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Monegan says he was pressured to fire cop (MSM going after Sarah Palin)
ADN.com ^ | July 119, 2008 | Megan Holland

Posted on 07/19/2008 3:40:51 AM PDT by balch3

Former Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on Friday said that since Gov. Sarah Palin took office, members of her administration and family pressured him to fire a Palmer Alaska State Trooper to whom her sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle.

Monegan said phone calls and questions from the Palin administration and the governor's husband, Todd Palin, about trooper Mike Wooten started shortly after Monegan was hired and continued up to one or two months ago.

The governor herself also had a brief conversation with him about Wooten in February, Monegan said.

The new assertions from Monegan, who has been mostly silent on his abrupt firing July 11, conflict with what the Republican governor said earlier in the week. She said she never put pressure on

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; donutwatch; governor; leo; monegan; palin; palinattacks; palinrecord; police; troopergate; troopergateinalaska; wooten
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Smear machine working overtime on Sarah Palin.
1 posted on 07/19/2008 3:40:51 AM PDT by balch3
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To: balch3
Former Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on Friday said that since Gov. Sarah Palin took office, members of her administration and family pressured him to fire a Palmer Alaska State Trooper to whom her sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle.

Key word here is former. Why do always these "pillars" of ethical behavior wait until they get fired to come up with this stuff? If his morality was bothered indeed he should have said this WHILE he was still on the job.
2 posted on 07/19/2008 3:46:59 AM PDT by FORTRUTHONLY (Easy as 3.14159265358979323846...)
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To: FORTRUTHONLY
The reason is that the 527-MSM wants their chosen losers liberals on the ticket.


Not Guilty



There is but one logical choice.

The "Warrior and the Woman" (will Win BIG
attacting a large fraction of the pro-Hillary frustrated Democrat women.)


3 posted on 07/19/2008 3:52:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: balch3
Former Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on Friday said that since Gov. Sarah Palin took office, members of her administration and family pressured him to fire a Palmer Alaska State Trooper to whom her sister was involved in a bitter child custody battle.

Shouldn't that read "with whom"?

And why is the time-reference in front of the verb ("on Friday said")? If we replace the title and name with a personal pronoun, we get "He on Friday said that..."

Wouldn't "Monegan said on Friday that.." be better?

Regards,

4 posted on 07/19/2008 3:53:41 AM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: balch3
One has to read most of the article before finding out that the ex bro-in-law trooper is a real piece of work.

Illegally killed a moose, tasered an 11 year old, was collecting disability although healthy enough to operate a snowmachine. The ex wife (gov's sister) is afraid of him, and he apparently threatened the gov's father.

Gee I can't imagine why Palin's family doesn't like the guy.

5 posted on 07/19/2008 3:54:17 AM PDT by NEPA (Save a cow, tip a beer)
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To: balch3

I’d be more interested in finding out if the Obama machine is paying Monegan, or offering him a future job, to make this accusation against Gov. Palin. This certainly smells like Chicago Democrat politics.


6 posted on 07/19/2008 4:12:23 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: FORTRUTHONLY

He is “former” because he was FIRED by the Palin administration just a few days ago prompting all of this to come to light. No explanation was given for the firing. Instead of just waving pom poms with the beauty queen do some homework. Mr Monegan has an impeccable career as a law enforcement officer in Alaska. He did not come forward until the Palins responded to the news that they did not pressure him to abuse the power of his office. There is more to come out on this story and I think there will be a special investigation as there should be. The thin veneer of the Palin superiority is about to wear off. Even the Kalifornia based Anchorage newspaper is starting to relent and is today reporting on this.


7 posted on 07/19/2008 4:40:16 AM PDT by strongbow
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To: strongbow
Waving pom poms was never my thing :) so chill out. My point still stands, I always have had issues with ANYONE coming forward with allegations after they were no longer associated with their former employer (Scott McClellan comes to mind). Monegan should have come out with these issues while he was a commissioner instead of after his firing. It takes more courage (and I am not implying he lacks it) and it is the right thing to do to blow the whistle on unethical/illegal/immoral behavior by organizations while these actions are occurring.
8 posted on 07/19/2008 4:49:32 AM PDT by FORTRUTHONLY (Easy as 3.14159265358979323846...)
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To: strongbow

“The thin veneer of the Palin superiority..”

Gee, you are not biased are you?


9 posted on 07/19/2008 4:53:41 AM PDT by freeplancer
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To: balch3

It’s a local paper and a local story. Hardly a smear campaign.


10 posted on 07/19/2008 4:54:33 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: NEPA
Gee I can't imagine why Palin's family doesn't like the guy.

With a record like that it makes you wonder why anyone would have to apply pressure to fire the guy. I'd think he would have been history in the normal course of events. He certainly doesn't belong in a police uniform.

11 posted on 07/19/2008 4:57:40 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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He is a poacher and a child abuser, so why should he be in law enforcement? I would not call that “impeccable”!


12 posted on 07/19/2008 4:57:48 AM PDT by freeplancer
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To: kittymyrib
I’d be more interested in finding out if the Obama machine is paying Monegan, or offering him a future job, to make this accusation against Gov. Palin. This certainly smells like Chicago Democrat politics.

Sure you're not being just a leeetle paranoid on that? Palin isn't anyone but a governor of a state Obama has no chance of winning.

13 posted on 07/19/2008 4:59:15 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: balch3
Palin is hot and smart but when she opens her mouth she sounds like this...


14 posted on 07/19/2008 5:20:49 AM PDT by montag813
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To: balch3

Anyone who read the entire story knows that the governor’s husband was involved in this thing, and admits meeting with Mongegan at least once. The incidents being discussed took place in 2005, and the governor took office in 2006.

The beginning of all this was a bitter divorce and custody case involving the governor’s sister. What is there even alleged that should not have been left to the courts and local law enforcement? Why is anyone associated with the governor mucking around in this situation, completely outside the channels where such things are normally handled?

Doesn’t look too good. Seems some are acting like they were elected royal family rather than merely being the family of the governor.


15 posted on 07/19/2008 5:26:11 AM PDT by Will88
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To: strongbow
Mr Monegan has an impeccable career as a law enforcement officer in Alaska.

Illegally killed a moose, tasered an 11 year old, was collecting disability although healthy enough to operate a snowmachine. The ex wife (gov's sister) is afraid of him, and he apparently threatened the gov's father.

Strange definition you have of an impeccable career as a law enforcement officer.  Must be a Romney supporter.

 

16 posted on 07/19/2008 5:52:14 AM PDT by gscc
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To: FORTRUTHONLY; All
That is a good point.. Just look at the word former
17 posted on 07/19/2008 6:01:04 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Barak Obama: The Candidate of Clarification)
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To: balch3

Not, and I mean - NOT, NOT, NOT - Guilty!

;-)

18 posted on 07/19/2008 6:12:48 AM PDT by Condor51 (I have guns in my nightstand because a Cop won't fit)
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To: gscc; freeplancer

What the heck is wrong with you people? Don’t you read before you post? Monegan and Wooten are two different people. Monegan wasn’t pressured to fire himself, and he wasn’t married to the governor’s sister.

Read, people read!


19 posted on 07/19/2008 6:24:12 AM PDT by BykrBayb (www.lifeforlauren.org Þ)
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To: freeplancer

Better read it again freeplancer. The brother in law of the gov was called a poacher and a child abuser not Mr. Monegan. It was Walt Monegan I referred to as a impeccable and who refused to fire a trooper under pressure from Palin. For the record if you are interested the poached moose was butchered by Palin’s father and distributed and eaten among the Palin family. It was only two years later when the Palin family brought it up. Not much hypocrisy there right? As for Taser incident you might want to read up on that too. Not too smart but it was not how it was presented. Remember the Palin family filed over thirty complaints against the brother in law, all of which were investigated and only two were found to have any merit.


20 posted on 07/19/2008 8:47:03 AM PDT by strongbow
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