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ABC: Palin assertions not true
Palin Saturday spoke with reporters about the official report that concluded she abused her power as governor in an effort to have her sister's former husband, Mike Wooten, fired as a state trooper. The report concluded Palin violated no law by firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
"Well, I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there," Palin said.
Palin said the report cleared her of "any legal wrongdoing or any unethical activity at all."
ABC noted Sunday that the investigator concluded Palin knowingly permitted her husband, Todd Palin, to use her office to "contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired" and that her conduct violated Alaska ethics law.
ABC also noted that Palin told a reporter in Altoona, Pa., "there was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired" -- even though the legislative report said that was the basis for concluding Palin abused her office.
A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign Sunday told ABC the investigator "offers an opinion based on a very tortured reading of the Ethics Act."
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This news arrived on: 10/12/2008
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10-19-2008 19:59
msattitude69 wrote:
Sunshine I have to call you on this one. palin was found guilty of violating the laws of the state of Alaska, specifically she was found guilty of abusing her powers as the governor "abuse of power" under the states ethics act. From the report Branchflower specifically found that “Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”
That part of the act provides that “each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Try going and reading the law sited above and you will understand. The law she broke was Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a)
That part of the act provides that “each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”
Try going and reading the law sited above and you will understand. The law she broke was Alaska Statute 39.52.110 (a)
10-18-2008 14:40
diana ross wrote:
Palin
She is unamerican for insisting Obama is a terrorist. She doesn't care about this world as long as she gets vice presidentcy. We will be in the same mess that we were in if McCaine gets presidency. He used A.C.O.R.N. to help himself get in office in the year 2OOO. He voted for the oil companies C.E.O.'s to help him receive donations. And Palin doesn't know about the real world because she makes up answere that don't go with the questions.Lord have mercy if she gets elected.
10-15-2008 02:51
Sunshine49 wrote:
To Texas Katie
Good. Be very afraid that the truth will win out in the end and that your Messiah will lose!
10-15-2008 01:12
Texas Katie wrote:
to Kathie
Usually I agree with you but this time I cannot.
Sunshine49 doesn't amuse me. She frightens me.
Sunshine49 doesn't amuse me. She frightens me.
10-15-2008 01:11
Texas Katie wrote:
to Sunshine49
Let me quote from your post:
"Second: Palin was CLEARED of "abuse of power". She has been accused of an "ethics" violation because of her husband. She has NOT been found quilty of that charge."
Is it any wonder that many of us believe nothing you say? Do you not read the paper? Listen to the radio? Watch any TV news on any station???
You have just proven yourself to be the worst kind of joke on this blog.
Get Lost!
"Second: Palin was CLEARED of "abuse of power". She has been accused of an "ethics" violation because of her husband. She has NOT been found quilty of that charge."
Is it any wonder that many of us believe nothing you say? Do you not read the paper? Listen to the radio? Watch any TV news on any station???
You have just proven yourself to be the worst kind of joke on this blog.
Get Lost!
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