Somebody should tell her it doesn’t work this way…
From the AP:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – On the eve of a report on a legislative panel’s abuse-of-power investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report clearing her of any wrongdoing.
Palin, running mate to Republican presidential nominee John McCain, is the subject of two [...]

In fact, it was unanimous…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) – An investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner can proceed, Alaska’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday, clearing the way for a Friday report to the state Legislature on the issue.
The justices rejected an effort to halt the probe by the Republican vice presidential [...]

Well how about that? First Todd Palin agrees to testify and now her team jumps on board.
In any event, while I think the delay was a strategic move, I’m happy Palin and her staff are finally cooperating.
From CNN:
The seven, including Palin’s chief of staff, had tried to fight subpoenas issued by the state Senate Judiciary [...]

As mentioned before, I think this will be a far more effective attack on McCain, than McCain raising Ayers Rezko and Wright.

And ultimately, I think McCain will regret going negative in these last few weeks.
What do you think?

And now we find out that if McCain is going to question Obama’s past connections, the Obama camp will respond in kind.
But one of the key difference here is McCain’s past connections are tied to our last massive economic crisis. So while Ayers, Rezko and Rev. Wright may not necessarily make voters more comfortable [...]

Well, this is surprising…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband is planning to speak to an investigator looking into abuse-of-power allegations against the governor, Todd Palin’s lawyer said Saturday. He previously refused to testify under subpoena in a separate probe.
Attorney Thomas Van Flein said he asked the investigator, Anchorage attorney Timothy Petumenos, to reserve [...]

Jeezus, they’re really trying to kill this thing…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Six Alaska lawmakers filed an emergency appeal Friday asking the state’s Supreme Court to halt an investigation into abuse-of-power allegations against Gov. Sarah Palin before the findings are released next week.
The independent investigator conducting the probe plans to turn over his conclusions by next [...]

With Americans defaulting left and right on their McMansions, a new trend is emerging.
NBC investigates…

So, could you live in a house that small? I think I could live in the second one but certainly not the first. That house was ridiculous.
Regardless, I love this “Think Small” trend. Smaller homes, smaller cars and smaller energy use. [...]

Findings will be released next week, as scheduled…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An investigator hired by Alaskan lawmakers to probe abuse-of-power allegations against Gov. Sarah Palin was free to finish his work by a deadline set for a week from Friday after a state judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the probe.
The investigation is looking into [...]

When the State Senate President of your own party is taking steps to make sure the TrooperGate investigation goes forward, you know this is no partisan witch hunt.
Lyda Green talks to the Mojo Blog:
Calling herself a “raging Republican,” Green says, she is “absolutely disgusted, embarrassed, and ashamed” by the McCain-Palin campaign’s intervention in the [...]

Todd Palin and a few of his wife’s staffers failed to appear recently, even though they were subpoenaed. Still, the prosecutor Stephen Branchflower says the investigation will be finished soon.
But will it be of any value if nobody involved testifies?
More from MSNBC:
Todd Palin’s attorney sent French a letter Thursday listing Palin’s objections to the Legislature’s [...]

From MSNBC:
McCain campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan told a news conference Monday that the governor, the Republican nominee for vice president, will not cooperate as long as the investigation “remains tainted.” He said he doesn’t know whether Palin’s husband would challenge a subpoena issued to compel his cooperation.
The campaign insists the investigation has been hijacked by [...]

CNN has it…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — A special counsel has asked Alaskan lawmakers to subpoena Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband and a dozen aides as part of the investigation into Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner.
Here are more of the posts on TrooperGate…

Ethics Adviser Warned The Palins About TrooperGate

Judge Warned Palin To Stop Talking About [...]

So you know that ethics bill that Palin touts on the trail as being one of her biggest accomplishments during her tenure as Governor? Well, the guy who helped develop a key part of that legislation also had some free advice for Sarah and her husband regarding TrooperGate.
From Wall Street Journal
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An informal [...]

We know she asked the librarian what the process was to ban books from the public library. We know that the librarian was fired a few weeks later. And Palin rehired her after Wasilla residents demanded it.
So what happened?
ABC takes a look…

So the question remains…why was the librarian fired? Unfortunately we still don’t know, so [...]

Another interesting twist in the TrooperGate investigation.
Apparently Palin and her family were talking publicly about Mike Wooten so much that a judge essentially put a gag on them. And this was before she was Governor.
From Newsweek…
Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge John Suddock heard [...]

The more you dig, the goofier it gets…
Some background…
In June, Andrée McLeod, a self-described independent government watchdog in Alaska, sent an open records act request to the office of Governor Sarah Palin. She requested copies of all the emails that had been sent and received by Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey, two top aides [...]

And with Hollis French at the helm.
From the AP:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Republican effort has failed to unseat the Alaska state senator overseeing the ethics investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she dismissed the state’s public safety commissioner.
Democratic Sen. Hollis French was accused of manipulating the probe for political effect [...]

In an otherwise by-the-numbers pro-Sarah Palin editorial, The Wall Street Journal makes one very interesting point:
Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on.
Palin became Alaska’s governor [...]

Over at repptide, we’ve been taking the pulse of public opinion on a number of political issues.
So when Hillary Clinton started making claims that it was sexism that was to blame for her campaign’s second-place showing, we wanted to see if she was right or if there were other factors that could have explained her [...]