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Sarah Palin Ethics Probe: Investigator Rules Against Alaskan Gov
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by Rob Walker | July 22, 2009 at 06:30 am
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An independent investigator hired by the Alaskan state personnel board says Sarah Palin used her position for personal gain.
The controversy involves Sarah Palin's creation of the Alaskan Fund Trust to secure benefits and receive improper gifts. The report comes only a few days before Palin is set to step down as governor of Alaska.
The fund was set up to pay off debts stemming from numerous ethics complaints against her, most of which were dismissed. Palin says she owes more than $500,000 in legal fees and the fund has been frozen pending a review.
A report obtained Tuesday by the Associated Press said Gov. Palin is securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts through the Alaska Fund Trust, set up by supporters.An investigator for the state personnel board says in the July 14 report that there is probable cause to believe Gov. Palin used or attempted to use her official position for personal gain because she authorized the creation of the Alaska Fund Trust as the "official" legal defense fund.
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at 07:18 on July 22nd, 2009
Now that has to hurt.
I hope that puts an end to Presidential ambition.
Then again, nothing would surprise me any longer.
at 08:04 on July 22nd, 2009
Oh I love Sarah. What I love even more is the economist bashing Sarah. Dry British humor is the best for making fun of hill billies.
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13993080
at 08:56 on July 22nd, 2009
Actually, as a spokeswoman for the Tenth Amendment Movement, she is much more valuable. She shouldn't be president, but, then again, I doubt her choices would be worse than Obama's have been so far.
at 10:55 on July 22nd, 2009
Rob, I think that your story perhaps inadvertently distorts the situation, making it seem graver than it really is.
The rest of the article includes this information:
Source: online.wsj.com
at 11:41 on July 22nd, 2009
Roy
From reading your various comments, I conclude the following:
You may want to pause, just once in a while, and examine a contrary view of the matter. There is no man made that is right all of the time and on every subject.
at 13:19 on July 22nd, 2009
Plainly, this falls into the category of attacking ad hominem when you can't beat the actual argument. You threaten "loss of love", "exile". Why don't you actually try to debate the subject.
I just got done doing an article last night where I didn't profess to knowing the answer to the question. Did you read that one?
If no man is right all the time on every subject is a universal thought, can we apply it to Obama as well?
Being corrected so successfully has gotten a bit tedious, no? Your little gem, which violates the NowPublic rules of personal attack, is the best example of projection I have ever seen at this website.
But, really, the post is about how you have a problem with being corrected. Your notion that Palin had finally been gotten has been jettisoned into the rubbish pile. Another time that orthodoxy hasn't cut it.
What is it about reading the whole article and getting the reporting right that doesn't sit well with you? Believe me, I don't need the answer. I was raised around left-wing ideologues and lived my young adulthood in Berkeley.
Frankly, many on the left who have no training at all, whatsoever, in the discipline of reaching reasoned judgments based on facts are "easy pickings" for lessons in smashing the icons of the left.
About Obama being correct. Obama is correct that we needed/could use a stimulus package, and that we need medical reform, but like you on the left, he lacks the education and emotional discipline to actually go about doing it correctly, that is, without making the situation worse..
So, those who worship Obama as an idol and as an anti-dote to their own Weltschmertz, their own depression about being stuck in this dysfunctional world, find such exercises in iconoclastic thought disturbing, because it throws you back into your depression.
What is really happening is that the more extreme left is hitting "rock bottom" as AA would call it. Next comes....?
at 13:24 on July 22nd, 2009
Your little gem, which violates the NowPublic rules of personal attack
No it doesn't but the next one does
But, really, the post is about how you have a problem with being corrected
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at 13:57 on July 22nd, 2009
Well, thanks for dropping by and dropping the mask!
at 15:32 on July 22nd, 2009