Time: Todd's Job, "The informal Department of Getting Mike Wooten Fired."

[Botany]

Monegan was the adult and the Palins were the kids. :rofl:

nice pick John McCain.


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1849399-1,00.html

A harsh verdict? Consider the report's findings. Not only did people at almost every level of the
Palin administration engage in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt Monegan and other
high-ranking officials at the Department of Public Safety, but Monegan and his peers constantly
warned these Palin disciples that the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful. Still, the
emails and calls continued — in at least one instance on recorded state trooper phone lines.

The state's head of personnel, Annette Kreitzer, called Monegan and had to be warned that
personnel issues were confidential. The state's attorney general, Talis Colberg, called Monegan
and had to be reminded that the call was putting both men in legal jeopardy, should Wooten
decide to sue. The governor's chief of staff met with Monegan and had to be reminded by
Monegan that, "This conversation is discoverable ... You don't want Wooten to own your house,
do you?"

snip

The report also raises the suggestion that the final incident that led to Monegan's firing was perhaps
the most (unintentionally) hilarious part of the whole saga. In the run-up to Alaska's 2008 Police
Memorial Day event, Monegan visited Palin in Anchorage and brought along an official portrait of
a state trooper in uniform, saluting in front of the police memorial in Anchorage, for Palin to sign
and present at the event. The trooper? Mike Wooten.

Palin signed the photo and didn't say anything, according to Monegan's testimony, but later cancelled
her attendance at the event, sending Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell in her place. The head of her Anchorage
office followed up with a call to Monegan berating him for his insensitivity. (Monegan swears he didn't
know it was Monegan in the picture, and that he didn't even know what Wooten looked like.)

Shortly after that incident, Monegan's fate was cast. But even then, Palin's staffers were blithely
adding more evidence to Troopergate. When Monegan's potential successor, Chuck Kopp, asked
Bailey, the Palin staffer, why Monegan was being fired, he was told simply: "Todd is really upset
with Monegan."

[ErinBerin84]

1. heh

I read an article on Huffington Post that says the GOP's defense of Sarah Palin and troopergate is basically "I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot the Deputy", aka, 'Hey, I broke state ethics law, but there were other laws that I didn't break so shouldn't I get credit for that?" The Scooter Libby line will be used.

[Botany]

3. This brutal news for McCain

5 minutes w/ the google and McCain would have known not to
pick Palin.

[ErinBerin84]

5. Just like how he didn't do The Google when he pusued the Hagee and Parsley endorsements.

[knowbody0]

2. and wait for the personal emails!

I'm wondering just who gets to determine which ones pertinant.

[Botany]

4. The Palins are going to get sued big time

Sarah is going to be real lucky to keep her job.

[mod mom]

7. She'll get hired as a FAUX news anal-ist.

Good to see you at the Obama Rally. :hi:

[reclinerhead]

6. Interesting week ahead

I'm thinking that the official release of the report will embolden people who may be holding onto some juicy emails or phone recordings. They may not have surfaced otherwise.

A perfect storm approaches!

[Matariki]

8. I want the media to ask McCain if Todd gets his own 'table' in the VP office

in a McCain/Palin administration.

[Tutonic]

9. This is what lack of vetting gets a presidential candidate.

[TwilightGardener]

10. This family is representative of what it looks like when redneck trash

manages to get into power.