2008 Disaster, Part 2
posted by October 10 at 17:40 PM
onThe verdict on Troopergate: abuse of power.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state’s public safety commissioner.
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What's that you say? The sky is blue?
Huh....
Hmm. Report released on Friday at 5:30 PST. My guess is they try and sweep this under the rug and hope it goes away by Monday morning. That or blame the liberal media.
Yeah - excellent timing on that October surprise, fellows.
ok, I guess I'm dumb.
does "unlawfully abused her authority" mean the same as "abused her power... but violated no laws"? because cnn says the latter.
CNN and the NYTimes do seem to contradict each other on the legality issue. The verdict itself (linked from NYTimes) says:
However, the report goes on to say:
I read that to mean that while the firing itself was legal (she had the authority as governor to do so), the reasons for the firing violated state ethics laws.
But I'm no legal expert, so anyone who has a better reading, please feel free to correct me.
Oooooh the fat lady has a sexy voice!
it wasn't clean
it wasn't business, it was personal
integrity, anytime soon?
it's over. nail in the coffin.
Ok, CNN has updated their headline and story, which now reads:
Guilty, guilty, guilty.
She should be forced to watch the work ethics episode of The Office from last night.
So it's still OK that she fired Monegan because he wanted funding for a sexual assault initiative and she didn't? "Legitimate budget dispute" my ass.
That Parah Salin is ceal runt.
Kind of interesting how this isn't mentioned at all on Drudge Report.
It's not the action, it's the motivation behind it.
It's completely legal for a police officer to cross through a red light by flashing their lights, but they don't always do it with the proper motivation.
You know, code of conduct for your office and such.
@2: The weekend media fog does not exist in election season. Woo-de-hoo.
Does McCain wonder if perhaps he's still in a vietnamese national pow camp, and that all this was just a bad dream?
Pleace Hoa, pull out another fingernail, or whatever that is you do so well, this has to be a dream....
@4,5 - pushing Monegan to fire Wooten: violated ethics rules. Firing Monegan: OK, because the law says she can fire him for any reason, or for no reason at all.
What she did may be perfectly legal but that doesn't make it right. A cop who pulls you over for doing 5 mph above the speed limit while everyone else is doing 80 has the legal right to give you a ticket but would be a complete asshole for doing so.
inside baseball. anyone stupid enough to vote mcshame/failin won't care.
Monegan was an "at will" employee. She could fire him at anytime without cause. But all the crap along the way was unethical.
What's the difference between Sarah Palin's mouth and her vagina?
Only some of the things that come out of her vagina are retarded.
"...unlawfully abused her authority..."
Wait, aren't all abuses of authority unlawful? If it were lawful it wouldn't be an abuse of power.
Agreeing to be McCain's VP might have killed her career.
Screw this coming back in 2012 nonsense; she's now a tainted brand who's been burning bridges like an arsonist up in Alaska to try and cover up her scandals. Now she gets sent back to a house with a cracked foundation, with a reputation that's gone from zero to -bazillion in two months flat.
Hope you enjoyed your moment, Mrs. Palin, because the moment is over.
I'll miss her, she got me an interview with Anderson Cooper, a story I can tell my grandkids one day and they can say "so what?"
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