[Vision2020] Apology From McCain Sought

[No Weatherman]

Mr. Hansen:

I assume you posted this because you agree with it, at least in principle.

IOW, you believe that McCain damaged the reputation of a public
servant and that he should apologize for doing so.

If this assumption is true, then why don't you apologize to Gov Palin
and this forum for posting a link to an adult site that degraded Gov
Palin into a "toy" as you called it?

http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2008-October/058121.html

Technically, it didn't look like a toy to me which is why I keep
calling it a rubber doll.

Whatever you want to call it, toy or rubber doll, don't you think you
forwarded information to this forum that was damaging to Gov Palin's
reputation?

If so, shouldn't you apologize?

Or is it that you don't care about reputations except for political purposes?



On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> >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.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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