Legislature calls special session to undo even more damage done to our state by exiting quitter and chief.

The Alaska Legislature has called itself into a special session to consider overriding Gov. Sarah Palin's veto of federal stimulus funds for energy-related projects.

Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, said the one-day session will be Aug. 10 in Anchorage instead of the Capitol in Juneau.

Only one other special session has been held in Anchorage, in June 2007. The one-day session cost nearly $112,000, according to Pam Varni, executive director of the Legislative Affairs Agency.

Apparently this is yet another example of how Palin's quitting is going to save Alaska money.

I could spend this post railing on how full of shit everything Sarah Palin says turns out to be, but I would rather talk about the booby-trap she is leaving behind in her wake.

And that would be THIS guy.

Lawmakers also will consider approving the designee for lieutenant governor.

Palin has announced she will resign July 26, and Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take the oath of office at the Governor's Picnic the same day in Fairbanks.

In her announcement, Palin said Military and Veterans Affairs Commissioner Craig Campbell would become the new lieutenant governor, even though the Legislature had previously named Corrections Commissioner Joe Schmidt as the designee.

After receiving an opinion from the attorney general, Parnell on Monday named Campbell as the lieutenant governor on a temporary basis, saying he would serve in that capacity until he could be confirmed by the Legislature.

Craig Campbell is one of those oily opportunistic politicians that Alaska seems to produce at a break neck pace. He is of the same school as Don Young, Frank Murkowski, Ben Stevens, Tom Anderson, and our new mayor Dan Sullivan. These guys have little integrity and seem instead to view politics as a way to gain power and line their own pockets.

Craig Campbell sold what little integrity he had back when, after first criticizing Sarah Palin for saying she "ran the National Guard in Alaska" during the 2008 campaign, he came out and defended her statements after the McCain people had a little "talk" with him.

First he made this statement to the Boston Globe:

And while the Alaska National Guard operates a launch site for a US anti-missile system at Fort Greely, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, the Alaskan governor is not in the site’s chain of command and has no authority over its operations, according to Maj. Gen. Craig E. Campbell, the adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard who commands the roughly 3,800 state militia members.

Yet after a trip to the McCain/Palin woodshed he goes on FOX News and tells Greta Van Susteren (yes she was carrying Palin's water even back then) this:

(You can see the full story here.)

After Campbell made these remarks he mysteriously managed to get a promotion from Major General to Lieutenant General which many of his peers believed was wholly undeserved and which he then used to bully them into submission.

Here are just a few comments which express grave concerns about Campbell's abilities and leadership style:

There are valid concerns about possible retribution for speaking out and the prospect that some will not speak out at all about the rogue Genera Campbell. He received an unprecedented and undeserved promotion to three-star ran. Guardsmen think it’s a travesty. The problem is that he forces true leaders out and surrounds himself with people who won’t outshine him. He can’t follow the leadership principles that he likes to hear himself quote. That is why he has a recruiting problem. I know of a Guardsmen who suffered retribution from him after returning from Afghanistan. He is a highly decorated Guardsman and an outstanding leader. Campbell is so self centered that he refused to recognize this soldier and instead had investigation after investigation placed on him. Campbell is a rogue General who should be investigated himself. Where is justice? I know there is a travesty of justice with this rogue General.

And then there is this:

I am one of those Guardsmen who has suffered under the Alaska Guard leadership of General Campbell. He has two sets of rules when applying to promotions. Whoever doesn’t outshine him can get ahead. You need to “kiss up” and play his game. He isn’t a leader but a self proclaimed politician.

THIS is the type of person that Sarah Palin feels should be place in the role of Lt. Governor. She has a history of placing unqualified people in leadership positions and she is certainly not going to changer her modus operandi now.

However I urge the Alaska legislators to kick Craig Campbell to the curb and select somebody who will serve the people of Alaska, and not their own selfish desire for power.