Leftist Dems Try to Play Alaska Scandal Against Palin

Posted by johnhouk on Sep 01, 2008
 John R. Houk
© August 31, 2008

I wonder how much traction the Democratic Party Leftists will get from the instigation of a sour grapes loser Andrew Halco. Halco lost to Palin in the 2006 gubernatorial race in Alaska.

As is typical of Democrats they have taken facts and are attempting to twist them into a scandal. The scandal seems to have two names – Troopergate and Wootengate – named after a State Trooper who was married to Palin’s sister.

The web of deception spun by Halco has Governor Palin firing (former) Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan (July 11) for not firing Trooper Wooten who has been an alcoholic, child abuser and (probably) a wife beater.

If I was the Governor of Alaska and my sister was receiving fearful occurrences from an officer of the law, I would fire his butt too. I mean ex-brother-in-law Wooten has threatened to kill Governor Palin’s father and to bring down her administration in a spun web of deceptive scandal.

Evidently it is unethical in politics to protect your family from personal harm from psycho former in-laws. The good old boy Democrats of Alaska have seen this as an opportunity to slow down the Queen of anti-corruption by launching an investigation into sour loser Halco’s twisted lies.

I suspect when the scrutiny becomes very public and details are released and Wooten turns out to be a bad husband and a bad father the Dems will begin to look bad for digging dirt that was planted under a rock.

As for Monegan, it is the Governor’s prerogative to fire him. Her explanation for the firing was because Monegan was not dealing with alcoholism in rural Alaska. Evidently it is true Monegan was receiving pressure about Wooten however the link between Palin ordering the pressure and her staffers showing initiative is not the there. Obviously Monegan has to be unhappy about being fired and in his mind connected his firing over the Wooten issue. Monegan even admits in a Washington Post article meant to make Palin look bad:

“She never directly asked me to fire him”.


Monegan is quoted in the Anchorage Daily News article dated August 30 as saying this:

"For the record, no one ever said fire Wooten. Not the governor. Not Todd. Not any of the other staff," Monegan said Friday from Portland. "What they said directly was more along the lines of 'This isn't a person that we would want to be representing our state troopers.' "


Dear God in Heaven, if you want to find some scandalous behavior look at the Democratic Party nominee for President. From associations to Black Supremacists (Jeremiah White and Louis Farrakhan), corrupt fund raisers/lobbyist (Rezko), Marxist anarchist murdering terrorists given a legal pass to become a University Professor (Ayers) and links to actual Islamist terrorists of the Arab-Palestine kind (Robert Malley and Mazen Ashabi); I think a little tit-for-tat investigation will reveal a clean Governor Palin and at the very least a tainted Presidential nominee and at the most a corrupt politician saying change with his mouth and fringe Leftism with his actions.

The real scandal is that Mike Wooten even now remains an Alaska State Trooper.

JRH 8/31/08
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Dirt on Sarah Palin - John McCain’s Vice President Candidate

By DE
Posted in August 29th, 2008
Dirt in the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign

It could be to her credit that the only dirt I can find on Alaska governor Sarah Palin the nominee for John McCain is the investigation called Troopergate in Alaska. This could also be to her inexeperience [sic]. If someone has other stories please email them or put them in the comments and I will post them.

“For most of her tenure as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has enjoyed widespread popularity and a reputation as a maverick who refused to stand by fellow Alaska Republicans facing their own ethics scandals.

But the 44-year-old Palin, who was selected as Sen. John McCain’s running mate today, is now the focus of her own state ethics investigation as part of the so-called “Troopergate” scandal, a bizarre controversy involving the firing of a state police chief and his reluctance to fire an Alaska state trooper, Palin’s former brother-in-law who has been involved in a bitter custody fight with her younger sister.

Just two weeks ago, Palin revealed an audio recording of an aide pressuring the state’s Public Safety Department to fire trooper Mike Wooten, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

A portion of Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) July interview with CNBC:

Palin also acknowledged that her staff had contacted Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan about two dozen times about Wooten. Monegan himself was fired July 11 (the dismissal was “out of the blue,” he told reporters) and he later said that he was pressured by Palin’s staff and family to get rid of Wooten, a trooper based in Palmer, Alaska.

(To counter the “Troopergate” tag, the alternative-weekly Anchorage Press has dubbed the firing scandal “Wootengate”)

The accusations first surfaced via the blog of former Alaska state rep. Andrew Halcro, who unsuccessfully ran against Palin in 2006.

(On Palin’s selection as McCain’s vice-presidential pick, Halcro wrote that “this shocking choice says more about McCain’s desperation [sic] than it does about Palin’s qualifications.”)

In July, Palin came under a state ethics investigation and critics have said Palin’s claim that she did not know of the political pressure being placed on Monegan was a “little too convenient.” One fellow lawmaker, state Sen. Hollis French, a Democrat, told The Wall Street Journal that Palin could face impeachment. After French’s comments, Palin ordered the investigation into Monegan’s firing and told CNBC last month that lawmakers were unfairly targeting her.

“It’s cool. I want them to ask me the questions. I don’t have anything to hide,” she said during the interview. “Didn’t do anything wrong there.”

The investigation is expected to cost about $100,000 and last at least three months, according to The Associated Press.

The governor has insisted that her decision to fire Monegan in July had nothing to do with former brother-in-law Wooten. Instead, she argued that Monegan “wasn’t doing enough to fill state trooper vacancies and battle alcohol abuse issues,” according to the Daily News.

The Daily News reports the Palins’ fight with Wooten has been especially nasty and public, with the family accusing Wooten of drunken driving, illegal hunting and child abuse, among other charges, based on information culled from private investigators. Wooten and Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, divorced in 2005.

The governor’s husband, Todd Palin, told the Daily News that his family was also concerned about the governor’s safety, saying Wooten threatened to kill the governor’s father and made vague threats to her that he would bring Palin down.”
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 Leftist Dems Try to Play Alaska Scandal Against Palin
John R. Houk
© August 31, 2008
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Dirt on Sarah Palin - John McCain’s Vice President Candidate
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