Kagro X has a frontpage story up at the Great Orange Satan entitled "She just looooooves to lie!", in which he quotes the following from an ABC news story: An internal government document obtained by ABC News appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief, the move which prompted the now-contested state probe into "Troopergate."Fighting back against allegations she may have fired her then-Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan, for refusing to go along with a personal vendetta, Palin on Monday argued in a legal filing that she fired Monegan because he had a "rogue mentality" and was bucking her administration's directives.
"The last straw," her lawyer argued, came when he planned a trip to Washington, D.C., to seek federal funds for an aggressive anti-sexual-violence program. The project, expected to cost from $10 million to $20 million a year for five years, would have been the first of its kind in Alaska, which leads the nation in reported forcible rape.
The McCain-Palin campaign echoed the charge in a press release it distributed Monday, concurrent with Palin's legal filing. "Mr. Monegan persisted in planning to make the unauthorized lobbying trip to D.C.," the release stated.
But the governor's staff authorized the trip, according to an internal travel document from the Department of Public Safety, released Friday in response to an open records request.
please note
1) she made the claim in a legal filing, and put out a press release about it
2) official documents show her statement was untrue
Therefore, either she lied to the attorney who made the filing, which is unconscionable, or else the lawyer as an officer of the court may have just committed an offense for which he can be disbarred, knowingly filing a false legal document with the court.
In either case, it sounds like the McBush-Quaylin ticket continues to make things ever worse for themselves.
Could this be the (political) death of Rico Palin?
Here is the link: clammyc's diary on Palin's taxes.
And, of course:
Palin is John McCain's choice for VP.
That should be the end of story, and from the looks of things in Florida, it very well might be.
Also, did I read right that she now claims she fired the Public Safety Commissioner for attempting to get funding for an anti-sexual violence program, and Alaska has one of the highest rates of foricble rape in the country? And this is the small town mayor that forced women to pay for their rape kits? Without a rape kit, you can't prosecute the crime; rape kits are what the ER uses to collect evidence. If a Democrat did something like this he or she would be pilloried as soft on crime and protecting the criminal at the expense of the victim.
Hulllooo - are we letting this bimbo get away with promoting herself as somebody who would understand and improve women's lives. She seems to side with the old boys and bullies against women every chance she gets.
Thank God.
Unfortunately, those of us who at least try to be rational are in a minority.
And the biggest question of all: what happens if, God forbid, they win? Will she be in the driver's seat????
Small correction -- if something that we did not know about comes to light from Troopergate this might be sufficient to destroy her. Outright tax cheating might get her too but this is (IMO) not as advanced as Rapekitgate in terms of being developed/known and is way more complicated for an average person to understand.
But don't get me wrong. This (another lie) doesn't really help her, at all. It keeps Troopergate at #2 or #3 on the media depth chart and leads people to have their doubts about Palin.
Remember, the Ted Stevens trial starts Monday and will likely be top five in the media depth chart until a verdict is reached.