I can’t figure out why the mainstream media, at least so far, can’t figure out what the report issued by the legislative investigation into “troopergate” actually finds. Page 8 of the report is very clear:
- She violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Presumably she did so because she used her office to benefit a personal interest (getting her ex brother-in-law fired)
- Firing the Commissioner of Public Safety was proper and lawful.
- Wooten (the brother-in-law) got his proper workers compensation benefits.
- The Attorney General’s office failed to comply with requests for Palin e-mails.
If you’ve seen the interviews, Wooten seems to have a screw loose and may well have deserved to be fired. That is irrelevant.
The real issue here is a failure to recognize the separation of the Governor’s office from her personal problems. She continues to fail to recognize that it was wrong to use her office (or to allow her husband to) for personal purposes. This is not a gray area, not really open to debate. Cronyism and corruption are exactly what she is supposed to be fighting, and it is this kind of behavior and the failure to recognize that it is wrong that leads to such cronysim and corruption.
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