Legislative panel: Palin abused authority

[Darius871]

Originally posted by DaShi
I just know that you think Hitler stuff is funny.

Wow, either you have an incredibly good memory, or you have an irrational axe to grind. It's a coin-flip which.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Darius871


I don't see where that sentence declared Wooten guilty of anything.

Hey, ******. Read a few posts back. That's what I said.

You then linked it to Wooten. So anything to say?

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Darius871


Wow, either you have an incredibly good memory, or you have an irrational axe to grind. It's a coin-flip which.

It's both and because I care.

[Boris Godunov]

Darius, come on. You said:

I didn't say he should be fired for being a chronically failed husband, but you can if you like. I just think that fact lends more credence to the well-publicized allegations of physical abuse and/or threats thereof.

And you were asked for citations of these allegations. You deflected by saying DaShi should google for them (a really transparent excuse... "You do my homework for me!"). He says he didn't find them. So the burden of proof is on you to show that there are indeed these multiple allegations.

[Darius871]

I'd have to actually A) give a **** about this and/or B) disagree with DaShi to do any research, but neither is the case. In reality I just find DaShi's hackery amusing. Sorry to disappoint you all.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Darius871
I'd have to actually A) give a **** about this and/or B) disagree with DaShi to do any research, but neither is the case. In reality I just find DaShi's hackery amusing. Sorry to disappoint you all.

But you don't need to do any research. You said there were multiple allegations. We are only asking what you are talking about?

[Boris Godunov]

Who built Sarah Palin's house?

Interesting wrinkle for Sarah the Maverick

So after Sarah's darling $12.5 million Wasilla Sports Complex (i.e. boondoggle) was approved, the design contract went to architect Blase Burkhart, "son of Roy Burkhart, who is frequently described as a 'mentor' of Palin and was head of the local Republican Party"--and a Palin campaign contributor. Palin then appointed Blase Burkhart to the builder-selection committee, which awarded the construction contract to "Howdie Inc., a mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent," also a Palin contributor.

A list of subcontractors on the [sports complex] job, obtained by the Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply, the state's leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other "pre-engineered components." In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin's snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office. Spenard actually filed a notice "of its right to assert a lien" on the deed for the Palin property after contracting for labor and materials for the site. Spenard's name has popped up in the trial of Senator Stevens—it worked on the house that is at the center of the VECO scandal as well.

Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were. The house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in additional costs, with a law firm that's also donated to Palin collecting costly fees from the city.

Dorwin and Joanne Smith, the principals of complex subcontractor DJ Excavation & Development, have donated $7,100 to Palin and her allied candidate Charlie Fannon (Joanne is a Palin appointee on the state Board of Nursing). Sheldon Ewing, who owns another complex subcontractor, Weld Air, has donated $1,300, and PN&D, an engineering firm on the complex, has contributed $699.

Ewing was one of the few sports-complex contractors, aside from Spenard, willing to address the question of whether he worked on the house as well, but he had little to say: "I doubt that it occurred, but if it did indirectly, how would I know anyhow?" The odd timing of Palin's house construction—it was completed two months before she left City Hall and while she and Todd Palin were campaigning statewide for the first time—raises questions, especially considering its synergy with the complex.

Mmm-hmmm. Mavericky!

[DaShi]

That's good Marverick!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Lemme guess, Dashi didn't actually read the linked article.

You'd think those would have been more than enough to justify his dismissal especially the drinking while on duty and threatening to shoot his father in law ones regardless of his connection to the governor.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
You'd think those would have been more than enough to justify his dismissal especially the drinking while on duty and threatening to shoot his father in law ones regardless of his connection to the governor.

Reading lesson, where did I dismiss these?

And didn't you see my first post to you? Haven't I made it clear that you stupid.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Looks a big d'oh. Out of curiosity though if this report is true, why wasn't the trooper in question fired as a matter of course before Palin even started pressuring people?

...which is kinda scary. I don't think I would fire a cop who had a beer on duty. I'd maybe suspend him for a week without pay. Illegally shooting a moose? It's Alaska for crying out law. I'll be moose are shot all the time. And it was probably off duty. A one-or-two day suspension, but not fired, and of course a black mark on his performance evalutaion. Tasering the nephew who asked for it to see what it was like; a verbal repremand. But threatening the life of his father-in-law...man, that is bad. If he was drunk and shooting off his mouth, a brief suspension without pay. If he was sober and/or meant it, termination.

However, whether Wooten should have been disapplined or not is not the question here. The central question is did Palin abuse her power by terminating the departement head because he did not terminate a personal enemy of hers. The answer has come back "yes."

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon? ...Lipstick.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Richard Nixon actually did some great things as President, so

[Boris Godunov]

I think a comparison to Cheney is more appropriate, given her secretiveness and love for shooting things.

[GePap]

Cheney and Nixon were both vastly smarter than this woman, and as such more likely to be more effective, for good or ill.

The best person to compare her to is W. himself. Same ideology that one should take mindless steps because thinking too much or knowing too much is somehow a hinderance to action.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
What's the difference between Sarah Palin and Richard Nixon?

I don't want to **** Nixon in a Wal-Mart parking lot.




...but perhaps I've said too much.