Digg is open, ladies and gents.

Sarah Palin was inaugurated governor of Alaska December 4, 2006. January 4, 2007 her husband Todd, not an employee or officer of the state of Alaska, had a stack of three personnel files and a meeting with Walt Monegan? Sheesh.

The thing is, also, no matter who went into those files and got them out and allowed Todd Palin to read them, these private government records were used by a non-government employee to threaten Walt Monegan? To put pressure on him to modify his policies and procedures because of this personal family matter? Excuse me? Isn’t this criminal conduct? I want to know who got those files – who gave permission to get those files – to give them to Todd Palin. If this is not a crime – it’s a tort for sure(which one? beats me…breach of duty? Monegan lost his job – at the very least he should be able to sue especially on the basis of her allowing her husband to interfere in his performing his duties).

USA Today has the McCain/Palin story up now too. Here’s the money quote:
“I have heard criticism that I am too involved in my wife’s administration,” Todd Palin wrote in his affidavit. “My wife and I are very close. We are each other’s best friend. I have helped her in her career the best I can, and she has helped me.”

Since 1982 Alaska has also prohibited disclosure of personnel files but there have been some court cases were the records were released.

Access to the personnel records of public employees is generally governed either by the basic public records act, AS 40.25.110 et seq., subject to arguments based on constitutional privacy rights or local ordinances, or, for certain classes of state employees, by AS 39.25.080. AS 39 was amended in 1982. It previously provided that all information concerning public employees of the state was disclosable unless specifically exempted. The 1982 amendment reversed the presumption, and prohibits disclosure of personnel records of certain classes of employees except for their name, salary, job classification, and history. Applications are not disclosable.

Who is covered by AS 39.25.080? The question is important because the press has taken the position that if the employee is not specifically covered by the public employee act limitations referred to above, their records are presumptively subject to disclosure pursuant to the general public records law. Specifically, the press has argued that the limitations on access apply only to classified employees, and not to the exempt and partially exempt employees identified in other subsections of the law, as a matter of statutory construction. In 1986, the Supreme Court endorsed this position in Doe v. Superior Court, 721 P.2d 617 (Alaska).

Note that AS 39 only applies to state employees. Records concerning municipal employees are not exempt under Title 39, and courts have rejected attempts to apply the restrictions of Title 39 by analogy, or on equal protection grounds.

How dare you question the Palin’s private lives? Outrageous and intrusive.

Now is the time for Barack Obama to come clean about what he was doing when he was 16.

-Frank Fuckface Keating

But EW, even a fierce law-and-order type like Brendan Sullivan thinks
that Todd and Sarah are innocent victims of a witch hunt.

I wonder what plans the Palins have for sharing restricted information in the (unlikely) event that she becomes VP.

Were they “job-sharing” because she was incapable of handling the work on her own, or because he is even more controlling than he looks like he is?

In the second page of the deposition by Todd Palin, he quotes directly from the Grimes Report (former Public Safety Commissioner, Julia Grimes) on the investigation into the behavior and actions of Michael Wooten. My question is how Todd Palin would gain access to this report. This report should be filed in Wooten’s personnel folder and only accessed by a limited number of government officials. The fact that Todd Palin quotes directly from the report proves that Todd Palin had gotten access to a private personnel folder. Here, in his own words, he provides proof that he meddled in the state’s business in unauthorized ways to harm the career of Michael Wooten.

I think the Branchflower report to the legislature will also show that he gained access to the worker’s compensation folder for Michael Wooten.
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I have an intuition that Obama is going to use his newly-purchased 30 minutes of prime time on October 29th — anniversary of the previous great market crash — to show clearly, calmly, and with a certain je ne sais quois, precisely how the Keating 5 led directly to the current market crash. And that will be The End of The Ballad of John and Sarah.

First Couple of Losers

Alaska, we’re counting on you! You can lead the way to the return of the Rule of Law.

This is the VP candidate before politics. I thought it was funny until right at the end when she reported that my much missed Winnipeg Jets were leading the Maple Laughs 8-1. The Jets were then moved to bmaz country.

The fascinating aspect of this story for me is the Palin campaign releasing its own simultaneous report. It is a trend in the diminishing of the judicial capacity, the professional standing of the courts and the quasi-judicial function of legislative fact finding that Bush likewise has fully exploited. Its to be expected in the age of information and disintermediation but it essentially amounts to a slander of legitimate process and authority. The notion is to essentially undermine accountability in the winds of shifting perceptions and to challenge the historical validity of standards. It is a kind of treachery adrift.

According to the AP, the McCain Whitewash Report blames the Troopergate investigation on…….those mighty bloggers!!!

“The campaign’s report instead blames former campaign opponent, Andrew Halcro, who has a blog, of conspiring with Wooten to pin Monegan’s dismissal on the family’s dispute with Wooten. Three days after Monegan was fired, they say, Wooten told his ex-wife, Palin’s sister, that: “You guys are going down. Get ready for the show.”

Two days after that confrontation, they say, Halcro and Wooten met at a hotel bar in Anchorage for more than three hours _ and that evening, Halcro posted the first accusations on his blog that Monegan had been fired because of a vendetta against Wooten by the Palin family.

“It is tragic that a false story hatched by a blogger after drinks with Trooper Wooten led the legislature to allocate over $100,000 of public money to be spent in what has become a politically driven investigation,” the 21-page report concludes.”

From Mudflats:
“This is a meeting of the Alaskan Independence Party. The speaker is Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark.

Now, we get to the interesting part, just before 6:00 on the video.

“Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. (laughter) And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But to get along and go along — she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.“

What Clark is saying here, is that Palin’s philosophical loyalties lie with the Alaska Independence Party, but in order to get elected, she had to distance herself from the AIP and pretend to be a Republican, because that was the only way for her to get elected. But not to worry, Clark reassures those in attendance, her heart is still with us at the AIP, and her sympathies are with our agenda, namely, Alaskan ndependence.”

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/…..ect-union/

To be more specific: Wooten released a bunch of documents in July.

if so the palins are in trouble…