[Vision2020] More Palin Dishonesty

[No Weatherman]

Ms. Lund,

Please try to be reasonable about this.

The moment the investigation confirmed that your martyred state
trooper threatened to make Gov. Palin's father "eat a fucking bullet,"
the investigation should have stopped.

When the "non-partisan" investigator concluded that the Palins'
"claims of fear were a facade to mask a maneuver in a family dispute,"
he threw all claims to objectivity out the window.

You can test my claim by calling Governor Otter's office and
threatening to shoot the Gov's. father and see what happens. They'll
throw your ignorant ass in jail so fast it'll make your head spin and
if you had a public, long-standing, grudge match with the governor,
they'd keep you in jail so long that you'd never have another chance
to send another brainless email to the Viz.



On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Saundra Lund <sslund_2007 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Report: Palin didn't fear for safety
> By Serge F. Kovaleski
>
> The New York Times
>
> One of the paramount reasons that Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband have
> given for voicing concerns to Alaska public-safety officials about former
> brother-in-law Michael Wooten is that they and their relatives live in fear
> of him.
>
> They have complained that Wooten made threats of violence against the
> family, used a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson and generally has struggled
> to control his anger.
>
> But an independent investigator for the state Legislature - who has
> concluded that Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring
> subordinates to dismiss the trooper - contends that the claims of fear were
> a facade to mask a maneuver in a family dispute.
>
> In a report released Friday on the so-called "Troopergate" scandal, the
> investigator, Stephen Branchflower, said evidence, such as the governor's
> decision to reduce the manpower of her security detail, showed that "such
> claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the
> Palins' real motivation: to get Wooten fired for personal family related
> reasons."
>
> Branchflower described what he considers another inconsistency: If Wooten
> was inclined to harm any of the Palins, having him terminated could lead to
> an act of retaliation. Forcing him out of his job "would not have
> de-escalated the situation or provided" Palin or her family with "greater
> security," the report stated.
>
> The assertion about Palin's motivations in trying to have Wooten dismissed
> were one of the conclusions in the report, the culmination of an inquiry
> into whether she used her office to try to settle a family score. The
> investigation was unanimously opened in July by the 14-member,
> Republican-dominated Legislative Council, about one month before Palin was
> selected by Sen. John McCain to be the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
> The panel voted unanimously Friday to release the report amid accusations by
> the McCain-Palin campaign that the inquiry was a pro-Obama witch hunt.
>
> A key finding was that Palin was within her legal right to dismiss her
> public-safety commissioner, Walt Monegan - Wooten's boss. The report says
> Monegan's failure to bend to pressure from Palin, her husband, Todd, and
> others in the administration and dismiss the trooper was a reason for his
> ouster, but that evidence suggests it was not the only factor.
>
> Campaigning in Altoona, Pa., on Saturday, Palin insisted the inquiry found
> "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part" and added "there was no abuse
> of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired."
>
> But Branchflower, in his report, stated that Palin violated the Alaska
> Executive Branch Ethics Act by applying pressure to have Wooten dismissed,
> as well as allowing her husband and subordinates to press for his firing.
> The trooper had been ensnarled in a bitter divorce and child-custody battle
> with Palin's sister, Molly McCann, resulting in ill will toward him.
>
> Branchflower wrote that Palin "knowingly permitted a situation to continue
> where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to
> advance a personal agenda."
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008257451_trooper12.html
>
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