troopergate

It was surely an odd bit of timing on Monday, November 3–just hours before one of the biggest presidential elections in American history–that the Alaska State Personnel Board issued a finding by its chief investigator, Timothy J. Petumenos, that Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, did not breach state ethics laws when she [...]

Award-winning journalist Geoffrey Dunn, writing for the Huffington Post, examines the unanswered questions left by the differening investigative findings into the Troopergate scandal of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. 

Gov. Sarah Palin, back from the campaign trail, faces a changed landscape in Alaska.

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.
Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
But the new report says [...]

Sarah Palin has been cleared of ethics violations by a report into in the firing of her public safety commissioner.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Well, it’s been a little over 24 hours and already the possiblity of Governor Sarah Palin jockeying for Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ Senate seat is being seriously considered.  The Alaska Dispatch published an article today exploring Gov. Palin’s next power grab in her zealous quest for what she sees as the ultimate prize, the United States presidency.

The Political Cortex published a insightful op-ed today on how shortsighted the selection of Alaska Governor Saray Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate has been for the GOP and the possible long term damage Gov. Palin has inflicted on Senator John McCain.
The Republican right proceeds at blinding speed to commit political suicide.

Screenshot of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's emails which were hacked into last month.

Palin's image has changed, for better and worse, in the six weeks since she joined the McCain Republican presidential ticket.