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| Mon, 07-20-2009 - 1:28am |
I've read posts citing Zane Henning in this forum as a source for news. The news that he already made a prior dismissed ethics complaint against Governor Palin doesn't get mentioned much in this forum.
I wondered about the great source of "news" that Zane Henning seems to represent on this forum and decided to investigate. My search was to try and understand why he is making complaints. That search is now ended. Google is our friend.
I came across the following - http://alaskapride.blogspot.com/2009/07/zane-henning-files-his-second-ethics.html
The issue about Governor Palin taking per diem for staying at her Wasilla home first broke surface in the Washington Post on September 8th, 2008, but no ethics complaint was filed at the time. In February 2009, state officials merely determined that Palin pay income taxes on the per diem, but did not bar her from claiming more per diem in the future.
Some suspect that Zane Henning's wife, Val, may have put him up to filing this complaint, as well as the previous one. Although Zane is identified as a "conservative", his wife is a lunatic who constantly calls into Dan Fagan's radio program and whines incomprehensibly about Palin.
In his previous complaint filed on November 13th, Zane Henning charged that Palin broke state ethics rules by by holding national television interviews about her run for vice president from the governor's office. He claimed that Palin was promoting her future political career on state property, pointing in particular to the governor's November 10th interview with Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren. But after dismissing the complaint on May 12th, Michael Geraghty of the Alaska Personnel Board concluded that “There was no indication that Governor Palin presented her official position as governor of the State of Alaska for an improper personal or financial purpose.”
Henning's complaint appears frivolous. If he was serious, he should have filed it back in September, when the issue was first publicized, or at least in February, after the state reaffirmed her option to collect it. His delay in filing strongly implies that he is merely using the ethics complaint system as a tool of political warfare; further validating that conclusion is the fact that Henning chose to announce it in a press release.
Edited 7/20/2009 1:48 am ET by postreply

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"My search was to try and understand why he is making complaints."
Here's your answer..............
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin faces a new ethics complaint, this one on claims she filed for staying in her Wasilla home while working in Anchorage, records show.
In February, after a Washington Post article revealed the practice, Alaska officials reversed a policy that permitted the $60 per diem reimbursement as a legitimate, tax-free business expense under the Internal Revenue Code.
Alaska state policy permits reimbursement if a state official travels at least 50 miles from his or her home for state business. Palin's home in Wasilla and the state office building in Anchorage are about 45 miles apart.
In the new complaint filed with the Alaska Office of the Attorney General, Wasilla resident Zane Henning questioned the governor's reimbursement claims for the month of May, since the activities for those days were in Wasilla and Anchorage, the Post reported Wednesday. More..
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/08/Palin-faces-new-ethics-complaint/UPI-80681247069795/
"This guy has filed and failed before"
Once before.
"liberal and activist liberal wife"
With that 'reasoning' one can
So one wonders. What did Henning's wife do? Link in the OP referred to her as lunatic but gave no specifics other than to say that she called a radio station and "whines incomprehensibly about Palin" which strikes me as hugely ironic considering Ms Palin's profound inability to speak extemporaneously. Without more detailed information on either claim, the sole basis for labeling her a "liberal activist" seems to be that she doesn't care for Palin and has said so on-air. *****sniffing in the air******There's something fishy going on when so little can dug up for dirty laundry airing (yeah, I'm madly mixing my metaphors).
Frankly, am getting the impression AGAIN of much ado about nothing except that Henning had the temerity to question the photogenic but amazingly incoherent and horrifically ill-informed darling of emotionally hopeful conservatives/Republicans.
Edited to insert a possessive apostrophe.
Edited 7/20/2009 4:45 pm ET by jabberwocka
Jabberwocka
Rather than insisting on a portrayal of St. Sarah as martyr of a vast left wing conspiracy, how about a fuller disclosure? Here is an extract from a Christian Science Monitor piece which paints Palin in a distinctly different role (http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/07/09/alaskas-tab-for-ethics-complaints-about-palin-19-million/; I encourage a full read, in order to have details by which to judge.
Jabberwocka
~I've read posts citing Zane Henning in this forum as a source for news.~
He was mentioned as an example of a
You make it sound like an anonymous 56 year old male blog poster
From the view of Palin supporters, there are only two reasons people criticize her:
1) they're left wing conspirators
2) they're jealous (and that applies to any woman, conservative or liberal,
"The complaints are just a form of harassment against Palin by liberals."
>"The latest is the sixth filed by fellow Republican Andree McLeod, an outspoken critic of the governor. She is asking Attorney General Daniel Sullivan to forward her claim to the state Personnel Board for investigation."<
Info. from.....Critic files another Palin ethic complaint
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002874.html?hpid=politics
Troopergate was initiated by Palin herself.
>"Palin herself initiated the personnel board investigation on "Troopergate," saying that the state Legislature's investigation of the matter was politicized and she was seeking the appropriate venue to deal with it."<
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200907070023
>"Of course, this was an investigation that Palin herself initiated, by filing an ethics complaint against herself. The three members of the Personnel Board are appointed by Palin, and she cooperated with the investigation.
By contrast, the only independent investigation into the matter -- which was conducted by the state legislature and with which Palin did not cooperate -- found that Palin had violated state ethics laws by pressuring subordinates to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper with whom she was embroiled in a family dispute."<
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/trooper-gate_report_initiated.php
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