Posted on 08/29/2008 5:27:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The July firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan by Gov. Sarah Palin, who was announced as John McCain's running mate on Friday, has unearthed a stream of soap-opera-like details about Palin, her husband, her family and top state appointees. The controversy has also cut against Palin's reputation for holding an ethical line and standing up to colleagues in the Republican Party over matters of principle.
Monegan, 57, a respected former chief of the Anchorage Police Department, said in an interview with The Washington Post's James V. Grimaldi on Friday that the governor repeatedly brought up the topic of her ex-brother-in-law, Michael Wooten, after Monegan became the state's commissioner of public safety in December 2006. Palin's husband, Todd, met with Monegan and presented a dossier of information about Wooten, who was going through a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly. Monegan also said Sarah Palin sent him e-mails on the subject, but Monegan declined to disclose them, saying he planned to give them to a legislative investigator looking into the matter.
Palin initially denied that she or anyone in her administration had ever pressured Monegan to fire the trooper, but this summer acknowledged more than a half a dozen contacts over the matter, including one phone call from a Palin administration official to a state police lieutenant. The call was recorded and was released by Palin's office this month. Todd Palin told a television reporter in Alaska that he did meet with Monegan, but said he was just "informing" Monegan about the issue, not exerting pressure.
"She never directly asked me to fire him," Monegan said.
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Wow her brother-in-law sounds like a guy Obama would love...using a taser on a child. Maybe he thought it was just a late term abortion. Sounds like a Democrat to me.
Your company’s union thugs wives sleep with Republicans. Bet they didn’t know that, but it’s true ~ union members women folk are notorious for such behavior.
Ding ding ding! And the prize for the evening's most intelligent commnt goes to --- the great Afortiori!
Maybe she should have just shut up about it till her sister met with a strange accident.
Does anyone know which Governor it was that hired him in the first place?
Since when is proof a requirement for the left bring charges against a Republican? Remember Lucy Ramirez?
Nonsense. Palin has much better aim than Cheney.
Her sister can make complaints as well. No lawyers in Alaska?
With just over 60 days till the election, what “really” happened is not a matter to the libs ... only what they think they can make the American public BELIEVE happen in a negative sense. This is the “media's” Modus operandi. Facts are unimportant to them ... you should know that by now.
“Won’t happen. The story is about Alaska, a whacked out state trooper, a multi-husband rugged backwoods woman, and intrafamily brutality and violence.”
I hope your right.
Not true.
It has everything to do with this Commissioner's performance on the job and the possible mismanagement which led to his being canned.
True.
There were additional issues with the comissioner, he refused to accept the budget cuts Palin imposed from the Legislature. He was publicly insubordinate and he refused to discipline and control an out of control cop. There were other issues as well, and a long time line, Palin was Mayor when this started and Governor when she invoked the "service at her pleasure" that you correctly concluded she had.
Not true.
It has everything to do with this Commissioner's performance on the job and the possible mismanagement which led to his being canned.
True.
There were additional issues with the comissioner, he refused to accept the budget cuts Palin imposed from the Legislature. He was publicly insubordinate and he refused to discipline and control an out of control cop. There were other issues as well, and a long time line, Palin was Mayor when this started and Governor when she invoked the "service at her pleasure" that you correctly concluded she had.
Touche...
http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492964.html
WHY PALIN FIRED MONEGAN Monegan was a Palin appointee, and she had a right to fire him for any reason. She's previously refused to say exactly why she got rid of him, but laid out several reasons Wednesday, saying she's decided to talk about it because Monegan is.
Palin said he wasn't doing enough to fill state trooper vacancies and battle alcohol abuse issues. She said he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."
Palin said it's fine to have debates during cabinet meetings over the budget but Monegan went further and indicated to legislators she wasn't proposing enough spending. Palin's acting chief of staff, Mike Nizich, said Monegan asked legislators for spending that hadn't been authorized by the governor.
She has an 80% approval rating as governor of Alaska.
Will the people of Alaska allow this sham of a circus to play out? Impeachment? Really?
Washington Post making up things again? I'm shocked!
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