BREAKING!!! Palin Abuse of Powers Report Moved Up By 3 Weeks

It will be out on Oct. 10 now!!!

THANK YOU ALASKA!

Video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26559546#26562482

Story:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5734511&page=1

ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.

That's all there is on ABC

exonerate Sarah.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_French

He will BURY her.

Either the report doesn't contain anything of note, or she may not be as popular as claimed.

but most of us know she's nowhere near vice presidential material. And the extreme partisan tone she took in her acceptance speech alienated a lot of Democrats and Independents who were formerly in her corner.

over 80% at one point, currently in the 60%-bracket.

That has never extended to her own party at the state level...her party chair hates her so much that his response to her nomination was "No comment", the Senate President, Lyda Green, thought they were joking when she first heard Palin was selected (she said among other things "but she's not even qualified to be Governor.") and the state speaker gave her the ringing endorsement of noting that she was US-born and over the age threshold so that made her as qualified as anybody else that McCain could have chosen. These people would like to see her destroyed...but they want to see it happen early enough that it doesn't guarantee to sink McCain in the Presidential election.

The bad blood between Palin and Green in particular is nasty. The investigation is being led by a Democratic State Senator, it's not unreasonable to think that this move-up occurred because Green used her influence as AK Senate President to make it so.

Or they've got zero and they've decided to stop wasting money. If McCain loses in November, once the spotlight is off her, it becomes easier to get people to talk against her.

is a cat fight of epic proportions. Watching those two go at it is how we've entertained ourselves up here over the past few years.

See TPM Muckraker.

This might have real teeth .... if the police union in her own state is against her .... :bounce:

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Investigation sought into possible breach of confidential files

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The union representing state Trooper Mike Wooten has filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Sarah Palin and members of her administration charging a possible unlawful breach of Wooten’s confidential personnel and workers’ compensation files.

It’s the latest twist in what has become the subject of global media scrutiny -- whether Palin, the newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her powers as governor to try to drive her former brother-in-law out of the trooper ranks.

Palin and her family have accused Wooten, who was involved in a messy divorce with the governor’s sister, of a variety of misdeeds such as threatening her family and drinking while driving his patrol car. Palin insists she didn’t use the trooper’s continued employment as an excuse to fire a member of her cabinet, Walt Monegan, who supervised the troopers as commissioner of public safety.

was a long-time Anchorage cop and Chief of Police before Sarah appointed him to be Commissioner. He was very popular among the troopers, the Anchorage police and the people of the state. I don't think Sarah realized what an uproar it would cause when she fired him (actually she offered him the position as head of the ABC Board which he turned down). She tries to say she wanted the troopers taken in a new direction, that it was her prerogative to fire him since he was an appointee and served at her pleasure, but it's pretty much the consensus here that it was totally over the Wooten thing. Wooten's apparently got his issues, for sure, but Sarah, Todd and her staff were very heavy-handed in the way they've dealt with this.

!!111??

:shrug:

that a lot of controversy has been swirling... this is good.

but a chance to get it all behind her so it's not a campaign issue. Nothing will come of it...she'll be completely exonerated...and everyone who ever doubter her will be ravaged by the right-wing media as 'sexist'. This is just another in a long list of judicial abuses that give any right-wing nut job a pass on crimes committed.

Nothing will come of this. There are those who can get away with anything. It's a fact of life, unfortunately.

:puke:

Palin's stall
Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation

Published: September 5th, 2008 12:11 AM
Last Modified: September 5th, 2008 03:03 AM

Gov. Sarah Palin is taking the wrong approach to Troopergate. She should be practicing the open and transparent, ethical and accountable government she promised when running for governor and boasts about now that she's on the national stage.

Instead, Gov. Palin has begun stonewalling the Legislature's attempt to get the bottom of allegations that she, her family or staff violated ethical or state personnel rules.

As a result, the Troopergate allegations hang over Palin's future and cloud her candidacy for vice president.

The allegations are that she, her family or administration improperly pressured then-Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire Gov. Palin's ex-brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten, who had been in the middle of a custody dispute with Palin's sister.

In July, when legislators started talking about conducting an investigation, Palin denied any wrongdoing and said she welcomed an investigation.

"Hold me accountable," she said.

The Legislature took her up on that offer. But this week, she basically told the Legislature, "Never mind."

Palin's lawyer has asked the Legislature to drop its investigation. He had the governor file an ethics complaint against herself, in a bid to turn the entire matter over to the state Personnel Board, which would hire an independent investigator.

This is not an open and transparent attempt to establish Gov. Palin's accountability. It is an attempt to drag out the investigation until after voters decide the fate of her vice-presidential bid.

Instead, Gov. Palin should honor her pledge to cooperate with the Legislature's investigation, conducted by former state prosecutor Steve Branchflower.

She could start by telling aide Frank Bailey he has to talk to the legislative investigator. She should fire him if he doesn't.

Bailey was caught on an audio recording of a phone conversation with a Public Safety Department official, in which Bailey pushed to get Wooten fired.

Bailey was put on paid leave, not fired. A spokeswoman for Palin said that while Bailey is on the state payroll, Palin can direct him to cooperate with the legislative investigation.

So why is Bailey still on the payroll, after he bailed on a scheduled interview with the legislative investigator Wednesday?

The Legislature hasn't given its investigator the power to subpoena, or compel, testimony of witnesses. Subpoenas appeared unnecessary, since it appeared the governor and administration would be cooperating.

That's over. It's time for the subpoenas.

The Legislature's investigation is supposed to be wrapped up by Oct. 31. That's obviously poor timing from the standpoint of the McCain-Palin presidential campaign, coming just a few days before the national election.

Instead of trying to delay the whole thing, Palin should take a cue from U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, who asked that his corruption trial be moved up so it would be completed well ahead of the November general election. Voters deserve to know the outcome of Sen. Stevens trial and the investigation into Palin.

When this investigation into Troopergate started, Gov. Palin's response was refreshingly open. Since she became the Republican candidate for vice president, her approach has changed for the worse. America deserves the same openness and ethics from vice-presidential candidate Palin that she promised to Alaska voters in 2006.

BOTTOM LINE: Gov. Palin is stonewalling on Troopergate; the Legislature should issue subpoenas.



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'Threat'?

Palin's lawyer tries to play Secret Service card

Gov. Sarah Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, made an absurd threat in his battle to get the Legislature to back off its ethics investigation of the governor and her staff.

Van Flein said legislative investigator Steve Branchflower tried to call First Gentleman Todd Palin directly on "a secure and confidential line. This represents a serious security breach that we may be obligated to report to the Secret Service."

Hello? Branchflower is acting on behalf of the Legislature. That's a security breach?

Lawyers are supposed to vigorously represent their clients, but claiming that a legislative investigator's phone call may be a security matter worthy of Secret Service attention is ridiculous.

Gov. Palin should keep her legal attack dog on a shorter leash.

BOTTOM LINE: More obstruction from Palin in Troopergate.

husband's business partner's wife? Is that part of this investigation.

:rofl: I hadn't yet heard about that one. You guys in Mississippi know more about our governor's "affairs" than we do. :rofl:

it wasn't another trooper, it was one of her aids that got on the wrong side of Todd. sorry to post misleading stuff
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/shadow_governor

:hi:

He opposed Sarah as an Independent in the governor's election in 2006, and has been one of her most vocal critics.

Fingers crossed for a guilty verdict. B-)

If it turns out she's guilty, then it's Christmas in October.

If not, then the media will turn on all things Democratic and McCain might win.

And the extra time gives us the chance to REALLY get the word out!

she addressing the early release of the report?

This will not be good for McCain/Palin. I understand the report will not be favorable to Palin.