Legal Commentary

Palin's Last Minute News Dump

By TChris

Hours before the polls open, Sarah Palin hopes to silence questions about her health and ethics. In a two page letter released yesterday, Palin's doctor proclaims her physically fit to do whatever it is that a Vice President Palin would do (shudder). Andrew Sullivan thinks the late disclosure represents "a giant finger to the press."

Palin's ethical fitness is a stickier question. A report conveniently released yesterday by Alaska's Personnel Board found that Sarah Palin violated no ethics rules when she fired the state police commissioner.

At a routine meeting this afternoon, the State Personnel Board, which is appointed by Palin, surprised attendees by announcing that its investigator would release his findings today.

Board members appointed by Palin chose an investigator, at Palin's initiative, to prepare a report and then "surprised" everyone by releasing the report, which coincidentally exonerates Palin, the day before the election -- barely leaving voters with time to recall that the state legislature's bipartisan investigation came to the opposite conclusion. With more time, voters might actually examine the evidence and arrive at their own opinions.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).