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Panel Finds Palin Abused Power
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state’s public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn’t the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.
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.
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.
[Click Here To Download The Report In .PDF Format]
The AP report says that ‘a family grudge wasn’t the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.’ It leaves out the next sentence in the 263 page report — ‘In spite of that, Governor Palin’s of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.’ That sentence seems pretty important to me…
Update: The McCain camp responds…
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.
I hesitate to call the race with more than 20 days left… but I’m this close.
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As you Con’s like to argue, it speaks to Gov Palin’s character
(or lack thereof).
Just to add to this… there were some major connections to Barack Obama on the committee that turned in this report. Still, that matters little, as the headlines will all read ‘Sarah Palin Abused Power’ and this is just another cork board on the fire that consumes the remainder of McCain’s campaign.
As it well should, considering the Reichstag type rallies his campaign has run this week. If anything unfortunate happens to
Sen. Obama, Sen. McCain will have his blood on his hands – and
he can explain to Obama’s grieving daughters it wasn’t personal – just politics.
This is the kind of fire the McCain campaign is playing with.
Hours after Prime Minister Yitzah Rabin’s state funeral, Leah Rabin told an Israeli television interviewer: “There definitely was incitement which was strongly absorbed and which found itself a murderer, who did this because he had the support of a broad public.” Earlier, when Rabin’s coffin was lying in state, she frostily told an opposition leader who came to pay his respects, “It’s too late.”
Godwin’s Law – “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”
you lose