Palin Warned Before Hand of Trooper-Gate.

[vaberella]

Ethics Adviser Warned Palin
About Trooper Issue
Letter Described
Situation as 'Grave,'
Called for Apology
By JIM CARLTON
September 11, 2008; Page A8

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An informal adviser who has counseled Gov. Sarah Palin on ethics issues urged her in July to apologize for her handling of the dismissal of the state's public safety commissioner and warned that the matter could snowball into a bigger scandal.

Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten (right) answers questions about the 'Troopergate' investigation on Tuesday.
He also said, in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, that she should fire any aides who had raised concerns with the chief over a state trooper who was involved in a bitter divorce with the governor's sister.

In the letter, written before Sen. John McCain picked the Alaska governor as his running mate, former U.S. Attorney Wevley Shea warned Gov. Palin that "the situation is now grave" and recommended that she and her husband, Todd Palin, apologize for "overreaching or perceived overreaching" for using her position to try to get Trooper Mike Wooten fired from the force.

Mr. Shea was acting on his own in writing the letter, with no official capacity. In late 2006, Gov. Palin asked him to co-write an ethics report for Gov. Palin with then-House Democratic leader Ethan Berkowitz that recommended new financial-disclosure rules for elected and appointed officials in the statehouse. That report served as a key document for the ethics bill she later signed into law.



Read the letters from Wevley Shea to Gov. Palin and her aides.After his initial letter in July, Mr. Shea followed up with another letter, dated Aug. 4, in which he told Gov. Palin that she probably couldn't legally shun a legislative investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

Gov. Palin has taken the opposite tack, hiring a private attorney to advise in a matter that has become known as "Troopergate." Seven Palin administration employees have refused to meet with the independent investigator. The McCain-Palin campaign has argued that the state legislature has no right to look into the matter. Palin spokesmen say the state personnel board is the appropriate investigative body, setting up a showdown between the state's legislative and executive branches.

More at link....This works to our advantage. She decided to forgo counsel, I wonder how that would look for executive decision making. Plus it seems more and more she truly was muscling her way around her ex-brother in law's life. She's screwed.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122109403841221751.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

[Boz]

1. A judge in the sisters divorce case warned her to and that was before she was governor.

He said she needed to stay out of the case and his job.

[Boz]

2. And someone just made a link out of the Judge story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7028179