Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority"

post from Daily Kos on 10 October 2008 09:59:48 PM. © Daily Kos

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole reason for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan but says it likely was a contributing factor.

Looking more like the Cheney administration by the day.

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Troopergate Panel Finds Sarah Palin Guilty of
Abuse of Power

post from MyDD on 10 October 2008 09:54:03 PM. © MyDD

From CNN: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor in the firing of her former public safety commissioner, but violated no laws, a report for the state Legislature concluded Friday. A pdf of the report is[...]

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We Are Better Than This!

post from Everyday Citizen on 10 October 2008 09:51:40 PM. © Everyday Citizen

I believe that you can tell much about candidates and political contest by what they bring out in[...]

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Hate Speech Cuts into the Health of the Nation's
Soul

post from Everyday Citizen on 10 October 2008 09:47:29 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Politics gets nasty.When I was a graduate student at Tulane University, I remember reading[...]

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Palin's Claims She Feared Wooten Were Bogus

post from TPMMuckraker on 10 October 2008 09:46:00 PM. © TPMMuckraker

Here's another interesting finding, that belies a key claim made by Governor Palin in her defense against the Trooper-Gate allegations.

"Governor Palin has stated publically that she and her family feared Trooper Wooten. Yet the evidence presented has been inconsistent with such claims of fear."
...

"I conclude that such claims of fear were not bona fide and were offered to provide cover for the Palin's real motivation: to get Trooper Wooten fired for personal family related reasons."

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McCain booed when he asks his supporters to
‘respect’ Obama.

post from Think Progress on 10 October 2008 09:46:00 PM. © Think Progress

During a campaign rally this evening in Lakeville, MN, an audience member asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for a “real fight” with Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) at next week’s presidential debate. When McCain responded, “We want a fight, but we will be respectful,” the crowd broke out into loud boos. Ana Marie Cox reports, ?McCain, visibly angry, stopped them: ?I want EVERYONE to be respectful, and let?s make sure we are.?? The crowd then applauded. Watch it:

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Earlier today, McCain’s spokesperson appeared to defend the recent spate of violent remarks made by McCain supporters at campaign events.

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Brewer falsely portrayed McCain as denouncing
voter disenfranchisement in clip she aired

post from Media Matters for America on 10 October 2008 09:45:37 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the October 9 edition of MSNBCLive, after she cited an October 8 NewYork Times articlereporting that "[t]ens of thousands of eligible voters in at least sixswing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked fromregistering in ways that appear to violate federal law," MSNBC's Contessa Brewerasserted that at a campaign stop in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain"was talking about the importance of making sure that voters who registerget a chance to go vote." Brewer then aired[...]

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Sarah Palin Pursued "Personal Agenda" in Seeking
To Get Trooper Fired

post from TPMMuckraker on 10 October 2008 09:42:00 PM. © TPMMuckraker

Here's another of the report's key conclusions:

"The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in "official action" by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation]. She knowingly, as that term is defined in the above statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor's office and the resources of the Governor's office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees, in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."
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"Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: To get Trooper Michael Wooten fired.''

In other words, the investigators appear to have concluded that Palin's improper conduct was not the firing of Monegan, which, as governor, she had a right to do for essentially any reason. Rather, it was the improper pressure placed on subordinates in her effort, conducted largely through her husband, to get Mike Wooten fired.

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McCain "The Sentinel of Truth" * Karma Comes Home
Edition *

John McCain is pushing the meme Obama isn't being open or honest about his association with Bill Ayres. Well John, openness and honesty, truthfulness should start with YOU. Every time you get in front of a camera with that self serving smirk and exhort[...]

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FL-18, FL-25: Bushraiser III

Huh.

It used to be that pictures like this:

would get people seriously riled up. It used to be that hearing about a Bush fundraiser would motivate people into action.

But no one gives a shit about Bush anymore.

In two posts today pushing this Bush raiser, we've raised just a couple of grand for the Democrats who will be most hurt by Bush's big money infusion.

In a way, this is good. While the wingers might talk about "Bush Derangement Syndrome", the reality is now more like "Who Gives a Flying Fuck About Bush Syndrome". I suspect Oliver Stone's new movie will be treated in similar fashion. We've had eight years of the guy. We're ready to move on.

But let me try one more time. This is what happened today in Florida:

President Bush worked to allay fears about the financial crisis on Friday then left the White House and headed south to raise nearly $2 million for the Republican Party in South Carolina and the battleground state of Florida [...]

Bush attended a fundraiser at the home of Sergio Pino, a developer and entrepreneur in south Florida, where he raised more than $500,000, according to Republican officials.

Now $500,000 is a far cry from what he could raise back in the day. It looks like even Republicans donors are tiring of the old failure. But that's still $500,000 that will be used to beat the crap out of our South Florida Democrats.

So let's at least get to $35,000 each for Annette Taddeo and Joe Garcia. These are winnable races, and while George Bush will be mercifully gone in a few short months, but the Bush Republicans he's helping fund are trying to hang on.

Let's do our part to make sure that doesn't happen.