QUOTE (ccofer @ Sep 8 2008, 10:56 AM)

The investigation is not over weather the former brother in law broke any laws. The list of grievances given to the State police by the Palin family have already been investigated. Most of them were thrown out as being to ridiculous to investigate. For the ones considered to have some merit he was given a 10 day suspension which was later reduced to five day. This all took place before Palin became governor. The investigation is over weather or not Palin fired Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan because he refused to fire her former brother in law. Obviously this part happened after Palin became governor and after charges brought by the Palin family had been investigated and found to be mostly without merit. As already stated he was given a suspension for the remaining charges. That should have been the end of it. If they Palin family still thought that he was breaking the law then why did they not file charges against him? That is normally the way these things are handled. I know if someone had tasered my son or nephew I would be calling the police at that exact moment, not pressuring to have him fired at some point down the road. I would really like to know what the time line is between the time he supposedly tasered the boy and when the couple actually divorced, that would probably shed a lot of light on the subject. So for I have not been able to find that information, I will keep looking.
I know the investigation is not about whether the guy broke laws, sorry if there was any confusion, it is over how Palin handled the incident and her firing of the commissioner. Now onto some information that may help out.
The investigation is taking place to determine if Monegan was fired for refusing to fire Wooten, who was married to Palin's sister. However, again, it has not yet been found that he was fired because of his refusal to fire the trooper. At this moment, it is all heresay.
Palin herself had been recently calling for cuts in the state's budgets including the public safety budget. Monegan called for spending more money, therefore going against the governors future plans. Her aids themself have stated that as Palin was midway through her term, changes were coming, and part of the change would be to lower the budget, and to do that would be to cut employees in departments that are looking to expand themself. Monegan's plans contradicted Governor Palin's plans, so it would be in her right to remove him from his position.
Also, Mrs. Palin even offered the guy a new job. If it was indeed personal and all about his refusal to fire a trooper, why would Palin offer him another job?
In 2006, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich asked Monegan to leave his post early as well because he had just won re-election and was looking to restructure departments. That sounds exactly like what palin was trying to do. The only difference here is, it was not an issue when Begich did it. Why is that?
If you look at where the controversy first started, it was on the blog of the man Palin beat in the election. It sounds like he is upset and wants to start something out of nothing. Palin wanted to cut the budget, part of that included moving Monegan. Monegan had been moved from a job by a previous elected official in similar circumstances, and there was no issue.
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"When we sat down, (Nizich) started discussing how the governor wanted to utilize my expertise and enthusiasm to help people in rural areas and the Bush by becoming the executive director of the ABC Board," Monegan said.
Sounds like even he admits Palin had good words to say about him.
This should not be an issue