Then provide the verification as well as corroborations. So far all I see is his statements, no verification and no corroborations.
That ethics report found Palin entirely culpable, then she went out and lied through her teeth, claiming it exonerated her. The report and her false statements regarding it are both widely available and on record.
Schmidt's other big statement getting press is that Palin couldn't even remember Joe Biden's name during the debate, and that was why she did her infamous "Can I call you Joe?" so as to not embarrass herself at getting his name wrong during the debate.
Palin herself corroborated this on page 289 of Going Rouge:
Obviously not every single claim will be independently verified, because Palin and those in her camp have a vested interest in not making her appear unqualified. McCain's camp has no interest in making her appear unqualified either. They have no reason to lie now, the campaign is over and they're not trying to blame her for the loss, but in fact he said she helped the campaign, this guy is just answering questions and giving details about what went wrong.
But you ignore one very7 important part of this....the people that are the topic of the "gossip" regarding their infidelity, their lies, their lack of ethics...are the same people that are ignoring the polls and pushing through legislation that is not necessarily what the people want.
They imply that they lknow what is best for the people and want to do this for the people....but do any of you want people with "questionable" level of ethics to have such power?
I know I dont.
No, this isn't about their ethics. If it were, the book and the reports coming from it would be about how the politicians make deals with their top campaign contributors, powerful individuals, corporate entities, and entire sections of the business world, to enact favorable legislation for money. If it were about their ethics, it would be about them misusing campaign funds, deciding to support policies they knew to be harmful in order to secure more votes, colluding with special anti-democratic interests for power within the beltway, those kind of political ethical concerns that every national politician faces and nearly all (every subject of the book at least) is guilty of violating.
Instead, it is gossip of the checkout line rag variety, no different than "exposés" of who Lindsay Lohan slept with this weekend or what Paris Hilton privately said to her friends about it.
It's personality-driven political crap focused on what tidbits are "juiciest." The kind of shit we were mired in for two years during the Clinton sex scandal that had no real impact on anything except to distract us from actual legislation and policies that have an enormous impact on our lives and should be the focus of our political concerns.
You've yet to prove she lied. You claim the ethics report found her culpable, show me. And then show me where she stated that the same report exonerates her.
Sorry, I assumed you were at least minimally aware and informed. The "Troopergate" abuse of power and corruption scandal and subsequent report were both widely reported during the campaign, as was Palin's false claim that it exonerated her.
A bipartisan committee of Alaska legislators voted 12-0 to release a report stating that Gov. Sarah Palin violated state ethics law "by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper."
Here's the opening of their investigation results, written by Stephen Branchflower, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel:
Finding One
For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39/52/110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides
The legislature reaffirms that every public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.
From the local Anchorage Daily News (note the headline):
Troopergate report: Palin abused power
A legislative investigation has concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power in pushing for the firing of an Alaska state trooper who was once married to her sister, or by failing to prevent her husband Todd from doing so.
The report by investigator Steve Branchflower was made public late this afternoon by a bipartisan 12-0 vote of the Legislative Council, which authorized the investigation....
Here's the full text of the report: DOWNLOAD
Here's an audio recording and transcript of the conference call Palin made with the media after the report was released:
Alaska Politics Blog : Palin: 'Very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all' (Updated with audio) | adn.com
And the relevant quotes:
Sarah Palin said:"I’m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing … any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that."
Sarah Palin said:"Again very much appreciating being cleared of any legal wrongdoing or unethical activity at all.
And CBS coverage of the incident: Palin: Probe Exonerated Me - CBS News
The report explicitly found her to have committed unethical activity, then she claimed it totally exonerated her. She lied, Schmidt was only recounting something already well-known and well-reported.
That's all for now, I'm done doing your homework for you. Like I said, it's all publicly available and widely reported, you want to look into it do so yourself, but don't base your opinion purely on ignorance of the record.
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