Sarah appoints Friends and Family

This article is by Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell. [NYT]


WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”

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Just for the Record- Sarah Palin is Deceitful

Non of this is about Trooper Wooten. This is about a person of low character in Sarah Palin getting into a place of power. Than using that power in a vindictive and deceitful way to create an unlawful outcome. All of the complaints against Trooper Wooten were investigated and most were not sustained. We all have complaints about the due process of something, a judges ruling, a jury ruling, a decision made by the planning and zoning commission. That doesn't mean there was a scandal or a cover up it just means people saw things differently. After all, isn't that what the governor is arguing now; that although it looks like pressure...it really wasn't.

Twenty five complaints against Wooten including some that were so ridiculous they shouldn't even of been given any credence but they were. Two of the three he admitted to doing on his own and the third was the unprecendented action taken bu Col. Grimes to go back in and change the investigators findings.

Most of those complaints were obsessive. Like the one where Sarah accused Wooten of drinking and driving then when she was questioned admitted she had never witnessed the incident, but had only heard from someone else that it happened.

If you don't like the process, then change the system....don't keep going after Wooten.

Wooten Challenge
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Sarah Palin- Highlight the Lack of Class

"I feel like this is kind of a sport right now and that the haters and critics are really jumping," Gov. Palin said. "It's much ado about nothing"

The investigator will decide what nothing is not you Sarah.

Not only does it highlight the lack of class that Palin has, but it's totally ironic coming from a governor who last week on national television answered a question from the host by saying,

I can't answer that question until someone answers for me what is it exactly that the Vice President does.

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Branchflower to investigate Gov. Sarah Palin’s abuses.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL has picked former Alaska Assistant District Attorney Steve Branchflower to investigate Gov. Sarah Palin’s dismissal of former Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Branchflower, who is to begin immediately, is a good choice for the job. He’s been a prosecutor, a police instructor and an advocate in his role as the head of the Alaska Office Of Victims’ Rights. Lawmakers approved up to $100,000 dollars for the investigation.

At issue is whether Palin abused her office in trying to get a trooper fired who once was married to her sister, and then firing Monegan for refusing to do so.

Branchflower has his work cut out for him, but his credentials indicate he is more than up to task.