Posted on 07/30/2008 6:08:56 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Alaska's Palin Faces Probe Star GOP Governor To Be Investigated For Abuse of Office By JIM CARLTON July 31, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- When Sarah Palin was elected governor as a Republican outsider in 2006, she didn't just take on an incumbent from her own party. She took on Alaska's Republican establishment.
Ms. Palin vowed to clean up a long-cozy political system that had been sullied by an FBI corruption investigation. She endeared herself to Alaskans by making good on her reform promises and showing homey touches, like driving herself to work.
Now, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.
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I wasn’t a fan of Palin for VP, but I hope this investigation turns out to be the partisan witch hunt it appears to be.
When and if it does, I’d like to see Palin publish the names of the Democrats who demanded it.
One slight correction. On the day this story broke, both Sarah and the commissioner said that Sarah did not pressure the commish to fire the BIL. Rather, the pressure came from Sarah's husband Todd.
Ted Stevens is Republican
That will go over like a fart in church here. You're gonna make a lot of freepers cry.
Why? The VP has a whole lot less to do than a governor.
Sounds like we have an anti-Minnesotan bigot in our midst.
In this case, it isn’t the DNC. It’s the Alaskan RINO’s like Stevens, Young and the Murkowski’s who treat the govt. as their own personal piggy banks. I would guess it’s less about stopping Palin as VP but more about stopping her Lt. Governor from taking out Young in the primary.
The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.How many tens of thousands of dollars were in that freezer in Louisiana?
Sarah...we believe in you....
Oh boy; now who will be my choice for VEEP. I was hoping it would be Sarah Palin. Even if she is cleared, she is tarnished.
O.K., Tim Pawlenty, stay by that phone, it could very well be ringing and John McCain will be on the other end of the line.
If every Pubbie in America is in jail by Election Day, McCain will have to pick Lieberman.
The long knives are coming out. The Left wants full power and will stop at nothing.
Sorry
State Govt grown 23% just this year
Taxes on the oil outfits higher than Hugo Chavez tried
Special money for here ‘friends (dairygate)
Ya, she the complete package all right.
A RINO - at best
Lets see
Massive taxes on oil companies
Growing stste Govt like topsy
Can’t give away money fast enough
Oh, and let the anti-abortion bilss rot in both sesions
Oh, yeah - she is conservative all right. For a Dem maybe
And now Troopergate - sorry, not for me.
This in itself demonstrates he's not fit to be a law enforcement officer.
The tax change came after the VECO scandal...the one people are going to business for. Operating budget increase was due new contracts with the unions (since prices of healthcare etc. have gone up) and also increased tax credits for explorers on the North Slope...a plus of the new tax system. It was designed to promote exploration. There was an article in the ADN about new explorers benefitting from the new system. She cut the crap out of the capital budget...wireless for 3rd graders.
Alaska Legislature=RINO city
I believe a rat/rino coalition is in charge of one of the chambers.
Yeah I agree Palin is the only real choice for real conservatives and constitutionalists- she was a member of the “Alaska Independence Party” for all that is Holy! - And I don’t mean ‘Alaska Independent Part’, I mean ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY-As in leave the USA (seceede) you can’t get anymore conservative/state’s rights oriented than that!
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