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About That Trooper
IBD Editorials ^ | September 3, 2008

Posted on 09/03/2008 5:13:31 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: You'll be hearing a lot in coming weeks about Sarah Palin's "abuse of power" in trying to get a state cop fired. Here's the back story you won't be hearing.


Palin's political enemies have a stink bomb set to go off late in October, just before the election. That's when voters will see fruits of a legislative investigation into the charge that the governor fired Alaska's Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan because he wouldn't get rid of Mike Wooten, a state trooper and Palin's ex-brother-in-law.

We can see where this is headed. Palin will be found to have done nothing illegal in firing Monegan, since public safety commissioners serve at the governor's pleasure. But the media will frame this case in vague but sinister terms: Think "abuse of power." It will also bury the back story that explains why Palin was so concerned.

So here are some key facts to keep on file (for a full report on Wooten, see adn.com/front/story/476430.html). You may not be seeing much of them from here on:

• Mike Wooten, 35, has been a trooper since 2001. He has been married and divorced four times. One of his marriages was to Palin's sister, Molly McCann, with whom he had two children. That marriage ended in 2006. His behavior leading up to the divorce led Palin's and McCann's father, Chuck Heath, to file a formal complaint about him to the state police.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; donutwatch; leo; monegan; palin; palinrecord; swat; troopergate; wooten
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1 posted on 09/03/2008 5:13:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Then they better address the issue early and often.


2 posted on 09/03/2008 5:16:35 PM PDT by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: Kaslin

Please, JUST SAY IT!!!!

HE THREATENED TO KILL PALINS FATHER!!!


3 posted on 09/03/2008 5:17:11 PM PDT by icwhatudo (If my brother-n-law threatened to kill my father-I'd tell his boss too (Just like Palin did))
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To: Kaslin

Dang, 100 views in like 30 seconds. If page views were dollars...


4 posted on 09/03/2008 5:17:13 PM PDT by library user (What say you, Messiah?)
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To: Archon of the East

Even drag the trooper through the mud, not that he hasn’t already done that hinself.


5 posted on 09/03/2008 5:17:45 PM PDT by Archon of the East (Universal Executive Power of the Law of Nature)
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To: Archon of the East

Don’t forget he tasered his 10 year old step son.


6 posted on 09/03/2008 5:18:46 PM PDT by driftdiver (No More Obama - The corruption has not changed despite all our hopes.)
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To: Kaslin

married and divorced four times at 35?

You don’t run up those kind of stats without SEVERE personality flaws.

Anyone got a picture of this gem?


7 posted on 09/03/2008 5:19:19 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: Kaslin

More evidence of why unions Should Be Illegal in America.

This guy is a bad cop and a bad husband, but the union got his suspension cut in half. America would be a lot better and safer and more productive country without unions.


8 posted on 09/03/2008 5:21:08 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: icwhatudo
Worse--he tasered his 10 yr. old stepson. His superiors psuedo investigated--he lied--they said nothing to it. Eventually, after she fired the commissiioner, the trooper admitted to all the charges. I guess some superioirs got scared of THEIR jobs.

vaudine

9 posted on 09/03/2008 5:22:01 PM PDT by vaudine (RO)
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To: xDGx
Anyone got a picture of this gem?

Just kidding. But maybe it's not that far from the truth.

10 posted on 09/03/2008 5:22:29 PM PDT by library user (What say you, Messiah?)
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To: icwhatudo
If a law officer pulled the kind of things this guy did, he's not mentally stable to be in that kind of position. This guy is a loose cannon and is gonna end up killing someone.
11 posted on 09/03/2008 5:24:28 PM PDT by ladyvet (Obama..be afraid, be very afraid....not anymore!)
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To: Kaslin

Clearly the left supports and protects those who commit domestic violence.

Given their love of abortion, I’m not a bit surprised.


12 posted on 09/03/2008 5:24:39 PM PDT by Carley
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To: Kaslin
She should relate the tale tonight. Framing it as an example of her high character, executive experience, and principled leadership.

13 posted on 09/03/2008 5:25:59 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Kaslin

“You’ll be hearing a lot in coming weeks about... “abuse of power”

The only abuse of power I’ve been seeing has been committed by the MSM.


14 posted on 09/03/2008 5:26:02 PM PDT by Canedawg (Sarah Palin Rocks! McCain-Palin '08)
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To: Kaslin
"abuse of power" in trying to get a state cop

Is that the same as sending threatening letters to citizens?

15 posted on 09/03/2008 5:27:22 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Kaslin

It’ll be something unique when the left finds itself defending a poor, abused police officer from attack by a woman.


16 posted on 09/03/2008 5:28:59 PM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Archon of the East

i think so too


17 posted on 09/03/2008 5:31:02 PM PDT by machogirl
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To: icwhatudo

Well you know the left loves to say that the reason we went into Iraq is because Hussein threatened Bush’s dad. I’m sure it won’t belong before they start yammering about that with regard to Palin.


18 posted on 09/03/2008 5:32:48 PM PDT by TrishaSC
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To: Misterioso

Wow.

That was one great post there, Misterioso.

Well Done.


19 posted on 09/03/2008 5:33:15 PM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: icwhatudo

There isn’t concrete proof of that.

Better to stick with this uncontested FACT- he tased his 10 yr old child.


20 posted on 09/03/2008 5:33:38 PM PDT by 1972BornFree
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