ha...MSNBC keeps showing caption "Palin under state investigation", but haven't mentioned it yet

[ErinBerin84]

Are people watching this and going "Wha??? state investigation?". They keep talking about what a "gamble" this is, and haven't even discussed the state investigation thing at all.



If I was a Hillary supporter, I would be really insulted right now. Palin is NO Hillary!

[maddezmom]

1. Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired

Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired
Governor says she's learned calls were made about Wooten's ouster

Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper.

"I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist although I have only now become aware of it," Palin said.

But Palin said her decision to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan last month had nothing to do with his refusal to dump trooper Mike Wooten.

more:http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/492964.html

[maddezmom]

3. Alaska's Palin Faces Probe. Star GOP Governor To Be Investigated For Abuse of Office

Alaska's Palin Faces Probe
Star GOP Governor To Be Investigated For Abuse of Office
31 Jul 2008 // When Sarah Palin was elected governor as a Republican outsider in 2006, she didn't just take on an incumbent from her own party. She took on Alaska's Republican establishment.

Ms. Palin vowed to clean up a long-cozy political system that had been sullied by an FBI corruption investigation. She endeared herself to Alaskans by making good on her reform promises and showing homey touches, like driving herself to work.

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."

more:http://citizensforethics.org/node/33604

[greguganus]

4. From wikipedia...

On July 11, 2008, Governor Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.<43><44> Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.<45> In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, and violating game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.<46>

Governor Palin asserts that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."<47> Palin acknowledges that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.<47> Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions.

In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time."<48> The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary.<49> The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.<47><50>

Wooten and the police union alleged that the governor had improperly released his employment files in his divorce case. However, McCann's attorney released a signed waiver from Wooten demonstrating that Wooten had authorized the release of his files through normal discovery procedures.<51><52>

[ErinBerin84]

2. it's just so funny that they keep showing the caption and have not discussed it at all.

God, this is sickening. Everyone is fawning over what an "exciting" pick this is.

[ErinBerin84]

5. and the MSNBC panel keeps saying that Palin will now be "scrutinized" more

and Pat said "That might be good, because she has a child with downs syndome!"


so, they keep talking about scrutiny and not even mentioning the whole state investigation thing that they keep showing as a caption on the screen.

[Cush]

6. CNN was just talking about it