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McCain's VP Choice Is Under Ethics Investigation For Abuse Of Power In Alaska


US Politics & Gov't  (tags: palin, republicans, corruption, ethics, investigation )

Tom
- 1365 days ago - thinkprogress.org
Sara Palin was accused of attempting to get a state trooper fired. That state trooper was her former brother-in-law who had gone through "a messy divorce" with her sister. After the trooper's boss wouldn't act on the governor's request, she fired him.



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Suzybell H. (202)
Friday August 29, 2008, 9:45 pm
I think for the good of all she should refuse vp pick!Thanks,Tom!
 

Hans L. (958)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 3:47 am
Linda i love you but she will not be so kind!
Do you know the song the Evil woman by ELO? its written for Sarah Palin!
The evil woman!
 

laura c. (112)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 5:12 am
ITS SO TRUE.... WE TURN SOOOO EVIL
 

Joycey B. (758)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 5:32 am
I love your song choice Hans. The wench sickens me. Thanks Tom.
 

Clever Pseudonym (176)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 7:40 am
I think it would be even better if she drags him down like the bling that drowned the guy at the end of "20,000 leagues Under the Sea."

She may be the 1st Republican candidate but she's not even the 1st female candidate this year. The Green Party out-did McCain before he started by running a team of 2 Black women.

The twist is that these 2 are both highly qualified candidates (in addition to being attractive) whereas the Palinator is utterly unexperienced in politics. A mother of 5, including one handicapped new-born (as the result of her having a child too late in life), just 2 years ago she was a small-town mayor and wife of a commercial fisherman. She is the antithesis of a progressive in her expressed political views and in her very limitted record of political action.

Voting for Gender? Vote Green.
Voting for progressive values. Vote Green.
Tired of the BS?

Vote Green!
 

Affan Laghari (28)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 11:48 am
Thanks Tom. Noted
 

Debra L. (4)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 5:49 pm


Yes I agree ELO must of had intuition when they wrote Evil woman!!!
I just received an email from the Sierra Club concerning her lack of compassion
to allow the aerial killing of the wolves in Alaska. She also comes from a
family of hunters!! How this woman of five (one disabled) can find the time
to help run a country in the mess were in, is beyond me. She's a poor excuse for the governor of Alaska never a VP!!
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 6:00 pm
Abuse of Power investigation is not isolated.

When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin learned that only the Board of Agriculture and Conservation could appoint Creamery Board members, she simply replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation. The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close the dairy. The new board approved milk price increases offered by the dairy in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices. In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.
 

Blacktiger P. (247)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 8:03 pm
Thank you Blue Bunting, You have just shown the Americans a good reason to dump this pair completely. If they are elected I can se
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 8:09 pm
If this country allows McIdiot and his Palinator to be elected, you can kiss this country and maybe the entire world goodbye. They will take us down. Thank you Tom
 

Morgan Griffith (225)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 11:24 pm
If this is any indication of what Palin will do to get her way McShame better make certain she doesn't want to be Prez
 

Hans Fredrick (3)
Saturday August 30, 2008, 11:27 pm
Just looking at her she smells of corruption just like the guy in the whitehouse now. wanting to cut the small amount of money paid to medicare doctors so doctors will not take medicare patients except if they pay cash up front. Harry S. Truman got no pention after being President one of the best we had the last century and up to now had to take the train back to Independance, MO at the end of his term to live in his mother-in-laws house. Let's stop paying Presidents pensions and giving Secret Service pretection as well as the VP starting with Bush and "The Shoot Them in the Face" Cheney to shore up Medicare and SS that they robbed of Billions of dollars after all in 8 years they have many train loads of box cars filled with 100 bills.After all it is not neccessary with the box cars of money they have so if they are afraid Cheney has a rifle. Electing McCain will coninue the down fall of America that Bush has caused until we become the United States of China. .
 

PeasantDiva WorldMinga (69)
Sunday August 31, 2008, 2:04 am
This woman is a life member of the NRA and an anti-abortion zealot, but while dismayed at her record and credentials, & the cynicism of the McCain campaign's choice (but that isn't a surprise...), I did get a good laugh out of her, thanks to Maureen Dowd's op-ed piece, especially the scenario of her "show down" confrontation with Putin !

"Miss Congeniality" With Sarah Palin -LOL- Maureen Dowd's Clever Take on McCain's Running Mate
 

PeasantDiva WorldMinga (69)
Sunday August 31, 2008, 3:19 am

I mean the Russian Putin, not our C2 Putin Tain.
 

Hans L. (958)
Sunday August 31, 2008, 3:30 am
There is an article in indymedia uk "Sarah Palin is the road to the extinction of life on earth forever." Sarah Palin is the Antigore, the biggest threat to global warming and climate change, because she states positively that human beings are not the cause of global warming. Democrats are panicking over what will happen on foreign policy if the 72 year old twice cancer stricken John McCain dies and leaves Sarah Palin in charge of our national security, but worse, what if Sarah Palin becomes the leader in our battle against climate change? Talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Why did the chicken cross the road? Has this question ever been answered definitively? Why are the mother polar bears now forced to eat their children? Because they cannot get to the other side. The polar bears are the canaries in the coal mine. (...) The solution of John McCain and Sarah Palin to America’s global warming problem is “Drill, Drill, Drill for Oil! Drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. Drill offshore. Drill, drill, drill away all of our problems, until not a drop of oil remains for our children and grandchildren, not a piece of ice remains in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans and the Earth’s one ocean rises 40 feet permanently, submerging all but Denver, Colorado, permanently. To show you how big big oil is, Philip Cooney spent two years in the Bush Cheney oval office doctoring the scientific research to say that human beings are not the cause of climate change and acid rain and dying lakes and oceans. Philip Cooney then was rewarded with a job at Exxon Mobil. If big coal and oil are the enemy of our planet, then George Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain and Sarah Palin are guilty of treason. (...) John McCain never met Sarah Palin until the day he nominated her so who chose her, Exxon Mobil? In the current issue of Newsmax magazine Sarah Palin, the wife of an employee of British Petroleum, has reverted to the position that human beings are not responsible for global warming and climate change. Sarah Palin was asked, “What is your take on global warming and how it is affecting our country?” The woman who you are now considering putting a frail heartbeat from the Presidency answered, “A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location, but I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. (...) Al Gore just said, “This same industry (big oil) has spent a half a billion dollars this year alone (on televison and newspaper advertising – this is how big oil controls the mainstream media – they fund it) trying to convince the public they are actually solving the problem, (of climate change) when they (big oil) are, in fact, making it worse (climate change) every single day. This (Bush) administration and the special interests (big oil) who control it lock, stock and barrel after barrel have performed this same sleight-of-hand (deceit, lies) on issue after issue. (Iraq WMD’s, Climate Change, etc.) Some of the best marketers have the worst products, (cigarettes, coal, oil) and this is certainly true of today's Republican Party (puppet masters, big oil). The root cause of our energy problem is that the U.S. is using 20 million barrels of oil per day. Russia and Germany are only using 2.5 million barrels per day and the vast majority of countries on Earth are using under 100,000 barrels of oil per day. Our gluttonous over consumption of oil and the resource wars and vast transfer of wealth to feed this gluttony is the reason that our country has now gone from a Clinton surplus to a Bush/Cheney/McCain/Palin $10 trillion defict, and the reason that the United States is the world’s worst poisoner, murderer, of the pieces all of us are made of, air, water and earth. The United States of America is already producing 5 million barrels of oil per day, far more than it needs. For 5 million years our ancestors survived without burning any oil until the invention of the internal combustion engine by Karl Benz 125 years ago. When Sarah Palin melts the Antarctic to line the pockets of her puppet masters, when you elect her, we will all get the bends and die. When John McCain and Sarah Palin attack Iran and her allies Russia and China for our God given right to use 50 million barrels of oil per day, the result of nuclear world war III will be a black purple radioactive cloud encircling the tiny ball called Earth for one year, a real live Hell, which Sarah Palin can say of, “I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.” No Sarah, the polar bears invented the cars and the nuclear bombs, and that’s why God is forcing them now to eat their children.
 

Hans L. (958)
Sunday August 31, 2008, 3:33 am
Is this the Change that America has been waiting for?
I hope not but i am not sure with the American people George W Bush has been elected twice and even if Gore had a few more votes millions of people have asked for bush! And this time million of voters will want the rat pack! Cheap oil is all that it takes to make the average american to vote for her! I am glad that we have no average americans in Care2!
 

Todd R. (45)
Sunday August 31, 2008, 5:31 am
http://www.care2.com/news/member/971867718/863576 Here is a link with a video that tells some more of the story. Noted and Thanks for posting. We need to expose the deciet that McCain is trying to pull off with this. Truth be known it's all probably a way to get to ANWR for the oil. Look who we have in office, 2 oilmen!!
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Monday September 1, 2008, 11:06 pm
And yet, $arah Palin may need another attorney to battle her other ethics complaint that was filed on Aug 6, 2008. - http://juneauempire.com/stories/080808/sta_315789945.shtml
 
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