About That Trooper
The Bear on Sep 06 2008 at 3:48 am | Filed under: Election 08’
Politics: You’ll be hearing a lot in coming weeks about Sarah Palin’s “abuse of power” in trying to get a state cop fired. Here’s the back story you won’t be hearing.
Palin’s political enemies have a stink bomb set to go off late in October, just before the election. That’s when voters will see fruits of a legislative investigation into the charge that the governor fired Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan because he wouldn’t get rid of Mike Wooten, a state trooper and Palin’s ex-brother-in-law.
We can see where this is headed. Palin will be found to have done nothing illegal in firing Monegan, since public safety commissioners serve at the governor’s pleasure. But the media will frame this case in vague but sinister terms: Think “abuse of power.” It will also bury the back story that explains why Palin was so concerned.
So here are some key facts to keep on file (for a full report on Wooten, see adn.com/front/story/476430.html). You may not be seeing much of them from here on:
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