book so contempt, Lyin’ Mike, Cow-Paddy, and ranger ricky can follow along.”
Why would I voluntarily pay a dime to a slimy lawyer type?
#96 P Diddy
Nicely put
#99 – O’Realtor(R)
>>And now, you are like a deer in the headlights…
Why would you say that? I have nothing to do with real estate. I don’t buy it, I don’t sell it, and the recent trials and tribulations in the real estate market have not affected me one whit. I laugh at the fools.
In fact, I laugh all the way to the bank.
# 82 Mister Mustard said,
I can see why you guys who had to struggle to make it through (if you were lucky) Wasilla Technical Junior College resent them thar elitists from Columbia, Harvard, etc.
Don’t forget your alma mater Mustard, Close cover before striking University.
HAW!
#100 Mr Fusion said
“Alright, but what did Wright say that wasn’t true? I notice you didn’t quote anything he had said.”
I didn’t need to.
The point remains that Obama claims to have never heard it. Are you kidding me? What was he doing, do you suppose, that he never, never heard it. BS!
#104 – webfoot
>>Don’t forget your alma mater Mustard, Close
>>cover before striking University.
At least I only had to go to one college, and I graduated with honors. People come to me from far and wide to learn how to properly fire up a doobie.
#105 Ranger Andy
“I didn’t need to.
The point remains that Obama claims to have never heard it. Are you kidding me? What was he doing, do you suppose, that he never, never heard it. BS!
BS? Why is that? Wright seems to have said three objectionable things in his career. Do you imagine that Obama was sitting in his pew every Sunday for 20 years? Seems pretty likely to me that he never, never heard it.
And when he DID hear it, he disavowed it.
Has McBush ever admitted his complicity in the Keating Five scandal? Or that he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navy men when he ran away from a ship fire that he exacerbated? Or any of the other countless terrible things he has done and the criminals he has associated with over the past 40 years? Hmmm?
#108 – ‘fredo
>>Thoughtful citizens might consider Palin at
>>fault if she HADN’T tried to protect the
>>public from a lawless lawman.
If you believe the guy really WAS a threat to the family, having him fired would only enrage him further. Sounds like a scam to me. She was just trying to fuck over the brother-in-law, and thought she could get away with using her office to screw him.
>>She did nothing legally or morally wrong.
If you don’t think using the power of her office to try and stick it to a guy who’s involved in a family squabble is morally wrong, you have GOT to be a Republican.
She’s toast, McBush is toast, the Repubs would be well advised to start thinking about 2012 with a different set of candidates.
#105, ranger ricky,
“Alright, but what did Wright say that wasn’t true? I notice you didn’t quote anything he had said.”
I didn’t need to.
The point remains that Obama claims to have never heard it. Are you kidding me? What was he doing, do you suppose, that he never, never heard it. BS!
YOU claimed Wright spoke “hate” and raved. Well? Post some of that “raving” and some of that “hate”. C’mon, you can do it. You said Wright preached it, so please tell all us little bloggers what bad things Pastor Wright said. I don’t care if Obama heard it or not, just post something truly wrong that Wright said. Oh, and please add your source so we’ll know if you made it up.
Oh, was it some wing nut radio guy, say Rush Limbaugh that claimed Wright was a bad person? Maybe you heard it on FOX SPEWS and just can’t remember what it was that made Wright a bad person. Or maybe you’re just an effen troll that likes to make things up because the right wing nut crowd is disparate to score points.
Face it, Sarah Palin is not suitable to run this country. I don’t care how much more “executive” experience she has. She is a moran with a room temperature IQ. She is a vindictive person who cares little for others. Typical Republican true, but still unqualified for the office of Vice-President.
Mustard you actually believe Obama’s spin, or are you just shilling?
Ayers wasn’t just ‘some guy from the neighborhood’, and they weren’t just on the same board. Obama was a minor lawyer who was selected chairman of a committee for the Annenberg Challenge. Why would Ayers let someone he didn’t know be in charge of one of his committees? Then they served together on the Woods Foundation. There is also some evidence that Ayers wrote Obama’s book, as his own confirmed literary work is mediocre.
Oh yeah, who hosted Obama’s first political fundraiser? Some guy in his neighborhood…
America invented the AIDS virus to kill black people, maybe ‘Goddamn America’, and of course the lines in Obama’s own book.
Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
[T]he pastor described going to a museum and being confronted by a painting title Hope.
“The painting depicts a harpist,” Revernd Wright explained, “a woman who at first glance appears to be sitting atop a great mountaintop. Untill you take a closer look and see that the woman is bruised and bloodied, dressed in tattered rags, the harp reduced to a single frayed string. Your eye is then drawn down to the scene below, down to the valley below, where everywhere are the ravages of famine, the drumbeat of war, a world groaning under strife and deprivation.
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, aprtheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere … That’s the world! On which hope sits.”
And so it went, a meditation on a fallen world. While the boys next to me doodled on their church bulletin, Reverend Wright spoke of Sharpesville and Hiroshima, the callousness of policy makers in the White House and in the State House. … [E.A.]
#114 Mike N said, “Obama remembers a sermon by Rev. Jeremiah Wright:”
Yeah, but he can’t seen to remember 20 years of sermon where the Pastor spouted racial hate and loathing of America.
A President who can’t remember from day to day what his advisers tell him could be disastrous.
At least Biden said that Omama has asked him to babysit…
#110 Mr Fusion said
“YOU claimed Wright spoke “hate” and raved.”
You call it spreading love if you want, we’ll just have to disagree on this.
Lyin’ Mike, Cow-Paddy, and ranger ricky,
I’m still waiting for a quote of Wright raving and spewing hate (and now loathing). Please supply the reference so your claim may be verified. All I see is a bunch of misquotations and denial that you are responsible for backing up what you write.
You three continue to impress your selves. Lay off the stupid pills and try to get a life.
SPECIAL FOR LYIN’ MIKE :
That is a moving quote. I don’t know how close to honesty it is, hearing it fourth hand, but an excellent description of a painting. Maybe you could tell us who painted it?
#118 “Obama’s Minister Committed “Treason” but When my Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero”
So, you agree that anyone who has Preachers like this as mentors should be censured and kept from High public office?
Cool. So, when are you going to denounce Omama?
Way to go, you’ve successfully identified why I said maybe.
As for your constant request for links, its clear to me that you just like to argue and won’t accept any evidence, so I see no point. For example, I gave you links proving the 60 Minutes documents were forgeries, and you just denied the obvious and kept shilling.
It’s pretty clear the type of church Barack Obama was attending and the type of sermons Wright was giving. The one I gave above was from Obama’s own book.