Oh, spare me. In "Tooper"gate---Palin legally fired a bad guy.
In "Wat'ayers'gate"--- Obama hired one.
Posted on 10/11/2008 7:53:10 PM PDT by melt
But that feud exploded into the race for the White House after an independent investigator concluded that Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, unlawfully abused her power as Alaska governor to push for her former brother-in-law to be sacked as a state trooper.
The politically-charged finding ensured that the so-called Troopergate controversy dominated political headlines barely three weeks before the Nov 4 presidential election.
The report found that Mrs Palin violated a state ethics law prohibiting public officials from using office for personal benefit - in this case, pursuing her family's grudge against Trooper Mike Wooten following his messy divorce from her sister Molly.
It also highlighted the unusually intense involvement of her husband Todd, a part-Eskimo champion snowmobile racer and self-styled First Dude, in state politics - a role that some critics say amounted to that of a "shadow governor".
Stephen Branchflower, a former prosecutor, was appointed by the Alaskan legislature to investigate Mrs Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner Walter Monegan in the summer.
Mr Monegan said he had come under intense pressure from the governor's husband and aides to dismiss Trooper Wooten, and believed his refusal to do so was the reason for his removal.
Mr Branchflower concluded that Gov Palin acted within her authority in dismissing Mr Monegan, who she said had disagreed with her on the budget. But the investigator also said that the Wooten stand-off was "likely a contributory factor".
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Oh, spare me. In "Tooper"gate---Palin legally fired a bad guy.
In "Wat'ayers'gate"--- Obama hired one.
I bet she even forgot an apostrophe. Unbelievable in this day and age...
YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN......nothing new here..move along
Hmmm, where is Tommy Dale and the other five Travel office emplyees that were fired now that the subject of abuse of power comes up? Hillary, Bill, how’s that cousin of yours and her cronies doing these days?
Palin acted within her rights as governor. Nothing will come of this except MSM self-gratification, again.
Thats NOT misleading what it is... is a LIE.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/figures-top-attack-dog-in-palin.html Then there is this...
That was Billy Dale. I am Tommy Dale.
I hate it when you’re right. ;-) Thanks. Funny, every time I see your screen name, I think of them.
It is the same absurd logic which says we can liberate only nations with whom we have no self-interest.
Can’t wait until Nov. 5th when Obama will start his slide back into the dustbin of forgotten history much like Kerry (who served in Viet Nam). ;-)
WHOA!
TOTAL STINKING PILE OF B.S. This Branchflower clown is obviously another incompetent, dishonest, and grossly biased Nifong/Ronnie Earle/Eliot Spitzfong type of 'Rat "prosecutor" -- first, there is no ACTUAL personal "benefit" since nothing happened to the trooper as a result of Todd Palin's intervention.
2nd, it is a ludicrous stretch of language beyond recognition to say that seeking an investigation and punishment for the trooper's OBVIOUSLY illegal, unethical, and unprofessional behavior is seeking a "personal benefit" for the Palins -- it is seeking to have the laws and professional standards of the state upheld on behalf of ALL citizens of the state.
3rd, the "report" documents nothing of substantive official behavior by Governor Palin -- at most the question is about her SPOUSE, not about her official conduct in office.
This fraudulent "investigation" is just another political hit-job by the scum of the Demagogues, who have sought endlessly to criminalize all political opposition to their agendas.
It’s funny. The Obamadorks who prepared the report said she didn’t break the law. Therefore, how did she do anything “unlawfully”?
Nothing and no one compares to the corruption of the Muslim Messiah. Give me a break. The media is self-destructing. A boycott of the MSM sponsors is needed immediately.
Maybe it’s just me but when I hear the term “troopergate”, I don’t think of a fat, drunken, slob who tasers 10 year old kids and shoots moose from his patrol car...I think of a fat, drunken, slob who has Arkansas State Troopers procure sleazy women for him to drop his trousers in front of.
She did nothing wrong. They just did not like what she did. Friggin sick if you ask me.
it would be troopergate if palin *didn’t* try to fire some guy who tasers kids
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/figures-top-attack-dog-in-palin.html So . We have a child abusing cop , one guy on O’s payroll and a fake Marine who lied on his stae office resume..Yokels..
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