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Another Private Palin Email Account?
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News of yet another private email account for Sarah Palin could affect the Troopergate probes by the Alaska state legislature and the state personnel board, the Washington Post reports this morning.
Palin and a close circle of aides had accounts on the “PalinForGovernor.com” domain, a privately-run domain she had used for her campaign, that paper found.
A technician described to the Post how he set up email accounts for Palin and others this spring at the direction of aide Frank Bailey. Bailey denied the account as “completely inaccurate” and told the paper “we haven't used that domain in a long time.”
Emails have been used as important evidence as details of the Troopergate scandal have unfolded in the public eye. Palin used emails between herself and aides to argue that Walt Monegan, whose firing is at the center of the scandal, had a “rogue mentality” and refused to work within the administration’s wishes. Recently, Monegan has said he has other emails that prove otherwise.
October 1, 2008 in Troopergate | Permalink | User Comments (23)
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I can't believe how twisted the truth has gotten here. The first and most important twist is that Walt Monegan was not fired. He was asked to serve as director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Rather than take the new job, he went to his friends in the Legislature to try and keep his old job.
Second, and this is the big point everyone seems to miss, Sarah and Todd Palin, wanted Wooten fired when she was Mayor, not Governor. Later she was elected Governor, she hired Monegan as Public Safety Commissioner.
I could go into all the "he said" "she said" here, except it is Monegan doing most of the talking. He said that Todd Palin still wanted Wooten fired when his wife became Governor. Fine, he wasn't elected and didn't give up his right to have opinions. Sarah felt that asking Monegan to try to get rid of Wooten would be micro-managing and told Todd to "cool it."
Remember though that Wooten was disciplined by the State Police, before Sarah and Monegan showed up as Governor and Public Safety Commissioner respectively. The union sued and got the suspension reduced to a week. Reopening that would have been a non-starter even if the Governor and Monegan wanted to do so.
What was not water over the dam was Monegan going to the legislature to get the budget for his office increased. (Not the State Police budget, but the office of the Commissioner for Public Safety.) You may disagree with Sarah plans to streamline bureaucracy instead of expanding it--but she was elected on that platform.
Posted by: Robert I. Eachus | Oct 12, 2008 10:35:51 PM
The guy who hacked into her personal email (son of a Democratic congressman) said he couldn't find anything bad. Why wasn't that the headline?
How many people here can set up their own email account on a personal server?
Posted by: BlueState | Oct 24, 2008 2:51:13 AM
Did you look at the constitution? As governor she can fire anybody she wants to. Her people serve at her pleasure. Same goes for any other executive - governor or president.
The probe found she did nothing wrong in firing her police chief. It pointed out a problem with her husband calling him to complain about a violent trooper.
Posted by: BlueState | Oct 24, 2008 2:54:11 AM
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