Palin had a police officer fired as Mayor in Wasilla because he refused to support her in the 1996 race for Mayor.
She then tried to have fired Police officer Wooten, who had already been disciplined for charges Palin's family brought against him. When she became Governor months later she REVISITED Wooten and trying to get him fired.
She actually DID fire the Commissioner, Walt Monegan. Who was respected and popular and also the former Chief of the Anchorage polic dept. The Commissioner had already disciplined Wooten and complained that firing him for no further offense would appear political.
What does it say about Palin that she has such little regard for police and law enforcement?........................
Sarah Palin was nothing more than a two-bit hack, given the investigation into her abuse of power as Governor.
She fired the Public Safety Commissioner when he wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law, lied about pressuring the guy to do so, and then showed keen judgment by replacing him with someone who had to resign in two weeks because of sexual harassment problems. And she KNEW about the problems with the replacement and gave him a large severance package.
Seems that Palin honed this skill back as Mayor of Wasilla, where she was nearly recalled, for firing the Police Chief and Library Director for not supporting her in her 1996 race for Mayor.Yes, that's right. Hack n' Sack Sarah didn't even try to hide it. She didn't say the Police Chief and Library Director were doing a bad job. No, she fired them for "not fully supporting her efforts to govern" (i.e., not endorsing her for Mayor).
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/11597/0342/569/581165..................................................................
The person in question is state trooper Mike Wooten -- Palin's ex-brother-in-law who's embroiled in a bitter custody and divorce battle with Palin's sister.
And if you look closely at the case there are numerous reasons to question the picture drawn by the Palin family. Regardless, we proceeded on the assumption that Wooten really was a rotten guy...
Let's review what happened.
The Palin family had a feud with Wooten prior to her becoming governor. They put together a list of 14 accusations which they took to the state police to investigate -- a list that ranged from the quite serious to the truly absurd. The state police did an investigation, decided that 5 of the charges had some merit and suspended Wooten for ten days -- a suspension later reduced to five days. The Palin's weren't satisfied but there wasn't much they could do.
When Palin became governor they went for another bite at the apple. Palin, her husband and several members of her staff began pressuring Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan to can Wooten.
Eventually, Palin got fed up and fired Monegan from his job. This is an important point. Wooten never got fired. To the best of my knowledge, he's is still on the job. The central bad act was firing the state's top police official because he refused to bend to political pressure from the governor and her family to fire a public employee against whom the governor was pursuing a vendetta -- whether the vendetta was justified or not.
Soon after this, questions were raised in the state about Monegan's firing and he eventually came forward and said he believed he'd been fired for not giving in to pressure to fire Wooten.
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