Legal Defense Fund Goes Rogue! (A Post from the Netherworld)
10 04 2009This doesn’t happen often, but it does occasionally. I write a post, and then days later I find it in my ‘Draft” folder. I stare at it for a minute and think “Surely, there’s some mistake.” I know I posted that! But, no. There it is….all dusty and never used, sitting in my closet. And then comes the inevitable dilemma. Should I post it now? Or is it just too late. So much has happened since I wrote it. It’s like finding a birthday card or a Christmas card, long after the holiday is over…sitting there with the stamp on, and the address filled in, in some kind of suspended animation. But, since I have actually been known to send errant Christmas cards as late as June (hangs head in shame)…..here’s my post from days ago.
Just wind back that little clock in your head, and think of it like a little gift from the great blogger beyond.
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Remember last night when we learned of Sarah Palin’s Legal Defense Fund? Not the official one, but the unofficial still (they promise) totally really really legal one? When you read that post, were you thinking, ”Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much?” Did it seem to not be quite….kosher?
Well, Palin spokesperson Meg Stapleton tells us that the governor can’t and won’t accept any money from this new fund. It is, apparently a ROGUE fund…. (hands over mouth) which, she claims, was set up without her knowledge by Clayton Paslay. Who is Clayton Paslay? Some guy who owns a U-Haul dealership in Texas, and says he was inspired by Bill O’Reilly to get all “community organizer” and set up this fund to help.
“It’s not official. Neither the governor nor her attorney can accept monies from a group like this. There is one that is in the process of being established,” said Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton.
And what does the gentleman have to say for himself?
“I did this at the suggestion of Fox News, Paslay said.
He said he has never talked to Palin because he can’t get through to her. But a few days ago he spoke briefly with Palin’s Anchorage attorney, Thomas Van Flein. Paslay said the attorney “was in a rush” but didn’t object to the fund. He said they agreed donations could be sent directly to the attorney.
“No different than going down and paying someone else’s parking ticket,” Paslay said.
Van Flein didn’t immediately return calls.
Hmm. Sounds like nobody is on the same page. Imagine that.
We can now add another incident to the long and growing list of back pedaling “Yes, you did!” “No, I didn’t!” miscommunication gaffes coming from the governor’s office, or the PAC, or whoever Meg Stapleton is working for. And if Van Flein has done something questionable in condoning this fund, and it requires that the governor seek legal counsel, does he get to consult himself and charge the governor for it? Just wondering.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:21 AM
Lying or bactracking or “splitting hairs…….”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/11/palin-begich-resign/
April 11th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
crystalwolf aka caligrl Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 7:49 AM
GINO on Eddie smurk show talking about Ethics complaints, Levi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mJ3WISOT4
Notice how the Conservatives4palin disabled the comments on this? Are they truly afraid of authentic public opinion?
April 11th, 2009 at 8:26 AM
the problem child IS MY NAME! @31
“GINO is trying to cast aspersions on the juudicial council’s ratings system because WAR scored abysmally on it”.
A divorce lawyer wouldn’t appear to be qualified to embark on a crusade against the Federal government in order to satisfy Palin’s obsession with killing wolves.
However-as demonstrated by the Wooten saga-Palin has another obsession for which WAR might prove very useful- Levi Johnston.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:37 AM
Mike from Everett Wa Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 8:24 AM
crystalwolf aka caligrl Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 7:49 AM
GINO on Eddie smurk show talking about Ethics complaints, Levi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37mJ3WISOT4
Notice how the Conservatives4palin disabled the comments on this? Are they truly afraid of authentic public opinion?
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You can still rate it a 1 star if you want
April 11th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
here is her sympathy spin………oh dear, those anonnoymous lawyer polls are a big problem for her, lol……..hey lawyers speak up! how do you like what she’s doing and saying about your process? willing to let her make decisions on it?
I found it interesting she first agreed to a live interview and then chose written answers, gosh, do ya think a certain AG appointment is po’d over his low rating by his peers? I do! it’s that dang “bar poll” thang.
Poor WAR he was polled the too low by his peers and it’s all their fault, lol.
That attorney poll and articles I read was what I based my citizen VOTE on for our state GA, he rated a 4.5 out of 5, so I’d say he was held in pretty high esteem. Don’t let Palin blow smoke and gloss over something like this.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/140438
“Palin on judicial appointment process: ‘There may be reasonable steps that could be taken to improve it.’”
“it’s been reported that the judicial council uses the bar poll as a litmus test. That candidates are told their bar poll score was low and so they stand very little chance of being nominated by the judicial council. Again, if the bar poll process has flaws, it could be preventing some qualified candidates from being nominated.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:50 AM
So what are the usual questions legislature “ask” before confirming appointees? and are they being asked?
April 11th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Thank you Mr. Cohn for defending the State of Alaska’s poll process and stating the fact it is not the only tool used. I also appreciate your noting she may have been given or is getting bad information.
Gee, wouldn’t that be from the current Attorney General?
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http://www.adn.com/palin/story/756110.html
“Larry Cohn, Judicial Council executive director, said Palin may be getting bad information.
To start with, “the bar poll is only one tool among many that the council members use,” Cohn said. Sometimes candidates who score the highest on the bar poll are not even nominated to the governor. Sometimes candidates not rated that highly leapfrog over everyone else. The bar poll ratings don’t amount to a ranking, he said.
The survey is considered confidential. While most lawyers sign their names, all identifying information is stripped away before the applicant gets to see the comments.
Anonymous comments are allowed so that attorneys will feel free to chime in about coworkers, a supervisor, or other close colleagues, Cohn said.
But anonymous comments aren’t given credibility unless the information can be verified independently or is admitted by the applicant, he said.”
April 11th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
this is what a new blog opperating out of tx is saying:
“running for President may or may not be something that [Palin] ends up deciding to do. She has any number of options – remaining in the office of Governor of Alaska, making a run for the U.S. Senate in 2014 against Mark Begich, or she could even challenge Don Young for his U.S. House seat.”
April 11th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
If you’d like to follow Secretary Ken Salazar’s energy hearings around the country you can find live video links here:
http://www.doi.gov/ocs/hearing.html
here is the one for Anchorage:
http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=57277
Regional OCS Hearing – Anchorage, AK
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:00 AM Alaskan Time Zone
April 11th, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Say NO – the last link you posted was the one I posted in comment #27. I hadn’t seen the first story you posted where they omit Palin being ‘corrected’ by Cohn that seems like BS reporting to me! Sheesh! Now I am really mad o:
April 11th, 2009 at 9:21 AM
I have been checking out the SEE 4 PALIN Pee’ers for about a week now and there are only about 10 to 20 Pee’ers talking Palin up to each other, if anyone slightly disagrees they are eliminated, just like on Survivors. We are all paid by Obama to bash her!!! The Media is bashing her, but its never her fault. I thought she had a BIG following, where are they? They are just like her, blowing which ever way she tells the wind to blow.
April 11th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Muddies – we have a new petition to sign! It is a petition to get GINO to STFU!
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/petition-sign.cgi?1113nov8
April 11th, 2009 at 9:32 AM
You should see the comments on the petition site! over 2,500 already!
April 11th, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Hello everyone, Happy Easter!!
April 11th, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Now that is funny! To bad we can’t get this up on FDN for all the Gino fans there to read. Some of those nut bags there can’t understand why people despise Gino.
April 11th, 2009 at 9:55 AM
silverfox happy Easter to you also.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
UK Lady, I think that petition went up shortly after the election. Many here have already signed.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Allot of mudpups have posted that maeTaraS has been posting about people buying guns etc. Here is a article:
Is Hysterical Right-Wing Media Pushing the Unhinged Over the Edge?
http://www.alternet.org/story/135981/is_hysterical_right-wing_media_pushing_the_unhinged_over_the_edge/?page=entire
April 11th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Also too….
Faux noise nutjob (cries with GINO)
The Passion of Glenn Beck: Why Have “Manly” Conservatives Embraced a Man Who Cries?
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/136116/the_passion_of_glenn_beck%3A_why_have_%22manly%22_conservatives_embraced_a_man_who_cries/
April 11th, 2009 at 10:22 AM
So maybe the legislators should have asked WAR about this business, course the short answer would have been, I don’t have enough information due to only being on the job 9 days. Perhaps they could ask him to get back to them in the next day or so?
Also, too, perhaps they’d like to know what he has been working on in his 9 days? so they could direct questions in that direction?
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/11/palin-begich-resign/
“Palin trying to backtrack from her call for Begich to step down.
On April 2, the Alaska Republican Party sent out a press release saying that in light of the charges being dropped against Ted Stevens, “current Senator Mark Begich should resign his position to allow for a new, special election.” That same day, Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said, “I absolutely agree” when asked about the Alaska Republican Party’s request. However, yesterday in a press conference, Palin tried to backtrack:
“I didn’t call for Begich to step down, either,” Palin said. “I said I absolutely agree that Alaskans deserve a fair, untainted election for the United States senate seat. I’m not splitting hairs on how that happens. I’m saying wonderful, good. I want to see an election that is fair, that isn’t influenced unduly by some announcement that the sitting senator was facing a multi-felony count conviction. That’s what we were told. Now, come to find out, that wasn’t the case.”
However, if Palin supports a new special election, by state law, Begich “would have to step down.” That process would temporarily leave Alaska with just one active senator. Nevertheless, Palin yesterday insisted that she wasn’t “splitting hairs on how a new election should happen.”
April 11th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
I’m feeling terribly defeated today. I read Linda’s(Celtic Diva) transcription of the exchange between Ramras and Ross. Like Linda, I was heartened by the questions Ramras asked, but then was sickened by his response of “I look forward to voting yes to confirm you”.
Are we Alaskans truly powerless? Can Sarah and the legislature do anything they want? I was under the impression that they work for us. If all they want is our vote, but not our voice, then we really don’t live in a democratic society do we?
I’m hoping that Ramras’s remark was sarcasm, but I doubt it.
My only consolation is that Sarah Palin may go down in History as the Worst Governor Ever. Maybe.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:32 AM
theProblemChild – Sorry, you are right. I thought it was new, I hadn’t seen it before and someone just posted it in the Huffpo comments. It is still funny though.
Crystalwolf – I agree, I just don’t see how those macho redneck types can stomach a crybaby (faux) like Beck.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Does anyone have some extra Duct Tape available…you know, like maybe a case? Because I think it would take about a case to tape Queen Taliban Gino’s pie hole shut! She just can’t help herself, and keeps on opening up her “Yapper” and making a complete A$$ out of herself! She has zero class and really needs to keep her mouth shut when talking about her grandchild’s father. What a sick woman.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Speaking of money and fund-raising.
GINO will be speaking at that Indiana fund raiser next week so I sure hope they have all the cameras and and ALL the microphones in good working order. Being around her ‘Friends ‘ you KNOW she will feel more comfortable and really let loose with both barrels… because we know she shoots from the hip.
The last 2 weeks events have got her steamed. Expects fireworks to go off (and it’s not even the 4th of July yet )…. with many more quotes…. on Camera. (and then retractions…. she didn’t mean THAT )
Get some rest Meg…. you are going to be busy next week.
(BIG smile on my face now ) Wouldn’t it be funny if some PEOPLE got in and all started shouting ” Levi !… Levi !… Levi !….Ooooooohhhh
Any Levi Fans in Indiana..?
April 11th, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I never read the whole People story but a comment just posted on HuffPo pointed this out………….
When is Sarah going to learn to stop lying? Hasn’t she learned yet that everything is on record and can be researched in seconds?
People Magazine Jan. 19, 2009 Vol 171 number 2
“Not only has tiny Tripp moved in, but dad Levi Johnston has been staying over, too” “By day they tend to Tripp and by night they share diaper duty”
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Ooops…??? ( Meg…. please Explain..?)
April 11th, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Ok Mud puppies, I found this article interesting. What do you think?
I think the writer should have looked at the bad publicity that has come out of Alaska Government as a tourist deterrent. I see posts all over the place where people claim that they will not come here because of GINO, aerial hunting, polar bears yada yada.
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/apr/11/amped-tv-presence-little-help-alaska-tourism-indus/
April 11th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Indiana went blue this year!! Palin probably helped push the decent people in the center across to center-left. Any traction Palin might have remaining has been rasped away by her own irresponsible statements and actions.
Good on that part of the Alaska legislature with backbone for demonstrating some cohesiveness and leadership on behalf of Alaskans.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:53 AM
honestyinGov Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 10:35 AM
Speaking of money and fund-raising.
GINO will be speaking at that Indiana fund raiser next week so I sure hope they have all the cameras and and ALL the microphones in good working order. Being around her ‘Friends ‘ you KNOW she will feel more comfortable and really let loose with both barrels… because we know she shoots from the hip.
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Isn’t that trip on the 15th? Ooooooooooh, maybe its a teabagging party!
Maybe she will tea bag WARGINO! {wink,wink}
April 11th, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Ooops! sorry couldn’t resist! Was checking out the forum about teabagging and its just too hilarious! lol!
April 11th, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Honesty In Gov, That’s great LOL.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:58 AM
honestyinGov – Good Catch!!, I knew GINO had said something like that and was searching everywhere for it. If Keith Olbermann is still paying out every time GINO lies he needs his big salary.
April 11th, 2009 at 11:06 AM
This is a ” FANTASTIC” poll someone posted on Immoral Minority. Large numbers of people polled and from each State on the Levi- Sarah ‘Who do you believe’
Just hover your mouse over the state… it gives the results.
Most are about 80-85 % for Levi. ( Montana- 100% ) Alaska 74%
April 11th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Sorry… got too excited… forgot the Link
http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_317.html
April 11th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
How about instead of teabags, everyone sends her a dirty diaper?
April 11th, 2009 at 11:13 AM
honestyinGov,
ha you are making my day thanks for the great posts!
April 11th, 2009 at 11:22 AM
honestyinGov @ 83 & 84
The link shown is for the poll results. Here is the link to actually take the poll.
http://www.time.com/time/politics
April 11th, 2009 at 11:28 AM
honestyinGov – Brilliant!, but what the heck is wrong with Tenn?. When GINO gets wind of this she will be spitting feathers.
What with that and now being actually debunked in the lie by her own fave mag ‘People’.
How long can seefourpee delude themselves that she is popular.
When will she learn to keep that mouth shut?.
April 11th, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Tenn home of the Good Olde Toothless Country Boys that are drooling over a lame duck1
April 11th, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I had posted this way up the thread. Here is the shindig on this coming Thurs. Notice that “Trig” is expected.
http://govpalin4prez.blogspot.com/2009/04/palin-and-steele-together-in-indiana.html
April 11th, 2009 at 11:53 AM
honestyinGov. – LOVE IT !! Texas clocks in at 83% for Levi !! That link needs to be sent to all sarah sites !!
April 11th, 2009 at 11:58 AM
Maybe GINO has really jumped the shark this time, Huffpo has over 1200 comments on this and climbing fast. All of them are vicious (but witty) apart from one or two lame diehards. The woman has turned herself into a national joke, and all because she couldn’t ignore Levi.
April 11th, 2009 at 12:02 PM
73 Women Who Run With The Wolves Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Does anyone have some extra Duct Tape available…you know, like maybe a case? Because I think it would take about a case to tape Queen Taliban Gino’s pie hole shut!
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I looked here for the application you speak of , couldn’t find it. I aggree 110% that it needs to be done !!
http://www.ducttapeguys.com/topten/index.html
April 11th, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Is van flame behind on his mortgagae?
April 11th, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Wow – Palin puts a whole new meaning to “pathological liar”. If there an award for the most lies in the shortest time – she would win it every single time it’s up for grabs, no contest. I mean…..I am completely astounded. Just……gobsmacked.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
I have to say, maybe all this drama coming from the Gov’s office is something that you have come to expect as “normal” in Alaska. But, I have lived in 10 states and I have never seen the kind of lying, back petaling, ethics complaints, media gaffes and just plain drama coming from any other gov.
It really is NOT normal. It’s insane.