October Surprise: Personnel Board Clears Palin of Any Wrongdoing in Tasergate

What, they couldn't have waited for Wednesday?

They delayed this until it could not possibly get on the news at all.

The legislative committee sure got its report out in a timely manner, didn't they?

No link yet, it's just coming over cable news.

Link: Sorta. A stub on a CNN blog that says nothing more than I just told you.

Questions Answered: About the put-up job by Obama's supporters in the legislature, and about this finding by the body actually charged with determining the rightfulness of official conduct.

Posted by: Ace at 08:57 PM

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1 http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=9287494

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at November 03, 2008 09:05 PM (OmeRL)

2 Anyone who wet their panties about this was going to vote Obama anyway.

I'm guessing rush hour here in Detroit is going to be kind of light tomorrow.

Posted by: mesablue at November 03, 2008 09:06 PM (5yNaE)

3 Well, at least it is here.

Posted by: DCox at November 03, 2008 09:06 PM (2pT9a)

4 http://tinyurl.com/5ezwux

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at November 03, 2008 09:06 PM (OmeRL)

5 We have to drive clear to Valley to vote. Wonder how long the lines will be.

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at November 03, 2008 09:08 PM (OmeRL)

Channeling Gen Patton:

Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate Democrats with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as conservatives who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from state electoral vote victory to state electoral vote victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our opponents and establish Thy justice among men and nations.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 03, 2008 09:08 PM (KOkrW)

7 I have no problem with people taking election day off. Getting paid for it is a quite a different matter...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at November 03, 2008 09:09 PM (OqXyp)

8 God damn... why does CNN have comments sections? They always get filled up with Obama cultists and then shut down...

Posted by: yarrrr at November 03, 2008 09:09 PM (Q3C9U)

9 If it came through guilty it would be a different matter entirely. An Obama tape could surface showing him playing craps with Chavez and Ahmedinejad and you wouldn't hear shit about it. Blarg.

Posted by: blankminde at November 03, 2008 09:10 PM (8HH1K)

10 Channeling John Wayne (from The Longest Day)

"You can't give the enemy a break. Send him to hell."

Posted by: Dr.Cwac.Cwac at November 03, 2008 09:13 PM (oo0zL)

11 None of this matters a long as we don't know the Truth About Trig.

Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at November 03, 2008 09:13 PM (9p0nw)

12 The Weather Channel is doing live stand-ups from the Grant Park Chicago site where Obama will either melt down or ascend unto Heaven tomorrow night.

Posted by: Jones in CO at November 03, 2008 09:17 PM (KOkrW)

13 may as well call this a January Surprise

Posted by: new at November 03, 2008 09:18 PM (MobLv)

14 There isn't much more we can do...EXCEPT VOTE!!

I'm optimistic enough about the overall intelligence of the country to believe that we will not elect this charlatan.

I'm sticking by my original prognostication that Obama needs to be up by 7-8% if he is going to win. He consistently underperformed the polls during the primaries, and that was without the PUMA's factored in.

McCain takes 40 states!!

Did you see the crowd that Palin pulled in today in Jeff City? While Biden was speaking in front of 400 in Lee's Summit.

Posted by: rls at November 03, 2008 09:20 PM (k4h7p)

15 Even though Palin was exonerated, all this does is remind the public of the word Tasergate the day of the election.

Posted by: Christoph at November 03, 2008 09:20 PM (hawOV)

Here's a link to the Anchorage Daily News story

http://tinyurl.com/6exn2m

Posted by: joated at November 03, 2008 09:22 PM (8nB5X)

17 Hotair has the story from the Anchorage Daily News...

Posted by: Scrapiron at November 03, 2008 09:23 PM (XWJh5)

18 This will make you feel better - Olby on troopergate a "cover up of national proportions" complete with exhibits A thru H

http://tinyurl.com/6zz7rn

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at November 03, 2008 09:24 PM (7a+Ji)

19 http://tinyurl.com/6cdqse

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at November 03, 2008 09:24 PM (OmeRL)

20 CNN has a comments section so Barry H;s drones will have a place to shit.

What a silly question.

If they cared what you think, the would tell myou what to think.

Posted by: Larry Sheldon at November 03, 2008 09:25 PM (OmeRL)

While Biden was speaking in front of 400 in Lee's Summit.

That explains the pain. I've been wondering, since it's been hurting like a son of a bitch.

Posted by: Lee at November 03, 2008 09:27 PM (TxTIh)

22 15 Even though Palin was exonerated, all this does is remind the public of the word Tasergate the day of the election.

Posted by: Christoph at November 03, 2008 09:20 PM (hawOV)

I think you are 180 degrees out of phase on this one.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at November 03, 2008 09:30 PM (wgLRl)

23 But� but did they examine her uterus to make sure �Trig was here� is carved somewhere therein?!?! WHAT�S SHE HIDING!!???

Posted by: DoDoGuRu at November 03, 2008 09:33 PM (xBkZj)

24 AP news and CNN both have the story up more than a stub

Posted by: William Amos at November 03, 2008 09:40 PM (viHo6)

25 Greta has it on her Blog - expect it to be on her show on Fox News tonight.

Posted by: SAFVet at November 03, 2008 09:40 PM (9otbA)

26 OT: proof that girls have cooties.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 03, 2008 09:42 PM (Ds4I5)

27 You know the timing on everything the msm has any hand in is dubious--particularly this time around. At least in all the cycles I recall previously, they tried to do it somewhat on the sly. Not this time. That is why I was almost certain we were going to start seeing the battleground states "breaking even" the night before the election. The prior disparity was total garbage, but it is swallowed by conservatives nearly every time (yes, Christoph, we know Allah "analyzed" and called it correctly in '06, and for your efforts you now have your account at Hot Air, etc.).

While I am cautiously optimistic, there are some pretty strong clues that seem to be indicating that McCain's and Obama's internals are telling a completely different story from what we have been handed to date. I guess we will see for sure tomorrow.

Posted by: DCox at November 03, 2008 09:46 PM (2pT9a)

28 This news isn't helping Michelle Obama's kids.

Posted by: Blarg the Destroyer at November 03, 2008 09:48 PM (PcJ/l)

29 Weather Channel is owned by Universal/MSNBC right?

Posted by: Potosi Joel at November 03, 2008 09:50 PM (TPRbZ)

This news isn't helping Michelle Obama's kids.

I heard Andrew Sullivan was the father of Michelle's kids and that is why Obama never released his medical records.

Posted by: robtr at November 03, 2008 09:51 PM (C6ME0)

31

29 - If I remember right they either just bought it or are in the process.

Posted by: Swegin at November 03, 2008 09:55 PM (q0Z3p)

32 It's all over the wires now, Ace.

I tried linking to google's news cache but the site won't allow it.

I'm sure this'll be all over the big networks tonight like the first inaccurate one was. Right?

Posted by: Sav at November 03, 2008 10:13 PM (WnT0x)

33 The investigator is a very agressive Democrat attorney who is known to be very tough and fair. For those a bit confused by 2 reports, here's what happened:

Walt Monegan, head of the State Troopers quit/got fired. A few days later, he told a local blogger that he was tossed because he wouldn't fire Sarah's ex-brother in law. The Legislature got wind of this and voted to investigate. Palin objected, saying there was no justification for this and that the proper channel was to file a complaint with the State Personnel Board. The Leg hired an investigator, S Branchflower who found that Sarah had done nothing wrong but her husband did and she should have controlled him. That report will now go to the full Legislature for possible action but not until the Leg convenes in Jan.

Meanwhile, the Personnel Board hired an independent investigator, Timothy Petumenos. He told a press conference today he wanted to get the report out on Thurs but it wasn't done and he's been working till midnight for weeks to finish. Key to his finding is this:

These findings differ from those of the Branchflower Report because Independent Counsel has concluded the wrong statute was used as a basis for the conclusions contained in the Branchflower Report, the Branchflower report misconstrued the available evidence and did not consider or obtain all of the material evidence that is required to properly reach findings.

Posted by: JimAK at November 03, 2008 10:14 PM (wQwpR)

34 I've mentioned it elsewhere, but it bears repeating -- the first report cleared Palin of wrongdoing with regard to firing Monegan. It's just that it also shoe-horned in a discussion of Todd trying to find out why Wooten was never punished, and used that to claim Palin abused her power by letting him do it. The report was a complete non-issue from the beginning, but since they managed to put the words 'abuse of power' in front of the media, that's all that was reported.

Posted by: brad at November 03, 2008 10:18 PM (zTZGo)

35 Petumenos says that there is no evidence that Sarah Palin knew or approved of her husband or her employees contacting Monegan. And nobody, especially Monegan, complained or worked through channels.

When Petumenos was hired, there were those in Alaska who snickered that Sarah had stepped in it - 'She thought she'd get a yes man when she went to the Pers Board and now they've hired someone even more likely to hang her than the Leg Council.' Didn't work out that way as - surprise! - Petumenos seems to actually have read the evidence and made up his mind later as opposed to someone who had his mind made up in advance.

One other point: Petumenos has given no money to Palin. He has given $1,000 to Democrat Ethan Berkowitz who is running for US House against 30+ year incumbent Republican Don Young.

Posted by: JimAK at November 03, 2008 10:21 PM (wQwpR)

36 "that's all that was reported." - brad

And that's all they needed. A very damning statement presented as fact to the American public shortly before the election. It's impact assuredly can't be minimalized.

Posted by: Sav at November 03, 2008 10:23 PM (WnT0x)

37 12 The Weather Channel is doing live stand-ups from the Grant Park Chicago site where Obama will either melt down or ascend unto Heaven tomorrow night. Posted by: Jones in CO at November 03, 2008 09:17 PM

Heh.

What an awkward scene that'll be. Thousands of hyped-up lemmings expecting an orgasmatron experience. Getting it, for awhile. Rejoicing at exit polls (the fools). Holding hands and singing Kumbaya (or We Are The World or whatever).

NH goes red. Confident denials.
Maine gives 1 EV to Mav. Mutterings spread.
FL stays red. Simmering hatred.
PA goes down. Utter silence. THe smarter ones begin to disperse.

Heads begin slowly exploding.

Fresh truckloads of police report to the perimeter.

And it goes downhill from there...

Posted by: ConcernedCitizen at November 03, 2008 10:42 PM (hmDr/)

38 36 - Sad but true. And of course that's why French's lackey Branchflower worked it in.

Posted by: brad at November 03, 2008 11:02 PM (zTZGo)

39 I think it's funny that the Obamadrones are saying things like "Well, of course they found her innocent! She controls them!" while completely ignoring the fact that the folks her found her guilty of wrongdoing in the first place was a committee of her political enemies.

Posted by: Xoxotl at November 03, 2008 11:48 PM (piFCY)

Oh, no, Ace, say it ain't so:

Ace November 3rd, 2008 7:28 pm ET

Bullies like her and her husband can hide for awhile but sooner or later justice is served. The meek inherit the earth, Amen.

Mind you, that's Ace and not ace so maybe it was Ace the comments troll here from a few days ago commenting on CNN.

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