Looks like the report is in and it doesn't look too good for Sarah Palin. Even though she had good reason to fire Walter Monegan, the committee stated that it's likely that a family grudge may have been a contributing factor. "It's likely" and "it was for sure" are two completely different things, so it is not for certain that it was a contributing reason. Regardless, I am sure that a few points will be lost for the McCain campaign due to this report.

Could the results of the report been politically motivated and was the legislative committee biased?? We may never know. What do you think?

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Wish Barack H. Obama good luck on 1/20/2009 (202) 456-1414
Inauguration Day Events

well I am likely not to give a ****e.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

The verdict is in. Oddly enough it's not the same as the one Palin put out the other day, clearing herself.

Ethics investigation finds Palin abused power
Legislative committee releases investigation into firing of public official


ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

The inquiry looked into her dismissal of Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, who said he lost his job because he resisted pressure to fire a state trooper involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister. Palin says Monegan was fired as part of a legitimate budget dispute.
The panel found that Palin let the family grudge influence her decision-making even if it was not the sole reason Monegan was dismissed. "I feel vindicated," Monegan said. "It sounds like they've validated my belief and opinions. And that tells me I'm not totally out in left field."

Branchflower said Palin violated a statute of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

Palin and McCain's supporters had hoped the inquiry's finding would be delayed until after the presidential election to spare her any embarrassment and to put aside an enduring distraction as she campaigns as McCain's running mate in an uphill contest against Democrat Barack Obama.

Ethics report: Palin abused authority - Decision '08 - MSNBC.com

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As I said....welcome to the fourth reich

Wait till we all have to tithe to her church.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

Boy, things aren't going well for McCain...the republicans used to be able to bury investigations at the Attorney General level and now they can't even stifle a little poo poo investigation...

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PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

neocons deserve to fry....or hang....pick your method.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

McCain has a great reason now to drop her and pick Ron Paul. That would be the best strategy he could do right now.

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Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

What gauls me is that they got caught for this little nothing affair while it looks like Gonzalas is getting off scot free. Do you think the next administration will pursue the crimes of this one? I just get the feeling they are going to bury their sins under the rug and move on...

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PAT PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT

While he has the best REASON to do it, I rather believe that the opportunity for doing it has passed him by. With only about two and a half weeks to the election, he's be committing seppuku by dumping her at this stage.

Plus he's got his troglodyte base all wound up about her now; did you see how they booed him for calling Senator Obama "a decent person?" Why they'd positively LYNCH him for cutting her loose!

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I had an interesting meeting with an elected R official this evening. She said the party is too infested with these folks to save. She is about to come over to our ranks. She is worried that they (the kool-aid drinkers) will trigger confligration. I too am worried of the same. These people have become irrational and dangerous.

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat