Woo-hoo! Todd Palin guilty of "Contempt of Senate"

[Blue_In_AK]

edit because Shannyn expanded her original post.

From Shannyn Moore http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/todd-palin-guilty-contempt-of-senate/

Branchflower Investigation? $100,000
James Dobson Legal Offense Fund? $185,000
Todd Palin & Co. in Contempt of Senate? PRICELESS!


Last July 14, Alaskan lawmakers unanimously voted to investigate the abuse of power allegations against Governor Sarah Palin. At the time, the Governor welcomed the chance to clear the air and had directed her staff to cooperate with the investigations.

On August 29, 2008 everything changed. Sarah Palin was picked to be John McCain’s running mate. Formerly cooperative witnesses now had to be subpoenaed. They ignored their subpoenas. Was there witness tampering? What was Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg’s role?

At 10:09am on February 6, 2009, Senate Resolution #5 passed 16-1. This resolution finds the witnesses who ignored their subpoenas are guilty of contempt of the Alaska State Senate.

This resolution did not address the actions of Talis Colberg. It called for no penalties to the 7 witnesses because they were being guided by the Attorney General and they did cooperate with Mr. Branchflower as soon as their lawsuit was thrown out of court.

There was very little discussion on the floor.

The lone dissenting vote? Senator Con Bunde. Rule of Law Anyone? Strange, because as I watched Gavel to Gavel this morning, I saw Senator Bunde put his hand on his heart and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with the rest of the Chamber. “With liberty and justice for all.” Maybe those are just words. I guess in Con’s world, it’s OK to ignore subpoenas.

This weekend is the Iron Dog Snowmachine Race. Todd Palin will drive his machine to Nome with a new cloud. Todd Palin in contempt of the Alaska State Senate.

More here: http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/681638.html

[WonderGrunion]

1. So naturally Sarah will be stepping down now.

Right?

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Only in our dreams.

It's a start anyway.

[roguevalley]

9. what it shows to me, Blue, is a contempt for Palin among the pols.

A good start.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Yes, it is a good start,

especially combined with Jay Ramras's slamming her on the food shipments to Western Alaska. There's nothing I love more than Republican in-fighting. :evilgrin:

[roguevalley]

12. its everywhere. God bless them for the disarray they are in.

[KansDem]

5. Right, just like Bush was going to fire the person responsible...

...for leaking Plame's name. :rofl:

[FSogol]

3. Those damned anonymous bloggers!

:rofl:

[rurallib]

4. sounds like terrorism to me

hang the motherfucker

[Blaze Diem]

6. K & R

*

[nichomachus]

7. Victim card to be played in 3 . . . 2 . . . .1

[dembotoz]

8. is it enought of a penalty to make them take away his guns????

so that when he decides to hunt wolves from airplanes he will have to use snowballs.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Republicon Homelanders think they are 'special'

They think that, unlike Americans, they are above the law.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. TAWHD!!!! nt

[PufPuf23]

14. What is current word about the house and Todd's buddies

who helped with construction?

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Stonewall.

The "word" is that since Wasilla doesn't have building codes, nobody has to provide permits or anything. This one's going to be hard to tease out, I think, although the circumstances look mighty suspicious.

[PufPuf23]

18. Seems a story similar to Steven's conviction could be possible

Thanks for your posts!

Never have been to mainland AK but made 30-35 trips in 80s and 90s for work all over the SE and loved it.

Spent some good times in float camps and there wasn't a town or village I did not enjoy. Good people and good food and beautiful.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Here's The Mudflats' post on this

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/06/todd-palin-and-others-found-in-contempt-of-senate/

I like this part:

<snip>

The ten people referenced in SR5 were all found in contempt. And by stating that there would be no punishment due to the “totality of the circumstances”, and since all the “circumstances” in the resolution point directly to the fact that the Department of Law was doing everything it could to stonewall and invalidate the power of the legislature. It would seem like whoever is heading up the Department of Law did something to create the circumstances whereby these 10 people were held in contempt. And since the Department of Law is headed up by AG Talis Colberg, and if he in fact did something which caused state employees and others to commit the violation, then that would be called…..hmmm….I believe it’s called ”witness tampering,” isn’t it?

(Suddenly a heavy-footed ‘thunk, thunk, thunk is heard coming down the hallway. The doorway darkens.)

Ooo, look! We’ve got a guest in the Senate Chamber today. There’s a big fat elephant in the room. And the elephant is holding a sign that says “Talis Colberg Must Go.” Oh my. Does anyone in here have a big, giant chair so our guest can settle in and make himself at home?

The governor's pet attorney general seems to be in a bit of hot water here.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Hard to believe that either of them

Could get any more contemptible.

[northofdenali]

19. And most of the replies on the News-Miner (Fairbanks) forum,

as well as the ADN, are yelling "witch hunt" and "congressional subpoena's don't count" and "well, they WROTE their answers" and "LIBRUL MEEDYA".

There are times that the majority of this state's population make me sick. Sarah worship and right-wing neocon politics became embedded during the pipeline boom and I'm terrified it'll never change.

[BayjanDem]

20. Todd

My image of Todd Palin is cemented in stone by the Palin rap done on SNL by Amy Poheler. So as am I'm reading this I'm ROTF.