I don't get it. Palin started harassing her State Trooper ex-BIL, and trying to get him fired
in 2005!!!. And that's official smears against him, on the record, to his superiors. There are transcripts of her "interviews" about this (see below). So now, this year the "fire Mike Wooten" campaign is still going on from her staffers and her husband and herself (there are emails). But yet she claims SHE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT????
WHAT about her involvement in this isn't clear?
Transcripts of her
2005 crusade against Wooten:
http://www.today.com/external.php?url=http://divasblueoasis.blogspot.com/2008/07/press-conference-and-huge-stack-o.html&reffurl=http://www.today.com/view/the-press-conference-and-the-huge-stack-o-papers/id-2394917/
- Memorandum of Findings
- Memo of Complaint
- Transcription of Mike Wooten Interview
- Transcription of Sarah Palin Interview (1)
- Transcription of Sarah Palin Interview (2) 8/18/2005
- Memo Re: Suspension
- Sarah Palin email to Col. Julia Grimesa (Wooten's boss)That's since 2005 and ongoing until this year. Did she misuse her power to get him fired? HELL, YES! Duh.
TrooperGate
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/palin_probe_could_mean_election.phphttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082903598.html?sid=ST2008083000375&sub=AR&s_pos=Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an ethics reformer under an ethics investigation...
John Cyr, chief of the troopers' union, said he was "shocked and disappointed" at McCain's selection of Palin. "It goes well beyond the fact that she is under a cloud of ethics investigations. She's fired the only commissioner who dared to stand up and say we need to do more to make Alaska safe."
The Alaskan newspapers and bloggers aren't confused about it.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/http://www.andrewhalcro.com/I do think though, that having the national spotlight on it might make the local investigators a little less intimidated about charging her.