Clearly if he tasered his son in an aggressive punishing manner, the mother would have called police for an arrest, not "complain" in a letter a year later!

He has stated he never drove his vehicle drunk. So, because she is VP candidate, she is to be believed over him? It was one word against another.. and the one with more clout won, but not on all issues.
And in a huge fight who does not make threats? I have gotten so mad when I found out a boyfriend cheated you want to kill them... but its in the moment, not literal planning.
He was investigated and got his punishment for what was deemed punishable. But Palin is STILL trying to get rid of him.

VP for VEN-PALIN-DETTA

Tony – Where've you been for the last 19 months? Sens. Biden & Obama have given numerous interviews, have undergone intense scrutiny, and held numerous townhall meetings with the American people. Sen. Obama has been under this microscope for the last 19 months and Sen. Biden for the last 30+ years! Heck, people looking for dirt on Sen. Obama went as far back to his first grade teacher to get information! Moreover, Sen. Obama had more than 18 million people validate him for his position!!!

Sorry, if Palin wants to play in the big leagues, she's going to be questioned, scrutinized, and criticized before she gets anywhere near the WH! And, if she can't handle it, then she should have done the right thing and declined McCain's sexist offer to her.

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Obama/Biden 08'

The beginning of the divorce proceedings set off a chain of bizarre and chilling events that has continued through today. During that time it has resulted in the governor and her family trying to ruin the career of an eight year Alaska State Trooper that has served his state on the SERT Team, Motor Unit and DUI Team.

Beginning in spring of 2005 and for the next ten months, over 25 formal complaints were filed by Palin and Heath family members against Trooper Mike Wooten. From drinking while driving his patrol car to making threats to shooting a moose without a permit.

According to Trooper records, Sarah Palin said that in January and February of 2005, Wooten was drinking while driving. After investigating the complaint, the investigator found that Palin never actually saw what she reported.

In another complaint, Sarah's father said that Wooten made threatening remarks. Again, the investigator found there was no probable way that it could have happened.

In all cases except one, the charges were ruled unfounded after an internal investigation. And the one charge that was valid, Wooten immediately admitted to.

In 2003, Wooten, his wife and a friend were moose hunting. Upon spotting a moose, Wooten instructed his wife to shoot the moose since she had the permit, she refused so Wooten did.

After carting the moose back to town, Sarah's father actually butchered it in his garage, and Wooten shared the meat with both Sarah and Todd Palin as well as her parents. Two years later, during the divorce battle, the family filed a complaint alleging that Wooten had taken that moose illegally. At least they waited until they finished the meat to file the complaint against Wooten.

But it didn't stop there. Threatening phone calls, private detectives that were hired to follow Wooten, notes left on windshields, Todd Palin taking pictures then submitting them to Wooten's supervisor, all designed to intimidate Wooten into backing off from demanding equal child custody rights.

But every time they filed a spurious complaint, the Troopers would bring in an Administrative Investigator who after seeing more than two dozen of these ridiculous and time consuming complaints stated that in all his years he had never seen such a shotgun pattern against one officer.

Meanwhile in court, Wooten prevailed at every turn as Judge Suddock quickly realized there was a concerted effort to damage Wooten. Finally the judge warned that if any of their actions caused Wooten to lose his job or pay in anyway, Molly and her family would be held liable.

After the divorce was final in late 2005 things settled down, until last fall.

At the request of the court, Wooten and his ex-wife were instructed to return to re-visit the custody schedule. Once the paper work started in April of 2008, the complaints and the intimidation started all over again.

But now Wooten wasn't dealing with just Sarah Palin, he was dealing with Governor Sarah Palin...

This is truly a scary woman. Think about it!!

How about it???????????

McCain/Palin ticket.

Thank you Mr. McCain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her "Lipstick pitbull" attack dog roll will eventually sink the holde filled GOP ship. Mccanin can not speak for himself, can barely read a tele prompter.

What a boring speach. No substance.......

BTW $10,000,000 raised for Obama because of her speach filled with hate.

As it is being reported in other stories, Gov. Palin sent e-mails to the indidivudal that she fired, indicating her aggrivation and frustration with the fact that this individual was still on the force. If she had felt that she was acting in the her capacity as Gov. as she claims, why wouldn't she send these e-mails from her government e-mail address instead of a yahoo account?

Glad I donated to the winning team today! McCain/Palin'08!

And don't think that it would not be possible to have a trooper arrested because his buddies would protect him. If the govenor called and filed a complaint with ANY basis in fact, you can bet he would have been arrested.

This cop shouldn't be doing what he admits he did. There's a court system and presumably an internal affairs for state police to address those charges. (I'll bet even Alaska has such things...) If the guy is guilty – the police and/or the courts should do their job and hand out the punishment – whatever is appropriate. Maybe he should lose his job – but it should be done legally.

But his wrongs do NOT make it right for Governor Palin or her aides or her family to persecute him through the blatant cronyism.

What will she do if she has the power of VP? Worse yet – President?

Thanks for the article – it's about time we see some of Sarah's skeletons outside of Republican press releases...

The commissioner that she tried go get to fire Wooten could not find EVIDENCE to prove the allegations, therefore, Wooten did not lose his job.

Also, keep in mind that when the things that the Palins said he did happened, noone said or did anything about it. It was not until after her sister was divorcing Wooten that they cried foul.

Where is your outrage for their lack of action at the time the offenses were allegedly happening? It is hyporitical to cry foul 10+ years later but not at the time it was going on.

at best sarah should have stayed out of it

if he was a bad dude....he was the sister's bad dude

if he did not do his trooper job right...then it was sarah's business

I would not touch these people with a barge pole.

It is disgusting.

Perhaps you do not want the laws of the country to play out.

Perhaps you would rather have The Obama's People Court be the Judge the Jury and the Executioner.

Pathetic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Governor, she had the right to remove any Chairman she chose to. They serve at the discretion of the governor. If any of you bothered to check the Anchorage newspaper, the complaints including the PI report was submitted to the Safety Commissioner BEFORE she became Governor.

She became Governor, told the Safety Commissioner she wanted to take the Commission in a different direction, offered him an oversight position on a different Commission and he refused.

Let us NOT forget our dear Trooper is suing the State of Alaska, and said her personally would take down the F###Bi#### Palin.

Yup, sure sounds like a Trooper any state would be proud of...don't cha think?

I know that most of the dough-heads commenting here in his defense are always on the side of the cops, right? Yeah, right.

Obama/Biden 08

While this guy is, uh, a bit flawed, he still requires due process, so if Palin tried to railroad him, she's just as guilty of malfeasance as he is.