Ah… so little time left to abuse Governor Sarah Palin. After all, after she becomes “citizen” Sarah, the costs of attacks are no longer borne by the taxpayer, but by the complainant.
So, predictably, the ethics complaints have stepped up a new notch! And the latest events are proof that these complaints are *not* about driving Palin from office, but to attempt to politically destroy Palin in the elected office battlefield.
First of all… if you are not up to date on the Trials and Tribulations of Sarah, and the “Alinsky Perfected” section that is devoted to the ethics complaints only, (meaning not including personal lawsuits at the Palin family personal expense, via Alaskan taxpayer expense….), then go read. You’re not going to follow the “characters in the play” here if you don’t, and I’ve not time to re’educate you at every turn. It’s there… read. If you come in with comments unprepared, you will be nailed with your historically deficient knowledge.
Second, we do have a number count discrepancy. The Alaskan pro-Palin bloggers are noting this as the “18th complaint”. This all depends on how you look at it. Technically, there has already been 18 complaints, three of those attributed to Troopergate. So let’s assume that’s 15 complaints we know about. (thus explaining when the media says “15 complaints).
But as I pointed out in my Alinsky Perfected series, one of those 15 was by a bogus, cowardly citizen hiding behind a British soap opera character… and thrown out. So let’s assume that’s “17 complaints”. (or 14 excluding Troopergate). Another was a complaint via “the wardrobe”, that ran thru the FEC. So that’s 16 (or 13 sans Troopergate) complaints.
So adding two more Alaskan citizen complaints to the mix … we do come to 18… including Troopergate. But truth be told, the assaults have been flying so fast and furious, I wouldn’t be surprised to have had some come in under the media radar.
’nuff for the numbers discrepancy.
On the latest/greatest of these new complaints, I’m going to refer you to the local alaskan bloggers (Anchorage Activist over at AlaskaPride and Tim Lindell at Conservatives4Palin), who are on top this today, as I’ve not done my complete homework. This is late breaking news on the internet, as not even the MSM has picked up on the latest Alinsky political assault via the “system”.
One complaint is by a new entry… Ray Ward, the first hypenated American – aka an african American – who is the first Alaskan of his race to file a complaint. His beef is that Palin is being paid for radio and television interviews dating back to just after she lost her vice-presidential bid.
Any of this sound familiar? Try the Zane Henning complaint #9, found in Part II of the “Alinsky Perfected” series… where he whines about Palin doing interviews with the press from his office. Oh wait… maybe it’s closer to Celtic Blue’s snorting/whining complaint #16 about Palin wearing a jacket with an Arctic Cat logo. Hard to gauge as they both relate about abuse of office via advertising.
Evidently, Ward believes that if he describes a red apple as “burgandy” instead of “red”, he can get to a more favorable result than Zane or Celtic Blue achieved in their complaints. I’ll let the Alaskan bloggers take lead on this first before I explore deeper…. as we’re all digging into just who Ray Ward is, and what his connections are. Especially considering most of these complaints smell of incestuous political imbreeding. Ward’s base complaint, however, is old news.
And speaking of Zane Hennings… he’s not letting up either. After all, the time to beat the snot of out Palin by using the government system at the taxpayers expense (thus “Alinsky perfected) is running out with Palin’s resignation. And Zane’s already been busted out of the complaint business once already.
So a perservering Henning has filed yet another charge -post Palin resignation – that Sarah’s been pocketing per diem for her home use, and using the system for political gain.
Zane Hennings…apparently not about to let Andree McLeod to be outdone in the number of personal complaints filed without a last minute, herculean effort… may just possibly be acting as the setup man using the per diem at home issue, to segue into the fantasy FBI investigation about supposed fraudulent expenses when the Palin’s were building their Wasilla home.
In the usual six degrees of separation way, this also sorta threads back into the repetitive “TravelGate” attempts by Frank Gwartney in ethics complaint #8 in Party II.
Anyone sensing a pattern here?? Like, when the mud doesn’t stick the first time, heave another mud pie? Or perhaps, not one Palin hater has an original thought… just variations on the same thought.
Oddly enough, this (the per diem issues) is a subject that Palin, herself, brought up in February of this year.
“Last fall we raised questions about longstanding practices within the Department of Administration regarding tax treatment of per diem payments,” Kreitzer wrote in an exchange of e-mails over the past few days with the Daily News.
“At the Governor’s request, we reviewed the situation to determine whether we were in full compliance with the pertinent Internal Revenue Service regulations,” Kreitzer wrote. “As a result of this review, we determined that per diem needs to be treated as income, requiring a revision of W-2 forms for any affected employees.”
Can you say too little, too late?
Meanwhile, coming soon to a blog… (like FA)… near you, the mounting offensive to paint Palin as a racist vial lawsuits. Hint… the complaint players start reappearing with the lawsuit. Give me time. This story is morphing daily, and goes back to 1990, when a pregnant Sarah, working as a waitress, supposedly – according to a “he said” type lawsuit by Gregory Charles Royal (yes, of American’s Hot Musician) – rejected him in a flirtatous encounter because she didn’t recognize he was “black”.
Here’s his picture… are you confused?
ummmm… does “willing suspension of disbelief” comt to mine? As I said, story to come…
In the meantime… good news for the Alaskans to celebrate! Instead of the costs to them for this political assault on Sarah being 1.9 mil (rounded off by Palin as $2 mil in media reports…), it turns out it’s actually $26,849 less.
Well ain’t that a relief?
Vietnam era Navy wife, indy/conservative, and an official California escapee now residing as a red speck in the sea of Oregon blue.