TROOPERGATE!

[FOTD]

UH OH! Here it comes.....

Todd Palin subpoenaed in firing probe

http://www.adn.com/palin/story/524038.html

"In addition to authorizing subpoenas for the 13 witnesses, most of whom are state officials, the committee OK'd subpoenaing the cell phone records of Frank Bailey, a Palin aide who was placed on leave last month."


"Palin has said she fired the commissioner, Walt Monegan, over disagreements about budget priorities. Monegan says he received repeated e-mails and phone calls from Palin, her husband and her staff expressing dismay over Wooten's continued employment."Text

[Conan71]

We knew this was coming dupe bag.

[FOTD]

It gets worse.....STUDY THE CHARLIE GIBSON INTERVIEW.

Who is her puppet master? FRIGHTENING....to think America is that stupid to want this unready person in the highest of offices.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/12/MNSA12SBUQ.DTL

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onthemedia9-2008sep09,0,2053631.story
Will we ever see her interviewed again by real journalists?

She'll screw up big time!
http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/1159496,CST-NWS-stein12good.article

Palin defends earmark requests for Alaska...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26664074/

.....just watch! Bushlike display. Totally crazy.

[FOTD]

Fired Official: Governor Sarah Palin Did Not Tell the Truth to ABC
Walt Monegan Says He Was Called to Gov.'s Office Over a "Private Family Matter"
By RHONDA SCHWARTZ and JUSTIN ROOD
September 15, 2008

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5804703&page=1


"She's not telling the truth when she told ABC neither she nor her husband pressured me to fire Trooper Wooten," said Walt Monegan, the Alaskan official whose dismissal by Sarah Palin is the focus of a state investigation known as "Troopergate". "And she's not telling the truth to the media about her reasons for firing me."


Walt Monegan, best person in the world!!
"It's doom alone that counts!" (Zimmy)

[FOTD]

First, Palin said she'd cooperate. Now, 13 subpoenas later, she is told not to cooperate by her McLame handlers.

SHE'S HIDING SOMETHING!
Sound familiar?


"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
-- Henry Louis Mencken

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

First, Palin said she'd cooperate. Now, 13 subpoenas later, she is told not to cooperate by her McLame handlers.

SHE'S HIDING SOMETHING!
Sound familiar?


"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
-- Henry Louis Mencken

Yep, McCain's camp surely vetted this choice...

[patric]

Sounds so familar......
Oh, Yeah

Trooper quits amid allegations of affair with  lt. gov.
http://okvoter.com/fun/fallinpress.htm

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- One of Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin's Highway Patrol bodyguards has resigned after being accused of having an affair with her.

The accusation was made by her husband's lawyer during divorce proceedings last week.

Trooper Greg Allen denied having an affair with Mrs. Fallin and plans to seek reinstatement, his lawyer, Gary James, told The Daily Oklahoman for a story in Wednesday's editions.

James said Allen, who is married and has two children, admits holding Mrs. Fallin while she cried on his shoulder and admits kissing her in a platonic way, but insists there was nothing improper about their relationship.

"They became very good friends. Greg was Mary's confidante," James said. "I guess as a security guard you're not supposed to be a friend."

Allen first was asked about rumors of the affair Nov. 30 and then unexpectedly called into a meeting last week with two patrol officials, who asked him to resign Dec. 1, James said.

A resignation letter was already prepared and Allen was told he needed to make a decision before he left the meeting, James said. He complied, but sent the patrol a letter Friday asking that he be reinstated, James told the newspaper.

Mrs. Fallin, a Republican who was elected to a second term in November and has been touted as a possible GOP gubernatorial candidate, has filed for divorce from her husband, dentist Joe Fallin. At a hearing last week, her relationship with the trooper was described as "an affair" by Fallin's attorney.

Rumors surfaced in early September about her and a member of her security detail, Public Safety Commissioner Bob Ricks said.

The trooper first denied the allegations, but after questioning again in November, he "admitted to unprofessional conduct and was permitted to resign," Ricks said in a statement Monday. "His admission did not indicate that sexual activity was involved."

Ricks didn't elaborate on the nature of the unprofessional conduct, and his office said he was out of town Tuesday.

[waterboy]

I guess Mccain wanted a brunette with a heavy norsky accent. He could have had a true blue Republican from the heartland. We were soooo close!

[MH2010]

FOTD wrong again...........

Palin: E-mails explain 'Troopergate' firing By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Sep 15, 7:33 PM ET



ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Lawyers for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have released e-mails detailing what they say is the real reason she dismissed Walt Monegan, the public safety commissioner whose firing prompted the "Troopergate" controversy.

In a papers filed Monday, the lawyers wrote that Monegan was fired for opposing Palin's budget priorities. They cited e-mails in which top Palin staffers expressed concern with his approach.

They also cited an e-mail Monegan sent his colleagues encouraging them to communicate better with Palin.

Lawmakers are investigating whether Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, fired Monegan because he refused to dismiss an Alaska state trooper going through a child-custody dispute with her sister.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by MH2010

FOTD wrong again...........

Palin: E-mails explain 'Troopergate' firing By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Sep 15, 7:33 PM ET



ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Lawyers for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have released e-mails detailing what they say is the real reason she dismissed Walt Monegan, the public safety commissioner whose firing prompted the "Troopergate" controversy.

In a papers filed Monday, the lawyers wrote that Monegan was fired for opposing Palin's budget priorities. They cited e-mails in which top Palin staffers expressed concern with his approach.

They also cited an e-mail Monegan sent his colleagues encouraging them to communicate better with Palin.

Lawmakers are investigating whether Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, fired Monegan because he refused to dismiss an Alaska state trooper going through a child-custody dispute with her sister.

Yep, like we're gonna believe anything a lawyer (from either side) representing a candidate is going to say.

Let it play out.  Where there's smoke, there's some fire...

[guido911]

Here's the motion filed by the Governor's counsel:

http://sistertoldjah.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/palinmotionfordetermination.pdf

This "scandal" (if you can call it that) is over.

[FOTD]

Wait and we will see.....

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-women-reject-palin-rally-is-huge/

She's incapable of being President....

But, vote for the sick old souless white guy over the smart black guy. Keep Dumbf*ckistan headed in the direction of bankrupting America. Patriots?

[Townsend]

GOP lawmakers sue to stop Palin investigation

Five Alaska lawmakers file suit to end 'Troopergate' probe


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742379/

JUNEAU, Alaska - Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.

The lawsuit called the investigation "unlawful, biased, partial and partisan." None of the lawmakers who filed the suit in Anchorage Superior Court serves on the bipartisan Legislative Council that unanimously approved the investigation.

The scandal known as "Troopergate" gained national attention after Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin as his running mate. Since then, Palin and the McCain campaign have sought to distance Palin from the controversy and have taken actions that could slow its resolution until after the November election.

Palin fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan in July. Weeks later, it emerged that Palin, her husband, Todd, and several high-level staffers had contacted Monegan about state trooper Mike Wooten, who had gone through a nasty divorce from Palin's sister before Palin became governor. While Monegan says no one from the administration ever told him directly to fire Wooten, he says their repeated contacts made it clear they wanted Wooten gone.

Palin maintains that she fired Monegan over budget disagreements, not because he wouldn't dismiss her ex-brother-in-law. Still, she said in July that she'd welcome and cooperate with the investigation ordered by the Legislative Council. McCain campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan now calls the investigation "tainted."

On Tuesday, three state representatives and two state senators sued Democratic Sen. Hollis French, who is overseeing the investigation; Juneau Democratic Sen. Kim Elton, who heads the Legislative Council; independent investigator Steve Branchflower; and the Legislative Council itself.

The lawsuit seeks to either delay the investigation until after the Nov. 4 general election or remove French and Elton.

"There is no nonpartisan reason to complete this investigation until after the election," said Anchorage attorney Kevin G. Clarkson. "We just want to take the politics out of it and bring fairness back into it."

Clarkson said he and a nonprofit legal firm in Texas, Liberty Legal Institute, were donating their work on the suit. A phone message for French was not immediately returned.

The Legislative Council, made up of four Democrats and eight Republican, voted unanimously to investigate the circumstances of Monegan's dismissal. Although Monegan was an at-will employee who could be fired for almost any reason, lawmakers wanted to see whether Palin tried to use her office to settle a personal score with Wooten.

Last week the state Senate Judiciary Committee voted to issue subpoenas for Todd Palin as well as nearly a dozen others and to gain phone records of a top aide to the governor. The subpoenas seek to compel their cooperation in the investigation.

O'Callaghan said Monday that Sarah Palin, who was not subpoenaed, was unlikely to speak to Branchflower and that he didn't know if Todd Palin would challenge his subpoena. At the same time, the campaign released e-mails it claimed supported Sarah Palin's assertion that disagreements over budget were behind Monegan's firing.

Among the e-mails released was a farewell note by Monegan. In it, he suggested the governor had reason to believe she had lost his support, and he urged his former colleagues to communicate better with her.

"For anyone to lead effectively they must have the support of their team, and I had waited too long outside her door for her to believe that I supported her," he wrote. "Please, choose a different path."

Palin's lawyer has sought to have the three-member state Personnel Board take over to investigation, alleging that public statements made by French indicated the probe was politically motivated. French had said the results of the investigation could constitute an "October surprise" for the McCain campaign, and he later apologized.

The campaign insists that French, Branchflower and Monegan are friends, even though the men say they only know each other professionally and have never socialized. Democrats charged that the McCain campaign was trying to stall the investigation.

"Rather than cooperating with the investigation, the Republican presidential campaign is doing everything it can to stall and smear," said Patti Higgins, chairwoman of the Alaska Democratic Party.

McCain campaign spokeswoman Meg Stapleton denigrated Monegan at a news conference Monday, accusing the veteran law enforcement officer of "insubordination," "obstructionist conduct" and a "brazen refusal" to follow proper channels for requesting money.

When Monegan was fired, the governor offered to let him head the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Asked why someone with a history of insubordination would be given such a position, Stapleton said that without having to deal with a budget, Monegan would be able to focus on alcohol abuse issues.

The governor "respects the fact that he was respected in the community," she said.

Thomas Van Flein, a lawyer for the governor's office, cited the newly released e-mails Monday in asking the Personnel Board to find no probable cause for an ethics investigation.


In an interview Monday night, Monegan said Palin never raised concerns about his management. In fact, at an event in May, she singled him out and praised his efforts to reduce violence against native women.

"In my time as a commissioner, the governor has never talked to me about complaints about my efforts," Monegan said.

[we vs us]

quote:Originally posted by Townsend

GOP lawmakers sue to stop Palin investigation

Five Alaska lawmakers file suit to end 'Troopergate' probe


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742379/

JUNEAU, Alaska - Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.

[SNIP]

Stinks like cheese.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by we vs us

quote:Originally posted by Townsend

GOP lawmakers sue to stop Palin investigation

Five Alaska lawmakers file suit to end 'Troopergate' probe


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26742379/

JUNEAU, Alaska - Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.

[SNIP]

Stinks like cheese.

I don't think this was a well-timed move.  At all.