Troopergate: Repugs fail to unseat Democratic state senator overseeing probe

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/08/sarah-palin-troopergate-r_n_124881.html

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Republican effort failed Monday to unseat the Alaska state senator overseeing the ethics investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she dismissed the state's public safety commissioner.

Democratic Sen. Hollis French was accused of manipulating the probe for political effect on national and state elections. Republican Rep. John Coghill last week asked the Alaska Legislature's Legislative Council, the body that appointed French to oversee the investigation, to discuss replacing French.

Coghill said he believed the investigation was lacking in fairness, neutrality and due process after French was quoted in media reports that the probe's results were going to be an "October surprise" that is "likely to be damaging to the administration."

On Monday, Democratic Sen. Kim Elton, the head of the Legislative Council, turned down his request. French's decisions to date have been appropriate, bipartisan and unchallenged, Elton wrote to Coghill. And the comments French made were "corrected in a very public way in the media," Elton wrote.

Repug's heads popping around the nation. Bye bye Sarah.

These Alaska repigs don't know anything else.

:thumbsup:

Not surprised that a very partisan move to remove the head of this committee - failed. French wasn't the one who was conducting the investigation anyway. There is a prosecutor looking into the case.



Sonia

I hope he smiled really big when he gave the repugs the finger.

with Diane Benson and Les Gara. Hollis is the one in the middle. I seem to recall great Democrat Arctic Dave being there as well. :)

:)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6990917&mesg_id=6990917


They're really talking bad about us.

He is trying to do the same thing they did to Obama about being out of the mainstream americana.

It's just sad that people here on this supposedly liberal website are so uninformed and rude.

The the Legislature doesn't have authority to investigate the Administration. The man that took the blame for speaking with the commisioner that was fired says he won't talk to the Legislature because they have no authority to investigate. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Basically Palin is claiming Executive Privilege..:shrug:

the investigation. She seems to be doing a lot of backtracking on things now that she's in the national spotlight.