Sarah Palin's "Troopergate" That Really Wasn't

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When I want the truth on something that has legal overtones, I go to the lawyers at PowerLineBlog.  This is the money quote from their article on the Sarah Palin 'troopergate' scandal:

"It is also not entirely clear (at least to me) that the efforts of Gov. Palin and/or her husband were intended to gain a personal benefit. Wooten seems to have been a genuine menace. Among other things, he tasered his young stepson and apparently had a drinking problem. If a governor concludes that a state trooper is a miscreant, the governor should have the ability to discuss that trooper. The report does not convincingly show that the Palins were driven by the desire to obtain a personal benefit, as opposed to the desire to rid the police force of a bad apple about whom they had personal knowledge. However, Todd Palin's persistence suggests that, at a minimum, there he, at least had a personal agenda."

I would like to point out that Todd Palin is not running for Vice President.  I would also like to point out that if someone in a position of power is aware of the kind of behavior on the part of a policeman that her ex brother-in-law engaged in, they have a moral responsibility to make as much noise as needed to have the person fired.  A policeman with a drinking problem who tasers his stepson is not my idea of the poster child for law enforcement.  I wonder if part of the flack she is getting is because she was (in a sense) taking on a very powerful union.

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