Alaska Police Union Files Complaint Against Palin

MSNBC:

The GOP candidate for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, may be facing yet another ethics investigation back in her home state of Alaska. An ethics complaint obtained by NBC News was filed Wednesday by the police officers union in Alaska, requesting a probe into possible wrongdoing by the governor or her office. It was brought on behalf of state trooper Mike Wooten, an ex-brother-in-law of Palin who is at the center of the "Troopergate" scandal.

The complaint alleges that the governor or her staff may have have improperly disclosed information from Wooten's personnel records. The complaint alleges "criminal penalties may apply."

John Cyr, director of the union that filed the complaint, told NBC News, "It seems obvious to us somebody has improperly accessed [Wooten's] personnel file."

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Comments

[Ladyrantsalot]

That's ok, she'll just fire the entire police force.

[smartalek]

But don't forget, they're the party for law'n'order.

(They are the law; you follow your orders.)

[bwilder]

Donate. Volunteer. Vote
www.Obama08.com

Donate till it hurts or it's gonna hurt a lot more for four more long and ugly years.

[DebbieinPhx]

I am a single mom. I live from paycheck to paycheck in Arizona. And I donate around $25 a week (it’s my nail money-it was my one little vanity, but for a good cause I sport stubby nails)
I worked Labor Day at double time and a half and tonite I am putting in $100!

[BigVic]

If you can do it...I can do it as well! Count me in for $50

[gladys46]

You are so gracious! Obama's election is so, so urgent ... these people think they have a heaven/hell to put people in!!??

[LemonMeringue]

Thank you!!!

[naschkatze]

God bless!

[AZterritory]

Disabled Arizona teacher here . . . giving $25 a month, wish it could be more. The GOP convention motto could be "Steal from the Needy to Give to the Greedy". We've got to give to get Obama/Biden in . . . no one else notices all us 'little people' out there.
www.Obama08.com

[slaxx]

sounds like nothing, but it appears that the waiver only applies to his or his ex-wife's attorneys, not the general public or palin or her staff.

[cia1018]

Right but she claims that the disclosed information came from her husband who obtained the information during her sisters divorce proceedings(implying that the sister freely gave him the information). Therefore, no breach. What else can she say? It's not like she is going to tell the truth. They will make sure she has some kinfd of answer for anything and they will work overtime to cover her moose tracks.

[SantaFeStars]

Republicans obeying the laws?? What a joke Palin has become!

[truegreen]

I predict the trooper-gate story along with the potential BOMBSHELL 'Love Affair 'story from the National Inquirer will force Gov.Palin to give up her party's VP nomination.

[CaliTLC]

It may take a couple of weeks. No worries.

[KillTheMessenger]

The longer the better. The closer we get to November, the less people forget.

[Actionmac]

Never and make mccain look like more of an incompetent.

[faithfully]

and remind us of his affairs

[ThoughtAboutIt]

The National Enquirer has learned from lost legal battles and do not publish major stories without solid sources. Could be interesting.

[gladys46]

Reportedly, Mc's lawyers are in some legal arguments with the National Inquirer .... I haven't heard that those lawyers filed any lawsuits did you??? Hey, if there is no libel lawsuit filed then it must be true!!!

[seriously29]

over acusations that sarah had an affair on her hubbly. well, they were right about edwards.

[cia1018]

I heard that they filed a lawsuit to stop the story. No real details that I can find.

[MsLiz]

First, the Enquirer has not yet published allegations that Sarah Palin had an affair with her husband's friend. Second, defamation against a public figure or official has a much higher standard of proof than defamation against a private citizen. So don't make assumptions about an area you have such limited knowledge of.

[GSMRaleigh]

Sounds like the Republican thugs are saying that the guy signed a release of records as part of a divorce matter. I doubt it included authorization to releas information to another source.

The thugs will spin spin spin until they are out of control.

[Kynn]

In the story the waiver said that he released them to the divorce attorneys. Not to every Joe around.

[NightRider]

How did she accept the VP nomination before McCain was officially confirmed as the party nominee by the delegate counts. I realize this is a minor point but it seemed strange to me that whole procedure?

Someone help me out please!

[DebbieinPhx]

Yeah well those Repug trolls never were big on rules.... laws, ethics, constitutions, whatever.

[gladys46]

Above all rules & laws .... During the speech she gave in accepting Mc's offer, Sarah said that "she" was going to take their campaign across this country!! I noted the emphasis she placed on "she" !!!? This is another egomanical, power drunk personality! It's all about her!!

[NightRider]

I looked back at her speech, i guess she did not really accept yet.

"Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...

I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America."

[RedDogBear]

"The McCain/Palin campaign Thursday launched a spirited defense when contacted by NBC News. They say the personnel files were not protected;"
Really? They must do things very differently up north (perhaps its all that diplomacy with the Russians). EVERYWHERE that I've ever worked or heard about personnel files are sacrosanct.

[CaliTLC]

Not protected. Really now. Okey dokey. In that case, let's access all of THEIR personnel records and let the world see. That complaint just might persuade Ms. Palin's aide to start talking. Otherwise, he may be charged with accessing the personnel files himself. I suspect he will start singing like a canary real soon.
Obama-Biden 2008-2016

[Whinger]

Especially McSidekick's unedited war records!

[Graywolf48]

I'd just like to see McCain release ALL of his military records, not just the few pages that the press only got a gander out. Let's see the hundred and more pages that McCain refuses to release. Kerry released all of his. What's McCain hiding or ashamed of?

[SurrealPumpkin]

Really? Even Florida's Sunshine law specifically exempts Law Enforcemnt Officers. Their files are not available to the general public. Something to do with protecting them and their families from retaliation/revenge.

[FaceYourFears]

The MSM had better start covering some of this stuff before the repubs start silencing these folks!

[gladys46]

This may not come to anything really ... at best some summary judgment will issue against her office and not her specifically!!! Her ex-brother-in-law may enter into a union sponsored arbitration and agree to accept his job back and retroactive loss wages as settlement.

Who knows ... but, I doubt if any criminal actions will occur!!!

[FaceYourFears]

Unfortunately you're right.

[DebbieinPhx]

No but after blogging with several Alaskan's last night they were talking of signing a recall petition

[gladys46]

A recall petition if accepted might be meat on the table!! That's a whole new thingie ... I would think!!!

[smartalek]

That would be brilliant.
About time at least some Dem's would learn to stand up and fight.

[Jimmyboyo]

He was never fired. Her brother-in-law is still working as a state trooper.

It was his boss who she improperly fired for not firing him

[gladys46]

Oooh!!

[CaliTLC]

Her brother-in-law never lost his job. Gov. Palin allegedly tried, unsuccessfully, to get him fired. The state of Alaska must have laws protecting the privacy of personnel records. The police collective bargaining agreement may also speak to this issue. It is not going away that quickly. Police unions never do.

[gladys46]

So her ex-brother-in-law's boss was terminated because he wouldn't fire him?? Is that it!!?

[ThePublicRecord]

http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/301-palins-reformer-image-tainted-by-history-of-ethical-lapses-.html

Palin's Reformer Image Tainted by History of Ethical Lapses

When John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, his campaign and much of the U.S. news media depicted the Alaska governor as an ethics “reformer” whose meteoric political rise came from her confronting corruption within her own state Republican Party.

But a closer look at Palin's short political career reveals that she committed some of the same ethical lapses that she has attacked, especially during her unsuccessful bid for lieutenant governor in 2002. She also has shown herself to be a thin-skinned politician quick to see herself as the target of conspiracies.

[mara150]

and the truth shall send her back to Juneau.

[DebbieinPhx]

How about Wasilla... cause ya know they really LOVE her there (not!)

[Graywolf48]

They're the dynamic duo of corruption. McCain has had his share of "ethical lapses", some of which have cost the American taxpayer millions. McCain too is thin skinned and vindictive. McCain/Palin, soul mates made in hell.

[raskolnikov72]

For Pete's sake ... they've turned this election into a soap opera .. .where in the bejezus are the grown ups? They sure as he DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS (Sarah Palin) are not in the Republican party. What a load of dung has been dropped on the American people too:

a) deflect failures of the party in power
b) cloak the fact that Bush is implementing all of Obama's policy prescriptions
c) take the heat off the most politically contrived and self-serving VP pick in history

McCain-Palin: "deception first"

[StarkRavingNakedEmperor]

Gosh, this is a real heartbreaker!!

[CKieffer]

“I make them as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, if I can,” Mr. McCain wrote, with his top adviser Mark Salter, in his 2002 book, “Worth the Fighting For.” “Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint.”

But, when we complain about his decisions (aka Palin)... we are sexists.

[exxonmobil4prez]

Check this out: http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080904/cm_thenation/45354444_1

[Deni]

Wow. She's the stereotype of the "vindictive woman." How sad for all women in America that John McSame had to have yet another beauty queen instead of someone accomplished and with the real experience needed for the job. I can't believe people are actually going on TV and saying that since Alaska is so close to Russia she's got Foreign Policy cred. Have Americans really become that dumb?? Don't answer that.

[linux]

Never underestimate the stupidity of a red state republican. Especially those not benefiting from Dubya's tax cuts.