Perhaps, if Monegan would have done his job right and hired police, as was his mandate, instead of going around the governor to do things she nixed, he would still have a job. More police, less meth.

BTW, Missouri is the meth capital of the US, it’s the Missouri State Police that have taken the lead in finding and destroying the labs and arresting the perps. Monegan failed for Alaska.

If you idealogical geniuses believe that… I’ve got a bridge in Alaska I was/was’nt for to sell you.

My favorite time will come after the election, when the truth about Palin’s sordid holy roller hyporcrite family life will hit the presses. What a fraud of a mother, especially her kids who I’d expect to be those of an irresponsible rock star. Just wait, it’ll be a doozy, you betcha!

Sarah Palin…time to go back to the “toothless meth capital of Alaska” as one Alaskan republican described Wasilla. What a moron….but perfect for today’s lowest common denominator republican.

Rich

Accusations tying Monegan’s firing to an attempt by the governor to get Wooten fired first became public Thursday on former state lawmaker Andrew Halcro’s blog. Halcro, who lost to Palin in the 2006 governor’s race, wrote on his post about the Monegan firing that the public safety budget was cut by .06 percent for this year under Palin. He conceded that was an error Friday.But Halcro also suggested Monegan’s Friday revelation that he felt pressured by Todd Palin and others to fire Wooten should make those who attacked his blog reconsider.

“And just a note for all our skeptics and the Palin defenders since our story broke yesterday morning. … here’s looking at you kids,” Halcro wrote Friday.

The blog of the man Palin defeated is the source for the third attack on Palin? This is reporting? Have journalists now become nothing but repeater stations for any information they wish could be true, and so the avoid even investigating it so that their hopes can be realized? The man lost to Palin and then posts on his blog an accusation that the Monegan mess is not about budgets (as Monegan and his allies agreed it was) but about Mike Wooten, and people felt this was a credible source? Strata-Sphere

Go and read it.

C? Glad you’re here….. Feel free to slap away at some of our more stubbornly blind regulars. We do love ‘em, but they get going on an off tangent path, and it’s hard to get those blinders off ‘em to get them back on track!

Politely disagree with the “newsflash” about early release of the investigation reports. French moved the Oct 31st deadline up to Oct 10th several weeks ago… old news.

And it doesn’t surprise me that they will release results of an investigation without having any testimony to speak of since French has already predetermined the results. Just goes to show what a sham this “investigation” is.

A unanimous bipartisan approval for an investigation that Palin welcomed. She said “Hold me accountable” and waved off the need for subpoenas as she had instucted her staff to fully cooperate.

That “unanimous bipartisan approval was for the Legislative Council only, Fit. That’s a big 14 people, not the entire Alaskan House and Senate. And of course she instructed her staff to cooperate…..

Then she refused to testify.

…… until the head witchhunter, Hollis French, started going on multiple local and national media prounoucing her guilty by bandying about impeachment (of which he did not start a legal proceeding to do so, per Alaskan law) and “damaging”. All without one damn testimony.

Her staff was instructed not to testify.

She personally did not instruct her staff to do anything. You are making things up, here. In fact, as of a few days ago, some were still going to testify until the lawsuits were filed, and the Deputy AG Michael Barnhill said he was going to fight the subpoenas.

Subpoenas were approved.

Subpoenas for specific witnesseses were voted on as approved by the 14 member Legislative Council… of which they are not supposed to be controlling. The witness list is supposed to be compiled by the Indy Investigator, Steve Branchwater. They are controlling him and the investigation… totally outside their jurisdiction.

Subpoenas were ignored.

The Deputy AG said no to the subpoenas. They were within their full rights of ignoring what is tandamount to illegal subpoenas. Duh

What had looked totally innocent now looks like a cover up.

Let me rephrase that. What looked like a fair and unbiased investigation now looks like a partisan witch hunt for political purposes. The Legislative Council has overstepped their bounds at every step, allocated funds when they have no power to do so, and are controlling the Indy Investigator like hired help.

I’d say it looks like everyone involved wants to follow Alaska Ethics Law for investigation, and avoid some Salem witch trial.

It dosen’t matter if she is guilty of anything or not, she now carries the taint of suspicion.

Fit, she was also guilty to you. So what’s new?

No lies. The simple facts.

You have one bizarre comprehension of “the facts”, Fit. Why you’d place more import on McCarthy style legislative investigations than follow Alaskan law… formulated by these lawmakers predecessors… is beyond me. I never thought of you as a lynching kind of guy.

(ABC News) An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin’s most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into “Troopergate.”

Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a “rogue mentality” and was bucking her administration’s directives.

“The last straw,” her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.

The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin’s legal filing. “Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.,” the release stated.

But the governor’s staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.

The document, a state travel authorization form, shows that Palin’s chief of staff, Mike Nizich, approved Monegan’s trip to Washington, D.C., “to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski.” The date next to Nizich’s signature reads June 18.

In response to inquiries about the document Friday, the McCain-Palin campaign provided a statement from Randy Ruaro, another aide to Palin.

According to Ruaro, Monegan asked for — and received — approval for the travel without telling Palin’s staff his reason for going. “As a matter of routine, the travel was approved by Mike Nizich … weeks before the actual purpose was made clear by former Commissioner Monegan,” Ruaro wrote.

“When you receive permission to travel, it does not mean that you receive blanket authorization to discuss or do whatever you would like on that trip,” he added.

Last week a legislative panel approved a subpoena for Nizich to be interviewed by Stephen Branchflower, the prosecutor hired to conduct the Alaska Legislature’s inquiry into Troopergate. The Attorney General informed the Legislature earlier this week that Nizich and other state employees subpoenaed in the matter would not submit to interviews.

Nizich did not respond to a message left Friday afternoon.

In Palin’s court filing Monday  to stop an investigation by her state Personnel Board she earlier had requested  her lawyer, Thomas V. Van Flein, included numerous emails from her staff expressing confusion and incredulity over Monegan’s planned D.C. trip. None of those emails were sent by or to Nizich, although he was cc’d on several.

Contacted Friday, Monegan confirmed the travel authorization was to pursue funding for the anti-sexual-violence program. He said the travel authorization form was completed in a fashion consistent with practice, even though it showed no expenditures. The signed form approved the travel, he said, and authorized him to use a government credit card or seek reimbursement for expenses he incurred during the trip.

Monegan said he didn’t know why Palin’s chief of staff approved a trip that confounded her other aides. “It sounds like it’s a breakdown of communication internal to the governor’s staff,” he said.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=5844710

More here:
http://alaskareport.com/news98/x61636_gara_evidence_3232323.htm

The following photo showing so many of the Inquisitors at an Obama event shows what this whole business is all about:

Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released a partial transcript of a conference call held this afternoon with Miguel D. Lausell, Senior Political Advisor to Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Delegate-at- Large Luchy Secaira (Florida). Both Lausell and Secaira endorsed John McCain for president.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/

To see this whole situation — you actually have to read the facts. This entire investigation started after it was brought up in Halcro’s blog. He has been a vocal critic of Gov. Palin. Then, a bipartisan investigation was voted on by this legislative committee (yes, even in Alaska, Gov. Palin has ticked off some Republicans). So, good friend of the Commissioner (French) is put in charge and makes some inflamatory remarks (quoted in the Anchorage Daily News). Basically, you have Halcro (bitter over losing to Sarah Palin the office of governor – he ran as an independent), French and Elton (democrats), and good friend (the leader of the investigation Branchflower who doesn’t even know why names are left off of the Subpoenas list – that audio has been available on Townhall). Yes, it all stinks to high Heaven, but as mentioned before, you have to search out the facts and read.

Also, lets not forgot — the Commissioner worked as an “at will” employee, at the pleasure of the governor (in other words the governor can fire a commissioner at any time). This is a silly case, where democrat hacks and embittered people are going after Gov. Palin. And, as mentioned before, the state has a surplus, so why not spend it on some dumb investigation?

The trooper (not fired, still works as an Alaska state trooper – in other words – police officer) has a past filled with filled with problems – at work and in his personal life.

The whole case is BS. Get past the partisan smoke screen and figure out what is really going on. Gov. Palin is well-liked and admired. Of course, she has enemies. And, people can disagree with her (I did on a measure Alaskans just voted on) however, I know that she is just what America needs. A politician who really cares about her state/country and will work for the people. Take the blinders off. Gov. Palin is the real deal.

Sure, Palin welcomed the investigation, but when it appeared that it was going to be a witch hunt (remember French’s “October surprise” comments….BEFORE any depositions were taken), Palin and her staff “lawyered up”. If you also read the previous postings, you would had discovered that Sen French is meddling with the investigation which is supposed to be the jurisdiction of Mr. Blackflower alone.