{"id":181,"date":"2008-10-11T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-10-11T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T22:24:37","slug":"sarah_palins_troopergate_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin’s “Troopergate” That Really Wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I want the truth on something that has legal overtones, I go to the lawyers at PowerLineBlog<\/a>.  This is the money quote from their article on the Sarah Palin ‘troopergate’ scandal:<\/p>\n

“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<\/em>, at least had a personal agenda.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}