{"id":2508,"date":"2008-10-11T18:49:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T23:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2008-10-11T18:49:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T23:49:37","slug":"ethics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/11\/ethics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ethics?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/11\/palin-comments-troopergate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palin Responds To Troopergate Report,<br \/>    Dodges Issue Of Whether She Abused Power<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>     <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">While Sarah Palin was boarding her campaign bus this morning, a reporter seeking comment on the new Troopergate report shouted out to her, &ldquo;Governor, did you abuse your power?&rdquo; She responded:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>If you read the report, you&rsquo;ll see that there&rsquo;s nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member. You&rsquo;ve got to read the report, sir.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">As Jake Tapper notes, Palin is dodging the question and parsing her answer. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s true that there&rsquo;s nothing &lsquo;unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member&rsquo; in principle,&rdquo; he writes, &ldquo;but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/10\/palin-parses.html\">the report is not as Gov. Palin is presenting it<\/a><\/strong>.&rdquo; The report explicitly states that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/10\/10\/palin-troopergate-report\/\">she did abuse her power<\/a><\/strong> and acted unethically:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, <strong>I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power<\/strong> by violating Alaska Statute 2952.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">Moreover, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/media.adn.com\/smedia\/2008\/10\/10\/16\/Branchflowerreport.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf\">report<\/a><\/strong> states that compliance with this Act &ldquo;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/10\/10\/politics\/main4514596.shtml\">is not optional<\/a><\/strong>,&rdquo; and that her conduct <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/community.adn.com\/adn\/node\/132565\">violated<\/a><\/strong> the Ethics Act.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"92\" width=\"124\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:3YJAU_E-L3BCnM:http:\/\/alaskareport.com\/images78\/sarah_palin.jpg\" \/>This defense [&quot;<strong>there&rsquo;s nothing unlawful or unethical about replacing a cabinet member<\/strong>&quot;] is familiar to us from the Bush years. With Valerie Plame&#8217;s being &quot;outed&quot; as a couvert C.I.A. Agent, yhe Administration officials involved at first denied any role. After it became obvious that they were involved, the changed their argument. Yes, they had &quot;outed&quot; her, but the didn&#8217;t know she was covert. Since the law said &quot;knowingly,&quot; they hadn&#8217;t broken the law; therefore, they had done nothing &quot;wrong.&quot; The standard for Presidential behavior in this rendition is criminality. That&#8217;s a mighty low standard for the leader of the free world.<\/div>\n<p>    <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Palin is making the same claim. Since firing Monegan&rsquo;s for his refusal to fire Trooper Wooten, her former brother-in-law wasn&#8217;t against the law &#8211; she&#8217;s claiming that she&#8217;s lilly white. She doesn&#8217;t seem to care that she broke &quot;ethical&quot; rules, so long as she&#8217;s not guilty of a crime. Everything is just fine. I wonder if she knows what ethics are?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palin Responds To Troopergate Report, Dodges Issue Of Whether She Abused Power While Sarah Palin was boarding her campaign bus this morning, a reporter seeking comment on the new Troopergate report shouted out to her, &ldquo;Governor, did you abuse your power?&rdquo; She responded: If you read the report, you&rsquo;ll see that there&rsquo;s nothing unlawful or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}