Another McCain VP Bites the Dust - Sarah Palin, Alaskan Gov, Faces Probe; abuse of office!

[FrenchieCat]

Alaska's Palin Faces Probe
Star GOP Governor
To Be Investigated
For Abuse of Office
July 31, 2008
By JIM CARLTON

Now, one of the bright new stars in the Republican Party has suddenly become tarnished. The state legislature this week voted to hire an independent investigator to see whether Ms. Palin abused her office by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from his job as an Alaska state trooper.

"This is a governor who was almost impervious to error," says Hollis French, a Democratic state senator. "Now she could face impeachment, in a worst-case scenario."

...five state legislators have been sentenced to prison or face prosecution on corruption charges.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121746477267499109.html

Nutshell version:
She fired Walt Monegan, her commissioner of Public Safety, for reasons that are unclear. Monegan claims it was because he refused to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother-in-law against whom she’s supposedly had a longstanding vendetta. What’s her problem with Wooten? Like I say, read the ADN piece, which is brimming with colorful nuance involving tasers and “f’ng lead bullets.” She insists the Monegan decision had nothing to do with family issues, but the state legislature voted this week to order a probe, which is probably enough to scare McCain away in case he was thinking of going in this direction.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/31/video-sarah-palin-on-the-wooten-scandal-and-on-being-vp/

Investigation dogs Alaska governor
By STEVE QUINN
Associated Press Writer
August 14, 2008

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin, a rising young GOP star mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain, could see her clean-hands reputation damaged by a growing furor over whether she tried to get her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.

A legislative panel has launched a $100,000 investigation to determine if Palin dismissed Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire the trooper, Mike Wooten. Wooten went through a messy divorce from Palin's sister.

Palin has denied the commissioner's dismissal had anything to do with her former brother-in-law. And she denied orchestrating the dozens of telephone calls made by her husband and members of her administration to Wooten's bosses.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/642421.html

[smoogatz]

D'oh!

Man, it's looking like Huckabee or nobody, at this point. And that's going to make a lot of old-line conservatives VERY uncomfortable.

[tekisui]

1. Good! She was his best pick to add to the losing ticket, IMO.

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. Someone will pay the aggreived parties to simmer down and this will go away

It's going to be Palin

[FrenchieCat]

4. It will be too fresh to go away.

He has to pick within a few days. The last article was just last week.
All politics are local.

[roguevalley]

8. don't count on it. she will be in a world of hurt when this is finished.

she also thinks polar bears are just fine. they found nine in open sea the other day, open sea where they will swim til they drown. four washed up before that and uncounted others and their cubs are out there too, perhaps lost. Fuck Palin. Hope she goes to jail.

[MrModerate]

3. So, are there going to be any 'Licans *not* under indictment . . .

To attend the next Alaskan party conference?

[Cha]

5. Oh shuckies.

Good..she was worrying a DUer earlier.

[d_b]

6. the repubes

in my state just can't catch a break. poor things =/

[hexola]

7. ...sorry wrong topic...too many windows open...!