Palin Abused Authority as Governor

[Pangloss]

The inquiry into Alaskan governor Sarah Palin's actions has concluded, with the commission waiting for "take out the trash day" to release the results shortly after the close of Friday network news broadcasts. This was the probe into whether she acted improperly with regard to her former brother in law.

 

Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, a investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded.

 

The public portion of the report concluded that Ms. Palin violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act by allowing pressure to be exerted to get Trooper Michael Wooten, her former brother-in-law, dismissed.

 

She was let off the hook regarding the dismissal of the public safety commissioner, because she has the authority to fire that level of employee without cause.

 

A report on the bipartisan inquiry that was released Friday by lawmakers in Anchorage, concluded, however, that she was within her right to dismiss her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, the trooper’s boss.

 

Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html?em

[iNow]

No shocker there. She's battin' a thousand.

[bascule]

So concludes the panel investigating "troopergate":

 

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Palin-Troopergate.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

 

Is this first time in American history where both members of a presidential ticket were found to have violated ethics standards before being elected?

 

McCain blasted the report as a "partisan inquiry run by Obama supporters"... except the panel consisted of 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats:

 

http://donklephant.com/2008/10/10/mccain-campaign-calls-troopergate-partisan-theyre-wrong/

 

Weird, guess I didn't see the existing thread on this :/

Edited October 11, 2008 by bascule

[iNow]

McCain blasted the report as a "partisan inquiry run by Obama supporters"... except the panel consisted of 8 Republicans and 4 Democrats

Again, I'm not at all surprised.