Palin Cleared Of Wrong-Doing In Troopergate
Nice of them to reach this conclusion on the eve of the election.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin did not violate state ethics rules as governor when she fired her state police commissioner and allegedly tried to engineer the firing of her brother-in-law from the Alaska State Troopers, an investigator for Alaska’s State Personnel Board found in a report released on the eve of the election.
This part of the article is a little aggravating:
The exoneration by the State Personnel Board contradicts the findings of an Alaska state legislative investigator, who ruled last month that Palin abused executive power when she and her husband engaged in a campaign to oust Mike Wooten, her former brother-in-law, from state trooper payroll.
It’s worth noting that the legislative investigator concluded that Palin “acted within her constitutional authority.” Of course, the legislative investigation also accused her of abusing her power, but that was just a bit of nonsense tossed in to appease the partisan Democrat Obama supporters who were running the investigation.
She acted within her authority to try and get a bad cop fired. When her public safety commissioner wouldn’t cooperate with what she wanted that commissioner got the axe.
The only reason why this was a scandal was because Palin was terribly inconvenient for the Obama campaign, and his disciples on the left and in the media needed to score some points against her.
