After weeks of investigation the Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her powers and violated ethics when she fired a state official who refused to fire her state trooper, brother-in-law, according to a legislative investigation.
However Palin said she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan due to a budget dispute. While Monegan maintains that he was fired because he refused to fire Palin's brother-in-law Mike Wooten, after a bombardment of demands from Palin, her husband and staff to fire the trooper.
ApparentlyWooten was involved in a bad divorce and custody battle with Palin's sister.
Palin's husband, Todd, said the reason he made inquiries into Wooten was because the trooper behaved inappropriately by driving under the influence, shooting a moose without a permit, threatening Palin's father and striking his own stepson with a low-level electric Taser.
The report doesn't say that the reasons why Palin wanted him fired were legitimate, it was the means that weren't such as using her husband and staff to conduct a campaign against Monegan.
Palin spent part of the weekend trying clean up the mess that came with the investigation.
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I had heard about this story and I'm glad that it was posted. With the election just around the corner, it's causing more and more attention towards the candidates and their running mates. On a side note, I've heard and seen numerous sources that have McCain reportedly behind Obama and it's due to both the current status of the economy and his running mate Sarah Palin. While some had felt in the beginning that McCain had some credibility, Palin has thus far proved to be incompetent in a lot of areas which causes the fear that if something did happen to McCain, she would be in charge and it would put the country in even worse shape with her in charge. So in short I am glad this story was put up since after I first saw it, I had to wonder if it would be brought up on this blog.
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