Good, Sarah. Head ‘em off at the pass.
Personally, I thought she showed a lot of restraint in this matter. Threaten my family in my house—your job is the least of you worries.
That nutjob trooper and former brother-in-law is lucky to be alive. If the left continues to push this as some sort of controversy they better think twice because this guy is going to make the unibomber look like a romper room teacher.
Way to go, Sarah.
Go after this jerk.
Taser a 10 yr old? Chid abuse to the extreme.
This is not going offensive, this is playing defense.
Going offensive means going after Obama.
This document reveals some really good information. One thing that I hadn’t realized was that the results of the original police investigation were kept sealed so that Sarah Palin never new that Trooper Wooten had ever recieved his 10 day suspension (which was reduced to 5 days after the union intervened). Is it any wonder than that she her husband and staffers continued to mention concerns about Wooten when to all appearences nothing had ever been done about the original complaints. This document should totally put this scandal to rest.
“The defense, in other words, will be that she’s morally right even if she’s ethically wrong”
Who says she has acted unethically? I have yet to see proof that she violated some ethical norm.
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The union president, Rob Cox, is a 17-year trooper veteran who worked alongside Wooten in the Valley. Cox said he never thought of him as a rogue cop.
It's significant that Wooten served for a while on the Special Emergency Reaction Team -- like a SWAT team, Cox said.
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Both McCann and Palin gave troopers detailed accounts of what happened. Wooten was headed home in a rage, McCann said. She called Palin and put the phone on speaker so Palin could listen when Wooten got there and get help if things got bad. Palin had her teenage son Track listen in, too.
As McCann remembered it, Wooten said if their father got a lawyer for her "he would eat a f'ing lead bullet. I will shoot him."Palin was interviewed by troopers too.
"Mike in the conversation never did get to the bottom of what, what the foundational issue he was dealing with, he just kept screaming, "I'm gonna F'n kill your dad if he gets an attorney to help you," Palin told troopers, according to the transcript.
Track told troopers he heard the comment, too.
Palin drove over and watched through the window. She and McCann both said Wooten was all wound up. A neighbor who stood watch as well later told troopers that Wooten looked angry but that McCann wasn't cowering or anything.
Wooten told troopers he never said anything like that about his father-in-law.
The investigation concluded he did.
It wasn't a crime, because he didn't threaten Heath directly. But it did violate trooper policy, the investigation found.
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http://www.adn.com/politics/story/476430.html
When the offense takes the field, Obama will be talking about why we can't drill for oil tomorrow.
I guess it would be redundant at this point to recognize that the Dims are the party that wants to root out rogue cops.....
I appreciate the fact that you posted this, but your summary is off. She's publicly and emphatically disputing in detail some Democratic opponent-turned-blogger's unsubstantiated charges of unethical behavior. In doing so she's waiving her right to a confidential investigation (for the obvious reason that all of the liberal braggers and their mass media puppets have repeatedly publicized the unsubstantiated charges without providing all the relevant facts about the creepy, violent ex-husband state trooper).
She's asking for the investigation to proceed and laying out a solid defense of no illegal or unethical behavior.
Under the circumstances, she's exercised one hell of a lot more restraint than I'd expect from someone who's had so many family members physically threatened by a sicko state cop who tasered his own 10 year old kid.