McPalin whines "partisan"

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Registered: 07-29-2008
McPalin whines "partisan"
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 12:45am

ABC News just reported that McCain camp issued a statement accusing Alaska investigators of being partisan.


Well, yeah.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 3:33am

Please explain to me what the McCain camp tried to accomplish by releasing a "fake Trooper-gate report"? It can't be media control if you tell people not to believe the MSM, and then release a statement to said MSM. Will their supporters listen to what is said? Uhhhhh. Not sure.

GOP's Report On Troopergate Clears Palin
Hours Before Lawmakers' Report Due, Republican Campaign Releases Its Own Findings
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 9, 2008


(CBS/AP) Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

Sen. John McCain's running mate is the subject of a legislative investigation into whether she abused her power as governor by firing her public safety commissioner. The commissioner, Walter Monegan, says he was dismissed in July for resisting pressure from Palin's husband, Todd Palin, and numerous top aides to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, Palin's former brother-in-law.

Lawmakers are expected to release their own findings Friday, after Alaska's Supreme Court refused to shut down the investigation in a decision Thursday. Campaign officials have yet to see that report - the result of an probe that began before she was tapped as McCain's running mate - but said the investigation has falsely portrayed a legitimate policy dispute between a governor and her commissioner as something inappropriate.

"The following document will prove Walt Monegan's dismissal was a result of his insubordination and budgetary clashes with Governor Palin and her administration," campaign officials wrote. "Trooper Wooten is a separate issue."

Monegan said Thursday that he doesn't know what to expect from the legislative panel's own report.

"I just hope that the truth is figured out," Monegan told The Associated Press on Thursday. "That the governor did want me to fire him, and I chose to not. You just can't walk up to someone and say, 'I fire you.' He didn't do anything under my watch to result in termination."

Palin's critics say that shows she used her office to settle family affairs.

"When you're the governor, you leave your household hat at home and you become governor," said state Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has frequently clashed with Palin.

Palin's husband and top aides said in affidavits provided to The Associated Press that the governor remained in the dark while Todd Palin repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force.

The affidavits filed with investigators late Wednesday will probably help Palin's defense that the firing was not a tit-for-tat, but they also portray her as uninvolved while her husband met repeatedly with her aides about family affairs. That could provide fodder for her political opponents.

“Todd Palin’s statements may help provide the Governor some degree of cover in the probe,” said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs, “but the level of his involvement here will probably raise even more questions and this continues to be a political distraction to the McCain campaign.”

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 5:06am

What is amazing to me, is that they continue to speak of transparency on the "straight-talk" express, in a McCain/Palin administration, while

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Registered: 05-27-2008
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 8:29am

I don't think we can expect anything different from Palin.

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Registered: 10-20-2007
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 8:37am

they issue their