RAW STORYFriday, August 29, 2008http://www.prisonplanet.com/palin-currently-being-investigated-for-abuse-of-office.htmlUpdate at bottom: Palin currently being investigated for abuse of office"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a self-styled "hockey mom" who has only been governor for a little over a year, is GOP Presidential candidate John McCain's choice for Vice President," CNBC reported early Friday.According to a Republican strategist, Palin is the nominee, though McCain's campaign has not confirmed this.Fox News Channel and CNN also confirmed on live TV.Earlier in the day, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Gov. Mitt Romney each privately admitted they'd been ruled out.Palin, 44, is younger than Sen. Barack Obama and has bucked her own party on some issues, such as pork-barrel spending. According to Marketwatch, she's "taken a keen issue in energy and environmental issues.""A former Miss Alaska runner-up, Palin holds a degree in journalism and has five children, including one with Down Syndrome."Palin's selection may denote a McCain strategy to siphon off disaffected female voters from Sen. Barack Obama, who some Hillary Clinton supporters see as slighting her base by not putting her name in the running for his VP slot.Among Palin's major backers has been New York Times columnist and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. Writing of Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and Palin, Kristol wrote Aug. 4: "They're very popular with conservatives, especially social conservatives. And they're real reformers. They've begun to do in Baton Rouge and Juneau what many voters would like to see done in Washington. Principled conservatism and vigorous reform could be a winning combination.""McCain himself... is intrigued by the bolder possibilities of youth or bipartisanship," Kristol added. "And he could be especially intrigued by Sarah Palin and Meg Whitman. I run into plenty of moderate and conservative women who don't consider themselves feminists but would be pleased to see a qualified woman on the ticket."Palin currently being investigated for abuse of officeThe Associated Press reports, "More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper."The commissioner, Walt Monegan, was fired on July 11, because Palin "wanted to take the department in a new direction," according to Bloomberg. "Monegan than alleged that he had been pressured to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was married to Palin's sister and was involved in a contentious divorce, according to the Anchorage Daily News."The Bloomberg story continues, "Palin has denied any wrongdoing. The state Legislature voted on July 28 to hire an independent investigator to probe whether Palin, her family or members of her administration had pressured Monegan to fire Wooten, according to the Daily News.""Palin hasn't been implicated in the four-year-old federal corruption investigation, which has resulted in convictions of or guilty pleas from three state legislators, Murkowski's former chief of staff and two executives of an oil-services company, as well as the indictment of Senator Ted Stevens," Bloomberg's report concludes.Last month a Democratic official told the Wall Street Journal that Palin was facing possible impeachment."This is a governor who was almost impervious to error," Hollis French, a Democratic state senator told the Journal. "Now she could face impeachment, in a worst-case scenario."
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Added: August 29, 2008
