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Alaska inquiry finding: Palin abused power - Yahoo! News

For those of you with lazy tendencies. Summary

Gov. Palin has been accused by a bi-partisan panel of violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. She reportedly tried to have her former brother-in-law fired, because of a family grudge stemming from the divorce of he and the governor's sister. With no avail the Palin's had the man who was supposed to be doing the firing, fired.

And of course to every story there are two sides and generally more, so...

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe - Yahoo! News

I knew she did it from the beginning. Why else would she put so much effort into stonewalling the investigation? If she was innocent she would of cooperated and set the record straight as soon as she possibly could. Instead she and her husband both ignored federal subpoenas and encouraged all her former aides to do the same.Yeah, I'm pretty sure she handled this situation perfectly.

I also love how this isn't gonna change anybody who was already gonna vote for hers mind. She could literally commit murder and there would be people who would still vote republican.

I notice all she could get if convicted is a slap on the wrist.

God.

I was kind of hoping to see that power-hungry *blank* in cuffs. I really can't stand anything about her except her looks.

Abuse of power?
Well... thats a very mavericky, joe sixpack, thing to do. Way to go!:fish:
You go, girl!

Wheres Mel Gibson to show her whos a real maverick.

She'll feel right at home in DC.

Nothing will be done to her nor will it affect much. I don't know how credible either report are!!

I just don't understand how you can be found of abusing power but not have broken the law or done any wrong. I sure as shit hope SOMEONE can explain the reasoning behind this to me.

A separate committee has to decide whether or not she broke the law, and the maximum penalty for such a crime is a 5000 dollar fine. I'm not sure whether or not it's an impeachable offence under Alaska state law. Either way, it looks like they're going to be at this for a few months so she could be vice president by the time she's found guilty, and by then she can have old John give her a presidential pardon.

This is something that bothers me.. and honestly as soon as I heard the circumstances surrounding this situation I had a strong feeling she was guilty.

She claims it was for budgetary reasons? You would think that for her own political safety alone she would've avoided this guy as much as possible and fired someone else if it was truly a budget issue.

Palin is definitely guilty of this. Makes you wonder how often this happens in the general populations workplace. Probably more often than we'd like to think.

There's a saying.. "it's who you know" I guess the same is true when getting fired. Poor guy (brother inlaw).. family matters should stay family matters and out of the workplace.

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Originally Posted by JakeMartinez

A separate committee has to decide whether or not she broke the law, and the maximum penalty for such a crime is a 5000 dollar fine. I'm not sure whether or not it's an impeachable offence under Alaska state law. Either way, it looks like they're going to be at this for a few months so she could be vice president by the time she's found guilty, and by then she can have old John give her a presidential pardon.

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So let me get this straight....we need two committees, one thats already been bipartisan, so say whether or not abusing the power given to her by people who trust her is a crime. And even then, a $5,000 fine? That is some SERIOUS bullshit. That's a prime example of how accountability is no longer an issue in this country. If you have any sort of power, please feel free to do whatever you wish, we're just gonna take a tiny fraction of the huuuuuuuge paycheck you DON'T deserve. I can't even believe what I'm hearing. It's almost like we're ASKING for people to make a joke of being in office.