{"id":3303,"date":"2009-07-07T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2009-07-07T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:57:52","slug":"the-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/07\/the-terminator\/","title":{"rendered":"the Terminator…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Back in September, in my first ever post about Sarah Palin [whom I’d never heard of before], I was trying to be cute and called her the "Palinator<\/strong><\/a>." It was a take-off on "Governator<\/strong>," Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong><\/span>‘s  nickname from his movie, The Terminator<\/strong><\/font>. I should have stuck with the original for Sarah – The Terminator<\/strong><\/font>. It’s her solution for everything – termination. Not only did she quit the Governor’s job, Sarah Palin<\/strong><\/a> "quit five<\/em> colleges in her otherwise unremarkable collegiate career, before finally graduating from the sixth<\/em>. She quit<\/em> her job in television. She and Todd quit<\/em> their snow machine dealership in Big Lake. She quit<\/em> as chair of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission." And self-termination wasn’t her only tool. She was quick to terminate others<\/strong><\/a>:<\/div>\n
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Shortly after taking office [as Mayor of Wasilla] in October 1996, Palin consolidated the position of museum director and asked for updated resumes and resignation letters from some top officials, including the police chief, public works director, finance director, and librarian…<\/div>\n

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Palin fired Emmons and Police Chief Irl Stambaugh in January 1997, stating that she did not feel they fully supported her efforts to govern the city. The next day, following expressions of public support for Emmons and a personal meeting, Palin rescinded the firing of Emmons, stating that her concerns had been alleviated, and adding that Emmons agreed to support Palin’s plan to merge the town’s library and museum operations. Stambaugh, who along with Emmons had supported Palin’s opponent in the election, filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination, violation of his contract, and gender discrimination. In the trial, the defense alleged political reasons; Stambaugh said that he had opposed a gun control bill, Alaska HB 270, that Palin supported. The federal judge said in the decision that the police chief serves at the discretion of the mayor, and can be terminated for nearly any reason, even a political one, and dismissed Stambaugh’s lawsuit ordering Stambaugh to pay Palin’s legal fees. Palin appointed Charles Fannon to replace Stambaugh as police chief…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan on July 11, 2008, citing performance-related issues, such as not being "a team player on budgeting issues." Monegan said that he had resisted persistent pressure from the Governor, her husband, and her staff, including State Attorney General Talis Colberg, to fire Palin’s ex-brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten; Wooten was involved in a child custody battle with Palin’s sister that included an alleged death threat against Palin’s father. Monegan stated that he learned an internal investigation had found all but two of the allegations to be unsubstantiated, and Wooten had been disciplined for the others—an illegal moose killing and the tasering of an 11-year-old. He told the Palins that there was nothing he could do because the matter was closed…<\/div>\n

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On October 10, 2008, the Alaska Legislative Council unanimously voted to release, without endorsing, the Branchflower Report, in which investigator Stephen Branchflower found that firing Monegan "was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority," but that Palin abused her power as governor and violated the state’s Executive Branch Ethics Act when her office pressured Monegan to fire Wooten. The report stated that "Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired." The report also said that Palin "permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office […] to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired"…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
We’ve all been looking for her reason for quitting as Governor. She’s a Terminator<\/strong><\/font>. It’s just what she does. And it may sound like I’m making a Sarah Palin joke here, but I’m dead serious. Under stress, Sarah reaches the same conclusion over and over. Beyond the usual old saying "the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior," this is the sign of a personality disorder of no small magnitude…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in September, in my first ever post about Sarah Palin [whom I’d never heard of before], I was trying to be cute and called her the "Palinator." It was a take-off on "Governator," Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s  nickname from his movie, The Terminator. I should have stuck with the original for Sarah – The Terminator. It’s […]<\/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-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}