The group Alaskans for Truth wants the Legislature to do something about the "troopergate" investigation that found that Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power.
The group put out a call to action to pressure the Legislature to look into censuring the governor based on the findings in the report conducted by Special Counsel Stephen Branchflower.
Alaskans for Truth also wants the Legislature look into whether contempt charges apply for the governor's husband and other state officials who did not show up to testify under subpoena.
"The call to action is simply assisting the Legislature to do what's next with regards to this Legislative Council's investigation," Camille Conte with Alaskans for Truth said.
But some lawmakers don't see it that way.
Legislative leaders say Alaskans are weary of "troopergate."
Weary? Weary?
How do we know that Alaskans are "weary" of Troopergate? I read the comments that get posted on the Anchorage Daily News site. They don't seem "weary". As a matter of fact a great number of them seemed truly pissed off that nobody is holding Palin accountable for her ethics violations.
And even if there are a large number of Alaskans who are "weary" of Troopergate, how does that factor into the Legislature doing their job?
Many Alaskans were weary of corruption in our politics. Did that keep us from convicting Tom Anderson on 7 felonies: 3 counts money laundering, 2 counts extortion, and 1 count each of bribery and conspiracy? Did that keep us from convicting Vic Kohring of 3 felony counts, bribery, conspiracy, and attempted extortion? Did it keep us from convicting Pete Kott of 3 felony counts of bribery, conspiracy, extortion, and of giving false testimony during his trial?
No it did not!
And did the "weariness" of Alaskans keep Ted Stevens from being found guilty of seven felonies? No, because our "weariness" has NOTHING to do with justice!
And if Alaskans are truly getting weary of ANYTHING it is seeing Sarah Palin giving interview after interview making all of us look like brain damaged morons.
I will tell you what I know. The day that Sarah Palin gets held accountable for her many ethical violations you will not see Alaskans wandering the streets in weariness. You will see them dancing in the streets because their long nightmare will finally be coming to an end. And they can finally look forward to a day when an intelligent, ethical person gets elected as Governor of this great state.
I think they (KTUU) have been drinking the Sarah Kool-Aid this week. I tried to vote in the poll they had up and it was shut down already. They didn't want to leave it up long enough for it to show that more people wanted them to finish the job. It was too close...lol
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping up the pressure. I am doing all I can do from the show me state.