GOP VP Sarah Palin Troopergate interview video

[Soravia]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21...23804

Sorry, my work connection is gay (Southpark gay, not homosexual) and won't play video too well. So no comments.

[AZhitman]

Monegan and Wooten needed to be fired, from what I can see.

The Ethics Investigator is a Democrat... Cute.

Desperate grasping at straws... Looks like the Left is a little afraid of Gov. Palin!

[audtatious]

Drew GriffinCNN Investigative Reporter

The Alaska state trooper at the center of a probe into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power says he has “made mistakes, and I’ve learned from those mistakes.” But in an exclusive interview with us, Mike Wooten, Palin’s former brother-in-law, also denies some of the biggest allegations against him.

Wooten says he has been offered $30,000 to tell his story to a tabloid. The Obama campaign has reached out to the head of his union. And he no longer answers any phone number he doesn’t recognize for fear it is another pesky reporter who wants his story.

The story is how he married into, then divorced out of, Alaska’s first family. The trooper finds his life at the center of the one and only potential scandal I can find concerning Gov. Palin, John McCain’s choice for running mate.

The scandalous allegation is the governor used her power to try and get her sister’s ex fired. When that didn’t work, it’s alleged Gov. Palin fired the public safety commissioner.

In our interview, Wooten rattled off a disturbing number of “mistakes” he’s made in his career. He admits tasering his stepson, illegally killing a moose and admits to multiple reprimands in his file. A state trooper investigation even found credible evidence he was drinking in his patrol car.

But please tell me if you think his tale — dubbed Troopergate by Gov. Palin’s political enemies — is really the scandal that will bring down the newest star on the political scene.

Video interview with trooper:http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid...w.cnn

[smockers83]

Yeah, I dunno what the big deal is about this "Troopergate" thing. The guy needed to be fired, the head honcho wouldn't do it, so that guy was fired, too. Big deal. That's how you lead--someone's not doing their job, you get rid of them, replace them with someone better--not accepting responsibility for the other person's actions.

[AZhitman]

Sounds remarkably like "The Buck Stops Here".

Hmmmmmm......

[smockers83]

Apparently, my theory on it now, is that it was too direct and too harsh so therefore it was an abuse of power. Please, give me a break. Sometimes I wish we all could live in the early 1900s when none of this PCness existed. God forbid you fire someone. Happens all the time.

[audtatious]

The chief says he was never told to fire the cop. He even says so. End of story.