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Lawyer for Todd Palin objects to contempt citation
Fort Mills Times ^ | February 07, 2009 | DAN JOLING

Posted on 02/08/2009 8:36:38 AM PST by curth

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The lawyer for Gov. Sarah Palin's husband fired back at Alaska state senators Saturday, disputing that Todd Palin and others "ignored" subpoenas issued last fall during the Troopergate investigation of the governor.

Attorney Thomas V. Van Flein said that immediately after a judge's decision refusing to intervene, all subpoenaed witnesses, including Todd Palin, filed detailed written responses to lawmakers.

"These are not the actions of contemptuous witnesses, rather, they reflect a studied and deliberate invocation of law and due process, and in accord with the rule of law, once the court issued its decision, the parties then responded in full to the subpoena," Van Flein wrote in a letter to state Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage.

In a 16-1 vote Friday, the Alaska Senate on Friday found Todd Palin and nine state employees in contempt for ignoring subpoenas to testify in the Legislature's Troopergate investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortmilltimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: palin; presidentpalin; sarah; tasergate; todd; troopergate; witchhunt

1 posted on 02/08/2009 8:36:39 AM PST by curth
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To: curth

These rats just won’t give up.


2 posted on 02/08/2009 8:41:45 AM PST by Libertina
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To: Libertina

The vote was 16-1. Establishment Republicans are just as big a problem up there.


3 posted on 02/08/2009 8:54:23 AM PST by Al B.
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To: curth
The media is going to use its usual distortions of language, but there's no reason to help them out.

The correct name for this idiotic non-event is
Tasergate.
4 posted on 02/08/2009 8:58:49 AM PST by BobbyT
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To: curth

French and his ‘RATS got their boy “elected.” They now want their “trooper” fiasco to go away. Todd Palin now needs to line up his lawyers to go after THEM. Start with the “media” rags like the Nat’l Enquirer.


5 posted on 02/08/2009 9:55:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Elections have consequences.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The next ‘real’ conservative party will start with a 1-2 punch....a point by point response to dinosaur ‘Palin Derangement Syndrome’ stories, and a legal defense fund to back it up. RINOs have accepted the rope they continue to hang themselves with (dangling participle intended).


6 posted on 02/08/2009 10:07:27 AM PST by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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