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fff

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Ten Republicans and 2 Dems voted to release the report. It's early, but....

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power
Campaign officials tried to pre-empt lawmakers with report clearing Palin

A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

The Republican vice presidential nominee has been accused of firing a commissioner to settle a family dispute. Palin supporters have called the investigation politically motivated.

More at the link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/
 
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Anonymous

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A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

Under federal law and with the President- and with most states involving the Governors (I don't know for sure about Alaska) this is an impeachable offense and the Alaska Legislature could bring Impeachment proceedings against her....

Another one that thinks they are above the rule of law...Haven't we had enough of that with Bush and Cheney :???:
 

alice

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Oldtimer said:
A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

Under federal law and with the President- and with most states involving the Governors (I don't know for sure about Alaska) this is an impeachable offense and the Alaska Legislature could bring Impeachment proceedings against her....

Another one that thinks they are above the rule of law...Haven't we had enough of that with Bush and Cheney :???:

Oh, he77 yeah!

Alice
 

alice

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Sandhusker said:
"The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason......"

Wasn't that what she was accused of?

Argue that with the judge...see where it gets ya'!

Alice
 

Sandhusker

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alice said:
Oldtimer said:
A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

Under federal law and with the President- and with most states involving the Governors (I don't know for sure about Alaska) this is an impeachable offense and the Alaska Legislature could bring Impeachment proceedings against her....

Another one that thinks they are above the rule of law...Haven't we had enough of that with Bush and Cheney :???:

Oh, he77 yeah!

Alice

The woman made a lot of enemies cleaning house up there. I'd wager this is a bit of payback for some people's buddies being tossed.

Who's going to vote to impeach a governor when she's got an 80% approval rating?
 

Vision

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LOL I just read what was available, and I read Todd Palin's testimony.

The report says that Palin was totally proper to reassign Monagen.

The report says that Sarah Palin failed to stop her husband from trying to get Wooten fired.

Problem, Todd Palin's testimony says that Sarah asked him to stop trying to get him fired.

Of course, if a cop tasered your nephew, beat your sister and threatened the life of Palin's father what would you do if you were Todd Palin.

If I were Sarah Palin I would come out and say it just like that, what would you do... and now soem Demopcrats are trying to invent a crime out of trying to protect our family from a maniac....and every woman who has been a victim of domestic violence by a man in power knows what that is like.

Then watch all the morons shut up.... and if they dont it will be better for Palin.


Now lets watch FFF, Alice and OT come out in favor of protecting cops who commit these kinds of crimes. ... and they are true, because the State Police suspended Wooten for 10 days, and the union got the punishment reduced to 5 days, then Wooten went and bragged to the Palins that he got away with it.
 

Vision

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Now the political mistake that Palin and McCain made was to not get ahead of the issue. If I were them as soon as her political enemies started to squak about this, I would have put out every bad thing that Wooten and Monagen did and just pound them for their behavior publicly.
 

alice

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Vision said:
Now the political mistake that Palin and McCain made was to not get ahead of the issue. If I were them as soon as her political enemies started to squak about this, I would have put out every bad thing that Wooten and Monagen did and just pound them for their behavior publicly.

Whooeee! You're big and bad, alright... :lol:

Alice
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner.

Under federal law and with the President- and with most states involving the Governors (I don't know for sure about Alaska) this is an impeachable offense and the Alaska Legislature could bring Impeachment proceedings against her....

Another one that thinks they are above the rule of law...Haven't we had enough of that with Bush and Cheney :???:

Ethics inquiry concludes Palin was 'proper and lawful' in firing a state commissioner.

Impeachment for a "proper and lawful" act?

Now I KNOW you've lost it. :roll: :roll:
 

hopalong

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oldtimer and alice you need to read the whole report!Not just what fff wants you to read (of course oldtimer knows how to selectivly point out only things he wans known!
 
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Anonymous

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The votemaster has an interesting take on the Palin Scandal and what it can mean to the campaign... I don't think he really assess's the true amount of damage this may have- as one of the reasons folks are voting against McCain and 4 more years of Bush is because of the past 8 years of Bush/Cheney abuses of power....

To me this is "THE" BIG issue and goes right to the center of the current Bush/Cheney/neocon Republican attitude that they are above the law- and are answerable to no oversight or Constitutions.....

We need "CHANGE" from this arrogant attitude...

Investigator's Report: Palin Violated State Ethics Law

The long-awaited report of retired prosecutor Steve Branchflower, who was hired by the Alaska legislature to investigate alleged misconduct on the part of Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin was issued yesterday. The full report is available here.

http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

The main conclusion. is that Palin abused her power as governor to settle a personal vendetta and that in doing so broke the Alaska ethics law. The report contains the statement: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act." In theory, she could be impeached and fined for this behavior, but it is doubtful that the Republican-controlled state legislature will sanction her at all.

As we have pointed out many times, be careful what you wish for; you might get it. McCain has long wished for some other news story to drown out the endless stories about the economic turmoil. Finally he got it: the Palin abuse-of-power story is being covered in detail by the Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, USA Today, and just about every other national paper in the country as well as most of the foreign press.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003167.html?hpid=topnews

What Happens Next with Palin?

Standard operating procedure when your vice-presidential nominee gets into hot water is prayer--pray this all goes away quickly. But it probably won't and McCain will have to answer questions about his judgment in choosing personnel. If you can't even vet your running mate--arguably the most important decision of the entire campaign--how are you going to vet cabinet appointees, federal judges, and thousands of other people the President appoints? Undoubtedly McCain raged at his de-facto campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, yesterday for pressuring him to choose Palin. McCain is widely believed to have preferred his good friend Sen. Joe Lieberman, but Lieberman is pro-choice and his selection would have widened the gap between McCain and the Republican base into something approximating a large canyon located in McCain's home state.

What next? McCain could dump Palin and pick a new running mate, but then Obama's steady attack that McCain is erratic would resonate strongly with independents and Democrats. Furthermore, who would he pick? The base wouldn't tolerate Lieberman on abortion. They would love Mike Huckabee, but McCain thinks he is loony. Mitt Romney might be a plausible pick given the emphasis on economics, but having a ticket consisting of a guy worth $100 million and a guy worth $200 million when people are losing their houses wouldn't look good. Giuliani can say "9/11" more times per minute than anyone in recorded history but that's not what McCain needs right now. Picking another unknown who hasn't been vetted is not appealing. So he's probably stuck with Palin and has to hope this subsides quickly.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
 

Mike

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kolanuraven said:
Todd Palin needs to keep his cute little azz out of politics. He's not a secondary Gov.

Monegan, the reassigned Dept. of Safety Director, HIMSELF persuaded Sarah to have Todd talk to him directly about the firing of Wooten the trooper.

Then he tried to turn it around and say that discussing the subject with Todd was abusing her office powers by not controlling Todd???? :roll:

What part of "Proper and Lawful" do you libs not understand? :lol: :lol:
 

Larrry

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These libs need to read the whole report. There is more in it that is counter to the spoon fed talking points the libs are so mindlessly regugitating. It is sad the libs can't think for themselves
palin%

Hollis French (fifth from left) and fellow Troopergate hack Kim Elton (on left with beard), who has donated to the Obama Campaign, sit on the panel investigating popular governor Sarah Palin.
Democratic state Senator Hollis French, the lead investigator in the smear campaign against Governor Palin, promised his party that the results of the Troopergate probe would be an "October surprise" that would "likely be damaging to the administration."
Remember their findings were no laws broken but it seems this info was not fed to the shepple libs
 
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