[Vision2020] More Palin Dishonesty

[keely emerinemix]

What in your Christian training has made it acceptable for you to say to a woman that someone would "throw her ass in jail" and then, after accusing her of simply being jealous -- of Sarah Palin, yet -- would have you call her contributions to Vision 2020 "brainless"?  

How was communion this morning?

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:34:29 -1000
> From: no.weatherman at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] More Palin Dishonesty
> 
> 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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