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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YAWN. Those wacky lefties. McCain hit a “walk off”, grand slam home run this morning and the lefties haven’t got a clue what to do about it. This clown is just a “disgruntled” scumbag.
No doubt some folks might think those to be excellent ideas (in their own case), they are undoubtedly against the law everywhere!
To use this event the Democrats have to come out for tazing little kids an killing the inlaws.
Interestingly enough some Democrats are doing just that ~ but I suspect most folks will shrug this off.
Yeah buts she better looking then Dick,
YOU BETCHUM RED RIDER!
Hope that doesn't give away my age.LOL
YET we can’t use the big ZERO’s middle name....FREAKIN UNBELIEVALBE!! Can’t use Huessein, can’t expose his past relationship with Ayers...can’t etc etc...MY GOD WE ARE DEALING WITH PURE EVIL....the mediaPUKES ARE PURE EVIL!!
In Jane Palin’s case, nobody ended up dead...
Palin better get out in front and tell the truth of what happened. Otherwise the Messiah will claim that Palin’s corruption is just more of the same.
Whatever. This corrupt loser served at her pleasure and is just pissed that she fired his sorry butt. This story won’t last.
At least we’re not having tingles go up our legs.
Well, at least us females.
Well at least most of us females.
DISCIPLINED? DISCIPLINED??????? argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They stick up for their own.
The brother in law went beyond any reasonable bounds when he started threatening his inlaws with death if they gave his estranged wife money to hire a lawyer.
No doubt if Obama were a governor somewhere and someone threatened to kill his grandmother, or his wife Michelle, I'd shrug it off.
referance ping
If you REALLY want to read honest-to-goodness sexist tripe, just take a gander at the comments on DU - they will not disappoint... It really is unbelievable. A few of the comments I’ve read make the things that were said about Jeri Thompson pale in comparison! And in many cases no-one is calling them on it, either. They are NOT doing themselves any favors as some of the few women that are STILL there even AFTER Hillary was robbed and “get it” are none too pleased at their fellow dems behavior towards another woman.
Oh, I almost forgot — they’ve started on the racism too — I saw several posters there assert that her husband wasn’t really a Native American/Eskimo because he had blue eyes!!! Others suggested that he didn’t have a “good heart” like “most Native Americans” because he was a Republican. Thankfully, several Democrat Native Americans called them on it and were NOT too happy.
Talk about scared, bitter, and angry... Communism really screws people up in the head!
End of story!
Yeppers.
I’m reading over at ... err ... DU right now.
“It’s only because of her looks.” Well, she is by far the prettiest in the running right now (Sorry, Barry), but they (Democrats) seem to be overlooking the more obvious.
I was extremely impressed at her speaking abilities. She is great so far as what I know of her political leanings; sure as hell a great mother — no question; and doesn’t appear to me to be one to take a lot of crap without giving just as good back.
My opinion I don’t see changing unless there is something huge hiding behind the curtain — which doesn’t seem likely.
Sorry, Hillary. Sorry, MEchelle. Palin really is SMART and BEAUTIFUL and a GOOD person, to boot. Who’d have thunk it possible?
Best Regards to You,
BR
well?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Darn..you had me excited for a minute there...LOL!
A comment like that coming from his campaign spokesmen would not have surprised me!
They are running scared.
The first official Obama campaign comment today was snarky nonsense....then they revised it within about an hour.
Of course, the DBM dutifully started reporting the newer ‘improved’ version everywhere within minutes....in an effort to smooth the way for the Messiah.
(eye roll)
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