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An Alaska judge warned Gov. Sarah Palin’s family against trying to
get her then-brother-in-law fired, according to court records.

That warning came long before the controversy over her dismissal of the
brother-in-law’s boss, the state’s public safety commissioner, records
show.

Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is
battling allegations she and her advisers pressured Public Safety
Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister’s husband, State Trooper
Mike Wooten.

Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, and Wooten were in
the process of getting a divorce when the judge hearing the couple’s
case said McCann’s family appeared to be putting Wooten’s job at risk
at a time when he would be required to pay child support.

“It
appears for the world that Ms. McCann and her family have decided to
take after the guy’s livelihood, that whatever who did what to whom has
overridden good judgment,” Superior Court Judge John Suddock said
during an October 2005 hearing. “Aesop told us not to slay the goose
that lays the golden egg. For whatever reason, people are trying to
slay the goose here, and it tends to diminish his earning capacity.”

At the time, Palin
was a private citizen and would not become governor until 2006. In
complaints filed with the state police, she and other relatives had
accused Wooten of threatening her family during the divorce.

Suddock was in the process of settling the couple’s property and
child-support arrangements in the 2005 hearing. The judge said his
decision might have been different had Wooten’s continued employment
with the state police been more certain.

“The plaintiff’s table has created a situation where that is a very fragile outcome,” he said.

Wooten’s union representative testified that the trooper was the
subject of a “constant stream” of complaints from his ex-wife’s family.
“If things don’t change, Mike’s career is in jeopardy,” the union rep
said.

“My advice to Mike was to find another job,” said John
Cyr, now executive director of the Public Safety Employees Association.
“I think he needs, career-wise, to look for work elsewhere.”

CNN
obtained audio recordings of the hearing from the court clerk’s office
in Anchorage, Alaska. Roberta Erwin, the attorney who represented
McCann, declined comment on the case Wednesday, and other
representatives of the governor did not immediately return phone calls.

Wooten was suspended for five days in March 2006, after state police
commanders determined he had used a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson
“in a training capacity,” drove his patrol car while drinking beer and
illegally shot a moose using his wife’s hunting permit.

In a
February 2008 hearing over new custody issues, Wooten briefly
complained that “disparagement” by his ex-wife’s family was continuing.

Complaints about Wooten from Palin and her family have been under
scrutiny since Gov. Palin’s July firing of Monegan, whose duties
included management of the state police force. After his dismissal,
Monegan said he was fired because he refused to succumb to pressure
from the governor’s office to fire Wooten, and his allegations have led
to an investigation by the state Legislature.

Palin has denied
any wrongdoing, saying the commissioner was removed because of
disagreements over budget issues. Her attorneys have called Wooten a
“rogue trooper” and said no one in the governor’s family knew of his
suspension until after Monegan’s dismissal.

Spokesmen for Sen.
John McCain’s presidential campaign have said the legislative probe has
become a “political circus” since McCain tapped Palin as his running
mate in August.

Palin originally pledged to cooperate with the
investigation and disclosed that members of her administration had
contacted state police officials nearly two dozen times to discuss
Wooten. But last week, she asked the state personnel board to conduct
its own probe, and a string of witnesses has failed to show up at
scheduled depositions with the investigator hired by the Legislature.

Last week, Cyr’s union filed its own complaint against Palin and top
aides, accusing them of improperly attempting to use confidential
information from Wooten’s personnel files against him. The McCain
campaign says Wooten agreed to release his files during the divorce
proceedings, and the information was in the public domain.

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From:� http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate
Submitted by Michael Wrightson on Sept 1, 2008

A note to all by {the Author}

Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the
last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in
common: their gender and their good looks.

Thanks,

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