Posted on 03/25/2009 8:45:45 AM PDT by This Just In
The Campaign To Bankrupt The Palin Family
Posted by Martin Knight
Tuesday, March 24th at 5:21PM EDT
From just September till now, Sarah Palin has accumulated a personal dept of over $500,000 in legal fees defending herself against fake/false/frivolous ethics charges. That’s Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.
A group of Alaska liberals, with the apparent cooperation of members of the Alaska Democratic Party have been filing ethics charge after ethics charge against Sarah Palin. The aim? Not to get her impeached and booted from office, because every single one of the charges are frivolous, baseless and even fairly deranged - one was even filed in the name of a soap opera character - but something far more personal.
These people want to bankrupt the Palins and leave them destitute. They want to empty their bank accounts so that they cannot afford the basics and necessities of life after Governor Palin leaves office.
With the exception of the partisan ethics complaint filed against Palin because her husband (a private citizen) made it clear (as was his right) that he didn’t think a policeman (now a hero to liberals) who used a taser on a ten year old child should continue to keep his gun and badge, all of these ethics charges were filed after John McCain tapped her to be his Vice-President.
David Bonoir, as the House Democratic Whip pioneered this tactic in the mid-1990s after the Gingrich Revolution swept Republicans to their first Majority in forty years. Immediately after Congress resumed, Bonoir began filing ethics complaints - frivolous, partisan complaints that even Democratic members of the ethics committee mostly laughed away - against Newt Gingrich on a weekly basis, week after week like clockwork and sending out press releases to friendly press outlets. It was a despicable tactic, but Republicans and Newt dismissed it as a desperate loser antic and ended up being blindsided when liberal talking heads began to use the talking point of Newt being the Speaker with the most ethics complaints filed against him … ever.
But at least, Bonoir’s aim was political, and politics ain’t beanbag, after all.
These people’s aim is most assuredly not political. Frivolous charge-filers Andree McLeod, Zane Henning, Linda Kellen Biegel, etc. are affiliated with a group of liberals (how many on the “Journolist”, I wonder?) who went to Palin’s hometown of Wasilla immediately after she was tapped for the VP spot and dubbed themselves the “Wasilla Project” with the sole purpose of ensuring any and all manner of slander, innuendo and libel against Palin was publicized on YouTube and from there would hopefully make it into the mainstream media. Henning (who claims to be a “conservative”) and McLeod (who is a “registered Republican”) feature prominently in their videos in “interviews” repeating the Alaska Democratic Party’s campaign talking points on Palin on cue.
McLeod, Henning, Biegel and others like them have discovered, however, that no matter how frivolous their charges, no matter how far-fetched, no matter how bone-headed stupid, the Governor would still have to legally defend herself against them - meaning she’ll have to pay attorney fees as she goes before the Personnel Board. And so they have gotten down to business, and like David Bonoir against Gingrich, they’ve been filing ethics complaint after ethics complaint against Governor Palin, but this time with her bankruptcy in mind.
Palin is now owing the law firm she has been forced to retain to answer this storm of ethics charges over half a million dollars since September - and note that her annual salary as Governor of Alaska is only $125,000 with Todd Palin making about $86,000 as both a fisherman and an oil worker - with more of these suits and ethics charges being promised by these bottom feeders and others like them.
After bearing with these attacks, Palin finally let the situation be known when she filed her annual financial disclosure forms with the Alaska Public Offices Commission this week, writing to the Anchorage Daily News;
I must defend against these baseless ethics accusations out of my own pocket as the use of public monies to do so could itself violate state law …
… obviously we cannot afford to personally pay these bills - and really no future governor should feel the sense of financial vulnerability at the hands of those with a political vendetta bent on personal destruction …
Some have suggested a legal fund to pay these bills. We’ll have to pursue that.
And if she does pursue that, I doubt she’d have any problem paying off any legal fees for the next twenty years.
But it’s the fact that she has to consider doing this to keep her and her husband’s life savings - a man and woman with minor children at home - from disappearing altogether that should sicken all of us - I don’t know about any of you, but I’m literally shaking with rage here.
This is the politics of personal destruction at its most reprehensible … and these people need to have their names made public and turned to mud in Alaska and all over America. They need to have themselves mired in court and forced to pay hundreds upon hundreds of thousands in attorney’s fees defending themselves against charges of depriving the people of Alaska of the services of their governor because of nothing more than hate.
I knew the Left’s tactics were ugly, but this … this is beyond wrong, this is pure evil.
Do you think if I send her a ck to her office with a little note would she get it ?
I would call Governor Palin’s office and inquire. Does the Gov. have a website? If so, perhaps you may contact her through that channel.
So glad that the Democrat Brownshirts don’t engage in the Politics of Personal Destruction. OBAMA INC. is above all of that, right?
File a countersuit for abuse of the the system and harassment.
WHEN ARE HER LAWYERS GOING TO FILE ABUSE OF PROCESS SUITS AGAINST THESE AZZHOLES?
Missed the post yesterday, but the good Gov. deserves more air time.
“Already posted”:
...when it’s dealing with a true blue, patriot, conservative like Sarah Palin, who cares about double posting. This woman needs financial backing and support from anywhere she can get it. Dems are smearing potential winners in future elections because they’re a threat! If conservatives could mobilize the way dems do we wouldn’t have these issues so frequently!
People need to be careful before contributing any money to help her out.
Funds would need to be sent through proper channels. If not, it could possibly cause her compliance issues.
Palin went head to toe with Obama and his crew and this is what she gets for being so popular with Conservatives. Now she must be punished.
Just tying the separate threads on this issue together, so readers will get maximum of information.
The problem with that, while helpful to Palin, is that it keeps feeding that scummy legal situation wherein all the lawyers get rich of people who have to work for a living.
The Dems hate and fear her because she is not corrupt like all the Dems. Ditto with the stinking RINOs.
I agree, which is why I’m sure someone in her office would direct all individuals seeking to send Gov. Palin a monetary gift through the proper channels.
FReepers can also check on regulations/requirements in that state before sending gift.
“Now she must be punished.”
Not if we can help it.
She hasn’t created her legal fund yet (at least she hasn’t made it know yet). But she has announced on March 20, that she needs to create a legal fund to accept donations specifically for this purpose.
SarahPAC is her political venue, if folks want to help her specifically on the lawsuit front, there will be (hopefully) soon the legal fund.
Democrat Brownshirts.....
Wouldn’t it be fun to me a few of these turds in an alley and introduce them to baseball bats?
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