Palin fired Public Works Director and replaced him with political Crony w/o engineering background

http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=4835

She also asked for the resignation of Wasilla’s Public Works Director, John Felton, who was replaced by Palin with her political crony Cindy Roberts, who had no engineering background but had extensive Republican Party connections.

By all accounts, these were professional and dedicated public servants who had simply refused to kowtow to Palin’s extremist right-wing dictates.

A group calling itself Concerned Citizens of Wasilla threatened a recall against Palin.


Stambaugh, who by all accounts had nothing to do with the recall effort, said that it was eventually deterred, in part, because Palin agreed to reinstate Emmons but, more importantly, because of Palin’s reputation of political vengeance and retribution. “People had to worry about their standing in the community,” he noted. “They had to worry about their jobs, their businesses, their careers, their families.”

Stambaugh eventually sued, but lost after a lengthy three-year court battle which found that Palin had the right to fire city department heads at will.


Stambaugh then took a job in Bosnia, working for the U.N. peacekeeping team there, before returning to serve as Executive Director of Alaska’s Police Standards Council.