[Vision2020] Apology From McCain Sought

[Tom Hansen]

>From the Anchorage Daily News at:

http://www.adn.com/politics/story/574941.html
 
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Apology from McCain sought
PERSONAL: Phillips, Croft say the campaign's attacks hurt Monegan's 
reputation.

Daily News staff and wire reports

Republican presidential nominee John McCain should apologize for his 
campaign's personal attacks on the Alaskan at the heart of 
the 'Troopergate' controversy, according two former Alaska legislative 
leaders.

Former House Speaker Gail Phillips, a Republican, and former Senate 
President Chancy Croft, a Democrat, on Friday said McCain's campaign 
representatives made attacks that damaged the reputation of Walt Monegan, 
Gov. Sarah Palin's fired public safety commissioner.

Palin, McCain's vice presidential running mate, dismissed Monegan in July. 
At the time, she said she wanted the department to move in a different 
direction.

Monegan weeks later said his dismissal was tied to his refusal to fire 
Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was involved in a bitter divorce and 
custody battle with Palin's sister. Before Monegan was hired, Wooten had 
been disciplined for drinking beer in his patrol car, demonstrating a 
Taser on his 10-year-old stepson and illegally shooting a moose.

An investigator hired by a bipartisan legislative panel concluded that 
Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former 
brother-in-law fired.

Phillips and Croft said that in the run-up to the investigator's report, 
the McCain campaign disparaged Monegan and tried to kill the investigation.

"It's unconscionable that an outside campaign organization which had no 
knowledge of the history, background or understanding of an Alaskan issue 
would come to our State to destroy the reputation and life of a dedicated 
Alaskan public servant," Phillips and Croft said in a joint statement.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign in Alaska had not seen the letter and 
could not immediately comment.

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Seeya at the polls, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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