As I noted in my post, Trooper’gate: New charges, new battlefield, Palin filed an ethics disclosure with the proper Alaskan authorities on Sept 1st.

Additionally, there was a second ethics charge to be filed from PSEA’s John Cyr out of Wasilla INRE the leaking of Mike Wooten’s medial records. Cyr is the executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association…. that would be the union that represents the Alaska State Troopers. The same union, I might add, that was responsible for getting Grimes to issue a reduced suspension of Wooten after being investigated for his abuse of authority.

They are accusing Palin and her office to have had unauthorized acccess to Wooten’s medical files and employment data. And Cyr accuses Palin of dogging the AST ever since she took office.

“This administration has had a full on attack against the Department of Public Safety and the Alaska State Troopers,” Cyr said. “I think Trooper Wooten has been demonized and the governor has used her bully pulpit to hurt Trooper Wooten.”

However the man central to the medical records charge is Frank Bailey - a man who is already on record, under oath, stating he took no action at the direction of Gov. Palin.

Van Flein interviewed Bailey Aug. 28 based on Palin’s complaint.

In the interview, Van Flein said, “There’s an allegation that you improperly accessed confidential personnel files or confidential worker’s compensation files pertaining to Mr.Wooten. Can you tell me if there’s any truth to that?”

“There is no truth to that,” Bailey responded.

The governor’s attorney then asked, “You weren’t doing it because the Department of Administration had asked you to?”

“That is correct,” Bailey said.

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As the Obama supporters blanket the Internet with bits and pieces of suggested scandal to combat America’s enthusiams for Sarah Palin, the fuel is Trooper’gate for the most misinformation and, more importantly, mischaracterizations.

The accusers were off and running on a legislative investigation with endlessly morphing charges in the media, and an undetermined, unnamed group of suspects. They had witness interviews scheduled, and a planned date for the release of their findings… Oct 31, … four days before the Presidential election. Obviously a target date with deliberate political ramifications.

But the players in the game may have increased. On the defendents’ side, we have the already known Palin and special assistant, Frank Bailey. But some new names who may come on to the ice from the penalty box: Ivy Frye, another special assistant to Palin, Todd Palin himself, Commissioner of Labor Click Bishop, Administration Commissioner Annette Krietzer and Kris Perry (the last name haven’t ID’d yet, but assumed to be part of the PSEA).

The accusers are Dem Sen. Hollis French, ex Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, and spurred on by “also ran” gubernatorial loser, Andrew Halcro. Their sights are trained on Sarah Palin, and all remain targets to just that aim.

Every one of these charges are traced back to one man - Mike Wooten… Sarah Palin’s ex-brother in law, and the “trooper” of Trooper’gate.

This is truly ironic when you consider Wooten as the central “wounded” figure… by all accounts, a man who should never be an armed law enforcement officer. One can’t help but get a bit queasy about this odd political witch hunt when you know he is the fourth man waging open season on the Palins. He is also the man passing information to Halcro.

Wooten, according to Palin’s recently leaked emails to Monegan, has stated he would bring Sarah and her family down”.
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Sarah fever is going to take hold… she was spectacular. Not soaring, not rhetoric. Just “real talk” from a down to earth pol. Like a breath of fresh air. This is one dynamo, and even the media… who she put on notice… is desperately searching for negatives. But you know you’re on the right track when Harry Reid puts out an immediate statement, calling her “shrill”…. *alright*!

But I wanted to give some of Rudy’s lines some kudos, because he, too, had some winners. I’ll have to paraphrase some, as I just don’t do the shorthand bit…

INRE Obama’s qualifications as an executive administrator, and a decision maker… and one of my favorites.

I didn’t know about that “Present” vote as a mayor.

On his “vision”

… change is not a goal, just as hope is not a strategy

On the DNC and Iraq

When they had given up on Iraq, they had given up on America

On the many broken promises and bodies “under the bus” littering the Obama campaign… another favorite

If I were Joe Biden, I’d want to get that VP thing in writing

On Obama’s ever morphing reaction to Russia’s invasion of Georgia, and finally arriving at the same position as McCain… despite his over 300 foreign advisors

Next time, call John McCain

First of all, a H/T to Allahpundit at HotAir for posting the PDF link to Palin’s Ethics Disclosure. And a thank you to Curt for giving me the heads up, as I was buried under work today.

We learn much from Sarah Palin’s “Ethics Disclosure Form”, filed Sept 1st by her Anchorage attorney, Thomas Van Flein. But before I go into details on her story of Trooper’gate, let’s address the latest leftist smears perpetuated by Talking Points Memo, and some of his merry band of gullible followers … dutifully falling in line here on Flopping Aces.

The goal? Spam the internet with with the lies so that the faith in Palin will be shaken enough that the truth - when it finally surfaces - will no longer matter. It will merely be a page A-23 one line correction… damage done.

That spam of lies happens to be that Palin is refusing to testify. Per TPM mudracker-in-chief, Josh Marshall:

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It is certainly a study in contrasts. The tale of the first city - Denver. An urban zone overrun with DNC devotees filled with high hopes, celebrations, pomp, circumstance, and over sized flashy sets… all which did well to dress up the familiar and repeated rhethoric we hear every four years.

They had the media dream… 24/7 coverage, breathless journalists a’twitter with every speech, and the illusion of party unity by the end. Campaign staffers were hoping for that 5-10 point convention bump, feeling sure that the GOP could never top their carefully planned spectacle. They ended with congratulatory pats on the back. A job well done.

And then, along came Sarah Palin, and Hurricane Gustav. Obama-Biden took Palin in stride, adopting the high road approach. They let their base do the dirty work… set to work spreading whatever appeared like possible dirt that they could find.

But Hurricane Gustav elicted a different response from the DNC base. Tho it was known last week that the storm would hit the Gulf coast, Gustav was not a subject of discussion that week.

But ignoring it’s impending path was better than what followed. Michael Moore and former DNC chair Dan Fouler…. er, Fowler… both make similar comments that God must be on the side of the DNC to have the hurricane strike conveniently on the first day of the GOP convention. The same bizarre and morbid view was echoed by a few posters on Flopping Aces, as well on other sites.

Despite their crude and questionable glee at tragedy benefitting their party as a gift from God, it was most obvious they were celebrating the reality that the media would be wall to wall coverage of the national disaster, leaving the GOP convention an “also ran” for news at best.

Which brings us to the second city tale - St. Paul. The President, Veep and GOP wasted no time in scaling down the long planned party, prioritizing preparations for human tragedy over celebrations. Just like Mayor Nagin learned his lesson by not only ordering residents out, but supplying them with transport to do so, so had everyone else.

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It boggles the mind the desperate Obama supporters could try to make an issue out of a Governor demonstrating fiscal responsibility. Yet already we have a few regulars and visitors regurgitating the latest Obama camp talking points… screaming flip flop.

So is it? Again, I put my nose down to track down the details on the infamous “Bridge to No Where”…. or, as known to Alaskans… as the Gravina Island Bridge to Ketchikan’s Int’l Airport.

And again, it all comes down to the timeline of events, and how Sarah Palin did the fiscally responsible thing. The history:

Former Gov. Frank Murkowski (CAGW’s “Porker of the Month” for Jan 2006), plus GOPs Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep Don Young were trying to shove the Gravina bridge project thru in his final lame duck months. From the Citizens against Govt Waste site, Nov 21, 2006:

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I’m no Obama fan, but I couldn’t see even Obama’s humor having such a sick twist. But apparently there’s either a macabre perspective deeply engrained in some of his fellow Democrats…

…or else they have quietly issued some talking points. For it’s ironic that within the same day, two prominent liberal progressives point to Hurricane Gustav, bearing down on the US Gulf Coast and thru our Gulf rigs (and possibly refineries in TX) as a sign that God somehow favors the DNC…. while *laughing*.

First up… Michael More appearing on the joke of a pundit, Olbermann’s show… (HT to Hot Air)

Approx: 1′15′ in….

(laughs) I was was just thinking that Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven (laughs).

This is the first thing out of his mouth. Hard to tell if Keith is stunned, or trying to hold back a smile….

Then, on a plane coming from from the DNC Convention, former DNC Chair Don Fowler had this conversation with Rep. John Spratt of SC. (H/T to Newsbusters)

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It’s been over 12 hours now since Alaskan Governor, Sarah Palin, has been named as GOP choice of Veep. Already, a desperate Obama camp of supporters are in search of talking points… other than the obviously poor choice of “inexperience”… or a scandal to take back what they perceive as the DNC ticket superiority.

Knowing the Palin-Monegan-Wooten investigation of abuse of power was their prime target, I’ve been spending time this AM researching the chain of events in hopes of beating the media to the political and biased distortions creating a new, and false “truth. I took into consideration that journalists… and ardent supporters like Markg8 on Curt’s thread… will be quick to post what they believe is damning evidence without reading more material on the issue.

So on that note, settle back and catch up with the reality of rural country politics. I’d like to share with you what appears to be the crux of the story, using both pro and con Palin bloggers and news media.

A timeline of events in the so-called “scandal”

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McCain issued a congratulatory video to Obama following his coronation yesterday. Genuine, sincere, and sans any political mudslinging. It was to note a historic day when the nation should acknowledge that the racial divide that is advanced by the Jeremiah Wrights’, Jesse Jacksons and other Black Theologists and civil rights leaders - and even Obama himself - is decidedly over hyped. It is a day when America has proven she will support a candidate without regard to race or gender.

The graciousness of the McCain camp stood in stark contrast to the Obama camp’s reaction to the McCain video. From the Jake Tapper at the ABC news blog, Punchline, with spokesman David Plouffe personified the “nation of whiners” with a back handed acknowledgment.

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In case you were wondering about what that “change” from the “bottom up” means? Just as Obama-Ayers sought to indoctrinate Chicago youth thru the public school system via the CAC, MoveOn.org states their similar goals very clearly in a new video. The quest? Mass registering of the youth vote who will “vote progressive” election after election in order to create that progressive/socialist utopia in America.

Oh joy…

I love Ward Connerly. Simple as that. Were he running for office on any party ticket, it would take some strong competition to tear my vote away. I’d even smile at a Ward Connerly/Bill “Fat Albert” Cosby ticket.

Connerly is a powerhouse dedicated to tearing down the mentality of inequality in America that masquerades as “equality” under affirmative action. After successfully passing California’s Prop 209, Connerly founded The American Civil Rights Institute together with President of National Review, Dusty Rhodes, back in 1996. The Institude was designed to educate the public on the harms of racial and gender preferences… calling for equality for *all*.

Connerly and Obama go head to head on affirmative action… with Connerly stating the policies impede the progress the US has achieved in the post Martin Luther King era. Indeed, Obama himself is an example of how far the US has come. This would be the same American that Obama says is “not what it once was”, and the America he does not want for his girls.

It does make you wonder… if Obama got this far in the America it “once was”, just what does he envision for his daughters? Opportunity certainly has not been outside his grasp.

Today’s NRO has Connerly’s article, “Senator Obama, You’re no King”, accusing him of not following the path of Martin Luther King’s “dream”.

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For two hours last night, Obama minions beseiged retired conservative U of IL professor, Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio show during his interview with Stanley Kurtz about the Obama-Ayers connections during the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

Reminiscent of Obama’s first IL Senate run… where his legal team systematically eliminated all primary competitors by challenging all petition signatures… Obama has sent the lawyers in to attempt to quash the McCain Obama-Ayers ad, criticizing McCain’s suggestion that Obama had a relationship with Ayers beyond that of another guy in the ‘hood.

Barack Obama’s supporters insist that an ad from a conservative group attacking his ties to unrepentant 1970s radical William Ayers is irrelevant to the campaign. Cass Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor and close friend of Mr. Obama, says that while he is “very disturbed by [Mr. Ayers'] past and by his refusal to disavow what the did . . . the implications of this for Obama are zero.”

You wouldn’t know that from the reaction of the Obama campaign. Yesterday, it took the extraordinary step of airing a response to the Ayers ad, which links Mr. Obama to the former Weather Underground organizer who took credit for a series of non-fatal bombings at the U.S. Capitol and Pentagon during the Vietnam War era. “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers?” the Obama ad asks. “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers’ crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old.”

Obama lawyers have also sent a letter to the Justice Department demanding a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project, the conservative group behind the ad, for potentially violating campaign finance laws.

The Obama campaign ignored host’s offer to have an Obama representative present to offer counterpoints.

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Sergeant Tim weighed in on my August 23rd post on the WTC cross, and Iron and Steel motorcycle honor escort and benefit run to Shanksville, PA… where the cross was mounted into it’s final resting place with the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company.

Also, more info from Sgt. Tim’s comment in that thread.

There were a good many crosses fashioned from World Trade Center steel; the one pictured in the comment above was moved to another spot nearby to make may for construction while the museum makes a final decision of what to do with it.

I spoke with Paddy Concannon Saturday, the cross given to the Shanksville VFC was one of the three remaining within the Fire Fighters Transport Foundation’s possession. A college (that I will not name) was originally scheduled to receive it yet dragged its feet. Paddy went looking for a suitable recipient, thought of the Shanksville VFC, and one call to Chief Terry Shaffer sealed the deal. It took a year to put together the fund raiser ride (the FFTF provides medical transport to firefighters, family members of firefighter, and wounded warriors in and near NYC).

We were there Saturday and Sunday.

I give you a heartfelt *Thank you* for the link and the photos, Sgt. Tim. Here’s the direct link to Sgt. Tim’s post on 911 Families for America for the full story. A very uplifting read, tinged with the pain of the memories.

PLUS a couple of photos to entice you to go read Tim’s account of the arrival of the cross.

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Instead of risking being seen as the candidate who tore the DNC officially in two, Hillary’s team caved in during negotiations with Obama’s representative, David Plouffe… agreeing to an incomplete roll call vote.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama worked out a convention city deal to limit the divisive roll call for president, a step toward an uneasy alliance of former rivals and their still-bitter supporters.

Many Clinton backers said Monday they were not interested in compromise and wanted a prime-time celebration of Clinton’s nomination fight. Clinton herself said she wouldn’t tell her backers how to vote.

Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said the deal would let a few states cast votes for Clinton before a move to declare Obama the nominee by acclimation.

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The voting could perhaps end with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous nomination of Obama from the convention floor, Democratic officials said. The officials spoke on condition of while the deal was being finalized.

In odd contrast, Pelosi still believes there should be a full roll call. And I have to say, this may be one of the rare moments I agree with the Speaker.

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