Sarah Sarah Pants on Fi’ah

Sarah Palin is a lot of things, but she’s not someone who tells the truth. The Anchorage Daily News points out that she’s stretched the truth in multiple situations.

She claims to be against “pork”, AKA government earmark funds, but she bellied up to the trough early.

As Mayor of tiny Wasilla, then with fewer than 5,000 residents, she grabbed a staggering $27 MILLION in earmarked funds for that town alone. Alaska has more earmarked funds than any other state in the country.

She said that NOBODY pressured Public Safety chief Monegan to fire her ex-brother-in-law Wooten, still embroiled in a custody battle with her sister.

Yet, when the smoking gun audio surfaced with obvious proof that her staffer Frank Bailey clearly leaned on a DPS supervisor, she claimed she didn’t know, and that she “could understand how some could perceive it” as pressure. How would you interpret 24 calls from Governor’s office calls saying, “Todd and the Governor can’t understand why nothing’s happened after a year…”?

When questions arose about the firing, Palin initially said that she fired chief Monegan because he wasn’t doing enough on dealing alcoholism issues in the state— so then WHY would she offer him the head of the Alcohol Bureau Commission?

She said that trooper Wooten was dangerous and she had to rush to the house to ensure her safety– only to leave her watch post outside her window to attend a meeting. Sister’s life in danger– or not?

Palin claims trooper Wooten shot a moose out of season. The truth is that Wooten’s then-wife, Molly, begged him to get her dad off her back by taking her moose hunting. It was the last day of the season, and her dad was pressuring her to fill the tag– or Palin’s DAD would take the tag and use it. Wooten went with her, and when she didn’t want to take the shot, he downed the moose. The DNR “slapped him on the wrist” because it was an absurd claim made by Palin who clearly wants to punish him for ongoing child custody issues with her sister.

The divorce judge advised the Palin family to quit trying so hard to get Wooten fired.

The list goes on… and on…. and on. Stay tuned.

The Anchorage Daily News is doing a great job and has the details and documents posted on their website.

Sarah Barracuda Palin tramples those in way of political ambition

Anybody who gets in Sarah “Barracuda” Palin’s way gets trampled, so we shouldn’t be surprised that she offered her oldest daughter’s private crisis to the media jackals to dispel rumors that could knock the wheels off her political career. Palin always puts herself first.

Palin’s poorly vetted past keeps popping up and getting creepier. She announced in March that she was 7 months pregnant, surprising her closest staffers. In the Anchorage Daily News March 6th story announcing her pregnancy, her husband was described as a “BP oil worker on leave”. So, her husband works for BP– isn’t that a conflict of interest?

She hired Chuck Kopp as Commissioner, knowing that he was fired for sexual harassment of a co-worker, apparently thinking it didn’t matter, or that people wouldn’t find out. They did find out and it did matter, forcing her to accept his resignation 11 days later when it hit the news. She gave him a $10,000 severance package– after 11 days of work.

She fired Walt Monegan after he wouldn’t succumb to pressure to fire her brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. If you have any question about whether or not she was behind that, listen to the entire audio recording of lackey Frank Bailey, available on the Anchorage Daily News website. She cut him loose for doing his job, too.

She claims to have fired Walt Monegan in part because he wasn’t doing enough to deal with alcohol issues in the state, yet offered him a job as head of the Alcohol Bureau Commission? 

 Bailey said in the smoking gun audio recording that she “likes Walt but couldn’t understand why he wasn’t moving on this after a year”. He also describes efforts to talk with Monegan and others unsuccessfully about the issue. We’re supposed to believe that 24 phone calls came from her office to the state troopers office, without her knowledge? Her staff were doing this on their own initiative, with details she fed them?

Monegan received no severance pay, even though she hand-picked him and brought him out of retirement for the position.

As mayor, she fired the Wasilla police chief because he didn’t support her political campaign. She threatened the librarian, too, for the same reason, but allowed her to keep her job.

She claims that she feared for her sister’s life because ex-brother-in-law was so dangerous, yet she left for a meeting instead of calling the cops, after watching through the window with a neighbor. 

The judge in her sister’s divorce case clearly discouraged the attempt to get Wooten fired, pointing out that getting him fired would negatively impact her sister’s alimony and child support– yet Palin apparently didn’t care.

Did she really clean house and weed out corruption, or has she abused her power for personal and political gain? 

Is this how she’s going to “reach across the aisle”? Palin’s low approval ratings in Alaska should be a red flag for the rest of us. They’ve seen her in action, and they don’t like what they see.