Palin Troopergate

A Culture of Corruption: The Ghost of Sarah Palin Still Haunts Alaska

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Geoffrey Dunn

There was a revealing and troubling exchange between a political watchdog and members of the Alaska Personnel Board, which is responsible for processing so-called ethics violations, including Sarah Palin's.

Supporters Raising Funds For Palin Legal Defense

AP | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's supporters are holding a Web-a-thon to raise money for her legal defense fund. Organizers of Cons...

Bristol And Levi Break Up: How The Palins Publicly Trash Their Exes

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics


Bonnie Fuller

Don't mess with Bristol and Sarah Palin if you're a male in-law. Here's how far they'll go to take down a finished flame.

Alaska Attorney General Resigns: Palin

AP | ANNE SUTTON | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics


JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg, a major figure in the abuse-of-power investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, has resigned, th...

Texas Evangelicals Funded Attempt To Stop Palin Troopergate Probe

Anchorage Daily News | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics


New state gift disclosures show it cost Liberty Legal Institute and the two law firms working with it $185,000 to represent six Alaska legislators in ...

Palin Troopergate Testimony: Hometown Paper Questions Secrecy

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


Last week, the Anchorage Daily News reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would not release her testimony from the Troopergate investigation. Now, in ...

Palin Won't Release Troopergate Testimony

Anchorage Daily News | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics


As far as Gov. Sarah Palin is concerned, "troopergate" is behind her and she won't provide a transcript of testimony she gave in an investigation into...

Palin testifies to investigator in ethics dispute

AP | MATT APUZZO and JIM SALTER | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


ST. LOUIS — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republi...

Palin Giving Deposition In St. Louis Before Dropping Puck

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics


News accounts, including on CNN, report that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will be doing more than dropping the puck during her vis...

Palin And Husband Will Meet With Troopergate Investigator This Week

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband will meet this week with an investigator determining whether she violated state ethi...

Troopergate Investigator Getting Confidential Docs

AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A legislative panel agreed Thursday to share confidential personnel records with the lawyer who is leading a second abuse-of...

Palin: "No Abuse Of Power At All" In Troopergate Report

Think Progress | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


A report released last Friday by the bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council found that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) "abused her power" and violated a statut...

Palin Probe Expanded Beyond Troopergate

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics


The Anchorage Daily News reports: The state Personnel Board investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of Walt Monegan has broadened to include othe...

Palin Pledges to Wipe Out Abuses of Power "Starting With That Alaskan Governor"

Steve Young | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics


Steve Young

When a reporter explained to Palin that the Alaskan governor referred to was, in fact, her, she promised she would "find out more and get back to ya."

Who Is Sarah Palin?

Barbra Streisand | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


Barbra Streisand

Until the Republican Convention, very few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, and now this mean-spirited campaigner is asking who is Barack Obama? I'm asking who is Sarah Palin?

Palin Called Troopergate Guy 36 times, Which Is 30 Times More Than You Called Your Ex Last Weekend

236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics


Alaska's Legislative Council is currently meeting over the scandal known as "Troopergate" to determine if vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin did an...

The "Partisan" Alaska Legislative Council -- 10 Republicans, 4 Democrats

James Love | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics


James Love

Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign and many bloggers have described the Troopergate investigation as a partisan inquiry.

Palin Disputes Finding That She Abused Power VIDEO >>

George Spyros | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics


George Spyros

Sarah Palin yesterday defended her actions in the Troopergate scandal after an Alaska ethics report concluded that she had abused her gubernatorial ...

Palin Administration "Shockingly Amateurish"

Time | Nathan Thornburgh | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


Friday's report from special investigator Stephen Branchflower to Alaska's Legislative Council answered some basic questions about the political and p...

Palin's Body of Lies

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics


Jacob Heilbrunn

Palin's behavior in her Troopergate affair was not an aberration. She is a serial abuser and Obama her latest target.

Thoughts On The Sarah Palin Troopergate Report

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media


Troopergate Report: Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority" [AP] Here's the operative part of the report: ...

Troopergate Report: Full Text

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


A bipartisan committee of Alaska legislators voted 12-0 on Friday to release a report stating that Gov. Sarah Palin violated state ethics law "by tryi...

Troopergate Report: Palin "Unlawfully Abused Her Authority"

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, th...

Are Husbands the Achilles Heel for Female Candidates?

Michael Hogan | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


Michael Hogan

What are we to think about a candidate who can't or won't effectively control her spouse? Put another way: Is it sexist to fear that behind many successful women there's a worryingly meddlesome man?

Fired Official Contacted 36 Times By Palin And Her Staff

Posted 11.09.2008 | Home


The Alaskan public safety commissioner fired by Sarah Palin was contacted three dozen times over 19 months by the governor and her staff, who were pre...