Investigation Finds Sarah Palin Abused Power
What an embarrassing week for John McCain’s campaign. He lost the debate against Barack Obama on Tuesday, he’s behind in the polls, some of his supporters are showing their true ignorance, and now his running mate Sarah Palin has been accused of abusing her power as Governor of Alaska. Ouch!
According to the AFP,
Investigators found vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her powers as Alaska governor, dealing another blow to Republican John McCain’s struggling White House bid.
In a long-awaited 263-page report released on Friday by Alaska’s Legislative Council, investigator Steve Branchflower said Palin was guilty of violating ethics rules for public officials.
He said Palin had allowed her husband Todd Palin to use the Alaska governor’s office and its resources to pressure officials to fire her former brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten.
It just doesn’t seem to be getting any better for McCain. Poor guy. He wouldn’t be able to run in 4 years either, but I’m actually glad he showed his poor judgment skills by choosing Palin. Isn’t it ironic how the McCain/Palin campaign is running ads to try to suggest that Obama can’t be trusted? This is hypocrisy at its best.
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2 babblicious comments:
I’m a Republican, and when Palin first came on the scene, I liked her and viewed her as a breath of fresh air. However, I don’t believe in media hype, campaign ads or marketing soundbytes – pro or con – and decided to research her record and get some facts. What has this governor of a state with only 630,000 residents done in the past 18 months? Not even close to what McCain’s campaign maintains:
· For starters, when Palin took over as Mayor of Wasilla, a village of 6,000 residents at the time, she boasted that the job “wasn’t rocket science,” and that she could handle it alone, as her predecessors had done. She soon created a position of City Manager and filled it with someone to handle much of the work. She also left the town with a $22 mil budget deficit.
· Palin appears to prefer speech/seminar formats where she controls information and doesn’t have to answer direct questions she is either unfamilair with, or won’t answer out of fear of looking incompetent. (Sound familiar?)
· To say that Palin is not particularly kind to those who don’t spport her 1000 percent is an understatement. Lyda Green is a highly-respected Republican and is president of the Alaska state senate. She resides in Wasilla. Lyda did not feel that Palin was ready to run for governor in 2006, and declined to endorse her, preferring to remain neutral. In January of 2008, Palin was on the Mark & Bob Show, a radio show in Anchorage. During the radio spot, Bob Lester remarked to Palin that he knew she viewed Green as “a bitch and a cancer.” Palin just laughed and giggled at his comments, knowing full well that Lyda is a breast cancer survivor. What was particularly hard on Lyda is that her children had to learn about the incident by reading about it on the Internet.
· Palin appears to take credit for work and/or ideas that are not her own. That includes the “sweetheart deal” with TransCanada on the gas pipeline which, despite her posturing, exists only on paper. This deal is a high-risk house of cards; if a key step fails, the deal falls through and can cost Alaska a half-billion dollar in seed money guarantees.
· Palin vetoed/slashed budget programs and projects during her first months in office that had to be re-instated due to public protest and further legislative action, simply because she didn’t understand their importance. Budget spending has steadily increased, both before and after Palin took office. She was fortunate that when she took over as governor, the state coffers were relatively brimming with cash compared to other states that were suffering. This did not dissuade her from requesting more earmark funding than any other governor before her. This is how she earned the nickname, “Queen of Pork.”
· Palin was completely false to the American people and her own constituents by claiming that she said, “thanks, but no thanks,” to the bridge from nowhere. In truth, it was exactly the other way around. Earlier Palin interviews — as well as an article written by her own special counsel, John Katz, that ran in a March 2008 edition of the “Juneau Empire” — prove this, unequivocally. She did not become a “born again pork reformer” until Congress instructed her to significantly decrease her earmark requests. It became a matter of her political survival and a lot of negative press in the lower 48.
· Palin wants to expand oil and gas drilling in Alaska at the expense of environmentally protected areas and Alaskan native sovereignty. She’s filed several lawsuits against the Feds protesting the listing of polar bears as an endangered species, and challenged Alaskan Native fishing and hunting subsistences, as well as Native sovereignty. (Can you guess why she claims that human activity is not the major cause of global warming?)
· She also wants to take hunting and fishing opportunities away from Native subsistence villagers to enhance sports hunting and fishing. As for the issue surrounding sovereignty, both the state courts and the federal courts have struck down Palin’s policy of refusing to recognize the sovereign authority of Alaska Tribes. Nonetheless, Palin’s policy of refusing to recognize Alaska tribal sovereignty remains unchanged.
· Any Palin leadership activities or decisions with the Alaska National Guard are practically non-existent. She has given them no direction, no commands. According to General Craig Campbell, the service commander of Alaska’s National Guard, Palin gave him substantial authority to act on his own. She has given him no direct approval or disapproval of any action since she took office.
Is it any wonder why McCain won’t let anyone near Palin with a microphone for any more one-on-one interviews? There’s a lot more, but I have neither the time nor the writing space to continue. I’m not saying that Palin has done nothing while governor. It’s just that on balance, she’s not at all who she claims to be, and is most certainly NOT a viable candidate for VP — a position that is a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Voters need to know the truth.
This is a joke!!!