GOP lawmakers sue to stop Palin investigation

[Red October]

GOP lawmakers sue to stop Palin investigation
By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer

[excerpt]

JUNEAU, Alaska - Five Republican state lawmakers filed suit Tuesday to end the bipartisan investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of the public safety commissioner even though the vice presidential candidate once said she welcomed the probe into allegations of abuse of power.

The lawsuit called the investigation "unlawful, biased, partial and partisan." None of the lawmakers who filed the suit in Anchorage Superior Court serves on the bipartisan Legislative Council that unanimously approved the investigation.

The scandal known as "Troopergate" gained national attention after Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Palin as his running mate. Since then, Palin and the McCain campaign have sought to distance Palin from the controversy and have taken actions that could slow its resolution until after the November election.

Palin fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan in July. Weeks later, it emerged that Palin, her husband, Todd, and several high-level staffers had contacted Monegan about state trooper Mike Wooten, who had gone through a nasty divorce from Palin's sister before Palin became governor. While Monegan says no one from the administration ever told him directly to fire Wooten, he says their repeated contacts made it clear they wanted Wooten gone.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate

Good!  Fight back against this bullshit, already.   

[WinOne4TheGipper]

This, of course, will lead to the inevitable attack that she's trying to hide something.  Let the investigation go on.  We know already what the firing was over (insubordination).

[lars1701c]

You should put a TO jersey on that baby cause every time someone touched his doucheness he cried like a bitch.

[Airwolf]

Never was told to fire him directly? The man has violated more workplace regulations then Bill Clinton. If they had no reason thats one thing but when you taser a 10 year old child it's time for an intervention stay at the greybar motel.

[Wretched Excess]

Mogan also isn't the paragon of virtue that the MSM would have us believe.

former AK Public Safety Comm. Walter Monegan has history of domestic violence

[Chris]

Rush had a whole segment on this today... it was beautiful.  Monagan was NOT fired for refusing to fire Wooten, he was fired for insubordination after authorizing a deal the Governor had vetoed.  Not to mention the state Senator leading the investigation is an active Obama supporter.

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/16/palin-fires-back-in-troopergate-releases-memos-showing-insubordination/

[Wretched Excess]

it's beginning to appear as though AK politics was a real swamp until Sarah got elected governator, and started cleaning house.

[Jim]

It was once the oil revenue happened.

[Chris]

Alaska AG: Troopergate witnesses won't testify

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's attorney general says state employees subpoenaed in the investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin will not testify.

In a letter to the Democratic state senator overseeing the investigation, Attorney General Talis Colberg asks that the subpoenas be withdrawn. He also says the employees will not appear before the investigator unless either the full state Senate or the entire Alaska Legislature votes to compel their testimony.

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[Chris]

Lawmaker accused of politicizing Palin probe

Democratic state Sen. Hollis French "appears to be steering the direction of the investigation, its conclusion and its timing in a manner that will have maximum partisan political impact on the national and state elections," state Rep. John Coghill said in a letter dated Friday.

Coghill, from North Pole, is on the Alaska Legislature's Legislative Council, the body that appointed French to oversee the investigation. The letter was sent to the council chairman, Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau, whom Coghill asks to convene a meeting to discuss whether French should be replaced.

Coghill wrote in the letter that French was quoted in media reports that the results of the probe were going to be an "October surprise" that is "likely to be damaging to the administration." The comments lead Coghill to believe the investigation is lacking in fairness, neutrality and due process, he wrote.

French said he said some things he probably shouldn't have, but noted that he is not in charge of gathering the facts and writing the report. Prosecutor Stephen Branchflower was hired to conduct the investigation and the integrity of the probe remains intact, he said.


http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=233248&src=110

[Chris_]

Alaska AG: Troopergate witnesses won't testify

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's attorney general says state employees subpoenaed in the investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin will not testify.

In a letter to the Democratic state senator overseeing the investigation, Attorney General Talis Colberg asks that the subpoenas be withdrawn. He also says the employees will not appear before the investigator unless either the full state Senate or the entire Alaska Legislature votes to compel their testimony.

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Great response by the AG.

He sees a political hit in progress and stops it in its tracks.

[jinxmchue]

 That carpet-munching version of Queef Slobbermann was laughing with yes-men last night about how Palin originally agreed to cooperate with the investigation, but now has refused.  As if nothing has changed since she originally agreed.     Morons.

[Wretched Excess]

That carpet-munching version of Queef Slobbermann was laughing with yes-men last night about how Palin originally agreed to cooperate with the investigation, but now has refused.  As if nothing has changed since she originally agreed.     Morons.

not to hijack the thread, but olbermann seems to have really taken a turn for the deepest weeds on the fairway in the short time since that maddow chick got her show on PMSNBC . . . as though they are competing for the lunatic demographic.

[miskie]

I have just one question about Troopergate...

Is it or is it not true that the public safety commissioner is not an elected post but a Governor-Appointed one ?

If it is an appointment, then the commissioner serves at the discretion of the Governor, and may be replaced for any reason, at any time. -- Just like the AG firing nonissues to plague GWB - and to a degree Bill Clinton when he replaced them all IIRC.

Conclusion: * "If" it doesn't matter if she did or didn't, the only purpose of this investigation is to attempt to damage the credibility of Palin by spreading bad press and incorrect rumors. In this politically charged race, Id postpone the investigations as well.

Of course, if its an elected post, then its a different matter, but I don't believe it is.

[Wretched Excess]

I have just one question about Troopergate...

Is it or is it not true that the public safety commissioner is not an elected post but a Governor-Appointed one ?

If it is an appointment, then the commissioner serves at the discretion of the Governor, and may be replaced for any reason, at any time. -- Just like the AG firing nonissues to plague GWB - and to a degree Bill Clinton when he replaced them all IIRC.

Conclusion: * "If" it doesn't matter if she did or didn't, the only purpose of this investigation is to attempt to damage the credibility of Palin by spreading bad press and incorrect rumors. In this politically charged race, Id postpone the investigations as well.

Of course, if its an elected post, then its a different matter, but I don't believe it is.

it's an appointed position.  but you said it yourself, the fact that the fired US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president didn't prevent that from becoming an MSM sensation, and an obsession of the leader of the PMS Congress, nancy pelosi.

it doesn't have to make sense, and it doesn't even have to be improper for the left and the MSM to make a scandal out of it.