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Palin Parses
October 11, 2008 10:32 AM
When asked by a reporter today, "Governor, did you abuse your power?" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, "No, and if you read the report you'll see that there was nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member. You gotta read the report, sir."
It's true that there's nothing "unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member" in principle.
But the report is not as Gov. Palin is presenting it, in terms of ethics laws.
To wit:
"I find that Governor Sarah Palin Abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act...
"Compliance with the code of ethics is not optional...
"The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in 'official action' by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation.] She knowingly, as that term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act...
"Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda."
So who needs to read the report?
-- jpt
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THIS IS WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND FOR PALIN.
Posted by: KHS | Oct 13, 2008 1:39:36 AM
Sarah tried to appeal to the stupidity of you so easily misguided republicans who believe anything you hear from her without any substantiated truth, when the first lie didn't;t work she told another then another she injected her father into this fray hoping that would sell with the republican base, that didn't work then she injected her 10 year old nephew into the fray you re pubs know and you use it well that it's not what you know it is who you know; therefore Sarah's aides had no choice but to cave in to Todd's demands for fear of being fired by the PITBULL WITH LIPSTICK she later said she fired Mr.Monaghan for wanting to go to Washington, which was Gov. Palin? Oh yeah now I remember it's because he shot a moose out of season and monaghan didn't fire the trooper,oops maybe it was because he was drinking on the job. It seems all of the allegations was not enough to fire the trooper,So in the end Mrs. Palin was shown and proven to be a liar and unethical, You pit-bull lovers can have her,or is it your hockey mom, gee she wears so many hats it is hard to tell what she is, it's maybe,just maybe why she was found to be unethical you think?
Posted by: Jams490 | Oct 12, 2008 8:57:39 PM
Gosh Willie, do you think that's possibly because this thread is about Palins violations of ethics, abuse of power and failure to acknowledge any shortcomings?
Just speculating, Darnit All, Wink Wink Wink ;-)
----
By all means you have a point. But it would be a better point if half the thread wasn't invoking ACORN as a mass terrorist group that Obama had to apologize for. With a few conspiracy theories in there to boot. ;)
Honestly, this won't hurt Palin with the base - they love when their leaders flaunt the law (see Bush, George W.)
And seriously, Jake: Could you do a post explaining what socialism is, please? Because there are way too many folks out there that love to use the the word socialism, even though they have no idea what it means.
Posted by: William K. Wolfrum | Oct 12, 2008 8:42:40 PM
Maerick and the Horse Thief
nice ticket
Posted by: mark | Oct 12, 2008 5:55:12 PM
The biggest revelation from the Troopergate findings is what an ABSOLUTE AMATRUEISH governor's office Palin runs.
She is out of her depth beyond Mayor, she sure isn't ready for PRIME TIME NATIONAL politics.
Posted by: mark | Oct 12, 2008 5:52:09 PM
Todd-SCOOTER-Palin isn't going to have a chance of SHARING Vice Presidential POWER, let him do his high handed, dirty little thugish behavior up in Alaska.
In 23 days the entire Lower 48 will say, "Sarah WHO?"
Posted by: mark | Oct 12, 2008 5:45:56 PM
HPBoston: You must not have anything else or better to do but write bad comments about Obama and the Democratic party! I see you have many, many comments just on this page! Maybe you should spend some of your time reading about McCain/Palin--Sarah Palin for VP or even President??Do you honestly see this? I think you are part of the McCain/Palin campaign or you would see how dishonest/liar Sarah Palin is. Did you read the Troopergate report?? How many times Todd Palin is involved in her job--do you want him running the country?? What is wrong with you!!!
Posted by: l | Oct 12, 2008 11:20:08 AM
Do you think we're ever going to see on tv footage of Wall Street with the narration "In the early years of this millennium, rich white men looted the country, leaving it almost destitute..."
Posted by: J R | Oct 12, 2008 10:21:51 AM
Some poster here has the nerve to defend Palin by saying Wooten has been divorced four times--Slinging mud is all the Republicans can do at this point--they've bungled a war we never should have started, they've let their campaign contributors loot the country...what do they have left but garbage?
Posted by: J R | Oct 12, 2008 10:20:29 AM
If Wooten threatened her father, they could have had him arrested. If it's a lie, then they probably wouldn't have done so. And they didn't.
During the time of the threat, Palin DECREASED her personal security. Check it out. Would that make sense if there was a volatile situation? Not even for a dunderhead like the Gov.
Wooten is the one who was threatened and harassed here.
Posted by: J R | Oct 12, 2008 10:15:58 AM
The woman once again proves herself to be an abject, shameless liar. The funniest part of the report was Palin claiming that Wooten was threatening her family...at the same time that she was reducing her security detail.
Pathetic that the McCain campaign's immediate response was to blame it on Obama, apparently heedless of the fact that the committee consisted of ten Rebublicans and four Democrats.
Haven't we had enough lying during the past eight years?
Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | Oct 12, 2008 6:49:05 AM
um. there weren't 30 lawyers. that was an assertion by the mccain campaign that was found totally false. really. do your homework before you post. it's called "google."
Posted by: kb | Oct 12, 2008 4:31:17 AM
The press must hammer Palin on this issue so much so that she needs to spend every minute of her time thinking and spewing a new way to defend her unethical behavior. Monegan has ample support now to also file a Federal lawsuit against the Palins. Keep them tied up in courts.
Posted by: Robert Anthony | Oct 12, 2008 3:25:25 AM
She is lair.
She got her job by lying.
and she will continue to lie to keep her job or get a more powerful job.
she is a LAIR.
Posted by: Sister Joyous Whip Of Enlightenment | Oct 12, 2008 2:42:36 AM
So Sarah Palin has been officially found to be
guilty of ethics-in-office violations, committed
not only by herself but by her "First Dude," who
got his brainless wife screwed by his primary
handling of their joint vendetta against Sarah
Palin's sister's ex-husband. Known as "the
Shadow Governor," when Todd Palin wasn't out
racing on the slopes, he was lounging in a
government conference room, with his own phone,
harrassing Alaska's Law Enforcement
Commissioner, whom the governor subsequently
fired, claiming other reasons than the fact he
wouldn't fire the ex-brother-in-law, a state
trooper. And the gov had her aides doing the
same. The bipartisan investigative panel couldn't
nail her for the firing, because there's no law
against her firing officials for any reason she
wants, but they slammed her, justifiably, with
what they could -- ethical violations.
And this is the next VP? Not if even the most
rabid Republican remembers what ethics means
but, given the McCain-Palin duo and the Bush-Cheney-Rove et al cadre and those who want four years of worse, I'm not at all convinced they do.
do)
Posted by: bryony1 | Oct 11, 2008 10:02:35 PM
So Sarah Palin has been officially found to be
guilty of ethics-in-office violations, committed
not only by herself but by her "First Dude," who
got his brainless wife screwed by his primary
handling of their joint vendetta against Sarah
Palin's sister's ex-husband. Known as "the
Shadow Governor," when Todd Palin wasn't out
racing on the slopes, he was lounging in a
government conference room, with his own phone,
harrassing Alaska's Law Enforcement
Commissioner, whom the governor subsequently
fired, claiming other reasons than the fact he
wouldn't fire the ex-brother-in-law, a state
trooper. And the gov had her aides doing the
same. The bipartisan investigative panel couldn't
nail her for the firing, because there's no law
against her firing officials for any reason she
wants, but they slammed her, justifiably, with
what they could -- ethical violations.
And this is the next VP? Not if even the most
rabid Republican remembers what ethics means
but, given the McCain-Palin duo and the Bush-Cheney-Rove et al cadre and those who want four years of worse, I'm not at all convinced they do.
do)
Posted by: bryony1 | Oct 11, 2008 9:44:26 PM
We actually need someone who abuses power in the White House. The US is still strong because of heroes like Cheney, who abuses power all the time, but kept us safe from the WMD that Saddam had. Sure, they never found them, but only because Saddam was so crafty. He has them hid. Put Sarah in office, and she'll find'em, by golly.
Posted by: frank burns | Oct 11, 2008 9:39:21 PM
She broke the law, plain and simple. Abusing power is something that SHOULD be considered as illegal.
Some "maverick," she says she is an outsider, but she acts like an insider!
Posted by: tennisguypitt | Oct 11, 2008 9:35:58 PM
SC Superman do you have any problem with Obama's connection to Jerimiah Wright?
Posted by: Josh | Oct 11, 2008 9:24:39 PM
Sarah Palin ACTUALLY TOOK A QUESTION FROM THE PRESS.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Congratulations but it's obviously a softball from Faux News. Who would care?
Darn it all!
Posted by: GW | Oct 11, 2008 9:23:45 PM
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