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20080914
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- 2008
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"Even
before VP nomination, Palin's e-mail use questioned."
... "Moments after [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
and Alaska Governor] Gov. Sarah Palin's first speech as Republican [2008
Election Presidential Candidate] John McCain's running mate, she sat with
her kids backstage, thumbing one of the two BlackBerrys that are always
with her." ... "The tech-savvy governor has one of the devices (which allow
users to read and send e-mails) for state business and another for personal
matters, but those worlds intertwine." ... "Palin routinely uses a private
Yahoo e-mail account to conduct state business. Others in the governor's
office sometimes use personal e-mail accounts, too." ... "The practice
raises questions about backdoor secrecy in an administration that vowed
during the 2006 campaign to be "open and transparent."" ... "Even before
the McCain campaign plucked Palin from Alaska, a controversy was brewing
over e-mails in the governor's office. Was the administration trying to
get around the public records law through broad exemptions or private e-mail
accounts?" ... "The governor's Yahoo account is "the most nonsensical,
inane thing I've ever heard of," said Andree McLeod, who is appealing the
administration's decision to withhold e-mails." ... ""The governor sets
the tone and the tone that has been set by this governor is beyond the
pale," McLeod said. "Common sense tells you to use an official state e-mail
account for official state business."" ... "State lawyers say that the
governor's e-mails about public business should be treated like any other
public record, even if she's sent them through a private account such as
Yahoo." ... "Some of her aides also routinely use Yahoo, but even messages
sent from one private account to another should be public, if they concern
public business, said Dave Jones, an assistant attorney general." ... ""The
difficulty is finding out they exist," Jones said." ... "The [Republican
President] Bush administration has drawn heat over revelations that more
than 80 White House aides, including senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, used
private GOP e-mail servers for government business. The controversy surfaced
during congressional investigations into White House contacts with convicted
lobbyist Jack Abramoff and into the firings of U.S. attorneys." -By
Lisa Demer -ADN.com
via -McClatchyDC.com
Sarah
Palin - E-Mails
- Archive
- Politics
- Legal
- Investigation
-  Family
-  Privacy
- Alaska
- 2008
Election
"Palin
asked to release her husband's e-mails." ... "Can
[2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor]
Gov. Sarah Palin legally keep e-mails between her husband and her administration
from being released to the public?" ... "That's the question the lawyer
of Andree McLeod, a self-described Republican watchdog, put to the governor
last week in an appeal to disclose e-mails between her administration and
her husband, Todd." ... "Those e-mails could shed light on how Gov. Palin,
the Republican vice-presidential candidate, runs the state. And they could
also help reveal what role Todd Palin, who the state Legislature's special
investigator called a "central figure" in the governor's firing of former
Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, played in his wife's administration."
... "In July, the governor's office refused to disclose the contents of
about 40 e-mails between Todd Palin and Gov. Palin's administration as
part of a larger public records request by McLeod. Other e-mails between
Todd Palin and the governor's staff were released, McLeod said, but had
some parts redacted. Todd Palin is copied as a recipient on most of the
e-mails but also authored a few." ... "Some of the subject lines of the
withheld e-mails, which were created between [February] Feb. 1 and [April]
Apr. 15. of this year, included: "Andrew Halcro," and "PSEA." Halcro is
a political rival of Palin. The PSEA is the union that represents the Alaska
State Troopers, including trooper Mike Wooten, who is divorced from Gov.
Palin's sister and is also a key figure in the investigation of Monegan's
firing." ... "In redacting or denying the request for e-mails, the governor's
office mostly cited Gov. Palin's right to a "deliberative process privilege,"
a law designed to let public officials receive candid advice from their
staff and consultants regarding matters of the state without fear of that
advice going public." ... "But McLeod's lawyer, Donald Mitchell, said Gov.
Palin waived that privilege when Todd Palin was included in her staff's
e-mails. Documents released to one member of the public have to be available
to all members of the public, he said." ... ""Mr. Palin is a private citizens
whose only connection to the office of the governor is that, at your invitation,
he from time to time is physically present in the offices of ... the governor
for no reason other than that he is your spouse," Mitchell wrote in his
appeal directly to the governor." ... "Those who pay attention to Alaska's
public records laws said Mitchell's legal argument holds water." ... "Larry
Persily, a former Empire editor who recently finished working for Gov.
Palin in Washington D.C., said he would bet his Alaska Permanent Fund dividend
that a judge would agree with him that Gov. Palin has no claims to the
deliberative process privilege once her administration's e-mail discussions
include her husband." ... ""The dike has got a hole in it, it's over,"
Persily said. " -By Alan Suderman
-JuneauEmpire.com
20080913
 John
McCain -  Barack
Obama -  Military
-  Investment
-  Arizona
-  Mo
- 2008
Election
"McCain
on FCS: Flip-flop or fib?" ... "Has [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain
renounced his longtime antagonism toward the Army’s Future Combat Systems?"
... "On [September] Sept. 8, the Republican presidential candidate told
a rally crowd in Lee’s Summit, Mo. [Missouri], about an [2008 Election
Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama video message to a liberal
advocacy group." ... "“He promised them he would, quote, ‘slow our development
of Future Combat Systems,’” McCain said, according to wire reports. “This
is not a time to slow our development of Future Combat Systems.”" ... "Flashback
to July, however, when his campaign furnished McCain’s economic plan to
The Washington Post, declaring that “there are lots of procurements — Airborne
Laser, [C-17] Globemaster, Future Combat System [sic] — that should be
ended and the entire Pentagon budget should be scrubbed.”" ... "In fact,
McCain has long criticized the over-budget, behind-schedule FCS program.
In 2005, he blasted the Army for allowing the program to balloon to $161
billion, and forced the service to rewrite the main FCS contract." ...
"So where does McCain really stand? Some bloggers and analysts have suggested
that he used the term “future combat systems” generically. Obama’s campaign
maintains their candidate was speaking specifically about FCS, in which
case McCain may be twisting his rival’s words." ... "Loren Thompson of
the Lexington Institute called it deceitful." ... "“McCain’s interpretation
of Obama’s position is typical of the way in which the Republicans have
twisted Democratic views in order to undercut their opponents and at the
same time obscure the past positions of the Republicans,” Thompson said.
“Future Combat Systems is the centerpiece of Army modernization. However,
McCain has been more critical of it than anyone else in the chamber. Obama
has been much more detailed and thoughtful in his comments about future
military investment than McCain’s very superficial statements.”" -By
Bradley Peniston with contributions by Antonie Boessenkool
-ArmyTimes.com
Sarah
Palin -  Ted
Stevens -  Don
Young - Money
- Politics
- Federal-  Transportation
-  Construction
- Architecture
- Alaska
-  Nevada
- 2008
Election
"Palin
Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project."
... "[2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Governor
of] Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel
spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million
"Bridge to Nowhere” between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina
Island (pop. 50). I "told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,'" she said
in her speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination. "If
our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.""
... "But Gov. Palin’s administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing
a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of
as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original
project." ... ""What the media isn't reporting is that the project isn't
dead," Roger Wetherell, spokesman for Alaska’s Department of Transportation,
said. In a process begun this past winter, the state’s DOT is currently
considering (PDF) a number of alternative solutions (five other
possible bridges or three different ferry routes) to link Ketchikan and
Gravina Island." ... "The DOT has not yet developed cost estimates for
those proposals, Wetherell said, but $73 million of the approximately $223
million [Alaska Republican Senator] Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK [Republican-Alaska])
and [Alaska Republican Representative] Rep. Don Young (R-AK [Republican-Alaska])
earmarked for the bridge in 2005 has been set aside for the Gravina Access
Project." ... "In an
interview that aired Friday night, ABC’s Charles Gibson challenged
Palin about the fact that she’d initially
supported the “Bridge to Nowhere” during her 2006 run for governor.
“I was for infrastructure being built in the state,” she said, but repeated
her line that Alaska would “find a way to build [the bridge] ourselves."”
... "The massive $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere" was to replace ferry
service from the airport to Ketchikan (departing every half-hour),
a 15-minute
ride -- meaning that air travelers are assured of reaching Ketchikan
in no more than 45 minutes. It would have done so in grand style: the planned
structure would
have been nearly as long as the Golden Gate and higher than the
Brooklyn Bridge." -By Paul
Kiel -ProPublica.org
John
McCain - Barack
Obama -  Illinois
- Arizona
-  New
Hampshire - 2008
Election
"Obama
aide: McCain campaign 'sleaziest' in modern history."
... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator]
Sen. Barack Obama's spokesman on Saturday accused [2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John McCain of "cynically
running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential
campaign history."" ... "Obama, speaking to a crowd Saturday in Manchester,
New Hampshire, said, "John McCain wants to have a debate about national
security; let's have that debate. I warned that going into Iraq would distract
us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheerleaded for it. John McCain was wrong,
and I was right."" ... ""The McCain-[Sarah] Palin ticket, they don't want
to debate the Obama-Biden ticket on issues because they are running on
eight more years of what we've just seen. And they know it," the Democratic
presidential nominee said. "As a consequence, what they're going to spend
the next seven, eight weeks doing is trying to distract you." ... ""They're
going to talk about pigs, and they're going to talk about lipstick; they're
going to talk about Paris Hilton, they're going to talk about Britney Spears.
They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your
trust in what the Democrats intend to do."
-CNN
Sarah
Palin - Money
- Politics
- Federal
- Transportation
- Construction
- Alaska
- Nevada
- 2008
Election
"Palin's
'Bridge to Nowhere' line returns." ... "In her first
solo campaign rally outside of Alaska, [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate and Alaska Governor] Gov. Sarah Palin drew an enthusiastic
crowd at the Pony Express Pavilion [Carson City, Nevada] Saturday and returned
to a familiar refrain about the “Bridge to Nowhere.”" ... "Palin has come
under fire in recent days for misleadingly saying she told Congress “thanks
but no thanks,” refusing an earmark for a bridge to a sparsely inhabited
island in her home state. Independent groups and media fact-checkers have
said Palin advocated for the federal earmark before opposing it, only ended
after Congress had essentially killed it, and kept the $223 million for
the appropriation after the project was killed." ... "She reiterated a
line that she put the governor’s luxury jet on eBay. While accurate, the
jet wasn’t sold on eBay." ... "Nevada [Lieutenant Governor] Lt. Gov. Brian
Krolicki said on stage that 10,000 people were in the crowd, but parks
officials said the pavilion held only 3,500 people." -By
Matthew E. Berger with contributions by Mark Murray
-MSNBC
20080911
Sarah
Palin - Criminal
- Money
- Politics
-  Medical
- Law
- Alaska
- 2008
Election
"New
Evidence: Palin Had Direct Role In Charging Rape Victims For Exams."
... "Despite denials by the [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential
Candidate Sarah] Palin campaign, new evidence proves that as mayor of Wasilla,
Alaska, Sarah Palin had a direct hand in imposing fees to pay for post-sexual
assault medical exams conducted by the city to gather evidence." ... "Palin's
role is now confirmed by Wasilla
City budget documents available online." ... "Under Sarah Palin's administration,
Wasilla cut funds that had previously paid for the medical exams and began
charging victims or their health insurers the $500 to $1200 fees. Although
Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella wrote
USA Today earlier this week that the GOP vice presidential nominee
"does not believe, nor has she ever believed, that rape victims should
have to pay for an evidence-gathering test...To suggest otherwise is a
deliberate misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and
bringing violent criminals to justice," Palin, as mayor, fired police chief
Irl Stambaugh and replaced him with Charlie Fannon, who with Palin's knowledge,
slashed the budget for the exams and began charging the city's victims
of sexual assault. The city budget documents demonstrate Palin read and
signed off on the new budget. A year later, alarmed Alaska lawmakers passed
legislation outlawing the practice." ... "News of the controversial policy
has leaked slowly into the press this week as the presidential campaign
has heated up and Palin's record has been subject to increasing scrutiny.
The practice of charging rape victims has called into question Palin's
stated commitment to women's issues, her judgment as an executive and her
honesty about her record. " -By Jacob
Alperin-Sheriff -HuffingtonPost.com
Corporate
-  Oil
- Government
- Political
-  Accounting
- Legal
- Investigation
-  Drugs
"Sex,
drug use and graft cited in U.S. agency scandal."
... "As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned
coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas
royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including
allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies,
cocaine use and sexual misconduct." ... "In three reports delivered to
Congress on Wednesday, the department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney,
found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals
Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually
and is one of the government's largest sources of revenue other than taxes."
... ""A culture of ethical failure" pervades the agency, Devaney wrote
in a cover memo." ... "The reports portray a dysfunctional organization
that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior
and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the [Republican President] Bush
administration's watch." ... "The highest-ranking official criticized in
the reports is Lucy Denett, the former associate director of minerals revenue
management, who retired earlier this year as the inquiry was progressing."
... "One former official named in the report, Jimmy Mayberry, pleaded guilty
to a felony conflict-of-interest charge in August and faces a sentence
of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine." ... "In late 2002,
when he was about to retire from the government, Mayberry drafted a "statement
of work" for a consulting contract to perform essentially identical functions
to his own. He then retired, started a company, and in June 2003 won the
contract with the help of Denett and Milton Dial, another friend at the
agency who later went to work for Mayberry." ... "Denett did not return
a message left at her home on Wednesday with her husband, Paul Denett,
who was the top procurement official in the [President Bush] White House
Office of Management and Budget until he resigned this month. He declined
to comment." ... "The other high-ranking official the Justice Department
has declined to prosecute is Gregory Smith, the former program director
of the royalty-in-kind program." ... "Some 19 officials — a third of the
program's staff — took gifts from oil and gas executives, some with "prodigious
frequency."" ... "On one occasion, the report said, the royalty-in-kind
program allowed a Chevron representative who won a bid to purchase some
of the government's oil to pay taxpayers a lower amount than his winning
offer because he said he had made a mistake in his calculations. A report
from Devaney's office earlier this year found that the program had frequently
allowed companies that purchase the oil and gas to revise their bids downward
after they won contracts. It documented 118 such occasions that cost taxpayers
about $4.4 million in all." (1, 2,
3)
-By Charlie
Savage -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
20080910
 Gordon
Smith - Illegal
- Immigration
- Business
-  Food
-  Workers
- Politics
-  Agriculture
-  Property
-  History
-  Oregon
-  Md
-  Hawaii
-  Utah
-  Wash
"Señor
Smith: Low-wage Latino workers keep [Oregon Republican
Senator] Sen. Gordon Smith’s family business humming. Not all of them are
legal." ... "Up on a hill overlooking this Eastern Oregon town of 701 people,
Smith Frozen Foods turns raw produce from the surrounding fields into ready-to-eat
products." ... "Smith’s goods appear in grocery stores under other brand
names. But in tiny Weston [Oregon], a water tank emblazoned with the capital
letters S-M-I-T-H sits like a sentry greeting travelers on nearby Highway
11." ... "Gordon Smith, a United States senator from Oregon and the only
Republican senator representing a West Coast state, has owned the plant
his grandfather founded in 1919 for nearly 30 years." ... "“Son,” father
Milan Smith once said, according to Gordon Smith’s 2006 memoir, “you can
sell ice to Eskimos and coals to Newcastle.”" ... "Today, Smith Frozen
Foods generates millions in income for the senator, according to Smith’s
2007 financial disclosure report." ... "And in this town, Smith’s wealth
looms large, even though the 56-year-old lawmaker seldom visits and calls
nearby Pendleton [Oregon] his home. According to the Center for Responsive
Politics, Smith is the 12th-richest member of the U.S. [United States]
Senate, with an estimated net worth between $8 million and $39 million—wealth
that’s allowed him to buy a $3.5 million mansion in Bethesda, Md. [Maryland],
property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Park City, Utah, condominium
and—more famously—four antique golf clubs worth $1.25 million." ... "The
workers at Smith Frozen Foods, who clean the machinery, monitor production
and pack upward of 50 million pounds of produce each year, earn about $80
a day, four or five days a week, 10 months a year—if they’re lucky." ...
"One other thing—some of them appear to be illegal immigrants." ... "WW
recently spent several days in Weston, and the nearby cities of Milton-Freewater
[Oregon] and Walla Walla, Wash. [Washington], where most of Smith’s employees
live. WW spoke to dozens of current and former Smith workers, Latino advocates,
court personnel, public defenders, educators, police administrators, church
officials, social service agents and business owners and determined that
some portion of Smith’s workforce comprises undocumented immigrants." ...
"It’s a revelation that may not be newsworthy around Weston, where most
people this reporter interviewed knew, or assumed, that the agricultural
processing plant hired illegal immigrants." ... "Additional interviews
and review of public records reveal that Smith’s company appears to have
employed illegal immigrants for decades, stretching back as far as the
1980s." -By Beth
Slovic -WWeek.com
Sarah
Palin - Money
- Politics
- Children
-  Travel
- Meals
- Alaska
-2008
Election
"Palin
expensed her children's air travel to the state."
... "Since [2008 Election Republican Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska
Governor] Gov. Sarah Palin took office nearly two years ago, the state
of Alaska has routinely bought commercial airline tickets for her daughters
when they travel with her, a practice that raises questions about the governor's
claim to being a fiscal conservative." ... "Travel records from the governor's
office show that the state has spent at least $31,800 on dozens of airline
tickets for the family, and more for meals and hotels." ... "Records show
the family has traveled with Palin for events such as the Alaska Federation
of Natives convention in Fairbanks [Alaska] last fall and to shoot official
first family photos in Juneau [Alaska's capital], to draw raffle tickets
at an event in Anchorage [Alaska] and to tour a teen center spearheaded
by the Juneau Christian Center. " -By Kyle Hopkins
-ADN.com via -McClatchyDC.com
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