Posted on 12/05/2009 6:57:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Palin to face another ethics battle By Tony Romm - 12/05/09 09:35 AM ET
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) faced yet another ethics complaint on Friday: This time, for allegedly using state resources "for partisan political purposes" during the 2008 campaign.
Under state law, elected officials may not "use or authorize the use of state funds, facilities, equipment, services, or another government asset or resource" for campaigning, stumping or politicking.
But Palin, argues Andree McLeod -- a local activist who has filed many ethics complains against the former Alaska governor -- sought political advice from her staff and asked her office to help her arrange media interviews or phone conversations leading up to Election Day, all using their government-issued e-mail addresses.
According to the Alaska Department of Administration, the use of e-mail is key: That medium, too, counts as a state resource, meaning Palin's e-mail exchanges with her gubernatorial staff about national campaign strategies could have violated the state's election law.
"State employees are prohibited from using the state e-mail system or using other state equipment, including fax machines, telephones, computers, or copiers, for partisan political purposes," the department's commissioner told The Huffington Post. "However, if you receive such a message, you may respond that Alaska law forbids your use of state equipment for partisan political purposes and ask that the sender not send you further messages concerning campaign activities."
Palin has long struggled to battle back ethics claims stemming from her tenure as governor -- an expensive problem, her allies note, that in part triggered her unexpected resignation earlier this year.
Nevertheless, many of those chargers have since been dropped.
Gov Palin scares those on the Left AND the rinos-! Can’t wait to get to vote for her-!!
Going back to the well again. It didn’t work the first time; why should it work now?
One difference now...Palin has all of the money she needs for lawyers, this will be a small gnat to her.
Andree McLeod Who is this pile of pork? What does she do for a living. Maybe someone can catch her with a goat or a pig.
I’m gonna dare betcha that she had the gall to file her nails on Alaska time too, Lock her her up, she’s corrupt. Good Lord!!! The left sickens me with all the petty BS. I hope America is awake and watching what is happening to us all.
Andree McLeod Who is this pile of pork? What does she do for a living. Maybe someone can catch her with a goat or a pig. I know she is doing Levi, ya thats it. LOL
Andree McLeod — a local pain-in-the-a**
That stalking pig of human excrement is so butt fugly I wont even bother posting her pic here.
Guess McLeod couldn't stand being having her 15 minutes of fame being expired.
Pretty pathetic that she has to use Palin's name and popularity to keep her own name in the papers.
The interested parties in Alaska need to check where McLeod is getting her funding (if applicable). Bet you that George $oro$ is bankrolling a lot of these local pains-in-the-ass.
In my home state, one of the $oro$ front organisations is attempting to destroy my own State Representative through a bogus Veteran's environmental organisation.
Andree McCloud - taking partisan jealousy to a whole new level...at your expense.
Incest is never, ever a pretty thing, really. ;)
Jealous, ugly harpy.
Looks like unrequited love.
Maybe if she had sexually molested an underage page they would have left her alone.
Or if she had run a homosexual brothel in her home.
;)
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