Panel Finds Palin Abused Power

[straydoglogic]

Tweethttps://news.aol.com/elections/articl...240x1200683663

[FUZO]

TweetSTILL POSTING STUFF FROM LIBERAL SITES. SARAH PALIN WAS NOT CHARGED FOR FIRING ANYONE SHE WAS IN HER RIGHT TO FIRE BOTH THOSE GUYS. SEE YOU FORGOT TO ADD STRAY THAT THE COP TAZERED HIS 10YR SON THATS A FACT. THE WRONG DOING CAME FROM HER HUSBAND AND DIDNT LISTEN TO SARAH WHEN SHE TOLD HIM TO STAY AWAY FROM THE STAFF. ITS ALREADY IN COURT DOCUMENTS WHERE SARAH WROTE DOWN THAT TODD MUST STAY AWAY FROM THE STAFF. HE DIDNT AND THATS WHY YOU ARE HEARING THIS NOW. SHE PLAYED NO WRONG DOING. BUT STILL YOU WONT POST THE ENTIRE TRUTH.IF YOU CANT POST THE TRUTH I'M JUST GOING TO DELETE IT FROM NOW ON. THOSE ARE FACTS

[straydoglogic]

Tweetbro wtf!?
liberal sites nothing! stop being so rediculous...its on aol..cnn..AND YOUR BELOVED FAUX NEWS!!!
SO GO AHEAD AND DELETE MY POSTS THAT YOU JUST DONT AGREE WITH!!!
WHEN EVERY NEWS AGENCY..LIBERAL OR NOT..IS REPORTING THE SAME THING I THINK ITS A FACT!!!
YOU WANT TO BE A DICTATOR AND ONLY ALLOW THINGS THAT YOU AGREE WITH THATS FINE..I DONT NEED TO BE A PART OF IT....FUK IT

[BABY1]

Tweet

bro wtf!?
liberal sites nothing! stop being so rediculous...its on aol..cnn..AND YOUR BELOVED FAUX NEWS!!!
SO GO AHEAD AND DELETE MY POSTS THAT YOU JUST DONT AGREE WITH!!!
WHEN EVERY NEWS AGENCY..LIBERAL OR NOT..IS REPORTING THE SAME THING I THINK ITS A FACT!!!
YOU WANT TO BE A DICTATOR AND ONLY ALLOW THINGS THAT YOU AGREE WITH THATS FINE..I DONT NEED TO BE A PART OF IT....FUK IT

Who really knows what is "fact" anymore. There is so much that gets twisted thanks to the news media, and just people in general. I personally think that "you tube" is the worst thing ever and has hurt, not helped this election.

[Stout1]

TweetA long-awaited Alaska legislative report concluded that Republican Sen. John McCain's vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, abused her authority and broke state ethics law by trying to remove her former brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper.
But the report also concluded that the Republican governor did not unlawfully fire her public-safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, who said he had been pressured to oust the trooper, Mike Wooten. The report said other factors were involved in Mr. Monegan's controversial dismissal.
Getty Images Sen. John McCain speaks as Republican vice-presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin listens during a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin.



The report, by investigator Stephen Branchflower, was a potential setback to Sen. McCain's lagging presidential campaign. It was released late Friday in Anchorage by the state legislative panel that commissioned it. The bipartisan panel, with two members absent, voted 12-0 to release the findings to the public.
A spokesman for the panel said it would probably have to wait until the Alaska legislature reconvenes in January before deciding whether to take further action.
Gov. Palin's spokesman issued a statement saying the investigation "vindicated the governor by finding that she acted within her constitutional authority to remove 'at-will' employees," referring to her commissioner. He added that the findings of ethics-law violations "required speculation and assumptions" that "could not be supported solely on the basis of the evidence."
The McCain campaign issued a statement that said the report "illustrates what we've known all along: this was a partisan led inquiry run by Obama supporters." The statement added: "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."
Mr. Branchflower, who based his report on interviews, emails and other records, said Gov. Palin violated Alaska's Ethics Act. The statute is meant to "discourage executive branch employees from acting under personal interests in the performance of their public responsibilities," he said.
The governor engaged in "official action" by her inaction "if not her active participation" in assisting her husband, Todd, to get Trooper Wooten fired, the investigator said. Mr. Palin gave testimony to the investigator that he repeatedly tried to get the trooper removed, as a threat to the public as well as his family.
Mr. Branchflower's report pointed out that Gov. Palin had declined to be interviewed. "An interview would have assisted everyone to better understand her motives...," he said.
Read the Report

• Read the full report from the Alaska State Legislature</SPAN>

More

• McCain-Palin Campaign Statement</SPAN>
• Alaska Governor's Office Response</SPAN>

"We are trying to find if there was any misuse of power or any laws broken," David Guttenberg, a Democratic representative, said after he and the other panel members huddled behind closed doors for more than six hours to review the report. "Hopefully, this report will help."
It wasn't immediately clear what penalties the governor could face. Wevley Shea, a former U.S. prosecutor who has served as an ethics adviser to Gov. Palin said one possible penalty under the statute could be censure by the legislature.
Release of the report, which runs to some 1,300 pages, follows a difficult stretch for the McCain-Palin ticket, when their Democratic rivals, Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, widened their lead in public-opinion polls, both nationally and in many battleground states. The report's accusations of ethical violations by Gov. Palin could also undermine a core message that Republicans have raised against Sen. Obama in recent days: that he has ethical problems because he is connected to the "Chicago machine" of corrupt politicians and donors.
The trooper saga began in 2005, before Sarah Palin was elected Alaska's first woman governor in 2006. Her sister, Molly McCann, was going through a divorce with Mr. Wooten and obtained a domestic-violence protective order in 2005 that triggered an investigation by the Alaska State Troopers into Mr. Wooten's conduct.
The trooper scandal took on major national importance after Gov. Palin was named as Sen. McCain's running mate in late August. The governor subsequently backed off an earlier pledge to cooperate with the legislative probe, instead hiring an attorney who sought to move the case to the jurisdiction of a state personnel board under her control. A showdown loomed when the governor's office said at first it would not comply with legislative subpoenas in the case.
After many Democrats -- as well as some of the governor's own supporters -- criticized the stance, her husband and others named in the subpoenas agreed to comply with them.
Write to Jim Carlton at jim.carlton@wsj.com

[straydoglogic]

Tweetthis thread has nothing to do with youtube..this is in all papers and all news agencys..this is a fact..not a theory or opinion...

[BABY1]

TweetGosh, am I dumb or what? I know the thread is not about 'you tube', I was just making a comment about it. You often sound very condescending to some members here. Nobody is perfect you know.

[straydoglogic]

Tweet

Gosh, am I dumb or what? I know the thread is not about 'you tube', I was just making a comment about it. You often sound very condescending to some members here. Nobody is perfect you know.

i wasnt trying to sound condescending...and of course you knew it wasnt about youtube...
but you brought up youtube so i was just saying...
i really dont think im condescending towards anybody...and im sorry you feel that way...