BabyGate and Now TrooperGate
The soap opera lifestyle of Alaskan and vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, just seems to get better and better. While Palin was the mayor of a town of 6,500, her sister Molly was married to a man named Wooten, a highway patrolman. In 2006 Molly formally accused Wooten of threatening to kill Molly and Sarah’s father, drinking beer in his squad car, and tasering his 11 year old son. Walter Monegan, Alaska’s public safety director, suspended Wooten for 5 days.
After Sarah Palin is elected governor of Alaska, she becomes Monegan’s boss. In July of 2008 she fires Monegan. Monegan says it is for not firing Wooten. The excuse Palin gives is that Monegan was not recruiting enough, failed to address alcohol abuse among troopers, resulting in poor job performance by Monegan. Monegan responded stating the two most recent trooper graduating classes had the highest number of recruits in years.
Palin appointed Chuck Kopp to replace Monegan. Unbeknownst to Palin, Kopp had received a letter of reprimand addressing a sexual harassment charge. After this was released, Kopp resigned and took a $10,000 severance check. Monegan received no severence payment.
Since the behavior of Wooten took place before Palin was governor, and the firing of Monegan took place after Palin was governor, the Alaska legislature voted 12-0 in July of 2008 to hire an independent investigator to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal.
More to come as the investigation continues.
Sarah Palin Baby Scandal
According to this source and this source, Sarah Palin’s 5th child is not actually her’s, but belongs to her 16 year-old daughter, Bristol. In March of 2008 Sarah Palin announced she was 7 months pregnant. There have been no pictures found of Sarah that show she is obviously pregnant. There have been pictures of Bristol that show she may be carrying a child.
When Sarah Palin supposedly went into labor, she took an 8 hour flight from Texas to Alaska to give birth (something not recommended for very pregnant women). Also there are reports that daughter Bristol was taken out of school for nearly 5 months, during what was her last trimester of pregnancy. The excuse given was that Bristol had a case of mono.
What else will Sarah Palin cover up? Oh yes, TrooperGate.
Palin Named as McCain Running Mate
McCain made a wild last-minute decision last week, naming Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, as his vice presidential running mate. The gun-toting, pro-lifer, nymph, Palin has been the governor of Alaska for 20 months, previously Mayor of a Wasilla, AK, population 8,500.
McCain Aide Takes Money from Georgia
Randy Sheunemann, McCain’s Chief Foreign Policy Advisor, was recently a foreign lobbyist for countries including Georgia . According to the Associated Press:
Can McCain make sound, neutral decisions with this kind of influence? At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, McCain declared:April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government. The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.
Today we are all Georgians.
Is this coming from the head or the pocketbook? That is the questions that lingers among all Republicans. The latter seems to prevail.
McCain Plagiarized Wikipedia in Georgia Speech
John McCain gave a speech Monday challenging Russia about the crisis in Georgia in which he plagiarized several items from the Wikipedia entry on Georgia. Sadly, the McCain speech writers for the potential leader of the free world can’t think of anything to say about Georgia unless they Googles it. McCain has admitted he can’t google. This shows he doesn’t know anything unless his staff tells him (Sound familiar?).
An internal memo from the McCain camp was released to rebut the accusations, but it does nothing more than seal the deal.
On top of this he cannot correctly pronounce the name of the president of Georgia. His name is Mikhail Saakashvili, not Sashkavili. On Iraqi foreign policy, McCain does not know the difference between the Sunnis and Shiites. Perhaps if he were reading Wikipedia about Czechoslovakia a few months ago, he wouldn’t look so obtuse today.
The only country John McCain is fit to lead is Czechoslovakia.