clement wrote:I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but Palin is under an ethics investigation for abuse of power. Apparently her sister was married to a state trooper and after a bitter divorce, she ordered him to be fired. When the trooper's boss refused to fire him, she allegedly stepped in and fired him herself. The Republican-controlled Alaska legislature has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate.
Wow.... if so, that's a fumble on the McCain camp's part.
Yeah, I read about this earlier. It doesn't look good for Palin that she is coming from a state where the Alaskan GOP is mired in corruption.
True, but she is seen as someone who has taken on a lot of those old-school corrupt Alaskan GOP politicians. But, whatever the story, it's not a good idea to be a target in the midst of an ethics investigation and be named the VP candidate. It'd be different if the scandal had already come and gone.
This makes me laugh
I know I said I was done with this thread, but this is just too good to pass up
Do you really think Joe Schmo you and I are reading all about this "scandal" on the newswires but that McCain and the Republican party were completely unaware of it? I'm pretty sure that they are pretty confident that nothing is going to come of this and that she's going to be found of no wrong doing
clement wrote:I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but Palin is under an ethics investigation for abuse of power. Apparently her sister was married to a state trooper and after a bitter divorce, she ordered him to be fired. When the trooper's boss refused to fire him, she allegedly stepped in and fired him herself. The Republican-controlled Alaska legislature has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate.
Wow.... if so, that's a fumble on the McCain camp's part.
Yeah, I read about this earlier. It doesn't look good for Palin that she is coming from a state where the Alaskan GOP is mired in corruption.
True, but she is seen as someone who has taken on a lot of those old-school corrupt Alaskan GOP politicians. But, whatever the story, it's not a good idea to be a target in the midst of an ethics investigation and be named the VP candidate. It'd be different if the scandal had already come and gone.
This makes me laugh
I know I said I was done with this thread, but this is just too good to pass up
Do you really think Joe Schmo you and I are reading all about this "scandal" on the newswires but that McCain and the Republican party were completely unaware of it? I'm pretty sure that they are pretty confident that nothing is going to come of this and that she's going to be found of no wrong doing
But it's funny that we're fishing for scandal
is it really fishing if its true? however "minor" it may be...
