Tazergate Investigator Concludes that Palin Might Have Abused Her Powers, Except She Used Them Legally and Properly
By Jimmie on Oct 11, 2008 in Oh, THAT liberal media., Sarah Palin
The MSM is abuzz this morning with the apparent story that Governor Palin sorely, nay grievously, abused her power when she fired Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan.
This is the story that the guy who headed up the investigation promised would be an “October Surprise” for his preferred candidate Barack Obama. The national media is doing its very best to wrap up that package all nice and pretty to deliver it to their guy.
Alas, what’s inside that package isn’t much at all.
Bill Dyer thankfully waded through all 263 pages of the report so that we don’t have to. His post is a must-read summation of Steve Branchflower’s investigation, which basically boiled down to a finding of “maybe she had some influence, but she didn’t break any laws and she used her powers properly”.
The nut of Dyer’s post is this:
Please understand this, if you take nothing else away from reading this post: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn’t been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body. It contains no new bombshells in terms of factual revelations. Rather, it’s just Steve Branchflower’s opinion — after being hired and directed by one of Gov. Palin’s most vocal opponents and one of Alaska’s staunchest Obama supporters — that he thinks Gov. Palin had, at worst, mixed motives for an action that even Branchflower admits she unquestionably had both (a) the complete right to perform and (b) other very good reasons to perform.
What are the chances that this will be prominently noted in any MSM report? I also doubt that those reports will tell you that the Trooper in question is a violent man who tazered his own juvenile step son, threatened the life of Palin’s father, drove around drunk in his patrol car, and blatantly violated the laws he was supposed to be enforcing. Oh, and he’s still on the force and has never been charged with the crimes his own department determined conclusively that he committed.
Surgeon General’s Warning: do not drive or attempt to operate machinery while contemplating the just-published 260-odd-page report orchestrated by Hollis French, Alaska legislator and supporter of Barack Obama.
The fix is in.
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Undeclared registered voter here. Let’s see: Judicial Council of mostly REPUBLICANS started investigation BEFORE McCain picked her and she agreed to it…”hold me accountable”…she said, then McCain picked her and immediately it became a Partisan witch hunt, cooperation stopped, stonewalling began, suits to suppress were filed but were rejected by REPUBLICAN judges, then report was reviewed by 10 REPUBLICANS and 2 Democrats…and the vote was UNANIMOUS 12-0 to accept the conclusion that Sarah Palin abused her power as Governor to try to get Wooten fired…a violation of Alaska ethics law…use of Governor’s Office to settle personal vendetta. In what political universe is it deemed that an investigation sanctioned by a mostly REPUBLICAN panel, ruled valid by REPUBLICAN judges, and approved as valid by 8 REPUBLICANS and only 4 Democrats is considered a biased investigation against a Republican? If that is your universe then I am afraid you are seriously delusional. As for the trooper needing to be fired. He went through the disciplinary process and was held accountable and disciplined way before Palin became governor. Case closed. No one is entitled to come along later and re-open a case just because they didn’t like the result. New cause of action is needed and only the new cause of action should be considered not just go back to dirt from years back and already considered. You would want that if it was your job being reviewed and so would I. By the way, I am still voting for McCain even though he has changed into a serial liar and Palin is the most dangerous thing that could happen to our country. Why? First, I will not ever vote for a black man in the White House. More importantly, I believe our country is now just too rotten to the core and absolutely needs to be destroyed for the good of the world. McCain/Palin are perfect to complete the job. Besides, I am not worried…the Rapture will prevent me from suffering any of the destruction.
Paul | Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Umm…I need you to back up some of those statements, because I believe several of them are incorrect.
Regardless, the report says unequivocally that she used her powers properly and legally. Full stop.
Jimmie | Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Paul,
Nice try Obamatron but we are familiar with the tactics of liberals when they can’t find any legitimate signs of racism and/or oppression coming from the Christian-Right, they just pose as one of them and then post heinous venom on their blogs or call in their radio shows, etc. Now please crawl back under the rock from whence you came.
Cheesestick | Oct 12, 2008 | Reply