Sarah Palin and "troopergate". Was Sarah Palin right?

Question

Sarah Palin's sister was involved with a nasty divorce from her husband, a State Trooper for the State of Alaska.

It is said that Sarah Palin abused her office and tried to have the State Trooper fired.

Was Sarah Palin right or was she out of line?

Answer 1

Any time you use a public office for a personal agenda you are out of line and it doesn't speak well for your ethical code. If this man had broken the law or posed a threat to her family she should have to abide by the same rules and restrictions the rest of us have to live with.

Answer 2

I'd say Sarah Palin was out of line.  Obviously, she does not have an unbiased interest in her sister's divorce.  To use her influence to try to threaten the trooper's job is unethical.

Answer 3

She apparently fired the officer's supervisor because he didn't fire the trooper. When people bring their family business to work, particularly when they work for the government, it's called a conflict of interest. Firing someone out of vindictiveness for a personal matter can easily be construed as abuse of power.

Answer 4

Since it hasn't been proved it wouldn't be right to assume facts not in evidence.

Answer 5

This trooper made several death threats against her sister and father. You'd be negligent not to report such things to his supervisor. This man walks around with a state weapon strapped to his belt. I'd the same thing. Bravo Mrs. Palin, for watching out after your family.

Answer 6

Yes.

Sarah Palin was absolutely right.

This State Trooper had used his "Taser" to "taser" his twelve year old stepson.

This State Trooper also had a history of coming to work drunk, getting drunk while he was on duty and driving his patrol car while he was drunk.

Also this State Trooper had physically abused his wife (Sarah Palin's sister) and had made death threats against Sarah Palin's father.

This State Trooper is definitely someone who should not be a police oficer.

Answer 7

Sarah is the one who demanded the investigation.  Based on everything I've read, she was right.

Answer 8

"It is said"? By you. One of her appointees admits that he did it, and both he and Sarah say that she had no knowledge. He was suspended for two months for using his position unethically.

Why aren't you asking why a State Trooper that threatened to kill two people is still a State Trooper? Hmmmm...

dp...enough with the lame cut n paste...reported...

Answer 9

Surely you are kidding.

If she used her influence to get someone fired in custody dispute, she is beyond out of line.  And I would think would be subject to some kind of civil suit, as well as possible criminal charges

If she did not do this, then she is fine.

I just do not know all of the facts in the case to know for sure what happened.

Answer 10

You dont know all the facts,He tasered her teenage nephew and also had many other complaints against him,

Answer 11

I watched a video on YouTube where she denied asking that the trooper be fired.  87% of Alaskans polled thought she was lying.  She'd fit right in with the Bush/Cheney White House.

Here is a list of the accomplishments of the Bush administration.

* Misleading us about Iraq's WMD

* Implying a connection between Saddam and 9/11

* Launching a war that's killed 4, 150 Americans and wounded more than 30, 000

* Challenging Iraqi insurgents to attack U.S. troops: "Bring 'em on"

* Granting no-bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq

* Failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina

* Hiring unqualified crony to run FEMA

* Praising crony's performance: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"

* Neglecting reconstruction of New Orleans' homes and levees Promising American troops would be greeted as liberators

* Declaring "Mission Accomplished" and later blaming the banner on troops

* Cherry-picking facts about WMDs in Iraq, then blaming the CIA

* Promising the Iraq war would lower gas prices

* Claiming the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes" in 2005

* Allowing Osama Bin Laden to escape

* Launching a war that's killed countless Iraqi civilians

* Using Terri Schiavo for political gain

* Attempting to alter Constitution to allow discrimination against g*y people

* Wiretapping our phones without court order

* Stealing the 2000 election (remember Katherine Harris, voter purges, and the Supreme Court?)

* Concealing the pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

* Enforcing abstinence-only programs in public schools

* Rejecting the Kyoto Treaty to stop climate change

* Giving tax cuts to the rich while spending record amounts

* Failing seniors with the costly Medicare prescription drug benefit

* Swiftboating John Kerry

* Outing CIA agent Valerie Plame to retaliate for truth about Iraq's WMDs

* Telling the 45 million uninsured Americans to just go to the emergency room

* Spending $341 million a day in Iraq (Iraq has a budget surplus)

* Neglecting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center

* Allowing Afghanistan to fall into chaos, with the Taliban and al Qaeda regaining control

* Holding prisoners without trial at Guantanamo Bay

* Covering up torture at Abu Ghraib

* Breaking the Geneva Conventions

* Forcing the Patriot Act into law

* Turning a budget surplus into massive budget deficit

* Letting more than a million homes go into foreclosure—the highest rate ever recorded

* Setting the record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history

* Increasing nuclear threat by withdrawing from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia

* Holding secret meetings with Exxon Mobil, Conoco, Shell, and BP to set energy policy

* Letting gas prices double while resisting fuel efficiency and clean energy  

Answer 12

Absolutely right. He is a rouge cop. It is easy to read the list of his bad moves. My question is how the h**l did he ever get hired in the first place? He is just what you do not want on a police force.