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The Campaign To Bankrupt The Palin Family
Red State ^ | March 25, 2009 | Martin Knight

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: palin; palinbashing; pds; sarahpalin; smearcampaign; stalinisttactics
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To: Frantzie

Doesn’t even matter if there is no dirt. They tried to make dirt when they had that government investigation into the police deal.

The shadow government also dug up dirt on Joe the Plumber for making Obambi look like the Marxist he is.

There are Democrats who put their party before their job and violate law willy nilly to serve the Party.


41 posted on 03/25/2009 9:59:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("I certainly hope he (Bush) doesnÂ’t succeed" - Democratic strategist James Carville 9-11-2001)
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To: This Just In

We need LOSER PAYS Tort Reform Law....NOW!!


42 posted on 03/25/2009 10:02:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: All

BTW how does Alaska, land of rugged individualism SQUARED, have any kind of namby pamby wussy liberal?

The frontier suvivability of a left wing democrat should be around zero percent.


43 posted on 03/25/2009 10:12:50 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Democrat Brownshirts.....

Wouldn’t it be fun to me a few of these turds in an alley and introduce them to baseball bats?

These liberals DREAM of the day when they get beaten by baseball bats.

They are attention whores and would consider a beating by a conservative a badge of honor.

Better bet: Make them disappear.No questions and no bodies.

Makes all the other liberals think twice.


44 posted on 03/25/2009 10:13:20 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: This Just In
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.

Which could be used as the basis for filing civil suit.

45 posted on 03/25/2009 10:20:51 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage...)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
"Better bet: Make them disappear.No questions and no bodies. Makes all the other liberals think twice."

Which would make us no better than the worst of them!

46 posted on 03/26/2009 4:03:32 AM PDT by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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To: This Just In

www.sarahpac.com


47 posted on 03/26/2009 11:19:49 AM PDT by CARepublicans (www.teamsarah.org)
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