Palin caught in a lie

[Jon]

"Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper."

She lied to the public about trying to exert influence, and then fired the Commissioner and replaced him with a guy who had already been reprimanded for sexual harrassment, so then she had to replace him.

"I do now have to tell Alaskans that such pressure could have been perceived to exist although I have only now become aware of it," Palin said.

Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired: Walt Monegan | adn.com

Are you illiterate?

 

[Annie]

"Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper."

She lied to the public about trying to exert influence, and then fired the Commissioner and replaced him with a guy who had already been reprimanded for sexual harrassment, so then she had to replace him.

Way too sad, links at site:


Hot Air Blog Archive Desperation from Democrats

Desperation from Democrats
posted at 9:56 am on August 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

Now that almost a full day has passed since John McCain has named Sarah Palin as his running mate, we can already see the themes his political opponents will take in criticizing her. Irony runs through a number of these arguments, as most of them apply more to their own ticket than to the Republicans, and one in particular is just so despicable as to drop the jaw to the ground. Let’s take a tour of these, shall we?

It’s a desperation pick — he didn’t make up his mind until Thursday!

McCain did make his selection on Thursday, but apparently well before the Barack Obama speech that supposedly spooked him into foregoing Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty. What of it? When did Barack Obama make up his mind about Joe Biden? Biden had told reporters, “I’m not the guy” just days before finally getting picked as the running mate. Obama was desperate for anyone with foreign-policy gravitas after stumbling through the Caucasus crisis on his own. Paul Begala noted that it appeared Vladimir Putin had picked Obama’s running mate.

Besides, why would McCain be “desperate”? Most Republicans run well behind their Democratic opponents in the summer; McCain gained enormous ground on Obama and was ahead in polls of likely voters before the convention.

Why would he put a small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?

This is a real laugher. By the same logic, why would the Democrats make a state legislator the actual president? The answer is that Obama is a US Senator of three years experience, and Palin is a governor of 20 months’ experience. Only Barack Obama has spent two of those three years not in the Senate doing his job but running for President. Before starting his bid, he had a grand total of less than 150 days in session in the Senate. Palin, on the other hand, has run her state for more than triple that time.

And let’s remember that Obama is running for the top job, while Palin’s running for VP.

McCain can’t talk about experience any more — he’s shot himself in the foot!

Unfortunately for the critics, this argument doesn’t hold water, either. All four principals are running for the highest executive position in the federal government — indeed, the position in charge of the entire executive branch. How much executive experience does Obama have? None; he’s worked in corporate law, community organizing, and has eleven years as a legislator at various levels. Biden? He’s been a lawyer for three years and a Senator for 35 years, and has no executive experience at any level of government.

McCain at least has executive experience as a squadron commander in the US Navy, but Palin has the actual executive track record that the others lack. She has governed Alaska for 20 months, negotiated a pipeline deal with Canada (which gives her more formal diplomatic experience than either Obama or Biden), was commander-in-chief of Alaska’s National Guard, and so on. Even her more local-level experience is more applicable than Obama’s: she served two terms as mayor, an executive position, cutting taxes and running a small city. Obama served in the state legislature, with no executive responsibilities at all.

Troopergate!

This, at least, qualifies as a legitimate concern, at least legitimate enough that the state legislature has decided to investigate it. Supposedly Palin fired the commissioner of public safety because he wouldn’t fire her brother-in-law, a state trooper who had becomed estranged from Palin’s sister. Mike Wooten only got a suspension, and last month, she allegedly dismissed Walt Monegan over his handling of the case. Palin says that wasn’t the reason, the legislature noted that Monegan’s was a political appointment and he served at the pleasure of the governor, and they have also stated on the record that Palin has been so cooperative that they will not need to issue subpoenas — which hardly sounds like a cover-up.

So what did Wooten do, anyway?

Troopers eventually investigated 13 issues and found four in which Wooten violated policy or broke the law or both:
​

• Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he
helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.​

​

Excuse me, but any of these four should have been a firing offense, let alone having done all four. He Tased his stepson? He threatened to shoot Palin’s father? No wonder the Palins hired their own investigator and pressed the issue so hard. But if this was the reason Palin cashiered Monegan, why did she bother to wait eighteen months after taking office to get rid of him?

Palin’s pick insults more qualified Republican women like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc etc etc.

I doubt any of these women feel “insulted” by McCain’s choice, but even if they did, so what? McCain didn’t want a Washington insider as a running mate. None of the known short-listers came from DC with the exception of Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman would have been a special case anyway. He wanted a partner for real reform, someone with a track record of taking risks to pursue change and to clean up politics. All of these women are insiders, and most of them have no executive experience at all — and all of them are Senators. Why copy the Biden pick?

Sarah Palin wasn’t REALLY pregnant — it’s her daughter’s child.

This popped up on a Daily Kos diary and has unfortunately been repeated by bloggers who should know better. The rumor is a weird reversal of the John Edwards story, only this time, critics refute Palin’s maternity. Supposedly, so the story goes, the baby really was their eldest daughter’s (currently in high school), and not hers. The proof? At six months, Palin didn’t “look pregnant”, and supposedly her daughter had mono and took some time off from school. That’s it.

This is, simply, despicable. Babies born to teen mothers rarely have Down’s Syndrome anyway, whereas the possibility for that with a mother in her 40s is about 1 in 20. Athletic women sometimes do not show until late in the pregnancy. The whole rumor rests on the notion that the state’s most visible woman could carry out a fake pregnancy in front of the press while simultaneously hiding her daughter, and then pull a switcheroo — and for what possible purpose? To cover up a teen pregnancy, in this day and age? Give me a break.

The picture below was published at the end of February, and she certainly appears to be significantly wider than we saw yesterday on the dais.

If this is what the opposition comes down to, McCain made the wisest possible choice, and in the process exposed the opposition in a way that could never have been possible with any other running mate.

 

[Glori.B]

OMG

the dem bots are so vile with this crap about the baby!

 

[Chris]

Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired: Walt Monegan | adn.com

Are you illiterate?

So first she says that no one on her staff tried to have this trooper fired, then after an audio tape surfaces of her staff doing just that, she changes her story.

And today the Commissioner himself says she called him personally and also emailed him to have the trooper fired.

When the investigation is complete, this woman is toast.

 

[DiveCon]

"Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten, also disclosed that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper."

She lied to the public about trying to exert influence, and then fired the Commissioner and replaced him with a guy who had already been reprimanded for sexual harrassment, so then she had to replace him.

no, she didnt lie
clearly you are too stupid to know the difference between not knowing and willfully telling a lie

 

[Jon]

So first she says that no one on her staff tried to have this trooper fired, then after an audio tape surfaces of her staff doing just that, she changes her story.

And today the Commissioner himself says she called him personally and also emailed him to have the trooper fired.

When the investigation is complete, this woman is toast.

How are you so ignorant? Seriously, please tell me.

First she said no one on her staff didn't try to have him fired BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. When the tape was presented to her by her staff, she immediately turned it over to investigators.

She is in complete cooperation with the investigators.

It seems to me that the commissioner is a bitter old fool. Unfortunately for him, he was an employee of the Palin administration. Alaska is an at-will state. She can fire him for whatever reason she wishes. She fired him because he was not filling empty trooper positions.

In defense of the commissioner, she claims the trooper positions were empty because Wooten was a bad person to be representing the force. AND SHE WAS RIGHT.

Get over it, Kirk. This is hardly a scandal. It will blow over with ease.

 

[Chris]

How are you so ignorant? Seriously, please tell me.

First she said no one on her staff didn't try to have him fired BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. When the tape was presented to her by her staff, she immediately turned it over to investigators.

She is in complete cooperation with the investigators.

It seems to me that the commissioner is a bitter old fool. Unfortunately for him, he was an employee of the Palin administration. Alaska is an at-will state. She can fire him for whatever reason she wishes. She fired him because he was not filling empty trooper positions.

In defense of the commissioner, she claims the trooper positions were empty because Wooten was a bad person to be representing the force. AND SHE WAS RIGHT.

Get over it, Kirk. This is hardly a scandal. It will blow over with ease.

"Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten"

She called and emailed the Commissioner personally, and her staff made more than two dozen calls to him about it.

She lied to the public because she knew it was wrong. Then when she was caught, she acted like she didn't know. She is going down.

 

[Glori.B]

When the investigation is complete, this woman is toast.

keep dreaming, kirk.

you are drawing incorrect conclusions from incomplete information.

do you have anything else to say about her, or what?


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[DiveCon]

"Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten"

She called and emailed the Commissioner personally, and her staff made more than two dozen calls to him about it.

She lied to the public because she knew it was wrong. Then when she was caught, she acted like she didn't know. She is going down.

and if she didn't know that some in her administration HAD pressured?
that wouldn't be her lying you IDIOT

 

[Jon]

"Palin, who has previously said her administration didn't exert pressure to get rid of trooper Mike Wooten"

She called and emailed the Commissioner personally, and her staff made more than two dozen calls to him about it.

She lied to the public because she knew it was wrong. Then when she was caught, she acted like she didn't know. She is going down.

Sigh. You know what, I'm just going to let you live in your delusioned world. I'm tired of trying to teach you common sense. I'm thinking of becoming pro-abortion so we can rid the world of people like you.

 

[Chris]

and if she didn't know that some in her administration HAD pressured?
that wouldn't be her lying you IDIOT

How could she say no one exerted pressure when she called and emailed the Commissioner personally?

It's Spiro Agnew all over again.

 

[Jon]

How could she say no one exerted pressure when she called and emailed the Commissioner personally?

It's Spiro Agnew all over again.

Why would he say that she never contacted him directly and then say she did?

****, you're stupid.

 

[DiveCon]

How could she say no one exerted pressure when she called and emailed the Commissioner personally?

It's Spiro Agnew all over again.

do you ever actually read the links you post?

 

[DiveCon]

Why would he say that she never contacted him directly and then say she did?

****, you're stupid.

have you ever run into anyone as painfully stupid as him?

 

[Jon]

have you ever run into anyone as painfully stupid as him?

http://www.usmessageboard.com/members/orange_juice.html

But the way they both keep posting the same thing over and over, I'm beginning to think they are the same person.

 

[Chris]

On a tape-recorded conversation between Palin's chief of boards and commissions, Frank Bailey, and a police lieutenant, Bailey mentions Palin and her husband Todd by name.......

In the call, Bailey said, "Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, 'Why on earth hasn't this, why is this guy still representing the department?' "

Palin suspended Bailey with pay, saying she knew nothing about the call.

Palin still faces the review by the legislature.

State Sen. Hollis French (D) said that both Republicans and Democrats authorized the hiring of a former prosecutor to determine whether Palin "used her public office to settle a private score." French described the prosecutor, Steve Branchflower, as a "straight shooter,"

French said the investigation of the popular 44-year-old governor had been criticized throughout the state until about two weeks ago, when the governor's office released the audiotape of Bailey.

Such evidence points to a violation of Wooten's privacy, French said.

"We're seeing clues or signs that matters from his personal confidential file were being shared to generate talking points against the trooper as drums being pounded to get him dismissed," French said yesterday.


washingtonpost.com

 

[42Presidents]

How could she say no one exerted pressure when she called and emailed the Commissioner personally?

It's Spiro Agnew all over again.

I don't think this is going to help because you are truly stuck on making this woman out to be scandalous and no amount of evidence will change your mind of that. But I will try.

If you read the articles on this story, the Commissioner said he was contacted by her by email and phone explaining the actions of this office but never once said the trooper should be fired or perceived to put any pressure on the Commissioner to fire him. She simply told the Commissioner about the actions of this officer and explained they were inappropriate for a State Trooper.

She took actions that only a sane person would do. The State Trooper was obviously a loose cannon and from the sound of it could have been harmful to the Palin family.

Can your candidates not win the election simply based on merit and what they have to offer? Are you that concerned of a McCain/Palin victory that you so desperately are trying to find a story/scandal where one doesn't exist?

 

[42Presidents]

Way too sad, links at site:


Hot Air Blog Archive Desperation from Democrats

Bravo for this post. I assume you are for Obama/Biden in this coming election from your profile pic. But I think your post shows a level of respect for the other side even if you don't agree with them.

I wish more folks would take this approach on both sides and then maybe we could resolve some of our nation's issues.

 

[Chris]

I don't think this is going to help because you are truly stuck on making this woman out to be scandalous and no amount of evidence will change your mind of that. But I will try.

If you read the articles on this story, the Commissioner said he was contacted by her by email and phone explaining the actions of this office but never once said the trooper should be fired or perceived to put any pressure on the Commissioner to fire him. She simply told the Commissioner about the actions of this officer and explained they were inappropriate for a State Trooper.

She took actions that only a sane person would do. The State Trooper was obviously a loose cannon and from the sound of it could have been harmful to the Palin family.

Can your candidates not win the election simply based on merit and what they have to offer? Are you that concerned of a McCain/Palin victory that you so desperately are trying to find a story/scandal where one doesn't exist?

On a tape-recorded conversation between Palin's chief of boards and commissions, Frank Bailey, and a police lieutenant, Bailey mentions Palin and her husband Todd by name.......

In the call, Bailey said, "Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, 'Why on earth hasn't this, why is this guy still representing the department?' "

 

[42Presidents]

On a tape-recorded conversation between Palin's chief of boards and commissions, Frank Bailey, and a police lieutenant, Bailey mentions Palin and her husband Todd by name.......

In the call, Bailey said, "Todd and Sarah are scratching their heads, 'Why on earth hasn't this, why is this guy still representing the department?' "

Yes, I've already read this too. This doesn't prove anything and I'm sure you've heard this person has been removed. Again, your reaching for something that isn't there.