She did not have the AUTHORITY to fire him. That is the point. The discilinary board of the Troopers gave the guy a suspension and put him on probation. The governor couldn't fire the guy so they fired the guy they couldn't lobby into doing their dirty work for them.
Come on, GZ. Wrong is wrong.
Also, in the report it appears Todd Palin had the brother in law's personal workers compensation records sent to the governor's office. They had no business looking at his personal medical records. Outside their jurisdiction. no Standing. Say what you want...
How about " Abuse of Power".
Palin now drops like a rock in every poll except among the kool-aide drinkers. What a waste of a campaign that could have been tied right now if McCain had picked Romney instead.
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The Key:
In the 263 pages that were released, the independent investigator, Stephen E. Branchflower, a former Anchorage prosecutor, said that Ms. Palin wrongfully allowed her husband, Todd, to use state resources as part of the effort to have. Trooper Wooten dismissed.
The report says she knowingly “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.”
Further, it says, she “knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.”
Mr. Branchflower based his finding of abuse of power on Alaska’s Executive Branch Ethics Act, which was established to “discourage executive branch employees from acting upon personal interest in the performance of their public responsibilities and to avoid conflicts of interest in the performance of duty,” the report says. |
