Palin has checkered history on ethics issues

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

=ANCHORAGE, Alaska, 10.14.2008
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and JUSTIN PRITCHARD , Associated Press Writers

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose reformer image took a hit in a report concluding she abused her powers to settle a family score, has skirted state ethics rules before for personal benefit and used her office to help friends and supporters, according to an Associated Press review of records.

Palin's first try at statewide office, after six years as mayor of Wasilla, was an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002. To raise money, she improperly used her City Hall office and equipment, city records show. A year later she would make headlines by blasting a fellow Republican for, among other things, improperly using his government position to boost his campaign.

Then, in 2006, Palin won the governor's race with a vow to reform state ethics. But in less than two years, she has repeatedly taken actions that violated her own stated standards for ethical behavior _ if not state law. In the process, the Republican vice presidential nominee has become much like the old-school politicians she attacked during her rise to power.

Some examples:

_She pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.

_She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take.


Read more: http://www.wbt.com/news/details.cfm?ap_id=D93QFFGG1

[rsmith6621]

1. Stop IT!!!!....She Is A Nice Christian....

.......Women with a great set of legs who serves Jesus with honor....:sarcasm:

[Raschel]

2. SHE'S A MINO!! (Moral in Name Only) And it fits because she is a meano! n/t

[gratuitous]

3. "Checkered" is a nice way to put it

Because it implies that not all of the squares are black. However, before I'll accepted "checkered" as a descriptor for Ms. Palin's ethical history, I need to see some evidence of ethical behavior. We have plenty of episodes of unethical behavior to consider.

[ixion]

4. yep, Palin seems pretty much sans-ethics

I would say. I agree with your premise.

[kellyflan1]

5. Checkered? She can't even play checkers.....

Maybe she has a shoots and ladders past or a candy land past.

[WarbirdForObama]

6. Checkered????

This "lady" has more holes in her ethics than a screen door.

She makes the Snarling Oil Guy look like a friggin Saint

[Doodler71]

7. Knock me over with a feather

I'm absolutely shocked.

Shocked, I tell you!

:sarcasm:

[Dogtown]

8. K&R n/t

[Caliman73]

9. Seems very typical of the RW ideologues of the Bush/Palin ilk.

They decry the "politics of old" the "lack of ethics" etc... and they are so blind or arrogant that they don't see or don't care that they apply onto others, standards that they do not follow. Bush is a complete idiot, but Palin is just a cartoon of this culture of corruption.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

10. "Checkered" right into her personal "Checkbook"

The Royal Order of Repugs are bellowing for her to "Check Out" of the campaign, again.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Of course; that's why she's a republican.

She's a fraud, a poseur. A cheat, corrupt, a liar.

A republican.

[Dems4me]

12. Kick n/t

[rainbow4321]

13. Palin has checkered history on ethics issues

Source: Houston Chronicle

Palin faced questions during her 2006 gubernatorial race about her use of the Wasilla mayor's office four years earlier to run for lieutenant governor. Palin used city staff and office equipment — including a fax machine, computers for e-mail and a City Hall phone number — to run her campaign, according to city records.

She apologized for those transgressions in 2006, but only this month acknowledged to the AP that the city initially paid for a campaign flight in that 2002 race and that weeks later she reimbursed the city.

(snip)

A friend from her Wasilla High School class was named to manage the state's agriculture office after a career in real estate. A family friend and campaign worker became head of the state agency that distributes dividend checks to Alaskans from oil revenue. Her real estate agent's husband received an appointment to the state real estate board.

(snip)

Palin claims passage of broad ethics reforms as an accomplishment following state corruption scandals. But Palin didn't report as gifts two free trips she received in 2007 as legislators were debating the new ethics law.









Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6058216.html

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Seems that her abuse of the system/power issues go way beyond Troopergate.

[Miss Chybil]

14. She's a user. nt

[Politicalboi]

15. How did this know nothing

Bitch get anywhere??? I wonder how many splinters she got in her head.

[timtom]

16. This know nothing bitch got to her current position(s)

because of stupid fuckers like McCain, who fall sway to her seductress powers. She's a hockey-Circe, turning men of power into swine (actually she merely makes them act according to their nature.)

[gorbal]

17. Ugh.....how come I only hear about this on Democratic Underground?

God it just kills me that all the news reports are about Obama and acorn while they don't turn the microscope on the Republican
s half as much.

This is what the October surprise may likely be; the media treating MCcain with kid gloves while coming down hard on Obama, just like they have done the last two October's before the election with the Republican and Democratic candidates.