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Denizens, when the “finding” of the kangaroo court “bipartisan commission” which supposedly exposes Sarah Palin for being a Nazi-sympathizing, conspiring-with-Communists, psychotic socialist, maniacal, tyrannical, JACKBOOTED, CHILD-ABUSING, BOOK-BURNING, BIBLE-THUMPING MAFIOSA PUPPY BLENDER WITH DELUSIONS OF GHOD-HOOD OH MY GAWD THE HUMANITY!!!1!ONE!!ELEVENTY!1~

…well, I figured there might be something a bit amiss.

Sure enough.

But go read Ace, and then go read Misha’s rejoinder, plus the comments.

Particularly pay attention to LC Muscle Daddy, who noted (below the fold):

Okay – here’s the problem… (please bear with me)

Let’s start with our reference material, being the report & findings in question.

While I’m as happy as anyone else with the “within her rights to fire the insubordinate ass-bag” – part, there is, unfortunately, another part…

In the linked doc, go to page 8 to see “Finding 1” – this is where the “abuse of power’ part comes from.

Apparently, Alaskan statutes maintain that “…each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.”

It also defines “benefit” as “anything that is to a person’s advantage or self-interest, regardless of financial gain”. (pg 49)

It further identifies “personal interest” to include “immediate family members” which, in turn, includes “siblings” (pg 50).

Finally, “Official Action” is defined as “…advice, participation, or assistance, including… a recommendation, decision, approval, disapproval, vote, or other similar action, including inaction, by a public officer.” (pg. 50)
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Okay – so basically it boils down to this:

When Sarah & Todd kept asking where the investigation was going, RE: her sister’s complaints about the kid tasering, moose poaching, drunk driving, criminality-bragging state-trooper-ex-husband…

… and repeatedly asked why such an embarrassing asshat was allowed to continue to represent the agency and the state of Alaska….

…that was a breach of ethics – as those inquiries were “official actions” committed for the “benefit” of her “sibling”.

Todd’s inquiries apparently count against Sarah as well, since she didn’t stop him from making them, bringing us back to the “inaction” part noted above.

That is the purported “Abuse of Power”.
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But wait…. what’s this?…

Waaaayy down on page 79 – under the heading “The Second Recommendation”…

“The legislature should consider amending AS 39.25.080 to permit those who file complaints against peace officers to receive some feedback about the status and outcome of their complaint”

Hmmm….

So… this all got started because the AK state police had apparently ‘circular filed’ all of the sister’s complaints – and there was no legislative requirement to give the complaintant any information – so Sarah and Todd had to try to run it down for themselves…

…just to keep the department from doing whatever-the-hell-they-wanted?

(page 58 references an account of Wooten[asshat] having been slapped with a Restraining Order for harrassing and intimidating his ex-wife….which was lifted, when his supervisors intervened – looks like whatever-the-hell-they-want was the order of the day…)

Well – there we are.

Myself? If pursuing a do-nothing police agency over a do-nothing investigation of an asshat-scumbag-embarrassment of an officer is “Ethically Wrong”…

I don’t wanna be right (and like her better knowing she feels the same way)

Like the man says:

thatisall.

Indeed, as the real&#160 Puppy Blender&#153 would say.

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