Troopergate

Troopergate

Troopergate refers to political scandals involving police troopers. The most famous recent troopergate scandal involves VP candidate Sarah Palin of Alaska. Palin fired a top Alaskan official because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in... [more]

Troopergate refers to political scandals involving police troopers. The most famous recent troopergate scandal involves VP candidate Sarah Palin of Alaska. Palin fired a top Alaskan official because he refused to fire her ex-brother-in-law from the state troopers. Follow the Sarah Palin troopergate scandal and other trooper news.

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In a new front for Gov. Sarah Palin’s “Troopergate” troubles, a top Alaska Democratic lawmaker has called on the state’s attorney general to appoint an independent investigator to probe whether operatives in Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign broke Alaska’s criminal witness-tampering laws. In a letter to Attorney General Talis Colberg, state Rep. Les Gara alleges that McCain’s campaign staffers influenced witnesses close to Palin to get them to withhold cooperation from a legislative inquiry into whether Palin abused her authority in pursuing a vendetta against her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper. “I am concerned that the state’s criminal witness-tampering laws have been broken by certain ... Read Full Story
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So recently, new information broke about Sarah Palin and her husband Todd’s involvement with this whole “Troopergate” scandal. He admitted that one officer was fired because of a “dispute with the governor and her staff over budget issues and failure to fill trooper vacancies.” BLAH BLAH BLAH. But then I guess someone took Todd down to the ol’ Wasilla Tavern and got him full of half-priced Coors, because he let loose that other reasons may be that the cops were on his wife’s case for failing to put retarded baby Trig in a proper car seat, and also for not being allowed to take ... Read Full Story
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The following video is a new scathing exposé out from ABC News today on the Sarah Palin Troopergate scandal. As it demonstrates, it is pretty obvious at this point that she abused her power as Governor of Alaska and lied about it. Good vetting job, Sen. McCain... Read Full Story
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Sarah Palin faces another likely setback in an investigation into whether she entangled her duties as Alaska governor in a family feud with her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper, according to a senior state legislator. Alaska Rep. Les Gara, a Democrat, said Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, faces an uphill fight in her hope to be exonerated by a state personnel board investigation that she requested in hopes of heading off a legislative inquiry. “I think in the end the McCain campaign brought Gov. Palin a little more trouble than she bargained for by convincing her to have the personnel board investigate this,” Gara ... Read Full Story
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Sarah Palin faces another likely setback in an investigation into whether she entangled her duties as Alaska governor in a family feud with her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper, according to a senior state legislator. But the new finding is not expected before next Tuesday’s presidential election. Alaska Rep. Les Gara, a Democrat, said Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, faces an uphill fight in her hope to be exonerated by a state personnel board investigation that she requested in hopes of heading off a legislative inquiry. “I think in the end the McCain campaign brought Gov. Palin a little more trouble than she bargained ... Read Full Story
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The Alaska State Trooper at the center of Sarah Palin's so-called "Troopergate Scandal" has broken his more than year-long silence since his embattled divorce with Palin's sister, Molly, became a cause celebre during last year's presidential campaign.  
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The report issued by Branchflower documented more than thirty occasions in which then Governor Palin, her husband Todd or members of her staff tried to influence Alaska's highly regarded Commissioner of Public Safety, Walt Monegan, ...  
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Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten, Sarah Palin's former brother-in-law, has gone public to dispute statements made about him in Palin's new memoir Going Rogue, calling them a "pack of lies." "They're like poisonous snakes in the grass who spew nothing but venom," Wooten said of Palin and his former father-in-law Chuck Heath Sr. "They just lay in wait and they attack you until you're dead."  
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GeneralLerong: Small tayters Gen'ral. The Scorpions of the desert southwest make the centipedes of Hawaii look like lady bugs.Though he's the martyr Trooper Wooten doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the draw. Super Troopers isn't the proper reference, more like Reno 911. Didn't he Tase his own kid or some such thing. And they think Reno is farce? HA!!!  
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Palin lied when she said the dismissal of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, had nothing to do with his refusal to fire state trooper Mike Wooten; in fact, the Branchflower Report concluded that she repeatedly abused her ...  
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who spoke to The Hill Monday evening, denied Sarah Palin's allegation that his campaign stuck her with a $50,000 legal bill to pay for the cost of vetting her as a potential vice presidential candidate. McCain said the bill was for legal work related to allegations that Palin made improper use of her influence as Alaska's governor to press for the dismissal of a state trooper named Mike Wooten. Wooten was embroiled...  
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It was even the topic of my essay in the book Going Rouge. I have talked to, and have a great deal of respect for Walt Monegan. But Trooper Mike Wooten remained a mystery. He clammed up and wasn't talking. But now, he's having a change ...  
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