Posted on 07/04/2009 9:26:44 PM PDT by ak267
"There is absolutely no truth to those rumors, that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her," Special Agent Eric Gonzalez said in a phone interview Saturday. "It's just not true."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 4, 2009
On July 3rd, 2009, Governor Sarah Palin announced her intent to resign her gubernatorial duties
and transfer the powers of Governor to Lt. Governor Sean Parnell.
Almost immediately afterwards, several unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory
allegations that the “real” reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged
criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This
canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national
campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.1 It was easily rebutted then as
one of many fabrications about Sarah Palin. Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism
apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are
repeated as fact.
The history of the Wasilla Sports Complex is publicly known. Contrary to the insinuation that
as Mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin “personally” oversaw bidding, construction, funding and
accounting for the project (and thus, the allegation goes, “embezzled” from the project), the
truth is far more mundane, and publicly available:
Curtis D. Menard was instrumental in spearheading the effort from conception to
realization of the Wasilla Sports Complex. He directed the steering committee
that was responsible for placing the issue before the voters of Wasilla and
1
Wayne Barrett, a writer for the left wing Village Voice, published these insinuations, on October 7, 2008 in a
story entitled “The Book of Sarah” available at http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah.
This was written in the style of one pretending to be amazed that so many people in a small town like Wasilla
appear to know one another, support one another, and take on big projects together. Apparently that is uncommon
in New York. Rather than recognize that leaders of a community often mobilize to accomplish projects, the
writer offered this up as an unusual and questionable association of special interests.
Thanks for posting. Daily Kos is starting to approach thin ice with this defamation. Let’s see if they keep it up.
HAHA!
How funny, even on the “extremely right wing” fox news they have had crazy speculation about this garbage. I really do hate everyone in the beltway and all news media.
What is it with these leftist idiots, the media, and DC varmints?
Lots of establishment RINOs on here today that are worse than the liberal media.
The media is not Main Stream, that is just another Liberal Lie.
The media tagged themselves with the label "Main Stream", don't believe them.
Ask you, what better way to fill the campaign coffers than with money from all the left-wing rags, starting with the huffington post and pMSNBC?
Oh, you mean the “fedindictmentcoming” tag is a load of BS? I’m shocked! The infiltrators and their progressive Republican brethren are out in force today.
And what’s with the media speculating about ANYTHING? Their job is to report on facts, not speculate. Ugh, so sick of them.
Subversion of the Republican Party, that’s the agenda of the RINOs.
Example #20596779855677 of unfair media bias against Palin. If the allegedly fair media wanted to prove itself, it would apologize for spreading completely made up nonsense, and pledge to never again to (mis)treat Daily KOS as a reputable source.
I expect Obama’s eunuchs down at Kos and DemocRATS Underwear to start whining that Gonzalez is a liar.
Anyone who quotes or replicates anything from Daily Kos has to be the most ignorant person ever. Wait, they are left wing nuts. Never mind
Over at conservatives4Palin I’ve already seen a couple nuts claiming some other mystical agency is going to step in and get her.
So so sad.
This was not just relegated to the left, that is what really irks me. Friday night on Fox they had alleged conservatives on speculating about this, including some dork from the WSJ that kept saying “Mitt Romney must feel like god is shining down on him”.
I give up on all the media after this weekend.
I guess that means Andrea Mitchell is full of feces. I know that’s a shocker! /s
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