Can He Stop 'Troopergate'?

I was trying to paste an article but for some reason it keeps stating that it is too long even though I did a word count and it is under 3K words but here is the link

SARAH PALIN'S WASTEFUL WAYS
Sept. 17, 2008 | WASILLA, Alaska -- Sarah Palin has been touting herself as fiscal watchdog throughout her political career. But Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was characterized by waste, cronyism and incompetence, according to government officials in the Matanuska Valley, where she began her fairy-tale political rise.

"Executive abilities? She doesn't have any," said former Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney, who selected and groomed Palin for her first political race in 1992 and served with her after her election to the City Council.

Four years later, the ambitious Palin won the Wasilla mayor's office -- after scorching the "tax and spend mentality" of her incumbent opponent. But Carney, Palin's estranged former mentor, and others in city hall were astounded when they found out about a lavish expenditure of Palin's own after her 1996 election. According to Carney, the newly elected mayor spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office, without the council's authorization.

"I thought it was an outrageous expense, especially for someone who had run as a budget cutter," said Carney. "It was also illegal, because Sarah had not received the council's approval."

According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello."

LINK TO ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/

it appears that Abuse of Power is OK so long as it benefits the Republlican cause. What ever happened to the rule of law and the right to a fair trial by your peers??

What is right and what is wrong when you are apart of a corrupt culture? A culture that believes by the proof of fact, that they are perfectly willing to sacrifice the needs of the many, for the needs of the few. How selfish do you really have to be?

More examples of republicans throwing around their power.
I do hope they cannot get away with this, but they have with Bush,
Cheny, Rove and staff,
Transparency, yea.
The republicans and their dirty politics hav e to be stopped.
ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone needs to remember that everything Wooten was accused of doing happened LONG before Palin was the Governor. Her pressure on Monegan to get rid of Wooten had more to do with an ongoing custody battle. If she could end his career he would naturally have a weaker case in terms of that dispute. Palin and the First Dud were warned by a Judge to cool it with attacks on Wooten around her nephews and nieces because those attacks are a form of child abuse. So the idea that Wooten was a *** really doesn't have any bearing on wether or not Palin abused her power to pressure people to get rid of him--she had nursed her vendetta for several years. She continued to act on the vendetta with her implied power as Governor and the fact that it was unsuccessful does not imply innocence. The overall length of the attempts to undermine Wooten do imply that the Palins were not aware that their actions were reproachable--or that they did not care.

As has already been stated, simply asking that the investigation of Governor Palin proceeds doesn't mean anyone supports Trooper Wooten. He should have been fired (and jailed) for any number of reasons: drinking on duty, tasering his stepson, domestic violence, threatening Palin's sister or father or anyone else, hunting without a license. He sounds like a real loser and I can't believe he still has a badge. (This should be investigated as well. Maybe Governor, Commissioner or Mayor Palin had previously interceded on his behalf prior to sis having enough of him and filing for divorce?) The problem is that Palin and her family had the same recourse to deal with this type of situation as anyone else. Contact the authorities to file charges, get a restraining order, go to the media to expose Wooten - thereby pressuring his immediate superiors to act. Take action through any and all normal, legal means to have this clown removed. Was any of this tried? I don't know. If it wasn't and Palin, her family or her subordinates went another route then this is at the heart of the problem. If the standard legal means to address a situation like this are supposedly good enough for the public at large then why aren't they sufficient for the governor? Certainly, I don't see anyone here defending Wooten, but two wrongs, if the Governor crossed the line, don't make a right.

Everyone needs to remember that everything Wooten was accused of doing happened LONG before Palin was the Governor. Her pressure on Monegan to get rid of Wooten had more to do with an ongoing custody battle. If she could end his career he would naturally have a weaker case in terms of that dispute. Palin and the First Dud were warned by a Judge to cool it with attacks on Wooten around her nephews and nieces because those attacks are a form of child abuse. So the idea that Wooten was a *** really doesn't have any bearing on wether or not Palin abused her power to pressure people to get rid of him--she had nursed her vendetta for several years. She continued to act on the vendetta with her implied power as Governor and the fact that it was unsuccessful does not imply innocence. The overall length of the attempts to undermine Wooten do imply that the Palins were not aware that their actions were reproachable--or that they did not care.

It is clear that we can't trust what Palin or McCain says. She said she would support the "Troopergate Investigation", but now is fighting it with everything she and McCain can muster. sounds like a VERY guilty person. But for them, their word is not important. Lie after lie.

What, do they expect us to vote these people into the office of President and Vice-President, knowing that there is a possible trail of unethical behavior following one of them by fact into office? The only possible outcome that can have, should she be found guilty, would be John McCain pardoning her for it, where is the justice? Doesn't that sound like what we have already seen under the Bush administration? Can you say four more years of the same failed policies and corrupt behaviors by continuation?

Do Republicans really believe that they are above the law? Everybody but Republicans seem to be held to the laws of land, which all who take public office swear on a bible to uphold, now what am I missing here?

Here we go again, just like Bush, she already thinks she is above the law. I thought she promised transparency but she is now hiding behind legal procedures. If she has nothing to worry about, why doesn't she expedite the entire situation, put it to rest quickly. She would gain some respect that way.

Palin criticizes Clinton over protest

Hillary Clinton has carefully avoided directly criticizing Sarah Palin, but the same courtesy apparently doesn't work the other way.

Palin's spokeswoman this morning issued a statement hitting Clinton for pulling out of a protest being organized by several Jewish groups outside the United Nations on Sept. 22 against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Clinton cancelled after finding out that Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, also planned to be there.

"Governor Palin believes that the danger of a nuclear Iran is greater than party or politics. She hopes that all parties can rally together in opposition to this grave threat," said Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for Palin.

Clinton aides were furious at organizers, saying they first learned from reporters that both Clinton and Palin were scheduled to appear, the Associated Press is reporting.

"Her attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event," Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines told the AP. "Senator Clinton will therefore not be attending."

A meeting would have been awkward, to say the least, bringing into the media spotlight the woman who nearly won the Democratic nomination and the woman now courting Clinton's loyalists.

Palin reportedly plans to meet foreign heads of state at the UN. Amid questions about her lack of foreign policy experience, she acknowledged last week that she has never met one.

link: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/palin_criticize.html

Did I neglect to mention the highest deficit in history also belongs to the current administration?