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

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Ah, Glenns, now that you're back, can you tell me how that Doonesbury strip last week was 'racist and mysogynistic?'

Thanks,

Sunil

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 15:10:37 -0800
From: vpschwaller at gmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Alaska Senate Slaps Palin's Husband, Aides

And this was of tremendous national importance because ???

GS

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

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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