To whom it may concern


I am writing this as a concerned citizen of the united states of America. This years election is one of the most important of our time. The next administration needs to move this country in a new direction. The decision that John McCain made yesterday to chose Sarah Palin shows how out of touch he is with the country. she is under investigation for the misuse of the power of her office. This is the same thing that vice president Chaney has been doing for the last eight years. Are we the people going to take the chance that this could continue with McCain's administration? It is bad enough she does not have any national security experiences. She has never meet with one world leader. We do not even know if she knows there names. To put some one on the ticket that is under investigation for the same things that Chaney's office has done is just pathetic. Does McCain and his staff really think the American people are this stupid?? I also think there is a few personal issues with this pick but I will keep those comments to myself. I am voting for senator Obama but I think this decision by senator McCain call's in question his incompetence and sanity. She also lied yesterday about the bridge to nowhere she was for it until she found out they would have to fund some of it and she keep the money given for the bridge. I am going to include a few statements I found while investigating this pick and web sites where I found this information and a lot more issues in question.

In 2006, before Palin was governor, Alaska State Trooper Wooten was suspended for ten days after being accused by his ex-wife Molly McCann (Sarah Palin's sister) of threatening to kill McCann's and Palin's father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, drinking beer in his squad car, and violating game laws.[4] Following an investigation, Wooten was suspended for illegally shooting a moose and using a Taser on his stepson, while most of the charges were dismissed.[5] After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days, and Wooten was warned by Col. Julia Grimes, head of the Alaska State Troopers, that he would be fired if he messed up again.[4]

On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Monegan and offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he turned down.[6][7] Her power to fire him is not in dispute, however Monegan alleged that his dismissal may have been tied to his reluctance to fire Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with McCann..[8]

Palin said that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and said that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."[9] Monegan claims that the two most recent trooper graduating classes had the most recruits in years, and that Palin stated the audit Monegan provided made the administration look like it did not support the troopers.[10] Palin acknowledged that there were a number of calls from her office regarding Wooten, and that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, mentioned "a family tie with the Governor there" and said "we don't know why this guy is still working." Monegan told the Anchorage Daily News that Todd Palin had "showed him some of the findings of a private detective the family had hired to investigate Mr. Wooten and accused him of a variety of transgressions, including drunken driving and child abuse."[11]

Ms. Palin acknowledged that there were more than two dozen inquiries to the public safety department from members of her staff about Wooten, but she said she had played no role in the inquiries.[12] Both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan,[9] and Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions. Commissioner Monegan received no severance pay, though at the same time another dismissed Commissioner, Charles Kopp (who served only 11 days) received $10,000.[13]

Palin replaced Monegan with Chuck Kopp. Kopp had been previously suspended and investigated for sexual harassment of an employee. At the time, Palin said she believed that the investigation had cleared him, but a letter of reprimand later emerged.[14][15]

[edit] Recent developments

In late July 2008, a bipartisan committee of the Alaska Legislature voted 12-0 to hire an independent investigator to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal. [1] A retired state prosecutor, Steve Branchflower, was chosen. [16] Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who is overseeing the investigation, says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and that subpoenas are unnecessary.[17]

The Alaskan Attorney General and the Department of Law are conducting their own inquiry, at the request of the Governor. [18] The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape from February of inquiries being made by Bailey about the status of the Wooten investigation.[9][19] Palin later admitted that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper, including at least one conversation that could appear to be an attempt to pressure the commissioner. She said that her staff's contacts with the commission were not directed by her and she had little knowledge of them.[20] The aide who made the call, Frank Bailey, was placed on paid leave by Palin pending the outcome of the investigation.[21]

Palin has another problem. After Alaska's public-safety commissioner Walt Monegan was fired (Monegan has said he felt pressure to dropkick the trooper) Palin replaced him with the former police chief of the city of Kenai. But he quit after it became known that he received a reprimand after sexual harassment allegations were filed against him in his former post.

At the very least, that incident raises some questions about Palin as a chief executive and might take some of the thrill away for some women who might otherwise be excited about seeing her on the ticket.

TASING THE STEPSON

One day -- maybe a year or two before the investigation -- Wooten showed his stepson his Taser. He had just been to Taser instructor school. Wooten told Sgt. Wall that the boy was fascinated and pleaded to be tased.

"So we went in our living room and I had him get down on his knees so he wouldn't fall. And I taped the probes to him and turned the Taser on for like a second, turned it off. He thought that was the greatest thing in the world, wanted to do it again," Wooten told the investigator. The boy flinched but nothing more, he said. The boy was about 11 at the time.

In his interview with troopers, the stepson said it hurt for about a second, according to Wall's report. The boy said he wanted to be tased to show his cousin, Palin's daughter Bristol, that he wasn't a mama's boy. The probe left a welt on his arm, he said. His mother was upstairs yelling at them not to do it, the boy said.

As Bristol remembered it, the jolt knocked the boy backward, the trooper report says. She said she was afraid.

The probes are attached by thin wires to the Taser cartridge. In the field, an officer fires the probes into a suspect's skin or clothing and the suspect receives a jolt of electricity for five seconds, said Steve Tuttle, a spokesman for Taser International, which makes the devices. They are only incapacitated during that time. In demos, the probes might be taped to a person so that they don't accidentally strike an eye or injure the volunteer, he said. If the Taser is fired for just a second, it would feel like your funny bone was hit but the quick jolt wouldn't knock you over, Tuttle said.


Palin staff pushed to have trooper fired

Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday revealed an audio recording that shows an aide pressuring the Public Safety Department to fire a state trooper embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Audio: Phone call from Palin aide to troopers


Web sites to confirm statements and other damming info

Link Anchorage daily news aidio interview audio of phone calls from palin aid to troopers
Link monegan says he was pressured to fire cop
Link Monegan says Palin administration and first gentleman used governor's office to pressure firing first family's former brother-in-law
Link palin staff pushed to have trooper fired
Link Investigators Are Looking at Governor About Firing
Link Bombshell in commissioner controversy
Link Complainant details Kopp's harassing behavior
Link --- Palin named Kopp head of the state Department Public Safety on July 11 after her controversial firing of Walt Monegan. the governor's office said today.
kopp received a letter of reprimand from a sexual harassment complaint when he was chief of the Kenai police,
Link ---Branchflower will investigate Monegan case
Link -- Palin launches Monegan inquiry ahead of special investigation
Governor wants to know what Branchflower will find
Link -- Alaska's governor admits her staff tried to have trooper fired
Link ----Alaska's Gov. Palin apologizes as state's top cop resigns
Link ---Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Link --Palin questioned whether global warming is melting Arctic ice

That is some comment...

may I suggest you just write your own post....

and remember to use the extended post....

I do appreciate your supportive, if not somewhat excessive comments though....

wow.

Great Post

I wish someone would raise bloody something over there. As of Friday, Dubyah's little gimmie grab went to China. It's disgusting. All of it. That whole region... Grotesque.

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Clearly they'd continue the ruinous momentum from Bush/Cheney. To most of us here the dangers and harm these two would represent is clear.

But the dilemma and challenge continues as to whether it's possible to help the middle-Americans wake up and smell the coffee. So far as unbelievable as it seems, many folks have already been sucked in with the fact that Palin has 5 kids, and they not only believe the lies (e.g. that she said no on the bridge to nowhere), they are excited about her.

This is a dangerous momentum that's building, with the zombie voters of the US are wanting more of the same.