Report: Palin abused power

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 7:26pm

Breaking:

"Panel Finds Palin Abused Power in Firing of Public Safety Commissioner, A.P. Reports"

The report is here.

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But...

by Paul Gauthier on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 9:24pm

From the report:

"In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads."

So it was lawful of her to

by Virgil Tibbs on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 9:09pm

So it was lawful of her to fire the guy, but her decision to do so was partly based on personal grounds and as such amounted to an abuse of power. At least, that's my understanding of the decision.

Ethics, not legality

by AndrewS on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 1:25am

It was an ethics investigation, not a criminal investigation. There are many actions politicians can and do perform that are legal under the letter of the law but are clearly unethical. Of course Palin has the ex officio right to fire state employees, but she should never do so because of personal grievances.

The panel isn't saying she broke the law, only that she exercised poor judgment here. Hopefully the rest of the country thinks long and hard before voting to put the hockey mom in the Oval Office.