Was This Why Palin Fired Walter Monegan???

[kpete]

The story, at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090603024.html?sub=AR

WASILLA, Alaska -- One Friday in June, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined the chief of the state prison system on a tour of the Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, a 90-minute drive north of Anchorage. It was a routine visit but for the presence of the governor's infant son, Trig.

Palin held her baby in her arms as the warden drove a short distance around the facility, said corrections director Joe Schmidt, who sat next to Palin. A few days later, the governor got a warning from her public safety commissioner that someone had complained that she did not strap Trig into a car seat for the ride.

Palin dismissed the complaint as petty, and the commissioner, whom she appointed, took no formal action. But the incident shows the degree to which family and politics are bound together in Palin's career.

That Public Safety Commissioner was Walter Monegan, who she fired next month. This is a sign of a personal vindictiveness that is reminiscent of Dick Cheney. This is the kind of woman that reminds you of the mean girl in high school, the kind that would tear you down to get to what she wanted. It's a sign of the horrible judgement she would display as Vice-President.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/7/1161/33518/983/589896