Comments on: Travelgate. More Evidence of Sarah Palin’s ‘Specialness’. http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/ Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: AKBlogger http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-22244 AKBlogger Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:27:33 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-22244 OK, despite all of the other glaring times we paid for Sarah to bring her family along on our dime (I don't charge my work for my family time) I want to know: <b>Why do we have to pay for <i>Sarah</i> to watch her husband's sporting event?</b>. Since when is <i>that</i> government business? Not only have we been paying for her family to be hauled around but why are we paying for her personal trips? OK, despite all of the other glaring times we paid for Sarah to bring her family along on our dime (I don’t charge my work for my family time) I want to know:
Why do we have to pay for Sarah to watch her husband’s sporting event?. Since when is that government business?
Not only have we been paying for her family to be hauled around but why are we paying for her personal trips?

]]> By: Diana http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-22191 Diana Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:02:44 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-22191 I went through the travel reports and put it together with the timelines that we had and it has all of the answers. It is so clear what happened. Who was where...and at what school. It is complete and leaves NO DOUBT when and who gave birth to Trig. I am so excited!! I have copied the timeline to this link: http://tinyurl.com/cnhqwu We've got it! Now I am going to send to off to every media outlet I can think of!! Including... and especially... Alaskan Daily News! I went through the travel reports and put it together with the timelines that we had and it has all of the answers. It is so clear what happened. Who was where…and at what school. It is complete and leaves NO DOUBT when and who gave birth to Trig.

I am so excited!! I have copied the timeline to this link:

http://tinyurl.com/cnhqwu

We’ve got it! Now I am going to send to off to every media outlet I can think of!! Including… and especially… Alaskan Daily News!

]]> By: Seeking__the__truth http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-22107 Seeking__the__truth Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:18:41 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-22107 FYI: I just posted this comment on the ADN in response to their article "More on Palin kids' travel - governor will repay 10 trips not nine." Somebody please explain how Petumenos and the Personnel Board have ANY authority to have anything to do with this ethics complaint. According to the article Petumenos was only "hired by the Personnel Board to investigate the case as an independent counsel." That does not give him any authority to settle anything, just to investigate the case. This is the same as a cop, who investigates a case and then negotiates a plea deal with the accused. That is not the cop’s role. Here too, it was not Petumenos’s role to negotiate any settlement. The article also states: "A state law specifically exempts the governor . . . from state personnel laws . . . The governor is taken out of the entire personnel act . . . Petumenos said." Thus, any questions about Palin’s compliance with "state personnel laws” is not for the Personnel Board to consider, since apparently it only deals with matters within the “entire personnel act.” So, something is very wrong with how this ethics complaint was handled, no? FYI: I just posted this comment on the ADN in response to their article “More on Palin kids’ travel – governor will repay 10 trips not nine.”

Somebody please explain how Petumenos and the Personnel Board have ANY authority to have anything to do with this ethics complaint.

According to the article Petumenos was only “hired by the Personnel Board to investigate the case as an independent counsel.” That does not give him any authority to settle anything, just to investigate the case. This is the same as a cop, who investigates a case and then negotiates a plea deal with the accused. That is not the cop’s role. Here too, it was not Petumenos’s role to negotiate any settlement.

The article also states: “A state law specifically exempts the governor . . . from state personnel laws . . . The governor is taken out of the entire personnel act . . . Petumenos said.”

Thus, any questions about Palin’s compliance with “state personnel laws” is not for the Personnel Board to consider, since apparently it only deals with matters within the “entire personnel act.”

So, something is very wrong with how this ethics complaint was handled, no?

]]> By: ZeroEthics http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-22042 ZeroEthics Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:58:04 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-22042 Someone has created a timeline from the travel reports of Palin and think they solved the baby gate. http://www.flickr.com/people/33163903@N05/ Also, of what use is Todd if Palin has to claim responsibility for raising the kids? It's not like he works, right? Someone has created a timeline from the travel reports of Palin and think they solved the baby gate.

http://www.flickr.com/people/33163903@N05/

Also, of what use is Todd if Palin has to claim responsibility for raising the kids? It’s not like he works, right?

]]> By: ZeroEthics http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-22039 ZeroEthics Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:39:20 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-22039 Furthermore, FREQUENT FLIER MILES Are they attributed to the States account for future use or the Flier's name? This is a pretty valuable point system and should be given to the employer who is footing the bill or TAXED as income. IMHO Does anyone know about this? Furthermore, FREQUENT FLIER MILES

Are they attributed to the States account for future use or the Flier’s name?

This is a pretty valuable point system and should be given to the employer who is footing the bill or TAXED as income.

IMHO

Does anyone know about this?

]]> By: XANGO ALASKA http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-21918 XANGO ALASKA Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:04:06 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-21918 NEVER has a Governor of this fine State used the internet to divide and conquer like our Governor is these days. She's got TeamSarah and SarahPAC pitting Alaskans against Alaskans and Alaskans against the rest of the country. She's also been busy having her minions paint her as the hero in this picture and Alaska as the bad guys. You know, according to the TeamSarah and SaraPAC scripts, she initiated this all on her own as part of her transparency in government platform. NOT So, how about a full blown investigation, there is certainly enough just cause. We could get rid of 3 for the price of one - if we send the Governor packing then TeamSarah and SaraPAC will follow. Alaska can't afford to be her national soapbox any longer. The Legislature and Washington DC need to hold a summit in restoring Alaska's national reputation. If we expose her for what she is, we can all wear our Alaska T-Shirts when we travel again. alohalaska / united we stand, divided we fall NEVER has a Governor of this fine State used the internet to divide and conquer like our Governor is these days. She’s got TeamSarah and SarahPAC pitting Alaskans against Alaskans and Alaskans against the rest of the country.
She’s also been busy having her minions paint her as the hero in this picture and Alaska as the bad guys. You know, according to the TeamSarah and SaraPAC scripts, she initiated this all on her own as part of her transparency in government platform. NOT

So, how about a full blown investigation, there is certainly enough just cause. We could get rid of 3 for the price of one – if we send the Governor packing then TeamSarah and SaraPAC will follow. Alaska can’t afford to be her national soapbox any longer. The Legislature and Washington DC need to hold a summit in restoring Alaska’s national reputation. If we expose her for what she is, we can all wear our Alaska T-Shirts when we travel again. alohalaska / united we stand, divided we fall

]]> By: AKPetMom http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-21876 AKPetMom Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:14:47 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-21876 She thinks that we should foot the bill for her "bein' a Mom" (and a kind of crappy one at that...) That's really what she's saying. Well, if spending time with her children is so important that she presumes to charge the state EXTRA for DOING HER JOB, ya know, the one that some people up here elected her to do, then she should perhaps step down and just be MOM. If she does not want to enlist a professional child care worker to assist her with her children when she is DOING HER JOB, then she really needs to decide WHAT HER JOB REALLY IS. Instead she totes the kids around on the state dollar and makes up reasons for them to be there. Hey, I'll go run a raffle at a fund raising event for a free plane ticket and hotel room and a few meals. I'm probably more qualified than her children.....I'm sick of paying her to be a MOM as well as paying her to be Governor. 'Nuff said. She thinks that we should foot the bill for her “bein’ a Mom” (and a kind of crappy one at that…) That’s really what she’s saying. Well, if spending time with her children is so important that she presumes to charge the state EXTRA for DOING HER JOB, ya know, the one that some people up here elected her to do, then she should perhaps step down and just be MOM. If she does not want to enlist a professional child care worker to assist her with her children when she is DOING HER JOB, then she really needs to decide WHAT HER JOB REALLY IS. Instead she totes the kids around on the state dollar and makes up reasons for them to be there. Hey, I’ll go run a raffle at a fund raising event for a free plane ticket and hotel room and a few meals. I’m probably more qualified than her children…..I’m sick of paying her to be a MOM as well as paying her to be Governor. ‘Nuff said.

]]> By: the problem child (an aunt, also) http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-21836 the problem child (an aunt, also) Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:40:47 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-21836 @penny -- I tried to post it earlier, but I think the link was toooooo looooong. If you go to the http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138435 (that you actually have already mentioned) and then about half way down Lisa Demers' article it says in blue "all the children's travel reports." Click on that blue to open up the PDF and then scroll down to page 111, there is Bristol's travel authorization for Nov 14,15,16, 2008. @penny — I tried to post it earlier, but I think the link was toooooo looooong. If you go to the http://community.adn.com/adn/node/138435 (that you actually have already mentioned) and then about half way down Lisa Demers’ article it says in blue “all the children’s travel reports.” Click on that blue to open up the PDF and then scroll down to page 111, there is Bristol’s travel authorization for Nov 14,15,16, 2008.

]]> By: ZeroEthics http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-21814 ZeroEthics Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:34:43 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-21814 I haven't read the 170 or so comments above mine, just responding to the article: R U kidding me??!!! I'm jumpiing jack flash incensed by the level of high school antics Alaskans allow SP and her govt. to get away with. This is dangerous precedent setting stuff which firms inside the logic of HRH and carries over into whatever actions she takes next, not only on a State level, but Nationally. By not impeaching her you undoubtedly ''enable'' her flawed logic to run 'rogue' impacting the lives of the population of Alaska. Why haven't formal proceedings to remove her begun? I haven’t read the 170 or so comments above mine, just responding to the article:

R U kidding me??!!! I’m jumpiing jack flash incensed by the level of high school antics Alaskans allow SP and her govt. to get away with. This is dangerous precedent setting stuff which firms inside the logic of HRH and carries over into whatever actions she takes next, not only on a State level, but Nationally.

By not impeaching her you undoubtedly ”enable” her flawed logic to run ‘rogue’ impacting the lives of the population of Alaska.

Why haven’t formal proceedings to remove her begun?

]]> By: penny http://www.themudflats.net/2009/02/25/travelgate-more-evidence-of-sarah-palins-specialness/#comment-21799 penny Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:56:12 +0000 http://www.themudflats.net/?p=1896#comment-21799 I am not great at manuevering around ADN's site. Could you give me a link to those documents TPC? thanks! I am not great at manuevering around ADN’s site. Could you give me a link to those documents TPC?
thanks!

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