Stop Blaming Troopergate On Obama

These people will say anything, and blame anything they can on people who are voting for Barack. Are they trying to say citizens caused this? Obama supporters? Who, the 10 Republicans behind the investigation? LOL

Fox News says:

McCain-Palin 2008 spokeswoman Meg Stapleton issued the following statement on today’s release of Stephen Branchflower’s report:

“Today’s report shows that the Governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan. The report also illustrates what we’ve known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by Obama supporters and the Palins were completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten given his violent and rogue behavior. Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact. The Governor is looking forward to cooperating with the Personnel Board and continuing her conversation with the American people regarding the important issues facing the country.”

Doncha just love the spin? How can they blame Troopergate or Sarah palin abuse of power investigation on "Obama supporters" if the investigation started before she was even picked by John McCain to run for Vice president? LOL

You gotta be kidding me, people actually fall for this stuff? Sarah Palin was under investigation for Troopergate before she was even picked to run for VP, so to say this has anything to do with Barack Obama or his campaign is nonsense. Let's not forget to mention, it was Republicans who led the investigation, not Obama Supporters!

The New York Times noted that the report "was commissioned and released by a bipartisan state legislative panel made up of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats."

They can try to spin it, but it's just not true. The only fact in the case is, it was abuse of power.

Earlier, the McCain campaign, cleared Sarah Palin of any wrong doing with their own report. Funny.

Sarah Palin Abuse Of Power

Uh oh, it looks like the report findings on Troopergate are surfacing on the Internet, and making their way from blog to blog now. Get ready...

The first paragraph of these articles always contain the best sentences!



Quotes are from MSNBC:

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

Zing! Busted! So how will this come into play in this election now?

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.

How come every time a politician is under investigation, they claim, almost always, it is "politically motivated?" The investigation was started long before she was picked as VP running mate.

Walter Monegan says he was dismissed as retribution for resisting pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.

The legislative panel met for six hours before making a unanimous decision to release the so-called "Troopergate" report. The vote was 12-0 to release the report, except for certain parts they consider confidential.

Alaska lawmakers on Friday began reviewing the lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report focusing on whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her authority as governor.

The first-term Alaska governor has been accused of firing a state commissioner to settle a family dispute. But the report is also expected to touch on whether Palin's husband meddled in state affairs and whether her administration inappropriately accessed employee medical records.

Palin fired Monegan on 7/13/08, was being investigated in that same month, and was not tapped as VP pick until 8/29/08. Which brings up a question of judgment on John McCain's choice of Vice President, in my opinion, choosing someone already under investigation for abuse of power?

The full investigative report can be found here.

Palin Clears Self In Troopergate

Whew, well that makes us all feel a little better now don't it? LOL

According to MSNBC:

Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

Sen. John McCain's running mate is the subject of a legislative investigation into whether she abused her power as governor by firing her public safety commissioner. The commissioner, Walter Monegan, says he was dismissed in July for resisting pressure from Palin's husband, Todd Palin, and numerous top aides to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, Palin's former brother-in-law.

The move came hours after the state Supreme Court refused to halt the ethics investigation.

The investigation started before she was even picked to run for vice president...

Sworn to secrecy, Alaska lawmakers on Friday began reviewing a lengthy and politically sensitive investigative report. The inquiry, approved by a legislative committee's bipartisan vote, began before Republican presidential nominee John McCain named Palin his running mate. Since then, the case has been dogged by accusations of political influence.

What's better than clearing yourself of any wrong doing? Trying to stop the actual report from being made public, and only revealing your report that clears you! Sweet.

At their meeting Friday, lawmakers planned to vote on whether to release the estimated 300-page report and some of the 1,000 or more pages of supporting documents. The 14-member legislative panel could recommend that the case be closed, that another committee continue to investigate or that the matter be referred to criminal investigators.

Of course the report should be made public.

"I just hope that the truth is figured out," Monegan told The Associated Press on Thursday. "That the governor did want me to fire him, and I chose to not. You just can't walk up to someone and say, 'I fire you.' He didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination."

Palin's critics say that shows she used her office to settle family affairs.

"When you're the governor, you leave your household hat at home and you become governor," said state Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has frequently clashed with Palin.

LOL @ troopergate

Troopergate

Get ready for the buzz word of the day: Troopergate.

Republican lawmakers are trying to halt an investigation into Troopergate...

According to AP:

Five Alaska lawmakers filed an emergency appeal Friday asking the state's Supreme Court to halt an investigation into abuse of power allegations by Gov. Sarah Palin before the findings are released next week.

Why would they want to stop the investigation?

The independent investigator conducting the probe plans to turn over his conclusions by next Friday to the body that authorized the it, the Legislative Council. The five Republican lawmakers, none of whom are on the Legislative Council, claim the investigation is being manipulated to damage Palin before Election Day on Nov. 4.

Somehow, I doubt this is being done to smear Sarah Palin because the investigation started long before she was even vice presidential nominee.

The probe is looking into whether Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, and others pressured Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire a state trooper who was involved in a contentious divorce from Palin's sister and then fired Monegan when he wouldn't dismiss the trooper. Palin says Monegan was ousted over budget disagreements.

The five lawmakers sued to block the investigation or remove its overseers, but their lawsuit was dismissed on Thursday by an Anchorage judge.

Due to the publicity surrounding this case, Americans anxiously await the report's findings.

Defense attorney Peter Maassen said the Legislature is free to conduct an investigation as it sees fit and the judge's ruling confirmed the separation of power principles. An emergency appeal is unwarranted, he said, because by next Thursday the investigation will have already be completed — it will only remain to make it findings public.

"There's been no time in history that a court has suppressed the outcome of a legislative investigation," Maassen said.

The public deserve to see exactly what the Palin's have been up to, "up there in Alaska."

As it seems, at the moment, Sarah Palin wants to try and slow this investigation down "for years" and keep it secret from the public.

Palin pledged her cooperation with the probe until she became Sen. John McCain's running mate. She has said through her lawyer that she only will cooperate with a separate investigation, one that she calls unbiased but is conducted in secret and can last for years.

Americans are tired of this secrecy that people like Sarah Palin shroud themselves in, while firing public officials, and doing all kinds of illegal things behind closed doors.

We deserve to hear the full extent of Todd Palin's involvement, and to get to the bottom of Troopergate.

Todd Palin sought the dismissal of a Alaska state trooper at the center of a probe into his wife's conduct as state governor but denied attempting to influence her directly, court documents showed Thursday.
In a 25-page sworn affidavit to an investigator examining abuse of power allegations against his wife and Republican vice-presidential nominee, Palin said he had repeatedly contacted senior Alaska officials to raise concerns over the conduct of his ex-brother-in-law Mike Wooten.

Todd Palin is not a government official, and should not be sitting in on Governor meetings, and discussing the firing of anyone in office, or any policemen. This guy is an oil field worker, doesn't have a college degree, and serves no purpose sitting on on important official business. Why should he be talking to anyone in regards to State Troopers being fired or not? His involvement, continues to concern me. Not to mention his membership in the Alaskan Independence Party.

The idea that some oil worker "First Dude" is making phone calls and inquiring whether or not State Troopers are fired, should concern any American. And the fact these two continue to try and conceal their actions, will only further the curiosity of the situation.