Posted on 10/10/2008 5:36:35 PM PDT by DocT111
Edited on 10/10/2008 5:40:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A state legislative panel has concluded that Sarah Palin abused her power in the firing of the state's public safety commissioner.
The findings were released after lawmakers emerged Friday from a private session in Anchorage where they spent more than six hours discussing a politically charged ethics report into the firing by Gov. Palin.
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(3) standards of ethical conduct for members of the executive branch need to distinguish between those minor and inconsequential conflicts that are unavoidable in a free society, and those conflicts of interests that are substantial and material.
I'd say that defending your family against tazers and death threats do not constitute serious conflicts against Alaska that are substantial and maerial.
I don't think Palin did anything wrong.
Folks, chill. This is not going to take down Team McCain.
Gov. Palin has the bully pulpit, and she’ll have the ear of the nation in explaining this. I suspect her answers have been ready for some time, and will address what looks to me to be a twisting, if not outright betraying, the intent of the statute.
There is a clause saying that public officers retain the right to demand satisfaction for personal matters. An Ethics violation would be for personal profit from a lobbyist or something along those lines, in other words using the office to do a favor for a third party.
Well, that's what the report says.
Clauses 1 and 2. The panel is wrong.
No I'm not. You didn't read my post very carefully. I don't think you read the statute very carefully either. The idiot she fired was Monegan. I hope to God Sarah Palin is STILL trying to get Wooten fired. He needs to be fired.
Palin offered Monegan another job, he declined.....call it a firing if you like, but she wanted to move him to another job. Her choice. His choice.
Agreed.
I suspect the police union probably has a big giant part of this problem..the untouchability and lack of accountability of the trooper.
What do you think about the legislative suggestions?
Please tell me what the personal or financial benefits were that Governor Palin would have gained had Wooten been fired because she asked the status of the investigation and expressed her concerns over his fitness for his job?
All the explanation does is repeat accounts of the meetings and phone calls Palin made seeking information and expressing her objections to Wooten remaining a State Trooper.
I find it rather odd that actions she took before her election as Governor are being cited as reasons for finding her in violation of Alaska’s ethics’ law.
Not once does the report say (unless I missed it) that Governor Palin stood to benefit in anyway if Wooten was fired.
I agree. As I have said, Wooten should not be Trooper Wooten, and he should be rotting in a cell.
The end is near!
oh, puhlease.......roll over and play dead.....the rest of us will carry on, since you have decided this election is over three and a half weeks out.
What in the heck does the firing of Commissioner Monegan have to do with the statute?
OK, let’s have a trial then.
I understand it just requires an effort. But again that is assuming that the effort was in order to gain a supposed benefit. Which I just do not see.
To me a personal or financial benefit would be something tangible. Say a large deposit in an offshore account or someone altering a unfavorable report to make it a favorable one. “ Why yes Governor you were found in a hotel room with a crack whore but my report will say you were part of the undercover task force on drug crimes and prostitution”. You get the idea.
DING, DING, DING!!! Hold all further calls, ladies and gentlemen - WE HAVE A WINNER!!
Doesn't it make you wonder why the drive-by's just can't grasp this simple concept?
Amazing, just freaking amazing!
Is this the legislative comment you mean or is there another? (If another, can you give me a link? Thanks.)
Fox News, and I'm listening to it in the background, was saying about 5 minutes ago, that the actual problem they had -- And I find this terribly hard to believe -- is that Sarah did NOT HAVE HER HUSBAND IN CHECK.
Apparently, some thought he overused his connection to her to continue to pursue the brother-in-law.
Now, (1) Was Todd Palin elected to anything?, and (2) What if she did tell him, and Todd told Sarah to take a hike?
That;s why they kicked out Lieberman. On Domsetic policy he has zero disagteement with them, but he's sick of their corruption.
You play right into the Omama-mania-media's hand. Have some GUTS, for cryin' out loud - this is HARDBALL - for the future of our NATION!!
IIRC Monegan had the power to fire Wooten and Palin apparently petitioned for him to be fired. IIRC that is what the ethics violation is based upon, is it not? The panel apparently determined that Palin didn't fire Monegan because he didn't fire Wooten, but that she violated the ethics laws by asking Monegan to do it.
BTW, what is your background in the law?
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