Mike Wooten

Sarah Palin has been cleared of any wrongdoing for the firing of her public safety commissioner. A report has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner. Released Monday, the report says there is no probable cause to believe Palin or any other state official violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with the firing. The report was prepared by Timothy Petumenos, an independent counsel for the Alaska Personnel Board...Read Full Story

It seems that Sarah “Lame and Tall” Palin and her husband, Todd “First Dud” Palin don’t like folk messin’ with their family members. An Alaska legislative panel, in a report released late yesterday, found that Gov. Palin abused her power and violated a section of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Seems Palin’s husband, Todd-Boy, was running amok within the governor’s office using her advisers and other information in an attempt to get a state trooper, Mike Wooten, fired. The state...Read Full Story

According to CNN, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will not cooperate with a "tainted" legislative investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner. What is totally preposterous is that the McCain camp has accused supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama of manipulating the probe for political motivations. Sarah Palin is fighting allegations she improperly tried to force the firing of her former brother-in-law. Former Palin Press Secretary Meg Stapleton told reporters in Anchorage...Read Full Story

The heart of the Palin "Troopergate" Report involves her attempting to get her Ex Brother-in-Law AK State Trooper Mike Wooten, terminated while he and Palin's sister (Wooten's Ex) were going through an extremely bitter Divorce. When Wooten's former Supervisor AK Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan refused to do her evil bidding, she fired Monegan instead. CNN being the BOLD, Fact-Finding Network that it is, assigned Anchor Drew Griffin to interview Wooten allowing him to defend himself...Read Full Story

That’s going to be the question over the next 20 or so days. The bipartisan Alaska Legislative Council voted 12-0 to release the report on the investigation into Sarah Palin’s arm-twisting to get a state trooper fired , and her husband Todd’s assistance therewith. I wonder how pleased McCain is with his Veep vetting right now. I wonder whether he now wishes he had selected someone who isn’t a female replica of George W. Bush, right down to the class and cultural warfare McCain once eschewed...Read Full Story

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) abused her executive power when she fired her public safety commissioner this year in the midst of an intense effort to oust her former brother-in-law from the state police force, a special prosecutor has concluded. Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, had been accused of dismissing Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, a career law enforcement official, after he rebuffed attempts by Palin, her husband Todd, and cabinet officials to reopen an...Read Full Story

By RACHEL D'ORO The Associated Press T he state trooper behind the abuse-of-power investigations of Gov. Sarah Palin is getting a reassignment after troopers received threatening telephone calls from Alaskans and outside the state. Public Safety Union officials say Mike Wooten has been on desk duty for his own safety in recent weeks since troopers began receiving hostile calls. Union director John Cyr says Wooten takes on a new role effective Sunday. Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters says...Read Full Story

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has denied claims that she and several of her senior staffers illegally accessed the personnel file of her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten, and disseminated confidential information about the law enforcement official to his superiors. Palin, Sen. John McCain’s running mate, her private attorney Thomas Van Flein, and McCain campaign officials, said the confidential medical and employment records became part of the public record during divorce proceedings between...Read Full Story

Documents are available for download at the bottom of the story. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s vendetta against the state trooper who divorced her sister may have spilled over into a broader retaliation against Alaska’s police with more than $2 million slashed from their budget as well as the elimination of temporary staff positions and the firing of the public safety commissioner, according to police representatives.   Law enforcement and police union officials, who requested anonymity before...Read Full Story

These people said Branchflower has documentary evidence and information from witnesses showing that individuals in Palin’s camp may have illegally tried to deny trooper Wooten worker’s compensation benefits for a back injury that he suffered last year when he slipped on icy pavement while pulling a body from a wrecked automobile. As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin works to derail a legislative inquiry into her firing of the public safety commissioner, state officials are vowing to finish a report on...Read Full Story