Posted on 10/10/2008 7:30:13 PM PDT by Chet 99
STATEMENT FROM MCCAIN-PALIN SPOKESWOMAN MEG STAPLETON
Friday, October 10, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA — McCain-Palin 2008 spokeswoman Meg Stapleton issued the following statement on today’s release of Stephen Branchflower’s report:
“Today’s report shows that the Governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan. The report also illustrates what we’ve known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by Obama supporters and the Palins were completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten given his violent and rogue behavior. Lacking evidence to support the original Monegan allegation, the Legislative Council seriously overreached, making a tortured argument to find fault without basis in law or fact. The Governor is looking forward to cooperating with the Personnel Board and continuing her conversation with the American people regarding the important issues facing the country.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gretawire.foxnews.com ...
I’ve seen DU plenty of times.
Gov. Palin will be our VP this November.
MSM cannot selectively report what they consider news, nor can it fortify opinions and falsehoods as fact. There will be very little money funding yesterday’s drive by media. I figure it will merger into one group within a year or so due to its falling revenue. The public no longer trusts media.
Uh-oh. You are as dead as a moose in Sarah’s sights...
What's more incredible is that Branchflower utterly ignores the public admission made by Walt Monegan himself that ought to have ended this entire inquiry (boldface mine):
"For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff," Monegan said Friday from Portland. "What they said directly was more along the lines of 'This isn't a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.'"
That explains, of course, why it took a couple of weeks for Monegan to be persuaded that he'd been improperly "fired" (for supposedly refusing to fire Wooten) by an Alaska blogger, Andrew Halcro — a bitter loser whom Gov. Palin crushed in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race (he got less than 10% of the vote, proving that most Alaskans have long since figured out he's an untrustworthy windbag).
Instead, Branchfire (sic) has piled a guess (that the Palins wanted Wooten fired, rather than, for example, counseled, disciplined, or reassigned) on top of an inference (that when the Palins expressed concern to Monegan about Wooten, they were really threatening to fire Monegan if he didn't fire Wooten) on top of an innuendo (that Gov. Palin "fired" Monegan at least in part because of his failure to fire Wooten) — from which Branchflower then leaps to a legal conclusion: "abuse of authority." Branchflower reads the Ethics Act to prohibit any governmental action or decision made for justifiable reasons benefiting the State if that action or decision might also make a public official happy for any other reason. That would mean, of course, that governors must never act or decide in a way that makes them personally happy as a citizen, or as a wife or mother or daughter, and that they could only take actions or make decisions which left them feeling neutral or upset. This an incredibly shoddy tower of supposition, and a ridiculous misreading of the law...
...Branchflower, I'm told, is an attorney and a former prosecutor. If he thinks this kind of nonsense could support a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a finding of proof by a preponderance of the evidence, then he may be the worst lawyer I've ever encountered — and I've met a lot of awful ones in almost three decades before the bar.
What? I sure wasn’t talking about the pretty lady...
I dont believe he will win. I believe America as a whole is too smart to elect him. If the worst happens I plan on visiting Ireland for an extended period of time. Its lovely there and my younger kids have been begging us to take them back there.
OK. I’m even older-looking now that I grew a beard. All grey and stuff....
Thank you!!!
Gosh! You signed on precisely one year to the day before AA 587!
Sarah never has to answer junk like this in person! The spokesperson did just fine:-)
Yeah, I got the full white facial thing going myself. At least my hair’s only white around the edges. So far.
If you go in and read the testimony from Monegan he tells a story about handing Palin a photo of Wooten in uniform to use as a prop at some gathering. No wonder she had to let him go the boys a dumb @ss.
The PUMAs on the Hillary Clinton forum are still jazzed about Sarah and John McCain and aren’t giving up!
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/10/the-hit-on-palin/
Maybe I’ll go hang out over there.
Must go turn in. TTYL, so great to see you again!
Oh! and Osama Obama HSSEIN is just such a total genius that they have erased his entire past including his illegal birth records, substandard school history, drug history, an using ghostwriters to hide his total lack of literaray abilities. Thats fine! Enjoy yourself in dreamland with the Messiah!A Snob, not hardly, but a cow pie sounds good!
Sarah Palin is going to make One Fantastic Vice President of Our Wonderful United States!
I'm sickened...
Good night, old friend. Glad to have seen you as well.
Dennis Prager is still bitter about that. He talks about it on his show occasionally.
Maybe #397 will help?
Ahhhh. Thanks. Now go to sleep, you old fart.
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