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Fired Official Says Palin Talked To Him About Ex-Brother-In-Law
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| News Date | Sunday, August 31, 2008 05:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By LISA DEMER | McClatchy Newspapers
August 31, 2008
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — - Alaska's former commissioner of public safety says that Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's pick to be vice president, personally talked to him on two occasions about a state trooper who was locked in a bitter custody battle with the governor's sister.
In a phone conversation Friday night, Walt Monegan, who was Alaska's top cop until Palin fired him July 11, told The Anchorage Daily News that the governor also had e-mailed him two or three times about the trooper, Mike Wooten, though the e-mails didn't mention Wooten by name.
What role Palin played in seeking her ex-brother-in-law's dismissal is the governor's first brush with scandal in a political career that has been premised on reforming Alaska's corruption-plagued Republican Party.
Palin's replacement for Monegan, Chuck Kopp, was forced to resign two weeks after he was appointed because of a sexual harassment complaint that had been filed against him when he was the chief of police in Kenai, Alaska. |
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