Posted on 07/04/2009 5:43:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There’s been an enormous amount of speculation from all corners as the the motivation behind Sarah Palin’s resignation as Governor of Alaska. The speculation has covered the full spectrum from the leftist talking points that she can’t take political heat to her supporters declaring that she’s preparing for national office. Her detractors have pretty much stayed on message, repeating over and over again that she’s weak, can’t take the heat and is deserting her post. However today a new twist has been revealed via Obama propagandist. The new twist is that the resignation came just before a Sarah Palin federal indictment on embezzlement charges.
Can it be true? The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast, and Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC have all come out with the same story at approximately the same time. One would almost think it had been sent out in a memo to the Obama media to disperse as truth for it to have been so well coordinated. I guess the ’she can’t take the heat’ argument wasn’t damning enough.
I’m sure that it goes without saying that they all site ‘unnamed sources close to Palin’. How convenient.
The Huffington Post writer, Shannyn Moore, is calling this the ‘iceberg scandal’. It has to do with the $12.5 million sports complex built while Palin was Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. The accusation is that the Palin’s inflated the cost of the complex in order to use building materials from the construction of the complex to build their own home. The proof according to her accusers is that both buildings have the same windows, the same wood and the same products.
Palin used Spenard Building Supplies to build the sports complex. It is assumed, though there is no proof, that she also used them to build her own home. Todd Palin had stated during the presidential campaign that he had built the house himself with the help of some contractor friends. Considering that Spenard is the largest building supply company in Alaska, it doesn’t seem out of the realm of reason that they would have worked on both structures. Its also not out of the realm of reason that a person who oversaw the building of a multi-million dollar sports complex would end up being friends with and developing a level of trust with the builders and would then hire them to help with building her own home. It happens all the time.
According to reports, federal investigators have been looking into this since October 2008. Its also being reported that charges of public corruption and embezzlement are imminent, thus explaining her resignation.
Should these rumors (because that’s all they are at this point, no one reporting it has given any proof) prove to be true, then she will be ruined politically. She’s a Republican and Republican’s don’t tolerate bad behavior on the part of their peers. She could join the democratic party and the likes of Barney Frank, William Jefferson, Ted Kennedy and any number of other politicians whose careers were only enhanced by scandals.
If she IS indicted and the rumors are not true, then she has to defend herself against more vicious rumors and legal game playing. In which case, she was right to resign as Governor. The expense and time in defending against these types of situations, especially a federal indictment, would leave her little time to do her job.
We can see what happens to anyone with the guts to defy what Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann calls ‘Obama’s Gangster Government’. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has experienced it. Although he embarrassingly gave them plenty of ammunition, knowing that they were looking for something on him. Many other Conservatives have been targeted, certainly Palin has been. They have dug into every nook and cranny of her life and the lives of anyone remotely associated with her. Now this.
So the questions are these: Are the Left’s news outlets putting out rumors, knowing they’ll become fact if repeated often enough, regardless of whether this alleged Sarah Palin federal indictment every comes to fruition? Is she guilty and will there be Palin embezzlement charges? If they are not true, and charges are brought against her with no more proof than what is being reported, will the public see through that and turn on the accusers rather than the accused?
Frankly, the public is getting increasingly angry watching the destruction that is being perpetrated on anyone who crosses Obama’s people (remember Joe the Plumber who had every federal and state record in his life paraded in the media for the world to see because he asked Obama a question about Socialism?). If these kinds of Third World despot politics continues, there will be a backlash.
Oh, by the way, who paid for the Obama’s million dollar Chicago mansion? Has anyone seen his birth certificate yet? What about his college transcripts?
This addresses it pretty well http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/07/statement-from-gov-palins-legal-counsel.html
These people should be ashamed of themselves.
Keep throwing ship and something's bound to stick..........
More Commie BS from the Commie DemocRATS. They won’t be happy until she’s dead.
If the embezzlement charges being brought by the press are untrue — and I bet they are — I wonder if there could be a lawsuit BY Sarah Palin AGAINST the press that will more than cover her legal debts.
Well, speaking of popcorn...
This accusation sounds earily similar to the accusations made against Stevns that were eventually dismissed.
Has her attorney weighed in yet? I hear rumors a release is floating around to put a halt to the salacious rumors...
thanx
I hope this isn’t true.
parsy, who is waiting
“I wonder if there could be a lawsuit BY Sarah Palin AGAINST the press that will more than cover her legal debts.”
This is the USA, not the UK.
NY Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) pretty much put an end to public officials suing for libel.
Becoming a private citizen, may allow her (and her family) to pursue litigation for defamation, slander, libel, etc. It’s going to be interesting.
Already proven false, someone please keep track of this BS so that Sarah can sue. She can make millions with all of this BS going on in a span of a few days. This crap all started in September, the left are terrified of this woman. They fear her like they feared Ronald Reagan. Remember what he went through, well Sarah is going through it but 10 times worse
As true as every other ethics complaint filed that was dismissed.
“This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law. The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=1. These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.”
It is so laughable at how this one woman frightens the left into crapping in their pants! Of course this is a coordinated attack no doubt coming straight from the White House! :-)
Can’t wait to hear what Sarah’s REAL story is—I have a sneaking suspicion THIS garbage ain’t it! ;-)
Of course, once she becomes a private citizen again, the rules change, and if the libel (etc.) continues, it could become very entertaining indeed. I expect the NYT knows the law well enough to stop the libel, at that time, but I expect that many others will just keep it up. This could be fun to watch.
What do you mean, “already proven false.?
Are these old allegations.
parsy, who doesn’t follow Palin that much.
When a federal grand jury is empaneled, the target of the investigation is usually given the opportunity to testify in their own defense at the grand jury. This "invitation" comes when a letter is delivered informing the target that they are indeed a target. I would bet a month's salary that Palin, nor anyone close to or related to her, has been given such a letter.
This is just baseless noise that is perpetrated by leftist blogs.
Their utter fear is showing and there’s no doubt Sarah is our candidate to remove the commie from the Peoples’ House.
[RE: but why would this be a federal manner anyway? Was this a federal contract?]
If you’re interested in the allegations, read the whole thing here :
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7280
Yeah, this BS already came up in September 2008, just another phony baloney BS that the Dems first started spewing then was proven to be false. People gotta keep track of the clowns posting this so that Sarah can sue. Her lawyer is AWESOME, he will sue anyone who smears Sarah
More and more SPECULATION...
Read the link I posted above, pretty direct that there is going to be legal action.
POTUS then whispers to rahm: get me my boy eric on the phone...this could seal my second term, then we can start working on my third.
“Of course, once she becomes a private citizen again, the rules change”
As long as she remains a “public figure” by her own choice, the NYT v Sullivan standard holds.
Don’t pop your popcorn yet. The chances of a libel suit are very remote.
Then I suggest that posts be printed out with the date and time on it. It should be printed out daily. Some slander/defamation causes of action go up with continuous publication. However, as a public person, she probably can not sue successfully.
parsy, who thinks she can discredit the sources
D@mn. Go get 'em, Sarah!
[RE: Are these old allegations.]
Yes, these are old allegations relating to a Federal embezzlement investigation for the use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials used in Palin’s house.
IMO one of the reasons the Dims and GOP old timers are afraid of Palin is she represents the real American. For too long if you weren’t from Yale or Harvard you couldn’t be a real candidate. She represents a threat to the entitlement mentality of the elites. The ones who consider themselves the ruling class.
Interesting point. Perhaps it suggests a complete lack of knowledge of violations of state law or violations of federal law and the fact that the former are tried in state courts and the latter in federal courts. I suppose the federal courts are involved if mail fraud is involved (just watched the Firm again yesterday).
If you want to understand the old allegations being brought up once again, read this from the Village Voice on 10/8/08...
THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin’s two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties. Six months before Palin stepped down as mayor in October 2002, the city awarded nearly a half-million-dollar contract to design the biggest project in Wasilla history to Kumin Associates. Blase Burkhart was the Kumin architect on the job-the son of Roy Burkhart, who is frequently described as a “mentor” of Palin and was head of the local Republican Party (his wife, June, who also advised Palin, is the national committeewoman). Asked if the contract was a favor, Roy Burkhart, who contributed to her campaign in the same time frame that his son got the contract, said: “I really don’t know.” Palin then named Blase Burkhart to a seven-member builder-selection committee that picked Howdie Inc., a mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent. Formally awarded the contract a couple of weeks after Palin left office, Nugent has donated $4,000 to Palin campaigns. Two competitors protested the process that led to Nugent’s contract.
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A list of subcontractors on the job, obtained by the Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply, the state’s leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other “pre-engineered components.” In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin’s snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office.
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Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as “buddies.” As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the “buddies” were.
1. Obama's home in Chicago is paid for by a sweetheart land-swap arrangement with Tony Rezko, but that's okay.
2. Rahm Emanuel gets a sweetheart tax break by declaring his home a charity, but that's okay.
3. Chris Dodd gets a sweetheart mortgage deal while he's somehow building a small "cottage" in Ireland, but that's okay.
4. Harry Reid makes a quick million or two by selling land that he never technically owned, but that's okay.
But Sarah Palin's home has the same windows as a sports complex that was built during her tenure, so she must be an embezzler?
-PJ
Statement from Gov. Palin’s Legal Counsel on Defamatory Allegations
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285662/posts
“This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.
The Alaska Constitution protects the right of free speech, while simultaneously holding those “responsible for the abuse of that right.” Alaska Constitution Art. I, Sec. 5. http://ltgov.state.ak.us/constitution.php?section=1. These falsehoods abuse the right to free speech; continuing to publish these falsehoods of criminal activity is reckless, done without any regard for the truth, and is actionable.”
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I’d say that several high placed democrats will be attempting to head off some charges and evidence of financial hanky-panky
If anyone does not think that a number of wealthy Republicans are already funding private research and investigations by now they are quite naive
The left is throwing garbage at the wall in the assumption that the uniformed that live by network TV will associate this with the 15 ethics complaints that they do not know have been proven to be false
I state the same thing all the time. It is wild the way libs go CRAZY over Sarah Palin. As I have said before: It’s like showing a cross to a vampire....
Nail on head!!!!!!!
Did you read post #36 to me? The dems get away with anything. Hope this isn’t more bad news for the Palins.
“Its also being reported that charges of public corruption and embezzlement are imminent, thus explaining her resignation”
I’m at a loss as to why, if indictments are imminent, resigning would help. Unless they mean to say she’s sparing the people of Alaska the pain of seeing an incumbent governor drug through the mud. Otherwise, it’s not as if once she resigns the investigators will throw up their hands and say, “She’s out of office; never mind. Next case, please.”
Good on her! Now she can fight back and not have to worry over the Libs slamming her for not doing her duty as governor.
These BS tactics by the left need to stop. The only way they will stop is if they have to pay, and pay dearly, for the luxury of spreading unsubstantiated lies, rumors and innuendos against any conservative they perceive as a threat to the march to marxism.
It’s time to take back the country.
Actually, she'll be a "public" person for the rest of her life, regardless if she ever holds elective or appointed office again. Her kids, and possibly her husband, could make a compelling case that they were no longer public figures. But, it's an area of the law that is very complicated. With the protections afforded the press under the First Amendment, it's generally very difficult to prove slander or liable in cases involving public figures.
These are false charges, a slander started by some leftard woman. Sarah is already threatening to sue. Just another left wing a**hat that wants to make it as difficult for Sarah as they can. Sarah also threatened to sue anyone who repeated this story, and specifically named certain news outlets.
To that, all I have to say is "Go get em, Sarah!"
After July 26th, she'll no longer be a public official. ;o)
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