Posted on 09/20/2008 12:20:03 AM PDT by Luke21
An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Here's the Big Revelation:
The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated. But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.
So, uh...that's it?
I’ve never seen so much fuss over someone trying to get rid of a state trooper that uses a tazer on children....
I didn't know Dan Rather was doing "document search" for ABC.
No meat on these bones.
I thought this guy served at her pleasure. What part of that do they not understand. There should be no question of wrongful termination - it’s irrelevant.
But nothing their people ever do, no matter how low or how criminal, is worthy of being looked at, let alone them being driven from office. With us, it's figures of speech, tiny misdeeds, anything they can attack, and there is no shortage of these things. It's part of life, even for honest people.
Bill Clinton gets goopy with an intern, no problem. Jefferson, Rangel, you name it, shown to be crooks. They assault people and steal elections, but the media sneers and blames Republicans. Spitzer must have ticked off some commies somewhere or he would still be in power.
We already know the next anti-Palin attack will be out soon, whenever the Obaminites send them another press release.
Whoa, hatchet job indeed… The great American (free and robust) press hasn’t even probed into the Arkansas “trooper-gate” incident(s) yet. I guess we’ll just have to wait until they’re done French-frying Sarah. If they think they can get me to turn against Sarah, they got another thing coming…
The headline gave the impression Palin was caught in a lie, game over. This is ridiculous and if it is the best the Obama supporting MSM can come up with they are truly desperate.
She should just say, “I fired the a$$hole, as was within the scope of my authority as Governor and done in the best interest of the citizens of Alaska. Period, end of story.
A Trooper tasered a child and this idiot sat on his hands and did nothing, likely only to be a thorn in Palin’s side. There is likely more to know but what more does one need to know? It was a good fire.
So she did, and that hyena Gibson showed himself to be the prince of windbag idiots. What does the press say afterward, “Palin doesn't know the Bush doctrine and is tightly scripted.”
Today's headline on AOL, not kidding: “Todd Palin feared to be shadow governor.”
There are several interesting aspects of this “trip”. First, it was not in the normal cycle where the governor and the staff line up their priorities and package them neatly for the representative or the two senators in DC to push them forward. This was a out-of-cycle effort. Who pushed the effort? The Public Safety Director.
Was this an emergency program that needed cash out of cycle? Nope...it was for a sexual-violence program only. Or at least this is what the Public Safety guy told the governor’s staff. When the guy finally did show up in DC....he came with a laundry list of things that went beyond the sexual-violence funding he wanted. Did the ABC News staff tell you that part? Nope. Did CNN tell you that part? Nope. Did the Newspapers of Chicago or Boston tell you that part? Nope.
What was the intentions of the Public Safety director? Well...the guy is lining up a bunch of federally funded projects that he can quickly run back to Alaska and claim credit for...and as money rolls in for his pet projects....he could claim more funding and more jobs for Alaska. So he was prep’ing his career up for governor, maybe in the next election or two. The guy needed more substance, to improve the voting record. Did Governor Sarah catch onto this act? Yes....she knew precisely what he was after in his efforts. Thats why they had a long chat with him before his trip. Evidentially, he didn’t understand a single thing that they discussed.
So would any of us fire this guy? Yes...after a 10-minutes discussion upon his arrival back in Alaska and confirmation from the senate staff in DC....I’d walked out and promptly fired him.
Would I fire a police officer who used his wife’s hunting license illegally? Yes. Would I fire a police officer who tasered his step-son as a “training” episode? Yes. Would I fire a police officer who knowingly drove around in his squad car drunk? Yes.
So lets turn the tables around....if you were a Democratic leader in this mess...you would have given a medal to the Public Safety Director for knowingly violating your instructions on a trip to DC? If I were a Democratic leader in this mess with a officer who tasers kids or drives squad cars in a drunken manner...I would have given the guy a payraise or a promotion?
I see a Republican ad here....and I’d even do the ABC news staff a favor and kindly reference their news bullets as part of the ad. What do Republican leaders do with incompetent public officials and what would a Democratic leader do? You get more votes for small town Republicans and even senators and representatives. Thank the good folks at ABC news for their hard work and display of journalism.
They’ll keep throwing s**t into the fan until something sticks.
To the press, the term “Republican” makes anything relevant.
Anything but credible. Great line.
They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar prior to the 2004 election, but they got right back on track after the election and were directly responsible for the 2006 disaster.
The media is now a propaganda arm of the DNC. Nothing less.
It's long past time that we did something about it. We need to take the message directly to the people.
We need to let people know loud and clear that we are on to their game, and we are not going to be silenced.
It's time to declare war on the media.
And who drank alcohol in his car on duty, illegally hunted and threated to put a bullet into Sarah Palin’s father.
They caught a cop in my town drunk on duty when he had a minor DUI accident with his patrol car.
If convicted he will lose his certification to be a police officer in PA.
This Wooten guy got a two week suspension for his offenses.
Was that really enough?
These crapweasels have a lot of power.
“Those Rose law firm records just APPEARED! Like MAGIC!”
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