And what does he have to say?
Palin initially denied that she or anyone in her administration had ever pressured Monegan to fire the trooper, but this summer acknowledged more than a half a dozen contacts over the matter, including one phone call from a Palin administration official to a state police lieutenant. The call was recorded and was released by Palin’s office this month. Todd Palin told a television reporter in Alaska that he did meet with Monegan, but said he was just “informing” Monegan about the issue, not exerting pressure.
“She never directly asked me to fire him,” Monegan said.
Well then.
And by the way, an officer who has been outed as having drank beer in his patrol car, illegally shooting a moose (however ridiculous that might sound), and last but not least shooting his 11 year old with his Taser for the sheer hell of it deserves to be fired. If the man in charge of making such a decision cannot see that then he deserves to be fired too. I’m not sure how it goes down in Alaska, but that’s how it works in every other state.
UPDATE - Flopping Aces did the research and created a timeline of events that show why this is a non-scandal. Can we please go back to suppressing discussion discussing real scandals now?
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