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Sarah Palin Pursued "Personal Agenda" in Seeking To Get Trooper Fired
Here's another of the report's key conclusions:
"The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in "official action" by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation]. She knowingly, as that term is defined in the above statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor's office and the resources of the Governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees, in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."...
"Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: To get Trooper Michael Wooten fired.''
In other words, the investigators appear to have concluded that Palin's improper conduct was not the firing of Monegan, which, as governor, she had a right to do for essentially any reason. Rather, it was the improper pressure placed on subordinates in her effort, conducted largely through her husband, to get Mike Wooten fired.
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So bye bye Miss Eskimo Pie...
October 10, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
My bet is that she resigns tomorrow, Mitt is the new VP selection and suddenly someone can talk about the economy, although it will still be Mitt.
October 10, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
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October 11, 2008 12:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Behold the hypocrisy.
McCain Already Scheming to Play Bush-Style Politics
http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/mccain-already-scheming-to-play-bush-style-politics/
October 11, 2008 2:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did y'all know that the discussion Sarah Palin had with Col. Julia Grimes is available on-line? Very enlightening. Palin was trying to come up with the most bizarre reasons for firing Wooten, including that he had bought himself a nice puffa jacket and had the gall to wear it to a public event which the Palins also attended.
What a shrew!
October 11, 2008 5:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Polar bear killer uses thug-like intimidation to bully staff . . . News at eleven.
October 11, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
The report is actually pulling its punches insofar as the firing goes -- it's fairly well established (see, for example, the US Attorney firings) that even when employees serve at will there are impermissible reasons for letting them go. Absent a longer investigation, including testimony under oath by Palin, it's difficult to prove the impermissible reason (or to prove perjury and obstruction regarding the reason), so they settled for abuse of power...
October 11, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
In hindsight (with all the financial problems) Mitt probably should have been the Presidential candidate if not the VP choice. Oh, well..
However, McCain cannot replace Palin at this late date. It would be an admission on his part that his judgment was way off in selecting her in the first place. All he can do is try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear now.
Something like this happened in the 1972 election. McGovern didn't thoroughly (if at all) vet his VP selection, Thomas Eagleton. It came out that Eagleton had under gone shock treatments for depressive episodes. McGovern dumped him and picked up Sargent Shriver (a Kennedy in-law).
People turned on McGovern for not standing by his original pick and others turned on him for not vetting that pick in the first place. McGovern wouldn't have won the election anyway but he lost it in record numbers, a lot of it because of his dumping his first VP choice.
October 11, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink