Posted on 10/09/2008 11:42:01 AM PDT by steve-b
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained in the dark while her husband repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force, Palin's husband and top aides said in affidavits provided to The Associated Press.
Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is the focus of a legislative investigation into whether she abused her authority by firing the state's public safety commissioner to settle a long-standing family dispute. The commissioner says he was fired after resisting pressure to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper involved in a bitter divorce with Palin's sister....
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I am really struggling to put my hands on the alleged “scandal” here... I don’t mean whether the “charges” are true, but what was done wrong assuming the charges are true?
He is awfully easy on the eyes. If anyone would like to join my TODD PALIN IS A HUNK! ping list, please let me know.
“Tasergate” not “Troopergate”
This thing is a vote-getter for Palin. I hope the drive-bys beat this drum long and hard. This silly “investigation” just endears the Palins to voters across America.
And Monegan beat his wife. (Or broke her arm while they were “tickeling”)
Playing the hypothetical, I suppose the wrong would be that a governor used the power of the office to relieve an underling of his job because he failed to do her bidding on a personal family matter. This is patently not the case, however it seems to be the *scandal* that has all these anti-Palin folks with the undies-in-a-bunch.
Another Left Wing racist attack on Todd Palin.
OK Tod can’t be V.P. Next question. LOL
Meanwhile Obama campaigns and endorses Rail Odinga, whose supporters killed and raped people, and who signed a pact with Kenyan Muslims to inact Sharia Law if elected.
Good to know the media has their priorities A** backwards, as always.
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