Comments on: Troopergate report released

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:25:47 +0000

This was always going to be about nothing. Imagine this is a private company. Imagine that Chuck Magilla, the CFO, doesn’t like (and let’s say for very good reasons) Fenwick Pookie, who is in charge of purchasing office supplies, and who reports to Office Manager Kelly Staples.

Let’s say Staples refuses to fire Pookie, and so Magilla, at the first opportunity, eases Staples out of there by not giving her a raise, or cutting her budget, or both. Happens all the time, neh?

So what we find after weeks (and you all shouldda seen this coming) of blather and the wasting of taxpayers’ money, is that the governor committed an infraction that is at best as serious as a baseball player who corks his bat.

Suspend her for a game, give her a $5000 fine, pending an appeal to the MLB office, where it will probably be knocked town to no suspension and going to bed w/o dinner.*

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*For non-baseball fans: Players when they’re naughty hollow out a portion of their bats and fill them with cork, which makes the bats lighter. Especially helpful to older players who can’t get around on the fastball any more. Also: MLB routinely hands out bigger fines/suspensions than they expect to make stick, because they know the players will appeal, and then they knock the punishment down to what they planned on doing in the first place.

It’s a charade, really.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:06:49 +0000

As I have posted here before, if this man were to have tazed my 10 year old boy. They would find him out in the middle of the woods tied up naked with a bear whistle strapped to his ass, or maybe just pieces of him. I thought domestic abuse was a reason for not giving someone a gun permit. If that was so, then this trooper should have been dismissed as he would not be legally eligible.

Yet here again the Dems support the criminal, and try to destroy the innocent, and these fools think that I am a nut job. – Lorica

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:49:13 +0000

What a waste of time and taxpayer’s money.

Not an election year, and Gov. Palin wasn’t Sen. McCain’s running mate, there would have been an investigation.

By: mikec

mikec — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:09:44 +0000

This was a bogus investigationâ€¦ the so called “independent” investigator turns out to be a long time collegue of the so called victim for over twenty years.

By: Anthony (Los Angeles)

Anthony (Los Angeles) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:51:25 +0000

I stayed up late reading the report and the McCain rebuttal document, and I can only conclude that, as far as scandal goes, this is really weak tea. So, she may have violated a broadly drawn ethics statute in trying to get rid of a trooper who tasered his ten-year old stepson and threatened Palin’s father and sister. He regularly and serially abused his authority, and all the State Troopers did was give him a five-day suspension.

Bah. I’d be worried by Palin if she didn’t do all she could to cashier the guy. He has no business being on any police force.

And Monegan, the guy she fired? Even finding two admits that the dismissal was “a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.” His criticisms of her over “ethics” are essentially based on mind-reading on his part.

By any logic, this should be the end of the matter. But, with the mainstream media we have…

By: Severian

Severian — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:40:40 +0000

After reading this report, I’m forced to conclude that Sarah Palin is a saint. If the trooper in question had done that to my family, the results would not have been so benign, not by a long shot.

But, notice once again, how the Libs and Dems wind up on the “side” of a scumbag or two. The trooper is obviously bad news, talk about abuse of power, and the Commisioner is no prize, wife beater and disloyal at best. So, the Dems once again stand up for scum, the only consolation is that these guys are better than Saddam Hussein and Castro.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:40:24 +0000

“Abuse of power” sounds serious. It invokes memories of Watergate, illegal wiretapping, enemies lists, etc. The phrase was added to this report as a gimmick to maximize negative reactions, and I’m afraid that the undecideds, like the Frank Luntz crowd, who don’t seem interested in exploring anything in depth, will just see those words and conclude that Sarah Palin is Bloody Mary. At the same time, they won’t look beyond the glowing media image of Barack Obama to see the dirt that lies underneath. The fix is in.