The same kind of extra legal maneuvering we've seen for over 8 years with the Republicans is still in play and as usual with the McCain camp with an extra dash of sleaze. In fact, given that the Bush people became worse after he was elected you'd have to wonder what depths of fascism we would find ourselves in if we elect McCain/Palin.
Thursday Sarah Palin's campaign declared she did nothing wrong in firing the respected Alaska public safety commissioner.
I think we are going to have to dispatch some teams to Alaska to see if we can find some limits up there to Governor Palin's ambition and readiness to act upon it.
See AP report "Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe ."
Excerpt:
Palin's critics say that shows she used her office to settle family affairs.
"When you're the governor, you leave your household hat at home and you become governor," said state Senate President Lyda Green, a Republican who has frequently clashed with Palin.
McCain spokesman Taylor Griffin, who distributed the campaign's report, said it was based on public filings and Todd Palin's affidavit.
The report blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan's dismissal on the family's dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin's sister, that: "You guys are going down. Get ready for the show."
Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours — and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family.
"It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation," the 21-page report concludes.
Now remember that news released on Thursday has a lot better chance at wide distribution than that released on Friday or Saturday.