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10-10-2008, 11:34 PM
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Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
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10-10-2008, 11:38 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
I don't care for her, but I never really thought this was a big deal. The trooper she supposedly tried to get fired was drinking and driving in his state police vehicle, used a taser on his stepson, and was caught hunting illegally. If those aren't grounds for termination, I don't know what is.
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10-10-2008, 11:40 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
Agree with S double G
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10-11-2008, 12:48 AM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
I believe he should have been dismissed from the force for his conduct. The question is whether or not under the law he should have been dismissed from the force without her involvement? Would she have tried to coerce his superiors to fire him if he was an officer she didn't personally know?
This might not seem like a big deal but it is. The governor is not bigger than the law, we are after all "a nation of laws." Next thing you know t's Monica Goodling and the firing of US District Attorneys all over again.
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10-11-2008, 11:41 AM
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10-11-2008, 12:17 PM
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10-11-2008, 08:15 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
palin's theft of 123million is a bigger deal to me.
she begged for that bridge to nowhere (120+mill bridge for a tiny population - it would have been cheaper to buy each person in the town their own private cessna)...anyways 1. she begged for the money, 2. she got the money (for the state), 3. she took a LOT of flak when the story broke about what a huge waste of resources that project would be, so... 4. she said we absolutely will not build it (to save face/for political convenience when she's the one that wanted it to begin with), and... 5. SHE (the state) KEPT THE MONEY. so now there's no stupid retardedly expensive bridge AND 123mill$ missing from the national budget - who wins? the taxpayers :P what a maverick. |
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10-11-2008, 09:00 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
Ah, the bloom is off the Alaska rose, I'm afraid. This is small potatoes, though I guess it fits with her baracuda rep.
From the start, what I have disliked most about her is that she's a straight Rove pick: it does not matter how little you know or how unqualified you are, so long as you sound like you're small-town red state, that's good enough. The last 8 years have proven conclusively that this is false. She couldn't even stand up to Katie Couric's "brutal" interview style. Wow. All I see now is Tina Fey's parody, except it's real. Sad. There were many more qualified republican women who would have been good VP picks.
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10-11-2008, 10:37 PM
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Moreover, Palin wasn't been found guilty of anything beyond a reasonable doubt; one independent investigator merely thinks she violated ethical standards governing Alaska government employees. Even the investigator concluded Palin was within her constitutional and statutory authority to fire the employee in question. The investigator also thought she had bona fide reasons to fire the employee. The investigator merely determined that her motivations weren't 100% pure (i.e., she allowed her personal life to influence her professional conduct to some degree). As I mentioned earlier, a state administrative board determined the cop Palin wanted fired threatened to kill members of Palin's family, used a taser on his stepson, drank beer in his cop car, and illegally hunted. Moreover, no one has ever shown me anything to make me think (with a high degree of certainty) that there is a causal relationship between the custody battle the firing of the state employee. Quote:
I'm an Obama supporter, but I think there's nothing to see here. Attack her for her poor intellect, lack of experience, parochialism, etc., but not this. Last edited by Sheriff Gonna Getcha; 10-11-2008 at 11:46 PM. |
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10-16-2008, 02:18 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
She's obviously the devil.
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10-16-2008, 02:55 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
Sounds like improvised, adapted and overcame! Generally admired charactersitics. Did dude not need to be fired? Didi he get fired?
Mission accomplished. ........gonna bake a cake......you gotta' break a few eggs. I generally find this phrasiology to cover most questionable situations
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10-16-2008, 03:53 PM
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10-16-2008, 04:04 PM
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Re: Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing
"She killed it, but it was nearly dead"
PolitiFact | She killed it, but it was nearly dead And PolitiFact | As candidate, yes; as governor, no |
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10-16-2008, 04:14 PM
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10-16-2008, 05:04 PM
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