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Palin “Failed To Act”

Here’s a key excerpt from the Trooper-Gate report about the nature of Sarah Palin’s abuse of power, in regard to her failure to rein in her husband’s efforts to pressure state employees to fire Mike Wooten:

[Sarah Palin] had the authority and power to require Mr. Palin to cease contacting subordinates, but she failed to act.

Such impermissible and repeated contacts create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees, who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior’s displeasure and the possible consequences of such displeasure. This was one of the very reasons the Ethics Act was promulgated by the Legislature.


Alaska, Sarah Palin, Todd Palin, Trooper-Gate

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