Vendetta row can’t hold Sarah Palin back

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Times Online

Tony Allen-Mills in Wasilla> As a former senior adviser to Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, John Bitney helped America’s newest political celebrity throughout her successful 2006 election campaign, became the spokesman for her incoming administration and was ultimately named her chief liaison to the Alaskan legislature.

Bitney grew up with Palin, played in a high school band with her and, like many other Alaskans, was awed by her rapid rise from a moose-infested rural backwater to the pinnacle of power in her state.

He was one of her oldest and most loyal friends but when Palin abruptly sacked Bitney in July last year, she somehow failed to tell him. The first he learnt of it was when his state-issued mobile phone stopped working as he was driving to his office. He used another phone to check in and discovered that his name had been removed from the state employee directory.

His offence, according to senior Republican sources in Anchorage, was to fall foul of Palin’s 43-year-old husband, Todd. It was an early sign that the self-styled “first dude” of Alaskan politics was playing an unexpectedly prominent role in his wife’s administration.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4692408.ece

[trthnd4jstc]

1. Mr. Bitney was sacked by Gov. Palin without a phone call.

This is the type of executive that Gov. Palin is. She is Not a perfect angel.

[femmocrat]

2. Excellent article. Thanks for the link. K&R

Interesting that it is from the (London) Times.

[Doremus]

3. She's thin-skinned and vindictive? A match made in repuke heaven.

"As the campaign unfolds over the next two months, the Palins are certain to experience hostile scrutiny unlike any they have endured in Sarah-friendly Alaska. Halcro, among others, wonders if she will prove up to it.

“She’s not big on constructive criticism,” he said. “She’s got a fairly thin skin and I don’t know how she’ll handle the day-to-day questions on the campaign trail far from home. This could get kind of ugly.”

They have to let her off her chain one of these days.

I can't wait. :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[bertman]

5. She's being "sequestered" right now for her indoctrination. And somehow I don't think she's going to

get the kind of hard-ball questions from the MSM that Obama and Biden might get.

If the MSM were interested in Palin's history they would already be reporting on her "Reverend Wright" personal minister who told his congregation that he couldn't tell them how to vote, but he could tell them that voting for Kerry would keep them from going to heaven. Or how about Todd Terrific's membership in the Alaska secessionist (God Damn America) movement and Governor Sarah's warm welcome speech to the Alaska Independence Party (aka Alaska secessionist movement) just this year.

And let's not forget the GREAT EBAY JET SALE that netted a great PROFIT for the citizens of Alaska, according to McAnus.

ALL LIES ALL THE TIME.

I wouldn't hold my breath for them to expose Governor Palin before this election.

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[NeoConsSuck]

6. Gee

With 'Freedom of the Press' in the greatest country in the world, I'm shocked this wasn't already reported in America.

:sarcasm:

[daleo]

7. This makes one curious

Bitney now works for another senior Alaskan Republican and would not comment on Palin last week. However, his former colleagues believe he incurred Todd’s wrath because he became romantically involved with the ex-wife of one of the “first dude’s” friends. Bitney once told colleagues: “Todd’s words have so much weight.”

[Bette Noir]

8. Huh.

The UK finds this out before We the People?

I know the MSM wants this to be a horse race, but *this is important.* We need to know what kind of governor/administrator she is *before* we cast our votes, not after.

Lord save us from another 4 years of Republican misrule.

[Ghost Dog]

10. Murdoch is, to a degree, behind Obama, you see.

He owns the (London) Times.

[Miss Chybil]

9. There is a comments section at the end of this very well written article. nt

[tanyev]

11. McCain is playing with fire.

When the Sarah-Todd tag team sets their sights on him (and they will), he won't stand a chance. He enjoyed being burned by the fundie wing of the GOP so much the first time, he set himself up for it again.

[tblue37]

12. From the article (emphasis added):

“He has become a kind of shadow governor,” noted Andrew Halcro, a Republican businessman running as an independent who was trounced by Palin in the 2006 governor’s election. “We need to get the facts about how power is being used in the governor’s office.”

Halcro told The Sunday Times that over the past 20 months, confidential e-mails sent by the governor and other officials had been routinely copied to Todd; and that other senior Republicans were stunned that John McCain’s advisers had made no serious attempt to investigate Todd’s role in other controversies before his wife was put on the ticket. “They did no vetting, and some of these issues are not going away,” Halcro said.