Remember Troopergate? The news hasn’t covered it much, but the state ethics panel ruled that she did abuse her power, but that she did have pretty much unchecked to hire and fire, thus the only law broken was an ethics law.<\/p>\n
Sarah Palin’s take on the ruling? She says<\/a> it cleared her of all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n I’d sorta like a VP who doesn’t have the legislature conclude that she violated ethics law, and then turn around and declare, “I\u2019m very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing \u2026 any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.” She also called the investigation, conducted by the majority-Republican legislature, “a partisan circus.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember Troopergate? The news hasn’t covered it much, but the state ethics panel ruled that she did abuse her power, but that she did have pretty much unchecked to hire and fire, thus the only law broken was an ethics … Continue reading \nThe report affirmed that, as governor, she had the constitutional right to hire and fire at will, and therefore her termination of Monegan was lawful.\n\nHowever, the report found that Palin, her husband Todd, and her subordinates used pressure and intimidation to try to force the firing of Michael Wooten, beginning before her swearing-in ceremony took place, and therefore broke the law.\n\nThe investigation said she violated Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act, which states, “\u2026 each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”<\/blockquote>\n