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Waiting for the Naughty Monkey to drop"Waiting for the naughty monkey to drop" -- that's how Huffington Post blogger and radio personality Shannyn Moore refers to the anticipation she feels re: the inevitable and inculpatory revelations that will come in the wake of Palin's resignation as Governor of Alaska, effective July 26th. You know...the revelations that will make sense of the otherwise bizarre situation. Moore, who calls herself "Just a girl from Homer (Alaska)", has clearly gotten way under Palin's skin if one if to judge by the public letter released by attorney Thomas Van Flein on behalf of the exiting governor. The letter singles Moore out:
Moore's response? She announces on her blog today: I’m holding a press conference today at 2pm ADT/6pm EDT in front of Governor Palin’s Anchorage office. My prepared statement is below. I will be taking questions.
Oooooh!.... Having made one post on the subject already,I was just going to ignore the Palin resignation but the threat of a lawsuit makes commenting upon it politically irresistable. First of all, let me re-publish herewith (via links) the Huffington Post and MSNBC (YouTube of interview). I provide no links to the New York Times or The Washington Post because, as the excellent analysis on the Mudflats site, advises: The New York Times and Washington Post haven’t written anything about this, but Van Flein said he believed they were asking questions. “What I’ve been informed is that they’ve been interviewing people in Wasilla about this, and have tried to interview the governor’s parents about it,†Van Flein said. A little pre-emptive censorship just in case the papers were thinking about investigating the charges...
What charges, specifically? And you need to get specific because there have been so many accusations directed toward Palin in the last few years -- the best known of which was Troopergate in which Palin was accused of using her position to pull strings and get someone fired for purely personal reasons; after a lengthy investigation, Palin was found guilty of "abuse of power" (YouTube) but -- since no illegality was found -- nothing really happened to her. The scandalous rumor de jour seems to be "IceberGate."
Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast site explains the gist of this latest rumor:
If the rumor is true, then Palin's actions were definitely illegal and should draw prison time. Shannyn Moore, who has watched Palin's political performance up-close and for years, commented that she had "never seen her [Palin] as nervous" as during the press conference at which she resigned. Moore concluded that the conference was "damage control for news that is coming out later."
I can't remember...does Palin look good in orange? You know, the color of those jumpers issued to prisoners?
To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact†that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal investigation†for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation. This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law.
Moore's response? She announces on her blog today: I’m holding a press conference today at 2pm ADT/6pm EDT in front of Governor Palin’s Anchorage office. My prepared statement is below. I will be taking questions.
Oooooh!.... Having made one post on the subject already,I was just going to ignore the Palin resignation but the threat of a lawsuit makes commenting upon it politically irresistable. First of all, let me re-publish herewith (via links) the Huffington Post and MSNBC (YouTube of interview). I provide no links to the New York Times or The Washington Post because, as the excellent analysis on the Mudflats site, advises: The New York Times and Washington Post haven’t written anything about this, but Van Flein said he believed they were asking questions. “What I’ve been informed is that they’ve been interviewing people in Wasilla about this, and have tried to interview the governor’s parents about it,†Van Flein said. A little pre-emptive censorship just in case the papers were thinking about investigating the charges...
What charges, specifically? And you need to get specific because there have been so many accusations directed toward Palin in the last few years -- the best known of which was Troopergate in which Palin was accused of using her position to pull strings and get someone fired for purely personal reasons; after a lengthy investigation, Palin was found guilty of "abuse of power" (YouTube) but -- since no illegality was found -- nothing really happened to her. The scandalous rumor de jour seems to be "IceberGate."
Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast site explains the gist of this latest rumor:
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS [a construction firm] in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state. …
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,†according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,†according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
If the rumor is true, then Palin's actions were definitely illegal and should draw prison time. Shannyn Moore, who has watched Palin's political performance up-close and for years, commented that she had "never seen her [Palin] as nervous" as during the press conference at which she resigned. Moore concluded that the conference was "damage control for news that is coming out later."
I can't remember...does Palin look good in orange? You know, the color of those jumpers issued to prisoners?
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