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For Palin, A Picture of Wooten Is Worth A Thousand Words

Here's a funny note from the report that brings home the depths of Sarah Palin's antipathy toward Mike Wooten:

Shortly before the annual celebration of Police Memorial Day on May 15, 2008, Commissioner Monegan had dropped off a color photograph at Governor Palin's Anchorage office with a request that she sign and present it at the ceremony. The photograph was of an Alaska State Trooper who was dressed in a formal uniform, saluting. He was standing in front of the police memorial located in front of the crime lab at AST headquarters in Anchorage, partially obscured by a flagpole. The picture to be signed by the Governor was to be used as a poster to be displayed in various Trooper Detachments around the state.

Shortly after he returned to his office from dropping off the photograph, he received a call from Kris Perry, Governor Palin's Director of her Anchorage office who asked [according to Walt Monegan's testimony] "Why did you send a poster over here that has a picture of Mike Wooten on it?" Until that moment, Commissioner Monegan never realized it was indeed a photograph of Trooper Wooten. Governor Palin cancelled her appearance and sent Lieutenant Governor Parnell in her place.

Monegan's eventual replacement as Public Safety Commissioner, Charles Kopp, testified that Palin aide Frank Bailey later called him and told him the administration was thinking about replacing Monegan as commissioner. When Kopp asked why, Bailey cited the incident with the Wooten photograph as one reason, among several, for the governor's displeasure with Monegan.


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This week on "My Name Is Earl": Governor Palin tries to get Trooper Wooten fired for Tasering her step-nephew. Meanwhile, there's some trouble in the Heath household over just whose moose-hunting license is valid. With guest stars Tina Fey and David Arquette.

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Given her level of paranoia, that photo must have really freaked her out. Something like today, perhaps?

Nice vetting, J-Mac!

The mental picture of GOV. Sarah Palin reaching for her smelling salts as she starts to faint away upon looking at the likeness of her "arch-evil" ex-brother-in-law's picture on her desk makes me want to laugh hysterically.

This woman wants to be president, yet the mere picture of someone she dislikes causes her to 1) get emotionally upset 2) be so vindictive as to refuse to attend the annual Memorial Picnic for Troopers who died in the course of their work.

Give me a break. Is there no one this girl won't retalliate against to further her own personal and her family's personal *feelings*???

People of Alaska: She didn't even interview the next Commissioner! Begin a RECALL of Palin now!

I'm liking this Monegan guy more and more. Sounds like a real wolverine when it comes to bureaucratic in-fighting. Set up The Dope and The Dud for the eventual wrongful termination lawsuit like a real pro.

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McInsane is going to have to spend the rest of eternity looking over his shoulder after he and the polar bear killer lose in November . . . She is going to hunt McInsane beyond the gates of Hell for allowing her to destroy her own political career on the national stage.

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