10-16-2008, 08:11 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Regarding troopergate, PDF is available, it came out last week<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Glad you mention the troopergate doc. Here's a snippet posted by Daily Kos
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another interesting tidbit from the Branchflower report on Troopergate, from Branchflower's interview with Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan's executive secretary, Cassandra Byrne:
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  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And then the last call was in April of 2008. I think you told me earlier that he had just gotten back from a legislative session in Juneau, or something. Tell about that, if you would.
  MS. BYRNE: I think that he was disappointed with the legislative decision about budgeting for public safety, and when he came back I asked him how the meetings went, the hearings, et cetera. He said that it was basically very disheartening at the direction that the legislative session had gone because we were not going to receive the funding that we would need.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And was there mention made of Michael Wooten in the context of this conversation?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: What did he tell you?
  MS. BYRNE: <b>That because of the fact that we still had Wooten in our employee, that we would continue to have the problems with budgeting.
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  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: That was his feeling?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: Did he say that he had been told that, or did you get the feeling that that was just his feeling?
  MS. BYRNE: No. He was - I don't know who, whether someone told him directly, but it has always been my feeling that our administration has always been pressured and everything that we've done as far as goals and projects, that it weighed very heavily upon that issue.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: The issue being Mike Wooten being fired?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And the pressure that you're referring to, would that be coming from the Governor or Governor's office?
  MS. BYRNE: It was her Administration - not only from the Governor, but
  other members.
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Yep. So desperate were the Crazy Palins to prosecute their vendetta against their former brother-in-law that when they couldn't get Monegan to break state law and union rules on their behalf, that they decided to "punish" him by denying his budgeting requests for public safety projects.
Women are raped in Alaska at a rate twice the national average, but Sarah Palin cuts the public saftety budget in a desperate bid to score some kind of points in her insane personal crusade against her own family.
Remember this next time she spews her crap about how Democrats would "cut funding for our troops, because the truth is that she cut funding for her Troopers when Alaskans needed them most.
And she did it all for some vague hope of personal satisfaction.
What a psycho.
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Sarah 'country first' Palin , scratch that, 'family first' Palin sounds more "risky" than Obama.
Glad you mention the troopergate doc. Here's a snippet posted by Daily Kos
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Another interesting tidbit from the Branchflower report on Troopergate, from Branchflower's interview with Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan's executive secretary, Cassandra Byrne:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And then the last call was in April of 2008. I think you told me earlier that he had just gotten back from a legislative session in Juneau, or something. Tell about that, if you would.
  MS. BYRNE: I think that he was disappointed with the legislative decision about budgeting for public safety, and when he came back I asked him how the meetings went, the hearings, et cetera. He said that it was basically very disheartening at the direction that the legislative session had gone because we were not going to receive the funding that we would need.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And was there mention made of Michael Wooten in the context of this conversation?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: What did he tell you?
  MS. BYRNE: <b>That because of the fact that we still had Wooten in our employee, that we would continue to have the problems with budgeting.
</b>
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: That was his feeling?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: Did he say that he had been told that, or did you get the feeling that that was just his feeling?
  MS. BYRNE: No. He was - I don't know who, whether someone told him directly, but it has always been my feeling that our administration has always been pressured and everything that we've done as far as goals and projects, that it weighed very heavily upon that issue.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: The issue being Mike Wooten being fired?
  MS. BYRNE: Yes.
  MR. BRANCHFLOWER: And the pressure that you're referring to, would that be coming from the Governor or Governor's office?
  MS. BYRNE: It was her Administration - not only from the Governor, but
  other members.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yep. So desperate were the Crazy Palins to prosecute their vendetta against their former brother-in-law that when they couldn't get Monegan to break state law and union rules on their behalf, that they decided to "punish" him by denying his budgeting requests for public safety projects.
Women are raped in Alaska at a rate twice the national average, but Sarah Palin cuts the public saftety budget in a desperate bid to score some kind of points in her insane personal crusade against her own family.
Remember this next time she spews her crap about how Democrats would "cut funding for our troops, because the truth is that she cut funding for her Troopers when Alaskans needed them most.
And she did it all for some vague hope of personal satisfaction.
What a psycho.
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Sarah 'country first' Palin , scratch that, 'family first' Palin sounds more "risky" than Obama.