Palin won't meet with 'Troopergate' investigator

[Whoda Thunk?]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A campaign spokesman says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin won't speak with an investigator hired by lawmakers to look into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

McCain campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan told a news conference Monday that the governor, the Republican nominee for vice president, will not cooperate as long as the investigation "remains tainted." He said he doesn't know whether Palin's husband would challenge a subpoena issued to compel his cooperation.

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[lions1mew]

What is this "remains tainted" crap? You broke the blasted law, now you hafta answer for it. Tainted my large white tukkhis ...

[Whoda Thunk?]

That woman is something else is all I can say. I hope people open their eyes to all that she brings to the table.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

While questionable, she is exercising her legal rights. If she's issued a supoeona, I would expect her lawyers to fight that as well. Having said that, she is a public figure running for high office, and she said early on that she would cooperate. Throw this fish out before it starts stinking up the house.

[Annoyedlistner]

While questionable, she is exercising her legal rights. If she's issued a supoeona, I would expect her lawyers to fight that as well. Having said that, she is a public figure running for high office, and she said early on that she would cooperate. Throw this fish out before it starts stinking up the house.

How does this fit in their platform of reform if she will not even speak to the investigators?.....that smells just like the Bush Admin if you ask me.......

[DoubleEdgeSword]

She's being coached by the best. Or the worst, depending on your point of view. lol

[DoubleEdgeSword]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin won't comply with subpoenas issued by state lawmakers investigating the firing of Alaska's former public safety commissioner, since Palin "has declined to participate" in the probe, her attorney general says.

Gov. Sarah Palin has refused to cooperate with an investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner.

"As state employees, our clients have taken an oath to uphold the Alaska Constitution, and for that reason, they respect the legislature's desire to carry out an investigation in support of its law-making powers," Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, told the investigation's manager in a letter released Wednesday. "However, our clients are also loyal employees subject to the supervision of the governor."

Palin once pledged to cooperate with the state Legislature's investigation into the July firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. After his dismissal, Monegan accused Palin of trying to pressure him into firing her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper who had been involved in an acrimonious divorce from the governor's sister.

Palin has denied any wrongdoing. Her allies argue the investigation has become a "partisan circus" since she became Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's running mate, and they argue that any investigation should be handled by the state personnel board.

"Moreover, two lawsuits have been filed challenging the legitimacy of the investigation," Colberg wrote. "On behalf of our clients, we respectfully ask that you withdraw the subpoenas directed to our clients and thereby relieve them from the circumstance of having to choose where their loyalties lie."

It was unclear whether the letter covered Palin's husband, Todd, who was among those subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Colberg's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/palin.investigation/index.html

[ForeverRebel]

Legitimacy? Hello! You broke the law. You're also getting challenged by people of your own party.

What happened to her claims of cooperating?

[DoubleEdgeSword]

She won't cooperate. Her aides won't cooperate. Her lawyers will try every trick in the book to delay these proceedings until after the election. I truly believe they know that Palin did use her influence in this case and the Republicans cannot afford for that to come out.

[ForeverRebel]

She won't cooperate. Her aides won't cooperate. Her lawyers will try every trick in the book to delay these proceedings until after the election. I truly believe they know that Palin did use her influence in this case and the Republicans cannot afford for that to come out.

I do too. If she didn't, she wouldn't be struggling so much against it. I hope they get her if she did. For the good of the country, I really do.

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I don't know if we'll see the results until after the election, honestly. And if she's in office, then it won't matter.

[lions1mew]

Bite yer tongue DES *shudders* She will NOT be in the White House! *puts foot down*

That aside ... this "where their loyalties lie" is a pile of meadow muffins/cow cookies. Your loyalties lie with UPHOLDING THE LAW! Morons *shakes head*

[DoubleEdgeSword]

I tossed salt and spit, Margaret. Does that work for you? ;) lol No, of course it doesn't make sense. They aren't looking to make sense, they're looking to delay by any means necessary.

[lions1mew]

It's pathetic. And it makes me wonder more and more ... did the Republicans actually vet this woman? Or just pick one to shore up his conservative non-base and make the women peeved about Hillary Clinton not getting nomination happy? Whatever the reasons, it's falling apart one chunk at a time ... kinda like the Arctic ice pack? Coincidence of geography? I think not ...

:p

[pinky]

No, they didn't vet her at all. I read one report that said that when the media all rushed to Wasilla and Juneau to find out about her, the media there said that, up until that point, NO ONE had come to ask about her record.

NO ONE.