A political dodge (Baltimore Sun re: Palin & the investigation)

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Our view: What's changed to keep Governor Palin from cooperating in state probe?
September 19, 2008

... Until the last week, Governor Palin had pledged to cooperate with the investigation initiated by Alaska's legislature and supported by Republicans and Democrats. "The governor has said all along that she will fully cooperate with an investigation and her staff will cooperate as well," the governor's spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, told the Anchorage Daily News in July.

In papers filed with the state Personnel Board, Governor Palin said she fired Mr. Monegan over budget issues and "outright insubordination." Last week, she told ABC's Charles Gibson, "There's nothing to hide. ... Commissioner Monegan has said, 'The governor never asked me to fire him , the governor's husband never asked me to fire him,' and we never did. I never pressured him to hire or fire anybody."

Mrs. Palin apparently has had a change of heart. And Sen. John McCain's campaign spokesman, Ed O'Callaghan, is getting the word out: Governor Palin is "unlikely to cooperate" with the investigation ...

Mrs. Palin's candidacy for vice president can't be her excuse to dodge the state investigation. She may be the Republicans' choice for vice president, but she's no longer the same Alaska governor who once promised transparency in government.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bal-ed.palin19sep19,0,2871291.story

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1. And her husband

has stated that he will not answer a subpoena.

who the fuck do these people think they are, Karl Rove and Monica Goodling?