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Investigators Are Looking at Governor About Firing
Although portrayed as a champion of ethics reform, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska became the subject of a state ethics investigation a few weeks ago. >
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Blogtalk: All About Palin
The Caucus — ... examines Ms. Palin ’s role on the ticket. Despite her reformer image, Ms. Palin might be in some political hot water for reasons that transcend gender. She is currently being investigated for possible misuse of power in her decision to fire a top public safety official and her efforts to get her sister’s ex-husband fired as a state trooper. John Cole at the conservative ...

Frank Rich: Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
The Latest on Air America — ... in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same. How long before we learn she never shot a moose? [...] He wanted to choose the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman as his vice president. If he were still a true maverick, he would have done so. But instead he chose partisanship and politics over country. “God only made one John McCain, and he is his own ...

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