Palin "clears herself" in Troopergate, day before report

Upchurch said:
If the OP info is true, I just realized something. Maybe a "maverick" is someone who has squeaked out from underneath an unethical abuse of power allegation?
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As best as I can tell a maverick refers to an "unidentified, unbranded cattle". Not sure how this definition applies. :D
 
Puppycow said:
The NY Times has just published a story
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On Jan. 4, 2007, a month into the Palin administration and his tenure as public safety commissioner, Mr. Monegan went to the governor’s Anchorage office to talk with Todd Palin, who had requested the meeting. Mr. Palin was seated at a conference table with three stacks of personnel files. That, Mr. Monegan recalled, was the first time he heard the name Mike Wooten.
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If this is true, what the :rule10 was Todd Palin doing with personnel files? Did he hold an official capacity in his wife's administration that I'm unaware of?
 
Upchurch said:
If this is true, what the :rule10 was Todd Palin doing with personnel files? Did he hold an official capacity in his wife's administration that I'm unaware of?
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According to what I've read, he acted in the capacity of a (high level) staffer, routinely attending official meetings and the like.
 
qwints said:
From what I've read, it looks like she was saying that this was what the report was going to say. It looks like her husband is going to fall on his sword for the scandal.
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Bingo!

TAM:)
 
That Palin picked her husband for a staff position says somethiung about her judgement in personnel matters.

But then, that's pretty much the GOP these days, as shown in McCain's pick.
 
What gives Todd Palin, not even a government employee, the right to look at the personnel files of his brother in law? These are confidential files. This is highly unethical. Who gave him these files? Under whose authorization?

This is akin to the white house examining FBI files on political opponents. It just shouldn't be done.
 
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chulbert said:
I suppose it's possible but it strikes me as unlikely. Your husband meets with your staff several times in order to further the termination of an individual who won't execute revenge on your-brother-in-law? And he never even mentions it? Neither does the staff with whom he met?

Smells fishy.
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Maybe but his work in the oil industry would mean they were used to fairly long periods of seperation.
 
It is 1000 pages, being discussed in closed session. Only a portion will be released to the public. Part includes confidential material.
 
The idea of making her announcement on the issue was to plant the idea that she had been cleared, so that the sort of dimbulb whop believes her still supports her in November, regardless what the actual report says.

Any report to the contrary is thus just "the liberal media distorting the report, as usual."
 
"Troopergate" : Still being treated as a huge, real scandal.. while I'm not seeing any threads at all about the ongoing raids of Acorn offices and massive reports of voter fraud. A real scandal with real implications. Instead, we still will obsess over this ridiculous BS about her trying to get a bad cop fired. There are times where I am honestly worried that I will hurt myself trying to understand the ridiculous bias so many people here share, and their complete denial when it's pointed out. It's bizarro world, at best.
 
Whiplash said:
"Troopergate" : Still being treated as a huge, real scandal.. while I'm not seeing any threads at all about the ongoing raids of Acorn offices and massive reports of voter fraud. A real scandal with real implications. Instead, we still will obsess over this ridiculous BS about her trying to get a bad cop fired. There are times where I am honestly worried that I will hurt myself trying to understand the ridiculous bias so many people here share, and their complete denial when it's pointed out. It's bizarro world, at best.
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No, not bizarro world, just the world of those that don't view said world through the eyes of Fox news, Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
 
DavidJames said:
No, not bizarro world, just the world of those that don't view said world through the eyes of Fox news, Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
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What part of -
the ongoing raids of Acorn offices and massive reports of voter fraud. A real scandal with real implications.
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Is not a real scandal?

What part of
this ridiculous BS about her trying to get a bad cop fired.
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Is not ridiculous BS?

What part of -
No, not bizarro world, just the world of those that don't view said world through the eyes of Fox news, Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
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...is not the bizarro world, with ridiculous bias many people here share, and their complete denial, demonstrably political hacks?
 
Whiplash said:
"Troopergate" : Still being treated as a huge, real scandal.. while I'm not seeing any threads at all about the ongoing raids of Acorn offices and massive reports of voter fraud. A real scandal with real implications. Instead, we still will obsess over this ridiculous BS about her trying to get a bad cop fired. There are times where I am honestly worried that I will hurt myself trying to understand the ridiculous bias so many people here share, and their complete denial when it's pointed out. It's bizarro world, at best.
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How many bad cops does Alaska have? For how many did Palin go out of her way to pressure and then fire the public safety director when he refused to terminate said bad cops?

Now how many times has Palin had a former brother-in-law in a nasty divorce and custody battle? And how many times has she gone out of her way to pressure and then fire the public safety director when he refused to terminate said brother-in-law?

Now answer me honestly if you think Palin went to all this effort to try to get Wooten fired because he was a bad cop, or whether it was because he was in a divorce and custody battle with a family member. Remember, the allegations against Wooten date back several years: she did not try to have him fired until the divorce battle.
 
Whiplash said:
"Troopergate" : Still being treated as a huge, real scandal.. while I'm not seeing any threads at all about the ongoing raids of Acorn offices and massive reports of voter fraud. A real scandal with real implications. Instead, we still will obsess over this ridiculous BS about her trying to get a bad cop fired. There are times where I am honestly worried that I will hurt myself trying to understand the ridiculous bias so many people here share, and their complete denial when it's pointed out. It's bizarro world, at best.
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Man, you couldn't see this as a crime if she had carved up babies, could you?

Not JUST the crime, but the cover-up from the crime. The latter being a felony and I expect an indictment.

What did you guys try to impeach Clinton for again?
 
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