Palin, the reformer, is still trying to derail the legislative probe of Troopergate and instead have the investigation run by a state board that she controls.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/...ion/index.html

Even if you think the legislative probe is nothing more than a partisan witchhunt (and how odd that that claim didn't pop up until she was named VP....), how can anyone condone this maneuver? It's Palin essentially investigating herself!

And despite criticism on those grounds.... she's still trying to do it.

Reformer my fanny. It's unethical. Great moral code she has there.

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I would have to agree, if you or I refused to cooperate with a subpoena we would be held in contempt of court. What sickens me most is that she vowed and welcomed the investigation and now its a partisan which hunt? Be real!

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I think it started out it was going to be looked at by the State Board. That's the way it's normally done. But after she became the VP nominee, the Dems on the Judiciary Committee there---BIG Obama supporters wanted a different kind of investigation. And they very oddly want to make sure it happens BEFORE the election. Nah.....nothing partisan or political there, eh?

And we know that this is their reason, because as Governor she has the right to fire any of her own Appointees for any reason.....so there's really not much to investigate in the first place. IMO, even IF they decided that she did seem to be pressuring someone to fire the trooper----or they 'perceived' she was doing so----so what???? I can't imagine any state wanting to keep a trooper who had made threats on the First Family, been found guilty of drinking while driving a state trooper car, shot a moose illegally even though he was head of the Crimes Investigation division that investigated such crimes, and tasered his own step-son. That wasn't her reason for firing the Commissioner----but it sure should have been, IMO.

Is that the kind of state trooper you guys like to have on the job in Minnesota????

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You think, or just guessing? Why would the state board which she presides over be doing the investigation in the 1st place?

Here's a piece from the Anchorage News, you decide..

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/516641.html

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That's not right. The legislative probe began in July, and it wasn't ever going to go before the state board:
http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/482003.html

Palin pledged to cooperate in the probe, and as recently as mid-August was instructing her staff to cooperate.

As I said, the probe predated her selection. After her selection nothing changed -- except McCain's campaign began calling the probe "tainted" and then Palin changed her mind and said she wouldn't cooperate. And then Republicans began suing to shut down the probe.

Then Palin filed an ethics complaint against herself with the State Board in a bid to get the investigation transferred there -- to a board that she controls.
http://www.adn.com/monegan/story/514163.html

When that failed to derail the legislative probe, she sought to have her ethics complaint with the State Board dismissed.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/527218.html

When that failed, she decided to cooperate with the State Board investigation.

She's really distinguishing herself here, but not in a good way.

That's beside the point. Abuse of office, even for what you might consider a good reason, is still abuse of office. And now we get to add the coverup, flip-flopping, stonewalling, lies....

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Palin is a flip-flopper.

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This woman is a real piece of work. I feel sorry for the Republicans. I really don't think they have a snowball's chance in a blast furnace of winning this election with her on the ticket. Even some of the staunchest McCain supporters I know are having second thoughts about voting McCain in this election. Some are thinking of staying home and others are thinking Ron Paul has the right idea.

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Hey, if you have the power to FIRE your "investigators", what's the harm in letting them have a look around? Right?

Very Bush-like.

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--President-elect Barack Obama
November 5, 2008

raytri said it all: Abuse of office, even for what you might consider a good reason, is still abuse of office; I say Palin is just another bush.

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