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about that Wasilla construction

hypocritexposer

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Honest people answer frivilous claims immediately. Attack them head-on, why spend a million bucks putting them off.

Makes you wonder how fast Palin would drive to the courthouse if she was asked for her Birth certificate, doesn't it.

You dems just can't handle an honest politician, can you?

Despite rumors of a looming controversy after the Republican governor's surprise announcement Friday that she would leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity.

"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true." He added that there was "no wiggle room" in his comments for any kind of inquiry.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 4, 2009

On July 3rd, 2009, Governor Sarah Palin announced her intent to resign her gubernatorial duties

and transfer the powers of Governor to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.

Almost immediately afterwards, several unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory

allegations that the “real” reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged

criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This

canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national

campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.1 It was easily rebutted then as

one of many fabrications about Sarah Palin. Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism

apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are

repeated as fact.

The history of the Wasilla Sports Complex is publicly known. Contrary to the insinuation that

as Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin “personally” oversaw bidding, construction, funding and

accounting for the project (and thus, the allegation goes, “embezzled” from the project), the

truth is far more mundane, and publicly available:

Curtis D. Menard was instrumental in spearheading the effort from conception to

realization of the Wasilla Sports Complex. He directed the steering committee

that was responsible for placing the issue before the voters of Wasilla and

1

Wayne Barrett, a writer for the left wing Village Voice, published these insinuations, on October 7, 2008 in a

story entitled “The Book of Sarah” available at http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah.

This was written in the style of one pretending to be amazed that so many people in a small town like Wasilla

appear to know one another, support one another, and take on big projects together. Apparently that is uncommon

in New York. Rather than recognize that leaders of a community often mobilize to accomplish projects, the

writer offered this up as an unusual and questionable association of special interests.

The Sports Complex was built in 2002. It is now 2009. While the Federal Government has a process to follow, and that process sometimes takes time, we can categorically state that we are not aware of any “federal investigation” that has been “pending” for the last seven years. We are aware of no subpoenas on SBS regarding the Palins. We are aware that the Federal Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation have been helpful, responsive and diligent in prosecuting the email hacker and in cleaning up Alaska’s corrupt legislators. To be blunt—this “story” was alleged during the campaign, evaluated then by national media and deemed meritless. Nothing has changed.

To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation” for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=1. These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.



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