Webloggin » As Expected - Blogger Beats Mainstream Media To Truth About Palin’s Trooper Investigation

And as expected, Barack Obama’s groupies in the mainstream media are distorting the facts concerning a supposed abuse of power investigation over the firing of Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten. Stop by Flopping Aces to get the whole rundown. Here’s a few key points from Mata Harley’s Flopping Aces post.

Palin was not Governor of the State at this time… and this transpired BEFORE her primary campaign against GOP [see party affiliation correction at end of post, please] competitor, Andrew Halcro. Coincidentally, the same man leading the pack screaming “scandal” over the “firing of Monegan”. The investigations against Wooten started more than a year before she was elected governor, and about two months before launching her campaign”.

Per Col. Julia Grimes in the Fairbanks Newsminer on July 28, 2008… and showing how long this “scandal” has dragged out…

The record clearly indicates a serious and concentrated pattern of unacceptable, and at times, illegal activity occurring over a lengthy period, which establishes a course of conduct totally at odds with the ethics of our profession,” Col. Julia Grimes, then head of Alaska State Troopers, wrote in March 1, 2006, letter suspending Wooten for 10 days. After the union protested it, the suspension was reduced to five days.

She warned that if he messed up again, he’d be fired.

First, the video accusation is that the Governor’s office has questionable reasons (meaning removing Wooten from the AST) for firing Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan in July 2008. As we know, documented complaints from Palin about Wooten started prior to Monegan’s appointment… which Monegan may, or may not have been aware.Yet Monegan was appointed by Palin. She is certainly within her rights to fire him. And if complaints were already lodged about Wooten to the immediate superior, Col. Julia Grimes, why did she need to pressure him to fire Wooten? After all, if Palin was going to “abuse” her power to get Wooten fired, why not direct that power over Grimes as the superior of the Troopers?And if getting Wooten fired was her quest, why did she not take steps to do that in 2005 during the complaint period, instead of specifically stating under deposition she was staying silent in order not to put his job at risk? Not to mention the gap in time… why would it take her two and a half years to fire Monegan because of Wooten?

Disagreements between Monegan and Palin over a budget cut in the troopers, department morale and recruiting, and bootlegging enforcement are documented by Andrew Halcro. (As I mentioned earlier, but it bears repeating… Halcro also happens to be the losing primary ~~GOP~~[Correction: Independent] candidate in the 2006 gubernatorial candidate, and is the source of the complaints against Palin.)

There is much more to this case than the media will provide. Bottom line, there is nothing there. It’s a non-existent scandal being dredged up by a Democrat friendly media that is beside themselves trying to salvage Barack Obama’s falling star.

Suddenly the mainstream media is interested in political scandals that are not existent yet they don’t give a damn about Barack Obama launching his career at the house of two American terrorists, one of whom, Bernadette Dohrn just happened to have traveled to Cuba in 1969 to meet with both the Cuban and Vietnamese governments while John McCain was being tortured by her hosts as a POW in a prison camp.

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