Problem is, the disciplinary action had been taken, and it would have been a bit like “double jeopardy” for a firing of Trooper Wooten after he had just gotten a 5-day slap on the wrist and the matter declared closed.
Did Sarah Palin give up her rights as a citizen to petition the government for a redress of grievances merely because some panel had slapped her ex-brother in law on the wrist?
He had threatened to kill her family. He was authorized to carry a weapon with the color of authority.
I sure as hell would not have let sleeping dogs lie and neither would you or any of the idiots on this legislative panel.
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.