(That way the incredible number of ethics compaints filed against our Governor can remain secret and everybody will still be under the assumption that she is not the corrupt, hypocritical woman that these charges have exposed her to be. Oooh tricky!)
“An ethics complaint filed against a legislator is confidential until it’s determined to have merit,” Lynn said in a written statement. “If the complainant breaches confidentiality, then the case is dismissed.”(Yeah because that way Celtic Diva's complaint could be thrown out now that Palin's request not to disclose how much she and Todd paid for that Arctic cat gear, if anything, demonstrates that she is indeed trying to hide something. Oooh trickier!)
Lynn said his bill would provide the same rule for complaints against the governor and all others who work in the state’s executive branch – talk about the complaint, and it’s dismissed.
(Don't be fooled by this addition. It was only added to fool the simpletons into believing this is NOT a last ditch attempt to keep the public from discovering just how incredibly corrupt and inept this woman truly is. Methinks I smell desperation!)
Check out this excellent assessment of Sarah Palin:
ReplyDeletewww.theweek.com/article/index/97807/The_prime_time_of_Sarah_Palin
Why exactly is he worried about GINO's ethics complaints anyway? Why don't they tell her to act ethically??? (I know that's impossible but duh!)
ReplyDeleteThe whole thing is a joke! Diva, Andree need to take everything to the FBI b/c these "hired attorney's" don't even LOOK at the complaints which is evidenced the APOC is looking into Diva's complaint. The personell board is a fricken joke! Branchflower (a independent investigator) finds her guilty of abuses but her "personnel board" says no, how fricken convenient! And cost the state a fortune b/c they claimed to actually "investigate" and the deluded peelanders want to "retire" GINO's legal bills inspite of the fact she just got a huge advance on a book deal and if she acted ethically she would not have ethics complaints!!!
Also, too...
These attorney's are dismissing complaints b/c of "their opinion" and the personell board not even bother to back up the claim that it has no merit, WHAT KIND OF CORRUPT SHIT IS THAT????
What a pit of snakes you have there Alaska!!!
Only a few Reps are honest!
So help me understand this.
ReplyDeleteIf I build part of my new house on my neighbor's land, and he files a complaint that I have done an illegal thing, and then he has the audacity to talk about the situation, the case is dismissed and I get away with my land grab?
Or: I beat up my wife, and she files a criminal complaint against me. But she also tells her Mom and therapist. Because she talked about it, her complaint is dismissed and I can do it again!
Great! That means I can do anything I want to anyone who chooses to exercise freedom of speech. I predict a huge new gold rush to AK if this is passed -- or should I say a "crook rush" -- since anyone who wants to act illegally just has to get a job in the executive branch, and make sure to cheat or defraud or abuse chatty people who think there is a right to free speech in AK.
I bet Sarah Palin could whip up the proud graduates of third grade, the non-readers, the ones who love her "just like us" self-presentation. I bet she could get it to pass.
Blood running cold yet?
I can't cut and paste but please check out Phils blog, Progressive Alaska his latest blog! There are possible threats being made!
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE in Alaska needs to rise up against this monster!
I just sent a bunch of info to CREW!
That is outageous and she is a corrupt lying hypocrite!! Gov Palin, this is America! For someone who is always talking about individual freedoms and liberties and freedom of speech, this just pelroves you do not walk the talk!! You are full of crap and an embarassment to all women and to our country!!
ReplyDeleteDo you honestly now want to try to silence critics? To quiet people from exposing your lies and corruption? It is NOT going to happen! We are not going to shut up and sit down, do you hear that? We are going to continue every effort possible to educate the public about who you really are! A person of no substance, a diva, a wack job, an opportunist who would use anyone or step on anyone including her own family to get what she wants.
This bill would be a cleae violation of our civil liberties! It is the most crooked thing I have ever heard of! It will be known throughout the US that Gov Palin tries to silence people who don't approve of her! Isn't this what she did after the election- only agree to do interviews with people whi paint her favorably? What a wack job she is! I really believe all the reports of the McCain camp now!
What infuriates me is that she's talking about filing a SLAP lawsuit against Diva and Andree. So much for land of the free.
ReplyDeleteAndree posted a link on the ADN website in regards to this. It is an article from 2004 with a statement from Sarah about ethics complaints.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/background/story/513761.html
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairwoman Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning amid frustration that she is being forced to keep silent about ethics allegations against Republican Party of Alaska chairman Randy Ruedrich.
"I'm forced to withhold information from Alaskans, and that goes against what I believe in as a public servant," Palin said in a Friday interview.
Surprised to find that she has dramatically changed her tune now that the complaints are aimed at her?
I want to move to Alaska; you guys have the best laws (or lack of them).
ReplyDelete1. If I don't open the envelopes with the checks
or the gifts in boxes I don't have to count
them until I want to (maybe next year)
2. I can think of alot of stuff that is covered
by that proprietary s**t; I won't declare it.
3. If some one makes a joke about me, I will
accuse them of being a communist, traitor,
al quieda rapist sex pervert; that ought to
shut them up.
4. If I say it's so, it's so; covers pregnancy,
birth issues, whether I was ever found guilty
of anything or not. It's what I say; don't
confuse me with the real world.
5. I like the idea of building a house where
there is no building permit required.
6. I've never seen Russia; I'm looking forward
to it!
7. No body ever does time (I'me thinking of Ted)
Wow. Bob Lynn is going to rewrite the U.S. Constitution, singlehandedly.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know state law could trump federal law.
I guess I should have gone to school in Alaska. Just goes to show what you can learn from a superior educational system.
crystalwolf...
ReplyDeleteI love your common sense suggestion....DUH, instead of having to pass a special bill to keep ethics complaints secret, why not just sit Bad Sarah down and tell her, "Now Sarah, you'll need to watch things a little more closely from now on." It's funny, the baroqueness of it all. Reminds me of Henry 8 getting special laws passed so he could "legally" marry his wife's sister and so on...
Seems to me it would make sense to have the law be uniform for all elected public officials.
ReplyDeleteEither everyone has to deal with both legitimate and frivolous filings being subject to gossip, speculation and a sort of pre-hearing in the court of pubic opinion, or nobody does.
I get it.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin files a complaint against herself, like she did in Troopergate.
Sarah Palin publicizes the fact that she filed a complaint against herself, like she did in Troopergate.
With Bob Lynn's legislation, the complaint is automatically dismissed even if she publicizes her own complaint against herself.
I get it.
The proposed bill is a pretty good deal for her all around. Someone files an ethics compaint - one of her cronies "leaks" the information to the press - complaint goes away. No muss, no fuss, no having to go through a fake process where your puppets end up rejecting the complaint anyway.
ReplyDeleteBut, if that's the case, she won't be able to use her poor me, I need legal defense funds story. Might cut down on her income.
And what if "gasp" a democrat gets elected next time & those same rules apply. Whatever will the Rethugs do then?
Helen: re your
ReplyDelete"Reminds me of Henry 8 geting special laws passed so he could "legally" marry his wife's sister . . . ."
You've got the right idea but facts mixed up: Henry's brother was to be the king, and the brother died. The brother had been married to Catherine of Aragon, but now it became Henry's father's wish (and a sort of old-time duty, plus the point of that marriage had been to help relations wih Spain, so the re-marriage to Henry kept that goal intact) for Henry to marry his dead brother's wife, which he did as a young man. Nothing unusual there, for those times. And then the dad died and Henry became king.
But after many years and only the one daughter from Catherine, Henry got caught up with Anne Bolyen (whose older sister Henry had impregnated and abandoned). For a variety of extremely interesting reasons, Henry decided to annull his marriage to Catherine and marry Anne. As a Catholic, this was almost impossible, plus it would turn his daughter with Catherine into NOT the heir to his throne AND a bastard.
But Henry prevailed by taking England out of the Catholic church and creaing the Anglican church, which permitted divorce. Here is where you are exactly correct, Helen. Henry changed all the rules so he could marry Anne Boleyn.
And then after Anne produced only one live child (the future Elizabeth I) and Henry tired of Anne, he ponied up false (or exaggerated) charges of adultery (incl incest with her brother) against Anne and on that basis had her beheaded, and Henry married wife 3, who died in the childbirth of Henry's only son (the son was sickly and died in his late teen years). The other wives followed: Anne of Cleves was wife 4, who he amicably divorced. Wife 5 was young and sexually active with others, and she was beheaded too. Henry died during his marriage to wife 6.
Yes, he pretty much reinvented the rules and laws around him, and changed the truth. To serve his preferences. Wikipedia has a good account of it all, in more detail, under Henry VIII.
Let us not confuse Palin with Henry VIII, though. Oh, please, I hope we don't have to.
OT ISn't it amazing that all of the Letterman drama completely covered up the fact of Sarah asking Beverly Whoolen to leave?
ReplyDeleteThis is a woman who just exuded her admiration and respect for our troops who are protected everyone's right to free speech, and now one of her supporters is introducing a bill for her to supress it when it comes to HER ethics violations.
ReplyDeleteWhaT MORE do you Alaskans need to recall this nutjob already. She is pissing all over your state daily, and now writing laws to serve her own purpose....obviously there are way too many apathetic people up there. Holy shit...you all need to grow a pair and take this woman down.
Here's the thing: we can talk about anything we damn well please in this country, it's called a right, freedom of speech, and is constitutionally guaranteed. If I have a complain against a government official, I can't talk about it???
ReplyDeleteSeriously, folks, you guys in Alaska need to boot that whole contingent to the curb. They aren't serving you (you pay them) and they've long crossed over into illegal and unethical.
Who is Beverly Woolen?
ReplyDeleteBeverly Woolery, was fired/let go by the GINO on the day she left for her "look at ME tour"!
ReplyDeleteShe was head of a state medical dept? You can google her. The next day the sh!t hit the fan about GINO's Plagurized speech!!!
you people really need to get a life
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous 6:13 AM:
ReplyDeleteYour presence on this blog would suggest that you also need a life.
@6:13 A.M., I have a life. And my life includes freedom of speech. I exercise that right every day. Perhaps you are trying to silence us, like Palin tries to silence folks with threats and strange legislantion?
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't the State of Alaska just declare Sarah Queen instead of Governor and then everyone can bow down to the anointed one!! This is beyond effing absurd. Not only is your governor batshit crazy, but looks like almost every other elected official is a lunatic as well, as they seem to concur that only Sarah Palin has the right to free speech. Can this really go on until the 2010 election? Seems like it will. It is sickening.
ReplyDelete1) Isn't the Alaska legislature out of session now? Is a special session going to be called just so that Rep. Lynn can legislate a "Sarah Palin cover-up" bill? Otherwise, won't this cover-up bill have to wait until next January?
ReplyDelete2) I'd suggest ignoring any attempts to muzzle free and open discussion of ethics complaints by the public, be they legislated, threatened by state troopers, or Palin's own Mafia.
I'd be interested to see just what more they can do besides issue press releases and whining comments in celebrity rags. Arrest? Jail time?
Is a significant segment of the law enforcement branch of the Alaska state government also in the executive branch's pocket, as well as a part of the legislative branch?
Re Anon at 6:13am....People who resort to telling other's to "get a life" are attempting to marginalize them. They also resort to that tired little cliche when they are presented with the truth and have nothing else to say. I dare say we "all have a life".
ReplyDeleteTransparency? Wild guess here, but I think her promise to be accountable and transparent to Alaskans has been replaced with the “No Need for Anyone to Know What I am Doing--Ever!” amid the rotting stench of unethical, corrupt behavior and outrageous lies.
ReplyDeleteHer bubble will soon be burst one way or another--maybe a spectacular display of multiple bursts. There are just too many areas in which she has been involved that screams $Unethical$. What a shameful, self-serving, and greedy person Sarah Palin is.
Through all of this, I think about her children and wonder what messages they internalize. I wonder how they compensate or cope with everything their mother has brought upon herself--and her family.
Wasn't there a big discussion somewhere about Beverly being in charge of birth certificates for the State/Trip/Tripp? Perhaps Beverly would not do something Palin wanted. Inquiring minds......speak Beverly now that you are under the bus with all the "others." It is crowded under there with the throwaways Palin has trashed.
ReplyDeleteSince she is a public figure, and she is employed by the taxpayers, seems like the taxpayers can't say anything about here unethical behavior. Is she the only one that would not be accountable for her actions. She has been made Queen of Alaska. What country are you all again?? If I was in alaska i would write any and everything about her before this stupid law is passed. they will probably passed it in a closed session and nobody would know anything about it. Flood that person e-mail and crash his computer, he would not get my vote again.
ReplyDeleteGryphen something is going on with your web site every time I try to post a comment It says internet xplorer can't locate abort.
ReplyDelete@8:19 - the most ironic part of the effort to silence the ability to make an ethics complaint is that SP used that tactic very often prior to becoming governor so that she could bring up her concerns about her brother-in-law, the state trooper.
ReplyDeleteOMG can I tell you how glad I live in Arizona and NOT Alaska. I sure hope that annual check you receive from SP (actually NOT from her, but from the oil revenues) makes it worthwhile having this corrupt sack of dog manure as GINO.
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with Alaskans? It's not the big or populous a state? Can't you get control of your own elected officials?
I realize you are all "individuals" - but really.