Alaska Legislative Probe Finds Palin Misused Power So, a report brought about by 10 republicans and 4 democrats found her to have abused power, and her campaign replies that the attack is 'politically motivated'. By republicans, apparently. Tina Fey could not be reached for comment.
Re: Report: Palin Abused Power as Gov. More from the NY Post (via AP), a right-leaning paper, just to make sure we're getting both sides of the tainted media sammich: NY Post: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing I love that someone violated the "legal shooting of moose" part of the law. Oh BOY do I live in a different country than Alaska.
Re: Report: Palin Abused Power as Gov. I don't think this is the October Surprise McCain was hoping for.
Re: Report: Palin Abused Power as Gov. Text of Report Here FYI, she was legally justified in firing the public safety commissioner in question. The ethics violation alleged is not that she fired him, but that she violated ethics laws by putting pressure on the commissioner to fire her ex-brother-in-law. Just so we're clear.
Re: Report: Palin Abused Power as Gov. Sure-- she can fire comissioner after commissioner, as long as she never mentions why. Eventually she'll find one who'll figure it out on his own and fire the ex-in-law on his own initiative, and everything will be legit all the way around. Can't see why that's not obvious...
Obviously McCain camp considered those Republicans part of the "partisan-led inquiry" run by Obama supporters. What's really scary is we all know there are plenty of Palin lemmings out there who would eat up this type of shameless spin and refuse to believe she’s a fake reformer who started to abuse her power merely days after she took office.
Hey! She's a mavrick who shook up the fat cats in power up in Alaska when she became PTA president, er, I mean, guvnor.
Re: Report: Palin Acted Within Her Authority Team McCain Statement: "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." The commission was NOT SURE if she truly violated any ethics code at all; they stated it was “likely” that she did? Politics of personal destruction; Obama style! "It's no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report the first wave arrived in Anchorage less than 24 hours after John McCain selected her on August 29." Change! Imagine Democrat hypocrisy here; they'll condemn Palin for acting legally but say nothing about a rogue trooper who tasers ten year olds.
Re: Report: Palin Acted Within Her Authority That, or they found (as their first finding) that she violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. One or the other.
Re: Report: Palin Acted Within Her Authority Surely it must get to the point when people post actual lies rather than partisan comment that we ask ourselves whether we want a higher standard of debate?
Ah hell, that scandal ain't nothing, not to those of us here who live in Daleyland. My problem with Sarah isn't the petty stuff, it's that she's a welfare queen. Richie (and Illinois) get by on paying more taxes, than he gets in return from the Feds. Sarah, like the rest of Alaska, relies on federal handouts. http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html
This result is just sort of icing for Palin haters at this point. It won't change minds or numbers. In fact, I daresay it works in Palin's favor, in an ass-backwards kind of way. The narrative up until now has been that Palin is unintelligent and ignorant, barely capable of stringing a sentence together. She was supposed to be sold as a Washington outsider, someone with executive experience, a record as a reformer, and a solid foundation in social conservative values. But the whole can't-name-a-newspaper narrative really trumped the other stuff. Her abuse of power as governor actually undercuts the image of being too stupid to tolerate. It bespeaks a level of competence that she hasn't been able to demonstrate thus far. In that sense, it makes her look better. Unethical but capable is probably better than nice but semi-retarded for Palin at this point.
Capable? She abused the power of the office to settle a petty family feud, and she got caught on top of that. At least Nixon was trying to rig and election and managed to plant the mics in the first place. This wasn't an evil genius abuse of power; in fact, as these things go, it was pretty banana republic.
Disagree completely. It would work in her favor regardless with her conservative base, however those aren't the votes she needs to win. She needs the independent vote and this would be another reason along the many that prove she is completely incompetent for the VP job. What proves her to seem a bit powerless is that sadly she is being used as a puppet by McCain (although she still comes of as being vile regardless). We also found out that although she was Governor, it was her husband who was throwing the weight around, not her. This does nothing to help her image and only tarnishes it as a empty headed woman who doesn't know any better to continually be used by the men in her circle to gain or use power. Abuse of power is what takes away her ability to call herself an "outsider", because her record is proving otherwise. Abuse of power is what distances her from being "regular", "ordinary folk" or "joe 10-pack". She's abusing power just like the American people have accused Bush, Congress and all facets of our government. This actually incriminates her to be more of the same, which is exactly why McCain's camp didn't want this and exactly why they are trying to fight it tooth and nail.
I'm hardly calling it evil genius level. I'm just saying, it's some of the first evidence the American public has seen of Palin actually getting something done.
Is it? The "something" that she was trying to do was destroy her ex-brother in law's life. Wooten retired with a nice disability pension, and instead Palin fired a by all accounts competent executive, who is now sure to sue for wrongful termination.