Posted on 03/25/2009 8:25:11 AM PDT by pissant
Since Alaska governor Sarah Palin was named John McCain's running mate, her foes and various Alaskan liberals have begun a new exercise, attempting to bankrupt the Palin family through legal fees, by filing endless ethics complaints against her.
In her term, ten ethics complaints and 150 FOIA requests have been filed. (One of the complaints, about improperly firing her state public-safety commissioner, predates her national prominence.)
While holding elected officials accountable is laudable, most of the matters are beyond trivial. One of the complaints against her was for talking to reporters about the presidential campaign while she was in the governor's office. Another objected to her office press secretary offering a statement to clarify a statement put out by her political action committee. The latest complaint is that Palin wore snow-machine gear advertising her husband Todd's sponsor, Arctic Cat Inc, while "in her official duties as governor" when she served as the "official starter" of the race.
Palin owes $500,000 in legal fees, almost four times her annual salary. She says she may be forced to create a legal defense fund.
its pretty sickening.
the liberals do not want a level playing field. they will not abide by the same rules as others.
Paid with $oro$ money.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Maybe we can get some conservative legal groups to file litigation ad infinitum against Bawney Fwank, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Biden, and even 0bama itself.
No, look closely and you’ll find the fingerprints belong to the republican establishment she beat.
We should do the same to the obambinuts
I am sure there is a how to do book about this published by the commies somewhere. Time to use there own tricks against their magicnegro.
Someone needs to tell Gov. Palin to start a defense fund, I would be glad to contribute to it.
Last I checked, she was on McCain’s team. Hard to get more RINO establishment than that. But I’m sure Mitt, Huck and the boys aren’t doing fundraisers for her legal bills, either.
This means that in 2012, if she runs, every reporter in the MSM will have the number of ethics complaints against her in the first appositive clause of every news report.
“In today’s developments: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has already been the subject of 227 ethics complaints, is said to be...”
Bingo
It is what it is, she needs to deal with it. Form the legal defense fund, pile up enough cash to lawyer these charges right back into the ground. The left loves to isolate and villify, if you don’t fight back they win by default.
No, the old boy republicans in Alaska, silly. I said after the election that they would be the ones coming after her with a vengeance, undoubtedly with the disguised help of the DNC. I was right.
Repbulicans let them do this to Newt and they never recovered.
She should start hollaring “Sexist” because they aren’t investigating any crooked men...and the woods are full of them!
Neither did he, based on some of his idiotic statements lately.
“Look closely and you’re likely to find Rahm’s and Carville’s fingerprints. “
I wouldn’t be surprised to find some McCAin/GOP fingerprints as well, would you?
Sickening. There needs to be serious punitive damages against frivolous suits such as these. Sarah has far better things to do with her time than spend it on this.
I don’t think Mccain has a dog in the fight. He won’t be running for Potus again. Then again, some of his “advisers” turned out to be even more RINO than he is, with no love for Palin.
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