Comments on: New Ethics Complaint Filed Against Gov. Palin – Per Diem for Personal Gain

By: katiebegood

katiebegood — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:30:51 +0000

The first thing that needs to be changed is who hears ethics complaints against a governor. Having the people the governor appoints and can fire at will is the biggest conflict-of-interest I have ever seen.

I also wonder about the $500,000 in legal bills. What is it for? When all Sarah has to do is call the people on the Personnel board and tell them to quash the complaint, that doesn’t take a lot of lawyer time.

By: sauerkraut

sauerkraut — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:40:42 +0000

Having thought about the per diems for some time, I am still of the opinion that there is a two-prong violation of law in the simple act of staying home and collecting, and not reporting those per diems on tax returns.

By: crystalwolf aka caligrl

crystalwolf aka caligrl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:09:25 +0000

This is what I’m referring to:
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/06/24/breaking-news-three-more-ethics-complaints-against-palin-and-then-some/

By: crystalwolf aka caligrl

crystalwolf aka caligrl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:04:04 +0000

I’m sorry to keep referring back to this, but remember AKM’s post about 1 week ago re: AKReport? AKReport said possible 3 more ethics complaints to be filed and “long simmering IRS/embezzlement” issues/problems. I don’t know how to look up past posts.
*iceberg*

By: lazarhat

lazarhat — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:19:55 +0000

As a resident of Anchorage and someone who has voted at least a couple of times for moving the state capitol CLOSER and MORE ACCESSIBLE to the majority of Alaskans, I have NO problem with her assessment of where business is conducted and rightly should be conducted in Alaska. (Whut up SouthCentral?!? Big ups SC! Woot!) The capitol move is way past overdue. Seriously. It wasn’t her idea however… no original ideas are.

-Laz

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:56:29 +0000

People really need to get a life.

By: Bretta

Bretta — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:43:43 +0000

JHop,
Here is the link to the Todd Palin’s page on the State of Alaska website. When I first looked for it this morning, thinking that it would be tastefully removed by now, it appeared to be missing but noooooooo, it was just buried a few links down.
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/bio_firstgent.php
The links on the bottom of the page include the Tesoro Irondog.

By: Bretta

Bretta — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:30:48 +0000

For JHop @ #97 July 6th, 2009 at 5:49 PM

I absolutely agree with you – that’s why I have to vent then go back and write the facts. Your advice is correct. I do regulatory work investigating complaints so I have to be very careful what I publish to not have my feelings/opinions injected, even if the regulation is imprecise or inadvertently not what was intended.

I am mad at the governor for taking the per diem, when a state employee, even if she has traveled all day, more than eight hours, gets home before the dinner bell, cannot have the full day’s per diem. I kid you not. But Her Quittership is allowed per diem for attending a personal event (daughter’s graduation)? A state employee is not allowed travel prepayment of transportation, etc., if personal activities are included in the trip; pay up front out of personal funds, then hope to be reimbursed when you get home. If the state employee has to travel all day on an airplane, per diem is not paid if you don’t do any state work while traveling. Like email or memos, I guess.

And bottom line, I wouldn’t begrudge Gov Buttercup the money if it actually appeared she had accomplished work. The fact is, recently pointed out by Halcro and others, the Governor’s calendar is mostly bare. She doesn’t meet with advisors, commissioners, legislators – anything that is actual work, not tititular facebrag.

By: Baker's Dozen

Baker's Dozen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:00:25 +0000

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My name is, like, so outdated, now!

By: JHop

JHop — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:36:17 +0000

i am down for the chatroom tomorrow night. i actually have to pull another all nighter, so it works for me. i am a late person by nature anyway.

i am officially moving to “the voice speaks” thread. just for consistency. i hope we can all congregate!