Walt Monegan pushes back against "rogue" label.

Gov. Sarah Palin's ex-public safety commissioner says he'll provide e-mails to a state investigator to refute his former boss's claim he had a "rogue mentality" on budgeting and was planning an unauthorized trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for money.

Walt Monegan said his e-mails will counter a batch the governor's lawyer released last week purporting to show he was out of sync with Palin and that the planned trip was "the last straw" that got him fired.

In interviews this week, Monegan said the governor's e-mails are far from the last word on the last straw.

He said his e-mails will show a broader view of conversations within the administration and of his plans to visit U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in late July to talk about a bold plan to crack down on sexual assaults in Alaska, a state long plagued with one of the nation's highest rates of such crimes.

"No one ever told me -- no one -- that you're running amok," Monegan said.

The truth is that Walt Monegan is a man who is universally respected and whose ethics and integrity are beyond reproach. Sarah Palin is a woman who has been caught in so many lies and misstatements that it is too exhausting to attempt to list them all.

There is one part of this Anchorage Daily News article that I find especially upsetting and it is this portion right here:

A June 26 e-mail from Ruaro to Rehfeld began: "Walt and DPS want to make a trip back to DC in the end of July" to work with John Katz, director of the governor's Washington office, and the congressional delegation on funding for a sexual assault unit costing up to $20 million.

The Palin administration calls this desire to get funding for a sexual assault unit one of Monegan's "pet projects". I have lived in Alaska my entire life and it has always been a source of shame that we lead the nation in the number of sexual assaults that occur in our state.

The idea that Walt Monegan was trying to finally work to rectify that situation, but suffered setbacks because it was not a priority of the Palin administration, is infuriating. We have a huge surplus of money on our state government right now, there is no reason that Monegan should have had to fly to Washington with his hand out for money to solve this problem. No reason at all.

There is a great video put together about "Troopergate" by the ADN here.

And as for the investigation into finding out exactly what happened ? Well the Palin administration is still refusing to cooperate.

Today there will be a rally in Anchorage, on the park strip, called the "Hold Palin Accountable Rally". It is from 12:00 to 2:00p.m.. This is what we as Alaskans are doing to get this investigation moving forward and to finally have the "transparency" that Governor Palin has been promising us all along. Join us if you can, we welcome all participants in this worthy cause.