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Trooper admits he tasered Palin's nephew
News.com.au ^ | September 10, 2008

Posted on 09/10/2008 11:05:08 AM PDT by Schnucki

ALASKAN State Trooper Mike Wooten admitted yesterday he had used a Taser stun gun on Sarah Palin's nephew, his stepson, but claimed he was no danger to her family.

Mr Wooten - who is Mrs Palin's former brother-in-law - is at the heart of a legislative investigation into whether the Republican vice-presidential nominee abused her power as Alaska Governor.

The state legislature is investigating whether she fired former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he would not dismiss Mr Wooten, who went through a messy divorce from Mrs Palin's sister, Molly.

The 36-year-old policeman said he did not drink in his patrol car as the Palin family had alleged in a 2005 complaint before Mrs Palin was elected Governor.

He is clearly uncomfortable about becoming a national figure in the Troopergate investigation which shot into the spotlight last week when Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected Mrs Palin as his running mate.

Mr Wooten said yesterday he had heard rumblings at work in the past few years that the Palin Administration had been trying to get him off the force.

"I heard the rumour mill and hearsay that there was, I guess, pressure being applied to come after my position as a trooper," he said.

"But I didn't know to the extent to what's being sent out to the media now."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; leo; mccainpalin; palin; palinattacks; palinping; palintruthfile; troopergate
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1 posted on 09/10/2008 11:05:10 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

Well, if he’s admitting that I couldn’t possibly care less about the rest of it.

If she brought pressure to get him fired, I have precisely zero problem with it.

I’m honestly not sure how this guy isn’t headed to an Alaskan prison...


2 posted on 09/10/2008 11:07:26 AM PDT by HarryCaul (Verify Possums! Pogo's Enemy is Us!)
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To: Schnucki
Trooper admits he tasered Palin's nephew

This is enough to boot his ass off the force.

3 posted on 09/10/2008 11:08:08 AM PDT by frogjerk (MSM: We will not question Obama bin Biden...)
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To: Schnucki

I feel a whole hell of a lot better about Palin’s troopergate than Bubba’s version of troopergate.

Palin..tried to fire a nutjob

Clinton used them as pimps.

Huge difference.


4 posted on 09/10/2008 11:08:37 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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To: Schnucki

Wouldn’t we all love being pulled over on the highway by this moron? What a disgrace.


5 posted on 09/10/2008 11:09:28 AM PDT by frogjerk (MSM: We will not question Obama bin Biden...)
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To: HarryCaul

From Sarah Palin’s perspective he tasered her nephew and her sister’s son. For Wooten this was his stepson. Whatever the relationship the two had they weren’t blood. I’m sure that fact went into Palin’s response. Nothing’s thicker than blood, especially for Main Street America.


6 posted on 09/10/2008 11:10:44 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (Freedom is purchased not with gold, but with steel.)
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To: frogjerk

In CA, this is a felony (PC 245) as is threatening to shoot someone (PC 422). Were he a cop in CA, he’d be prosecuted and fired.


7 posted on 09/10/2008 11:10:52 AM PDT by uscabjd ( a)
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To: Schnucki

And on another front today:

No One is investigating Joe Biden or his family today!!!


8 posted on 09/10/2008 11:12:25 AM PDT by kempster
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To: Schnucki
The article conveincenly omits the age of the stepson that go tasered. ...10 yrs old, I do believe.

The article also omits the taser threats Wooten made against Bristal and the death threats against Gov. Palin's father.

9 posted on 09/10/2008 11:12:39 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: frogjerk
Trooper admits he tasered Palin's nephew

This is enough to boot his ass off the force.

How many people if they tasered a stepson would be sent to jail for child abuse at a minimum?

10 posted on 09/10/2008 11:12:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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To: HarryCaul

The trooper was suspended for threatening to shoot Sarah’s father.

He admits to tasering the young child.

Evidently, domestic violence is just fine with the dems.


11 posted on 09/10/2008 11:15:02 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............)
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To: Schnucki

Case closed, this violent buffoon should be in prison—not uniform.


12 posted on 09/10/2008 11:15:30 AM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth amendments?)
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To: Schnucki

“He is clearly uncomfortable about becoming a national figure in the Troopergate investigation....”

Why, Mr. Wooten? Might it lead to something worse you have done?


13 posted on 09/10/2008 11:16:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: xkaydet65
In theory, the trooper said the stepson wanted to feel what it was like to be tasered, and the trooper obliged

Even if the kid asked as an experiment, it was a spectacular act of bad judgment to use a device that is designed to bring down large adult males on a 10 year old child. We don't need idiots like this on the force.

14 posted on 09/10/2008 11:16:13 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: Schnucki

More from the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122084155153309153.html

“An internal police investigation found Mr. Wooten guilty of shooting a moose cow without a permit and testing a taser on his stepson. He admitted to both incidents and served a five-day suspension without pay.”

The following applies to Las Vegas and not Alaska, but it is pretty clear that a Taser is not a toy.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/319245/Las-Vegas-Police-TASER-Regulations


15 posted on 09/10/2008 11:18:08 AM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Schnucki

If this guy tasered anyone without just cause or legal authority, the Governor of the state had every reason to use her authority to have him fired. Game over. GOP wins again.


16 posted on 09/10/2008 11:18:15 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Schnucki
This is BS

The guy is denying things HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF!!!!

All the effort to get Palin on a technicality about the plane "on" ebay vs "sold" on ebay but no simple examination of this scumbag and what he was FOUND GUILT of:

"Troopers eventually investigated 13 issues and found four in which Wooten violated policy or broke the law or both:

• Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.

• He told others his father-in-law would "eat a f'ing lead bullet" if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce."

Is Wooten a good trooper? (7/27/08)

17 posted on 09/10/2008 11:18:15 AM 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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He is clearly uncomfortable about becoming a national figure in the Troopergate investigation ...

This is "code" for he won't trash the Palin family to the press.

18 posted on 09/10/2008 11:18:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (If Sarah had served on a board with Timothy McVeigh, would the MSM give her a pass? (Ayers))
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Has anybody heard Mr. Monegan’s explanation of why he DIDN’T think Wooten should be fired? I haven’t, but it seems like it would be relevant information. I keep thinking this must be one of those “more to the story” situations, and I want to hear the rest of the story.


19 posted on 09/10/2008 11:20:50 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: PapaBear3625

“In theory, the trooper said the stepson wanted to feel what it was like to be tasered, and the trooper obliged

Even if the kid asked as an experiment, it was a spectacular act of bad judgment to use a device that is designed to bring down large adult males on a 10 year old child.”

Extremely bad judgment, as a Taser can kill someone who has, for example, an unknown heart condition. Unlikely in a ten year old, but possible.

A Taser is something you use as an alternative to a gun, to stop someone who is going to do something violent to themselves or to someone else. It is not something with which one plays games, or that someone “demonstrates” on a child even with the child’s consent (since the child is legally unable to give consent).

I have heard that it has been tested on adult volunteers, but only under highly supervised conditions (including presumably medical personnel in case something goes wrong).


20 posted on 09/10/2008 11:24:54 AM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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