Palin pre-empts state report, clears self

[PlatyPius 5]

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self

Alaska lawmakers expected to release ethics probe findings Friday

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - 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.

Lawmakers were expected to release their own findings Friday. Campaign officials have yet to see that report — the result of an investigation that began before she was tapped as McCain's running mate — but said the investigation has falsely portrayed a legitimate policy dispute between a governor and her commissioner as something inappropriate."The following document will prove Walt Monegan's dismissal was a result of his insubordination and budgetary clashes with Governor Palin and her administration," campaign officials wrote. "Trooper Wooten is a separate issue."

Monegan said Thursday that he doesn't know what to expect from the legislative panel's own report.

"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.

Campaign blames former opponent

The campaign's report instead blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan's dismissal on the family's dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin's sister, that: "You guys are going down. Get ready for the show."

Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours — and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family.

"It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation," the 21-page report concludes.

Although the report describes Wooten as a separate issue, the McCain campaign goes into great detail about the "rogue" trooper and his "long history of unstable and erratic behavior." The campaign describes allegations of violence, including threatening Palin's family and shooting his stepson with a stun gun.

The report also includes allegations that Wooten cheated the workers' compensation system. Todd Palin has said he had numerous conversations with government officials about why Wooten was allowed to stay on the job.

"The Palins make no apologies for wanting to protect their family and wanting to bring attention to the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge and abusing the workers' compensation system."

But Todd Palin said he never pressured anyone, including his wife.

The McCain campaign says the investigation has become "muddied with innuendo, rumor and partisan politics."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/

Edited October 10, 2008 by PlatyPius

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Of course - but she'd rather ###### and moan about Barack's associations.

I tend to be of the opinion that dodgy things you do yourself are a bit more relevant than things people you knew have done.

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*ahem*

She's a secessionist.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

*ahem*

She's a secessionist.

Sara Palin claims never to have been to Russia, yet recently discovered Russian secret service files indicate that a secret flight she made to Moscow some twelve years ago describe how she received some 100,000 roubles from Boris Yeltsin to pay for a proposed deal between Alaska and Russia. Palin's links to former communist organizations are well known, but her people deny that she has any links with Russia, in spite of her proven backing of Russian interests. These facts have been circulating in Alaska for several years but were suppressed by Palin supporters. Karl Rove is reported to have spent a million dollars attempting to suppress this story. In Fairbanks she has been known for her links to former KGB representatives for several years where locals have named her 'Sara Palinski'. Some believe that 'Palinski's' husband's communist links were the chief reason for his attempts to make Alaska split from the Union and strengthen that State's links with Russia, who, it is claimed, had their eye on Alaska, where Russian businessmen hoped to drill for oil.

Sita News and Inquirer.

14 September 2008

[almaty 19]

i am proud to announce that comrade palinski has joined the...

commies for christ....

brother stevie.....chief comrade and dictator of the proleatariat...

[HAL 9000 96]

Priceless.