Sarah Palin's husband, Todd, was a fixture at governor's office »
Posted By bluetexasvalley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsBarely two weeks after Sarah Palin had been sworn in as Alaska 's governor, in December 2006, then-Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan's executive secretary got a confusing phone call from Palin's office: The first gentleman would like to schedule a meeting with her boss.
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bluetexasvalley8 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Testimony compiled as part of the inquiry, and The Times' own review of e-mail logs from the administration, show that Todd Palin was a fixture in the governor's office, spending about half of his time there. He attended Cabinet meetings that are supposed to be closed to the public, and was copied on a wide variety of high-level government correspondence on issues such as contract negotiations with the police officers union, Alaska Native issues and the privatization of a dairy near the Palins' hometown of Wasilla." -
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cairo1318 months, 3 weeks ago
Palin, Palin, her closet needs exploring.Just who is Ms Palin?Will someone in the media please insist that The Rep. answer questions and not start of with Obama did this just answer the question.
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fsev418 months, 3 weeks ago
Many of the questions have been answered but not by the republicans. The republicans have been trying mightily to dodge the questions and spin the answers that are coming out such as the troopergate investigation results.
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miklkit8 months, 3 weeks ago
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But according to the legislative inquiry, the "first gentleman's" influence was so pervasive that senior staff members began to be uneasy about his constant phone calls about Wooten. Former legislative director John Bitney, the report said, took several calls a day from Todd Palin on his cellphone.
"Todd . . . would call me about once a day, sometimes two or three times a day, just on a myriad of things" -- very often about Wooten -- Bitney testified.
"You were kind of caught in the middle here?" Branchflower asked him.
"Yeah, but I didn't want to tell him I wasn't going to do anything . . . I didn't think that was appropriate, but I didn't want to tell Todd that."
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BravoSierra8 months, 3 weeks ago
A complete and total abuse of power and violation of boundaries.
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A psychologist would probably consider such violation of boundaries pathological. -
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Tcaros8 months, 3 weeks ago
Todd looks like a "pretty boy" who lets the wife wear the pants. He likely had nothing to do with the attempted firing. (He should have been keeping an eye on the kids.)
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Sarah comes across as one of those "religious zealots."
How can she claim to be a Christian when she tries to "unfairly" fire someone?
Also, all the lies she is saying about Obama make one think she's not really walking the walk. -
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jaern8 months, 3 weeks ago
Can you see him as "Second Dude"? Even more frightening than her as VP.
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