Yahoo! Main Page, Palin guilty of Violating Ethics

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Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud

-This "story" insinuates that the brother-in-law was fired which is false, he's STILL working today

-When first questioned about it, Walt Monegan was stating that his termination had nothing to do with the dismissal. It wasn't until she became a candidate for V.P. did his story change.

-IF the reason behind his dismissal was that he wouldn't terminate the brother-in-law then why hasn't his replacement done just that. Seems that she would have hired somebody with that in mind from day one.

Clear direction here....seems like there is 1 part truth and 2 parts politics going on.

Have a good one!:s4:

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This part is not true. Monegan had made his complaint and claimed to have been fired unjustly before Palin was selected. The ethics investigation had started long before she was selected.

I personally think this Wooten character is an ass and an idiot and has no place as a state trooper. He probably should have been fired long ago.

However, it is an abuse of power for the Governor to attempt to force his boss to fire him as part of a family vendetta. That is the issue here. She had a conflict of interest and acted improperly. She was warned about the conflict of interest and potential ethics problems and went ahead anyway. It is also interesting that she had her husband make most of the contacts in a weak attempts to keep herslf out of it. That is just stupid. This gets at her competence as an admiistrator.

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Originally Posted by dragonrider

I personally think this Wooten character is an ass and an idiot and has no place as a state trooper. He probably should have been fired long ago.

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off topic.. in general I've noticed your posts seem almost angrier and meaner lately; which is very much not like you, contrary to our differences on issues you're usually level headed and practice a great deal of common sense when analyzing things. Everything ok?

fyi: I am not referring necessarily to this post.

Sorry for the off topic post.

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Originally Posted by daihashi

off topic.. in general I've noticed your posts seem almost angrier and meaner lately; which is very much not like you, contrary to our differences on issues you're usually level headed and practice a great deal of common sense when analyzing things. Everything ok?

fyi: I am not referring necessarily to this post.

Sorry for the off topic post.

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Hmmmm... I think I'm OK.

I think I have been angry about a few things lately though. I am irritated by the increasingly negative tone of this election --- it wasn't this negative and personal until after the conventions. And I am also angry about this financial crisis --- mostly about the way we have all KNOWN something was wrong for a year or more, but the government refused to ackonwledge it until it was a full-blown crisis.

So I am mad about some things I see in the news, but nothing in my personal life has made me angry in general.