Alaska Senate President Lyda Green (R) on Sarah Palin

[Blue_In_AK]

http://community.adn.com/adn/node/131724

Green: 'They're attacking nice people, saying things that aren't true.'
Posted by Alaska_Politics

Posted: September 22, 2008 - 8:33 pm

From Kathleen McCoy at the ADN's Alaska Newsreader --

Mother Jones mojo blog reports that Senate President Lyda Green is pursuing options that might allow the state Senate to convene and deal with Troopergate.

Calling herself a "raging Republican," Green says, she is "absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed" by the McCain-Palin campaign's intervention in the Troopergate probe.

Green is alarmed by the McCain squad's use of hardball tactics and "the length to which they're going to impede and delay" the investigation. The local press conferences held by McCain-Palin aides, she adds, "are vile. They're attacking nice people, saying things that are not true. Walt Monegan has been respected in all circles. To see him used as a scapegoat is very disheartening."

Green said she is making calls and exploring whether she could call the Senate back into session to either instruct the attorney general to change his position, or to order those subpoenaed under the Legislative investigation to honor that call. Whether the Republican-controlled House would go along is another question.



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Interesting comments to this at the link.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Go Green!

Great news to know that local members of her own party are fed up with Palin's bullshit.

[vaberella]

2. You know Lyda Green HATES & ABHORS Palin right?!

Check it out:
Palin is disgusting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AIDRGzUAw

and

Green goes as far as Maddow for this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1gq8x-lTGg

By the way I love Lyda because she can't stand that twit of a woman, who acts like a petty teenager and doesn't take things seriously.

:rofl:

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Oh, yes, the catfights are legendary.

(Apologies to anyone offended by that term, but it's very appropriate in this instance.)

I never thought I'd be a Lyda fan, but I'm definitely in her corner now. She's a tough old girl. I don't see her backing down, even if Sarah did sort of force her not to run again this November. She might be able to do more damage from outside the legislature anyway.

[vaberella]

8. Agreed. I think she has friends that she can call on to help push this.

Palin is out of control and needs a break in a corner of a jail cell. But I'll accept a place in the wild where there are no animals to hunt.

[Cha]

3. Rec'd!

Raging Republican or not..

[madmusic]

5. k&r, so you can take the 5th :)

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Thanks for number 5

:) Did you see this one? Also pretty damning from a former Republican.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7150660&mesg_id=7150660

[patomime]

7. she was great ....

On Rachel Maddow's show.

Another point for our side!