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What Kind Of Vetting Process Did McCain Use?
Crooks and Liars — ... .  Maybe she’s being so careful because she’s had experience before in hacking in and looking for deleted files on someone else’s computer. ...

Freddoso: Scrutiny on the Trail
Articles on National Review Online — ... where she served as ethics chair. She also tried, unsuccessfully, to have him replaced in his party position. Palin accused Ruedrich of seeking reimbursement from the state for partisan political activity. He had also colluded with energy companies that he was supposed to be regulating on the commission, leaking a confidential commission memo to them and at times acting like their unofficial spokesman in interviews and meetings with communities. The Anchorage Daily News later reported how the issue was resolved: [W]hen Ruedrich settled state ethics charges June 22 [2004] ...

Palin As Reformer? Not Quite...
TPMMuckraker — ... To be sure, Palin's claims to be a reformer aren't toally without merit. Before becoming governor, she went after the state GOP chair, Randy Ruedrich, for doing work for the party on public time and working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also ...

Freddoso: Following Caribou Barbie
Articles on National Review Online — ... — to change the time of this year s state of the state address. The schedule had been set well in advance, but Green cited a transparently bogus scheduling conflict in an attempt to force the speech to a time that would have prevented Palin from attending her son s graduation. In that context, Palin let loose a small giggle when the radio host called Green a bitch. I spoke with three Alaskans about these issues at the convention on Wednesday. One was Randy Ruedrich, the man Palin had removed from the Alaskan Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for unethical behavior and whom ...

Palin and Pelosi: Worlds Apart in House-Cleaning Methodology
Pajamas Media — ... governorship of Alaska on promises to rein in corruption in her own Republican Party. By the time she had beaten the incumbent governor Murkowski in the primaries and another former governor in the general election, Palin had already proven that she was a courageous reformer for the people. She had resigned a powerful job with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission because state law forbade her to speak out against fellow commission members. With Palin’s resignation came her whistle-blowing on two members for financial conflicts of interest and other ethics ...

Sarah Palin And The Integrity Gap
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Following her loss in the Lieutenant Governor's race, Palin was out of a job, and as promising but unemployed politicians often do, she accepted an appointment from the powers that controlled her state party. In February 2003, she was tabbed by Murkowski to chair the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, a regulatory body with jurisdiction over the state's most important industries: ...