tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post1909135320752204123..comments2024-03-23T08:51:09.577-08:00Comments on Progressive Alaska: Thoughts on Alaska's Inability to Grasp the Political Ethics IssuePhilip Mungerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14601488767955084836noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-22654738971588416512010-02-02T09:09:59.689-09:002010-02-02T09:09:59.689-09:00Mike Doogan is an embarrassment - anyone good runn...Mike Doogan is an embarrassment - anyone good running against him this Fall? If not, why not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-81878033042108680552010-02-02T06:00:23.044-09:002010-02-02T06:00:23.044-09:00Great job, Phil!
Is this really any surprise gi...Great job, Phil! <br /><br />Is this really any surprise given the Corrupt Bastards Club mentality that still thrives with Alaska's elected officials? Their behavior is sickening beyond sickening. I'd like to see someone like Hollis French get in there and clean this sewer up.<br /><br />But...we get what we vote for. Sigh...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-56911502226222101142010-02-01T11:43:27.305-09:002010-02-01T11:43:27.305-09:00While ethics is an important issue, "It's...While ethics is an important issue, "It's not going to be very high on my laundry list of state issues to address," said Rep. Jay Ramras, R-Fairbanks, whose Judiciary Committee would be where any ethics bills might land.<br /><br />"I think a lot of these issues ... would benefit from the passage of time, and likely are better issues for the (next) Legislature to take up," said Ramras, who often found himself at odds with Palin. He said he wants to focus his limited committee time on anti-crime measures.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><br /><br />This is simply outrageous........passage of time indeed.......let us ALL forget about the Alaska Fund Trust shall we?<br /><br />Remember that one, the one that is illegal and Palin was ordered to shut down?<br /><br />Ethics shmethics...who needs em, nope not here in Alaska, where the corrupt bastards club members are dropping like flies!<br /><br />Thank God the "passage of time" means nothing to the "feds"<br /><br />Why oh why should the legislature worry their "pretty little heads" about ethics, when, with "the passage of time" it will become so outrageously corrupt that the FBI will do your job FOR you....why indeed?<br /><br /><br /><br />I cannot believe the attitude of these legislators!<br /><br />How is it that their political career is intact?<br /><br />Their attitude is ever bit as bad as the "journalistic standards" of the woman who wrote this article.<br /><br />It appears that it could be said of the politics/politicians in Alaska:<br /><br /><br /><br />.......what/who is not completely corrupt are nothing but empty vessels, seat warmers with "no political will" WHATSOEVER!!!Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15273243839554084689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-32309166959965634042010-02-01T11:42:27.898-09:002010-02-01T11:42:27.898-09:00By BECKY BOHRER
The Associated Press
JUNEAU, Alas...By BECKY BOHRER<br />The Associated Press <br />JUNEAU, Alaska -- The fallout from Sarah Palin's hasty retreat as governor is being cleaned up by the man she appointed attorney general in her waning days in office.<br /><br />Attorney General Dan Sullivan has proposed broad changes to Alaska's ethics rules that Palin complained helped drive her out. One Sullivan recommendation that might sound familiar: Setting ethical standards for spouses and kids to travel with the governor or lieutenant governor at taxpayer expense<br /><br />http://syrin.vox.com/library/post/palins-shadow-hangs-over-alaska-ethics-debate.html#comments<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rep. Mike Doogan remarks only aide the corruption that permeates Alaskan politics.<br /><br />After all, HE is part of the body of legislators that refused to impeach Palin when THEY found her guilty of abusing the power of her office.<br /><br />That is THE most egregious offence an elected public official can perpetrate.<br /><br />What does it take in Alaska to warrant impeachment of the governor?<br /><br />Would it have to go as far as murdering a baby on the steps of the capitol building at high noon?<br /><br />There was no consequence whatsoever for Palin abusing the power of her office, zero, zip, nada......<br /><br />If she HAD murdered a baby, Doogan and the rest of the legislators that "had no political will to impeach" could still sit on their hands, because the police would look after it for them.<br /><br />"Her emergence on the national political scene prompted a flood of public records requests, the volume of which state officials hadn't seen before and are still working to fulfill, and set off a flurry of ethics complaints."<br /><br />Records request were caused by the Legislators failure to impeach, therefore emboldening Palin to push the limits of any and all ethics known to a public official....including but not limited to Todd Palin, an ordinary citizen being allowed to be physically present in meetings legally restricted from citizens AND privy to any and all state business through copious copies of e-mails directly from the governor.<br /><br />It has been proven ad nauseam that there is no need for the delay in releasing the records requested. There is a multitude of software available that could process most of the requests in a 24 hour period.<br /><br />State and local personnel that work across the US have verified this.<br /><br />At the very least, if we are to believe that these Alaskan personnel are either so inept or overburdened as they portray, the state has NO excuse not hire out the task to outside companies currently in the states employ.<br /><br />In other words BULL$HIT!!<br /><br />It is glaringly apparent that BECKY BOHRER'S brand of journalism are up to the vacuous standards that makes a Roger Ailes go on national TV to defend.Marthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15273243839554084689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2083200247132907218.post-47819882215314383462010-02-01T09:41:32.523-09:002010-02-01T09:41:32.523-09:00Another great post Phil. Keep the pressure on unti...Another great post Phil. Keep the pressure on until we can find a way to rid ourselves of all these clownsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com