Posted on 09/03/2008 9:10:16 AM PDT by markomalley
Gov. Sarah Palin wants a state board to review the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan -- taking the unusual step of making an ethics complaint against herself.
Her lawyer sent an "ethics disclosure" Monday night to Attorney General Talis Colberg. The governor asked that it go to the three-person Personnel Board as a complaint. While ethics complaints are usually confidential, Palin wants the matter open.
The lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, also asked the state Legislature to drop its own investigation into the Monegan matter. He says the Personnel Board has jurisdiction over ethics.
A senator running the investigation immediately refused.
The 13-page document gives Palin's view of a controversy that's dogged her for weeks in Alaska. Questions about whether she or others in her family or administration pressured Monegan to fire her ex-brother-in-law, state Trooper Mike Wooten, are now getting intense national attention with her newfound prominence on the national stage. Republican Sen. John McCain announced Friday that she's his pick to be vice president.
Under state law, the board must hire an independent counsel for complaints against the governor to determine whether evidence of a violation of the state ethics act exists.
"Governor Palin believes it will find no conceivable violation of the Ethics Act," her complaint says. She wants the investigation "to put these matters to rest."
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
Evidently domestic violence is suddenly a private matter and no one’s business. That is, unless it’s against a democrat woman and her family.
If you can find a link to that info, I think it qualifies for its own thread.
Also, John Bolton was interviewed yesterday by Lars Larson at the convention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073277/posts
[snip]He met with her last year at her office in Alaska about international things!. I hope you can hear it.. Hopefully later he’ll have a transcript.
Bolton said [paraphrasing]...they talked about missle defense, etc. and she was very knowledgeable and she is a quick study. He was very impressed.
That isn’t true. Palin never hired an attorney. The state attorney general hired the lawyer, it’s part of their job.
That may be, but in either case, i would give credit to the law firm for making these decisions on how to handle the case, and perhaps they did receive some input from the campaign regarding their maneuvers post-VP announcement.
In my view it was done as an action required by the state attorney general’s office. I doubt any campaign member had to tell Palin’s staff about how to do their job in Alaska, as a member of the governor’s administration.
Well then we will just have to agree to disagree, because I see a change in how they are defending the matter since she became a candidate.
It’s only been about six weeks since Monegan was fired, and one month since the legislature appointed a special counsel. She’s hardly had time to execute a strategy, much less change it. If you go back and read the stories, she’s pretty consistently, in my view, pursued a strategy of full disclosure and trying to force a rapid conclusion.
Is lucky the "Heath sisters" didn't just shoot him, then have him stuffed and put above the fireplace.
Not Patriot, which would not be all that unusual. Rather Ground Based Interceptors, designed from the git go to shoot down incoming missile warheads, at much longer range than the Patriot can manage. They are silo based, not transporter and "pod" based, as Patriot is.
Ground Based Interceptor
Patriot.
There are 4 patriots in that pod. As you can easily see, the GBI is much larger.
If Bob files a complaint against herself, while Charlie uses his office to quash investigations, that shows that Charlie is an honest person (since investigations against him have finished without finding anything) while Bob is a crook (where there's smoke, there's fire).
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