McCain Palin Troopergate Stonewall Is Bush Cheney 2.0
Democrat Hollis French Chairman of the Judiciary Committee stated in July
“the legislative council, a joint Senate-House committee, would pick and hire the investigator. Fench also stated that the Legislative Counsel would be headed by Republican Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom.”
However, in typical republican fashion of hiding the truth, John Coghill a McCain operative, calls fowl. Supporting Coghill is Alaskan Republican Speaker of the House John Harris.
In a Friday Newsweek article “Team McCain and the Trooper Nominee’s ally moves to curb probe of Palin”
- Key Alaska allies of are trying to derail a politically charged investigation into ‘s firing of her public safety commissioner in order to prevent a so-called “October surprise” that would produce embarrassing information about the vice presidential candidate on the eve of the election.
- In a move endorsed by the McCain campaign Friday, , the GOP chairman of the state House Rules Committee, wrote a letter seeking a meeting of Alaska’s bipartisan Legislative Council in order to remove the Democratic state senator in charge of the so-called “troopergate” investigation.
- But Coghill, who told NEWSWEEK that he has the backing of Republican Speaker of the House John Harris in his effort to remove French, suggested Friday that the investigation into Palin’s firing of Monegan should be shut down entirely. “If this has been botched up the way it has, there’s a question as to whether it should continue,” Coghill told NEWSWEEK.
However in a July, Anchorage Daily News article Speaker John Harris was for the investigation before the McCain team made him against it.
- State House Speaker John Harris said he’s not pushing to have an investigator but is not opposed to it either. The governor is allowed to dismiss one of her commissioners at will but not to use “heavy-handed” tactics to try and remove a state trooper from his job, said Harris, who has a union background.
- Harris also questioned Palin’s explanation that she fired Monegan because she wants the public safety department to go in a “new direction.” Palin has talked about being honest, open and transparent, Harris said, and her plans for the future of the department don’t sound different from what Monegan was doing.
McCain and his senior campaign strategist and advisor Steve Schimdt, Karl Rove’s prtoegee, have learned the lessons of the corrupt Bush administration well. Now that’s what I call breaking up corruption in Washington.
