Judgment?! Palin replaced Monegan with Kopp - and DIDN'T VET HIM

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and guess what - he was forced to resign.

http://alaskapride.blogspot.com/

And Alaskans, including myself, are just as stunned as most other Americans at this selection. I genuinely believed that what chances she actually ever had died with the onset of the scandal unleashed beginning with the firing of former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. Then she compounded that error by hiring former Kenai Police Chief Chuck Kopp as Monegan's replacement without properly vetting him; he turned out to have had a past as a sexual harasser, and he also resigned, under fire.

http://alaskapride.blogspot.com/2008/07/assailed-by-mounting-criticism-on-all.html


On July 25th, 2008, the Anchorage Daily News reports that during a brief news conference with Gov. Sarah Palin in her Anchorage office, Public Safety Commissioner Charles Kopp announced his resignation from the position. Kopp, who replaced former Commissioner Walt Monegan nearly two weeks ago, said recent scrutiny of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint has been too hard on his family. No permanent replacement was announced, although Deputy Commissioner John Glass will become acting commissioner, and neither Kopp nor Governor Palin would answer questions.

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The issue at question in the evolution of the Walt Monegan scandal is not so much character, but competency. If Governor Palin cannot handle a simple termination of a commissioner, how will she handle being a "heartbeat away" from a President who's already in his 70s? The selection of Palin obviously was designed to appeal to the Hillary Clinton PUMA crowd, but is it in the best interests of the country?

She is not capable, not smart enough and doesn't even bother to surround herself with enough competence to run a state, much less this country.

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1. anyone?

[JBoy]

2. Sounds like she should step down to being mayor, not up to being VP.

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3. update from TPM -

Late Update: And special bonus: after the firing that got her administration into trouble, Palin replaced him with a guy who'd recently been hit with a credible sexual harassment accusation. Palin later admitted that she knew about the complaint in advance but denied that she knew of the letter of reprimand he'd received.

He lasted two weeks on the job.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Kick!

[KittyWampus]

5. Okay, she KNOWINGLY hired a sexual harasser but had her brother in law fired

because he's accused of abusing her husband.

She signs on as VP for a man who voted against the Violence Against Women Act.

[NYC Liberal]

6. This is the answer if they use "he was abusive" to respond

to the scandal.

[roguevalley]

7. Kopp was chief in Kenai, a town next to mine. He was a 'playa' in his

own mind. She hired him, found out (ha) about his little problem and sat on it, trying to ride it out. then the reprimand letter came out because the woman he harassed, who had to find other work, persisted in getting the story straight through the lies. THEN, she gave Kopp a ten thousand dollar severence check. That went over like a lead balloon. Ten grand for two weeks work.

[NYC Liberal]

8. I really am incredulous about this pick

Seriously, have they lost it? Despite the Day 1 fawning from the media, everything I'm learning about this woman is shady. And how is it they get away with calling her a "maverick" - look at her positions!

[roguevalley]

9. because she shafted the repug apparatus in the state and i can't tell

you how they hate her. Its amazing and can only get worse.