Palin May Have Fired Aide Over Affair (WSJ/Politico)

[Waiting For Everyman]

Huffington Post article, sourcing Wall Street Journal and Politico, on two firings for personal reasons. (That's in addition to TrooperGate, and there are more from when she was mayor.)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/palin-may-have-fired-aide_n_125026.html

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Palin uses political office for personal vendettas. Not just once, but repeatedly.

[KansDem]

1. Why would Scott Richter call the Governor about an affair his wife was having?

:wtf:

Why would anyone call a governor, even if she was your friend, to complain about an affair your wife was having with another state employee. Unless...you wanted your friend, the governor, to fire him!

Ahhh, now it makes sense! Why go through all the trouble of counseling for a broken marriage when you can exact revenge using the governor's office! Diabolical!

[GOPNotForMe]

2. F*** her. This is bullshit. She is DANGEROUS in office. nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. Well you know, Richter is the one Palin's rumored to have the affair with

The affair story the National Enquirer's threatening to run?

Maybe she did it for HIM, Richter? Or maybe because she's really worried about something in the Richter divorce file, that might leak out? Just guesses.

[stillcool]

4. I read that Bitney story a while back..

Alaska seems like Peyton Place

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/shadow_governor
Consider the story of one of Governor Palin's former trusted advisors, John Bitney.

Bitney grew up with the governor, often telling the story of being in the same band class. He served as her Issues Coordinator during her successful gubernatorial campaign in 2006, spokesman for her transition team after the election and on December 1, 2006 he was named her Legislative Liaison.

Bitney was respected as a hard worker by people who knew him and worked with him. In six months, Bitney guided the governor's policies through the legislature, including her hallmark legislation; AGIA.

But John Bitney made the fatal employment mistake; he got on the bad side of Todd Palin.

In June of 2007, it became known that Bitney was dating the soon to be ex-wife of Todd Palin's good friend. Palin reportedly began demanding that Bitney be fired.

After a short time, Bitney realized that he couldn't remain in the governor's office due to the constant pressure and he worked out a deal with Chief of Staff Mike Tibbles to take a transfer to another department.

On July 3, Bitney was in the process of driving his vehicle back to Juneau when he couldn't get his state issued Blackberry to work. When he arrived in Tok he called his office and was told that his Blackberry had been turned off and that his name had been removed from the state employee directory.

His call was then transferred into Tibbles who told him the proposal they talked about was a no deal and the governor ordered him fired immediately. John Bitney was never given a reason why he was fired and never given a chance to make a graceful exit.

If you look at the comments following this it is said that Richter was Todd's friend and dated Sarah in High School...egads

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[stillcool]

7. here's what the problem is...

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/

[K8-EEE]

5. Egads, she really IS just like Bush, including the cover-up!

Reform, yeah right.