Palin has checkered history on ethics issues (BARF Alert!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/14/08 | Brett J. Blackedge and Justin Pritchard - ap

[NormsRevenge]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose reformer image took a hit in a report concluding she abused her powers to settle a family score, has skirted state ethics rules before for personal benefit and used her office to help friends and supporters, according to an Associated Press review of records.

Palin's first try at statewide office, after six years as mayor of Wasilla, was an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002. To raise money, she improperly used her City Hall office and equipment, city records show. A year later she would make headlines by blasting a fellow Republican for, among other things, improperly using his government position to boost his campaign.

Then, in 2006, Palin won the governor's race with a vow to reform state ethics. But in less than two years, she has repeatedly taken actions that violated her own stated standards for ethical behavior — if not state law. ...

Some examples:

_She pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.

_She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take.

_She is under another investigation, accused of misusing her office to campaign against a voter referendum calling for tighter mining regulations. Her husband, Todd, has accepted free trips from a mining company to look at their proposed new site.

_Another ethics complaint, unresolved, accuses her staff of finding a state job for a friend and campaign contributor.

[NormsRevenge]

more crAP

[lonestar67]

I think an interesting NPR poll would be:

who do you hate more Dick Cheney or Sarah Palin?

[A Cyrenian]

I have a history of playing checkers too.

Does that make me a racist? King me.

[SMCC1]

“To raise money, she improperly used her City Hall office and equipment, city records show.”

You know what that’s referring to....Office Paper! I kid you not.

[Question_Assumptions]

I’m sure glad they are digging into Barack Obama’s past this agressively.

[messierhunter]

I want a shirt with the scumbag cop’s picture and the words “Don’t Taze me bro’!” on the front. The back will have a flattering picture of sarahcudah and the words “Yes she can!”

[kaehurowing]

I heard she once fouled another player while playing basketball in high school

[TexasCajun]

We have to tell everyone that repeats this liberal line that Gov. Palin was trying to get a cop fired for tazing his own 10 yr old son and threatened to taz her teenage daughter Bristol.

No wonder her sister divorced the idiot.

[NormsRevenge]

U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin and her husband Todd attend a rally in Virginia
Beach, Virginia October 13, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

[popdonnelly]

WHAT?!

[popdonnelly]

I don’t believe anything the AP says.

[SMCC1]

Why doesn’t the AP put out an article that says:

“Obama has checkered radical history”

“Some examples:
-Rev. Wright
-Bill Ayers
-ACORN
-Odinga
-Socialist Party
-Tony Rezko”

[wac3rd]

I guess your wife making $400K on an earmark to U. Chicago Medical Center is ethical. (crickets)

Moral equivalence at AP is nauseating.

Where is Biden’s son/Biden’s lawsuit for misconduct? (crickets)

[roses of sharon]

Dem hacks hired as journalists.

[ethics]

Does anybody ever look into these problems?

[353FMG]

If Palin really has a checkered history on ethics issues the demoncrats should love her.

[Lazamataz]

With good reason, you don't believe the AP:

"The unreported paid trips:

_The $2,988 cost of Palin's April 2007 flight and hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz., for a four-day conference was paid by the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute of North Carolina, a nonprofit education policy group. Palin received the same free trip as dozens of other governors invited over the years to attend the annual summit, institute spokesman April White said.

_A May 2007 overnight visit with her three daughters and her parents attending a family reception at Mt. Chilkoot Lodge in Skagway, Alaska, was paid for by friend and former deputy campaign treasurer Kathy Hosford, one of the lodge's owners. "We weren't open and it was just on a friendship basis," Hosford said.

[webrover]

This is a blockbuster. Will it lead on MSM evening Obama infomercials?

[NormsRevenge]

Yup.

How many dozen “reporters” did they send up North to dig for gold?

This is it?

what a waste of carbon footprint..

chasing wisps, moose farts