Sarah Palin: The latest ethics complaint
Could a complaint about Palin's legal defense fund be more trouble than earlier, 'frivolous' charges?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
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The latest ethics complaint against Sarah Palin could really sting, said Katharine Q. Seelye in The New York Times. Many of the 19 earlier ethics complaints against the Alaska governor and former Republican vice presidential candidate have been dismissed as frivolous. But this time a state personnel board investigator issued a preliminary report saying contributions to Palin's legal defense fund may amount to improper gifts under Alaska law, so there's a possibility she could be barred from using the money to pay $500,000 in legal bills.
"What a load of crap this is," said Dan Riehl in Riehl World View. If the ethics complaint against Sarah Palin succeeds, we should bar every politician from soliciting donations for a legal defense fund. The personnel board document says Palin can't trade on her public office to ask for help, but it's precisely because of her work as governor that she has to deal with all these silly complaints.
"It’s not that she’s doing anything underhanded or differently from the Clintons or John Kerry or any federal official," said Allah Pundit in Hot Air. "It’s just that Alaska doesn’t allow the governor to accept money that’s in any way connected with the performance of her duties as governor." Even the investigator admits Alaska's system is wacky—which is obvious when you consider that his suggestion for fixing the situation is to have Palin seek reimbursement from Alaska taxpayers.
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Posted by Randy Thorpe, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:32 pm So easy to forget, Sarah was cruising along with 80 percent approval rating as Alaska governor until old cadaver McCain asked her to be his running mate, and exposed her to the lynch mob. Maybe she will sell the millionth copy of her book as he lays dying.
Posted by dj spellchecka, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3:48 pm i have no idea who dan riehl is, but he's so far gone from the facts that he makes somebody from hot air look like the voice of reason.....
Posted by Rob, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3:49 pm Randy McCain might have gotten my vote if he hadn't picked Palin. That was the one time that his lack of judgment really concerned me.
Posted by Rob, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3:50 pm one more try with correct punctuation. Randy. McCain might have gotten my vote if he hadn't picked Palin. That was the one time that his lack of judgment really concerned me.
Posted by dj spellchecka, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:54 pm randy, don't blame mccain...sarah was steve schmidt's idea...mccain signed off on it, of course....they thought that the minute the puma crowd saw caribou barbie those voters would flip parties...didn't work out all that hot...
Posted by Michael J. Gorman, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:48 pm Sarah is really a blonde in the brain. She's such an empty headed dingbat that Tina Fay just had to imitate and copy Palin with very little exaggeration to become an international star. Palin could credibly plead insanity to everything with a good chance of proving her defense. We Democrats hope and pray the Republicans will keep the hairbrained Sarah as their top candidate for president.
Posted by Fred E. BARRETT, Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:21 pm Our nation has a severe case of media cancer and it is the constitution that prevents surgery in order to remove it. How vain the mainstream media is. Between them and the politicians who desire to eliminate freedom and replace it with big daddy government. I grew up in Illinois and am totally familiar with the Democrat Machine in Chicago which is as crocked as they come and they have taken control of the national politics and have placed their man in the presidents office and they are moving to strip us of all our freedoms, and all our money.
Posted by steve harnack, Saturday, July 25, 2009, 5:29 pm Hey Fred, first you complain about freedoms we have,then you say you are being stripped of them.So which ones do you want to keep,which ones not so much, and what exactly are the ones that you are in danger of losing?Give us some examples here.Oh wait, you said all of them so how is that going to happen?
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