AP: Palin Will Cooperate with Personnel Board (people she can fire) on Troopergate

[flpoljunkie]

Palin says she'll work with Personnel Board probe

TROOPERGATE: The governor picks the agency's members.

By MATT VOLZ
The Associated Press

(09/23/08 01:48:26)

Less than a week after balking at the Legislature's investigation into her alleged abuse of power, Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday indicated she will cooperate with a separate probe run by people she can fire.

An attorney for the GOP vice presidential nominee met with an investigator for the state Personnel Board to discuss sharing documents and schedule witness interviews, McCain spokeswoman Meg Stapleton said. Neither she nor McCain spokesman Ed O'Callaghan had further details about the meeting and said they did not know if the governor or her husband would be interviewed.

Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein said in an e-mail that information on who will be interviewed and when will be known on Tuesday. He said additional coordination meetings with the investigator, Anchorage attorney Timothy Petumenos, are likely.

After that, however, Petumenos wants to keep the progress of the investigation confidential and the campaign will not have any further comment, McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin said.

Both the Legislature and the personnel board have hired investigators in separate inquiries of whether Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan this summer. Monegan refused to dismiss a state trooper who went through a bitter divorce with her sister before Palin's became governor.

Palin has refused to participate in the Legislature's investigation since becoming Sen. John McCain's running mate.

http://www.adn.com/troopergate/story/534119.html

[grannie4peace]

1. puke puke puke

[Boz]

2. Alaska Senate President Lyda Green (R) trying to recall Alaksa Senate to enforce subpeonas

Calling herself a "raging Republican," Green says, she is "absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed" by the McCain-Palin campaign's intervention in the Troopergate probe.

Green is alarmed by the McCain squad's use of hardball tactics and "the length to which they're going to impede and delay" the investigation. The local press conferences held by McCain-Palin aides, she adds, "are vile. They're attacking nice people, saying things that are not true. Walt Monegan has been respected in all circles. To see him used as a scapegoat is very disheartening."

All of this has Green upset. "It is very distressing," she says, "that a national campaign would come into our state and tell our attorney general to tell our state employees not to honor subpoenas, to obstruct justice."

Green said she is making calls and exploring whether she could call the Senate back into session to either instruct the attorney general to change his position, or to order those subpoenaed under the Legislative investigation to honor that call. Whether the Republican-controlled House would go along is another question.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/09/9840_palin_troopergate_mccain_green_ocallaghan_lyda-green.html

[Alter Ego]

3. She realizes that the more dissembling she does the guiltier she looks, right?

Or did all those mooseburgers go to her head?

[Boz]

5. No she placed all three of the members of the Board she is trying to get it in front of.

So this is venue shopping on its face, but she can now say no look we are cooperting, its the politics that are lying and slowing it down.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Translation: The fix is in. eom

[RichGirl]

6. As long as the media...

...keeps pointing out that this is a group she can fire, then her participation will be harmful to her.

[renate]

7. wow! The "people she can fire" wording is really in the article!

I suspect that Sarah herself didn't word it that way :)--the reporter figured it out.

I don't think I've ever seen a sentence like that at the very top of a mainstream news story. Way to go, Matt Volz!!!!!

:applause: and :woohoo: