Troopergate

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

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

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