[Vision2020] Alaska Senate Slaps Palin's Husband, Aides

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Anchorage Daily News at:

http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/681638.html
  
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Senate slaps Palin's husband, aides
By SEAN COCKERHAM
 
JUNEAU - The Alaska Senate voted today to find Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, 
Todd, and nine Palin aides in contempt for failing to show up when ordered 
by subpoena to testify in the Legislature's "Troopergate" investigation of 
the governor.

But the Senate resolution also said there should be no punishment because 
Todd Palin and the others did eventually submit written statements to the 
investigator, Steve Branchflower.

"People kept saying 'You've got to do something about the subpoenas -- 
what are you going to do about the subpoenas?" said Anchorage Democratic 
Sen. Hollis French, who sponsored the resolution. "And while there was 
practically no support for doing anything regarding the governor, a lot of 
people were upset that the subpoenas were ignored."

"It memorializes their contempt and it balances that wrongdoing with their 
compliance once the suit was resolved," French said.

Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg had sued to kill the subpoenas but 
lost in court. It was after he lost that the witnesses cooperated.

Branchflower's report found Palin abused her power in allowing her husband 
and top aides to push for the firing of a state trooper who is her former 
brother-in-law. But a second report, conducted by attorney Tim Petumenos 
for the state personnel board, came to the opposite conclusion and found 
that Palin was not responsible for any wrongdoing. 

Colberg did not have an immediate comment on the Senate resolution, saying 
he needed to read it first.

The resolution passed the Senate on a 16-1 vote. Anchorage Republican Sen. 
Con Bunde was the only senator to vote against it. Sens. Fred Dyson, Gene 
Therriault and Tom Wagoner were excused. 

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FYI, Tim Petumenos and the state personnel board were appointed by 
Governor Sarah Palin.

Hmmm.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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