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ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
The only possible dirt so far is that she has admitted to smoking pot and there may have been a scandal where she tried to have a State Trooper fired after he divorced her sister, or something like that.
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It was legal in AK when she smoked.
From Wiki on the scandal (take wiki for what it's worth)
Commissioner dismissal
On July 11, 2008, Governor Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.
[44][45] Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an
Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.
[46] In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father,
tasering his 11-year-old stepson, and violating game laws. After a
union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.
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Governor Palin asserts that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."
[48] Palin acknowledges that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.
[48] Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions.
In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the
Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time."
[49] The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator
Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary.
[50] The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.
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Wooten and the police union alleged that the governor had improperly released his employment files in his divorce case. However, McCann's attorney released a signed waiver from Wooten demonstrating that Wooten had authorized the release of his files through normal
discovery procedures.
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Sarah Palin the neagatives
