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if your married and divorced 4 times something is wrong with you, i mean after the third divorce you should no marriage is just not for u.
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Trooper's union files an ethics complaint against Palin.
By WESLEY LOY [email protected] Published: September 5th, 2008 02:00 AM Last Modified: September 5th, 2008 08:02 AM The union representing state Trooper Mike Wooten has filed an ethics complaint against Gov. Sarah Palin and members of her administration charging a possible unlawful breach of Wooten's confidential personnel and workers' It's the latest twist in what has become the subject of global media scrutiny -- whether Palin, the newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her powers as governor to try to drive her former brother-in-law out of the trooper ranks. Palin and her family have accused Wooten, who was involved in a messy divorce with the governor's sister, of a variety of misdeeds such as threatening her family and drinking while driving his patrol car. Palin insists she didn't use the trooper's continued employment as an excuse to fire a member of her cabinet, Walt Monegan, who supervised the troopers as commissioner of public safety. Interest in what has become known as "troopergate" is attracting huge attention because of Palin's rocketing political fortunes. John Cyr, executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association, said Thursday a British media organization has offered Wooten $30,000 for an interview. ADVERTISEMENT "Mike Wooten is not accepting those offers," Cyr said. But Wooten did an interview Thursday for CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper for a story to air soon, and that's the only interview Wooten plans to do, Cyr said. The union this week lodged an ethics complaint with the attorney general's office asking for an investigation into whether Palin or her aides tapped Wooten's confidential personnel and workers' compensation files and disclosed information in an effort to jeopardize Wooten's job. The complaint focuses on Palin aide Frank Bailey, who in February called a trooper commander on a recorded phone line and said the governor and her husband, Todd, were wondering why Wooten was "still representing the department." On the recording, Bailey makes reference to Wooten "lying on his application," and also possibly making a false workers' compensation claim. The trooper commander, Lt. Rodney Dial, replied to Bailey: "Frank, where did you get that information from?" Dial added that such information "a lot of times is extremely confidential." Bailey replied: "Well, I'm a little bit reluctant to say ... ." Palin has said Bailey's phone call was wrong and that he wasn't directed to make it. She has suspended Bailey with pay. Thomas Van Flein, an Anchorage attorney representing the governor, said Thursday he couldn't discuss or even acknowledge a new ethics complaint. However, he provided two documents that were produced to support the governor's own request earlier this week for a state Personnel Board investigation into the Wooten affair. The documents are depositions that Van Flein's law firm conducted with Bailey and with another state official, Mike Monagle, who supervises workers' comp cases. Both denied they improperly accessed Wooten's files at the behest of the governor's office. "I have never seen a workers' comp file, I have never seen a personnel file, I have never seen an employment hiring file on Trooper Wooten," Bailey said, according to the deposition. As to the source of what he told Dial about Wooten, Bailey said: "I was basing it on candid conversations I had had with Todd regarding Trooper Wooten." The Alaska Legislature has hired an investigator to look into troopergate and Palin's dismissal of Monegan. Although Palin said repeatedly she intended to cooperate with that investigation, she's shown resistance in recent days and a standoff seems to be building between two branches of government -- the governor's office and the Legislature. "The governor's done nothing wrong in any of this," Van Flein said. But Cyr said Wooten has been maligned as a trooper and he's suffering for it. |
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Coghill says French should quit 'Troopergate' oversight
By WESLEY LOY | [email protected] Published: September 5th, 2008 11:18 AM Last Modified: September 5th, 2008 11:18 AM Rep. John Coghill, R-North Pole, today released a letter criticizing statements French purportedly made in media interviews. Coghill said French remarked that a forthcoming legislative investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her former public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, is "likely to be damaging to the administration" and has twice suggested the governor faces potential impeachment. "These statements cause me to think that the report is already written even though the investigation is only just begun and the most important witnesses have not even been interviewed," Coghill's letter says. "The investigation appears to be lacking in fairness, neutrality and due process." Coghill wrote the letter to Sen. Kim Elton, D-Juneau, who chairs the bipartisan legislative panel that hired independent investigator Steve Branchflower and designated French as "project director" for the investigation. Coghill is a member of the panel, known as the Legislative Council. Branchflower is examining whether Palin dismissed Monegan for failure to fire a state trooper involved in a messy divorce with Palin's sister. A call to French for comment was not immediately returned. Coghill said French, in an interview carried on ABCNews.com, said the report would be an "October surprise" for the Palin administration. "Sen. French's public statements regarding 'October surprises,' his indication that the report's conclusion has already been written, and his comments implying that he has undisclosed information that would make the governor unfit to be the nominee for vice president of the United States all are direct contrast with the goals of professionalism, lack of bias, and an apolitical investigation," Coghill's letter says. Coghill said he no longer has confidence in French managing Branchflower and the legislative investigation. Coghill is a ranking member of the state House, serving as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee. French chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. |
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If anyone is so inclined an email to Sen. John Coghill in support of his stance against Hollis French is a good idea. Sen. Coghill's webpage is www.akrepublicans.org/coghill/index.php
Hollis French is a Democrat who is trying to use this situation to further his career. When he was running for office he claimed on his resume to be a US Marine......when it was later figured out that he was in USMC ROTC and nothing more. He should NOT be overseeing this investigation. Hollis French |
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thanks, just mailed him |
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Hollis French was just interviewed on 650 KENI and admitted he said many things that he should have not said to the national media. HOWEVER, he refuses to resign as oversight chair of this investigation. He stated if the legislature wants to replace him then that's up to them.
John Coghill was also interviewed and he hit this HARD. He said all anyone wants is the unbiased truth & he is correct. |
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CNN just interviewed the BIL. He admitted most (not the threat part). Reporter even talked about his multiple marriges. Dude came off as a real POS. Even the reporter and Andrerson Cooper were like WTF? Why did he want an interview??
I was surprised CNN aired it. Gave strength to the cause of Palin. |
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the interview is on youtube, I'm downloading both parts, will join them as one file and host it in case it poofs from youtube. |
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Parts 1 and 2 CNN Wooten Interview
Combined file, another part is supposed to air tonight, when I have that I'll add it to the file and post a revised file. |
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Along with the Wooten interview, am emailing the list of accusations (and findings) of ALL the Palin rumors to everyone I know. Call it "Palin Rumor Control"
Feel free to copy & distribute:
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i know mike wooten,
so i am here looking at "stuff" on the computer with CNN on in the background, then i hear a "voice" and i thought to myself, that sounds familiar....why ? so i turn around and look at the screen and i see a familiar looking face, and the name "mike wooten mike wooten "woot" was my "dorm manager" in my dorms in kunsan air force base Korea...1996-1997 the dorms i was in was called the "crackhouse" cause it was the worse dorms in Korea, maybe the worse ones in the airforce... period. you have no idea how bad i laugh when people bitch about substandard barracks for the military... i lived in one in the 90s and nobody was bitching for me so any way... a dorm manager is basically the highest ranking guy in the dorm and he gets his own room, and he made the roster on dorm whore...dorm whore is basically a weekly duty where we go around the dorm cleaning shit, weeding, cutting grass, what not...its not a big deal, cause you don't go to work, and you hang out in the dorm for that week. you were on duty from 8-5, but you get the shit knocked out in the first 3 hours in the morning, and you get to hang around the dorm slacking. this dorm was basically a shitload of first year troopers, full of e-2,e3s young dumb and full of cum....(all military folks should of been called this) and like three e-4s i was one of the e-4s when i got to Korea i was an e-3, and like in 2 weeks i was putting on e-4 so i got put in the "crack house" cause i wasn't a high enough rank for the e-4 dorms so i get to the dorm, meet "woot" he gave assigned me a room, and we bullshited... told me since i was an e-4, that i was expected to keep the inmates in-line. those dorms were basically a party dorm..... had a few fights, shit got smeared on the walls, set off a couple of MRE heater bombs, answering the dorm phone with "city morgue, you kill them, we chill them" , underage drinking, the dorm got screamed at by our major for being undisciplined in the dorms, about 4 months later he got orders, so his last weekend, he came by the dorms and drank with a few of us.... and a shit load of underage airmen. "woot" was like 6 foot 3, big fucking dude....and if i remember correctly he was at elmendorf AFB, before getting shipped off to Korea. we talked about hunting, sluts, beer, music, idiots in the dorm... he was pretty laid back tho, the only time he got mad was when some idiot did something stupid, but the idiots deserved to get their shit jumped into... for me this is funny, my sis says i am 2 degrees away from a potential VP |
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yeah, sounds like he was a real winner back then too... |
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