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.
Actually what needs to be done is to file a countersuit against the Democratic Party for inciting frivolous lawsuits. Who cares if it will stick,.
Yep. I recommend to write Rush and other Conservative talk radio hosts on this. They will surely pick this up.
The hatred isn’t just about the fact that Gov. Palin isn’t a RINO. The key issue here is that through her selection as McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin UNIFIED the conservative base. When our base is unified, our candidates “can’t be beaten”..........lawfully, anyway.
If you want to file a ethics complaint against Alaska Dems:
http://ethics.legis.state.ak.us/ethics_complaint.php
Well, lawyers will get rich regardless. The alternative is to let an upstanding, God fearing, patriotic (Lest we forget, their son’s in the armed forces), ethical politician and her family hang out of dry.
Fight fire with fire by filing a Civil suit for damages or,
Don't retain attorneys. Show up at the appointed time and place and stand up for yourself. No one says you HAVE to have an attorney. I think she's smart enough to handle these a-holes.
Posters on Conservatives4Palin indicated that Glenn Beck will bring up this issue.
Stay tuned.
The problem with your second choice is that Gov. Palin would have to take time out from her other responsibilities as the head of her state, and as a wife and mother, in order to be well prepared before appearing before the judge.
Hire the lawyers.
They are all ridiculous asinine stuff along the lines of "what she wears", "where she travels", "whom she visits" etc.
Thank you for the clarification. Where did you find this information?
The best way to end this is to start a PAC to pay all legal bills for the Palin family.
Wouldn’t it be fun to meet a few of these turds in an alley and introduce them to baseball bats?
Alaska is a dangerous place - just ask Hale Boggs.
As long as Soros et.al. continue to fund the Neo-Commies with bottomless pockets to file frivolous lawsuits that conservatives are forced to defend, there will never be a conservative they consider a danger to them that isn't totally destroyed before they can be elected. Knowing their tactics, most conservatives choose not to run; the rest who don't heed the warning are "killed." That's how the game has been played and will continue in the future.
Palin’s speech at the Lincoln Dinner on March 20. Make a FR search on this. Has quotes and video.
She announced that she will start a legal fund to accept donations. I hope we’ll get an update soon.
I had said they FEAR her. This is the reason plus she is not corrupt. These people have files on everyone and if you do not toe the line - they will ruin you in a second.
Notice how Bill Richardson stabbed the Clintons in the back by supporting O. The clintons got back by leaking Richardson’s dirt and he is under investigation.
Sarah has no dirt. This is the evil Dems, newsmedia and RINOs.
Better yet, introduce legislation saying that if the plaintiff loses the lawsuit, OR if it gets thrown out as frivolous, then that plaintiff must pay the defendant’s legal expenses.
That would cut down not only on suits against Palin, but ALL frivolous lawsuits in Alaska. Might even inspire other states to do the same thing.
all rules of procedure have a frivilous suit penalty procedure. (both state and federal courts)
The real problem is the judge acts as a roadblock.
In addition the staw plaintiff is usually a penniless stooge with no financial resources.
And running as a Democrat doesn’t help. Hunter S. Thompson engaged in libelous activity when he routinely made false drug charges about one of McGovern’s rivals during his “reporting” on the 1972 DNC primary.
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