"There is a plane load of GOP Lawyers in Alaska, right now....cutting deals and "shoring up" the base..offering choice Ambassadorships, offering special appointments with all the trimmings, posh office arrangements...in exchange for dragging this "investigation" and any others out, till after the elections..
lc
deals and "shoring up" the base..offering choice Ambassadorships,
offering special appointments with all the trimmings, posh office
arrangements...in exchange for dragging this "investigation" and any
others out, till after the elections..(or just dropping it all
together due to lack of evidence) and to start the choir singing the
praises of Sarah Palin...."
Palin Aide Dodges Trooper-Gate Deposition
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palin_aide_dodges_troopergate.php
By Zachary Roth - September 3, 2008, 5:17PM
As if we needed another sign that Sarah Palin has decided to stonewall
the Trooper-Gate investigation, ABC News reports this afternoon that
lawyers for her aide Frank Bailey have cancelled Bailey's scheduled
deposition in the investigation .
Bailey is central to the case. In phone recordings released last month
as part of a parallel probe by the state Attorney General, Bailey
suggested that Palin and her husband wanted trooper Mike Wooten -- who
has been embroiled in a messy family dispute with the Palins --
removed from his job.
"The Palins can't figure out why nothing's going on," Bailey told a
trooper official. "I mean he's declared bankruptcy, his finances are a
complete disaster, he's bought a new truck. All kinds of crazy stuff.
He doesn't represent the department well. The community knows it, but
no action is being taken."
This is by no means the first instance of foot-dragging on the
legislature's investigation from Palin's camp since she was announced
last week as John McCain's running mate. In a complaint filed last
night to the Alaska Attorney General, Palin's lawyer suggested that
Palin would not be made available for her deposition unless the
investigation was taken out of the hands of the legislature and handed
over to the state personnel board, who's three members are appointed
by the governor. Sen. Hollis French, the Anchorage Democrat overseeing
the probe, has said that he is willing to issue subpoenas if
necessary.
[]
This Is Sarah Palin's Convention
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/353450
posted by John Nichols on 09/03/2008
lc
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
September 2008
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASILLA - The Matanuska-Susitna area is the methamphetamine capital of
Alaska, according to Alaska State Troopers.
In 2003, authorities uncovered nine meth labs in the area. Last year,
the number increased to 42, said Kyle Young, an investigator with the
troopers who works with the Mat-Su narcotics team.
Officials with the Office of Children's Services in Wasilla said the
problem affects children. The office receives about 40 calls a month
from people reporting abuse or neglect involving some aspect of the
highly addictive drug.
In late February, the Mat-Su narcotics unit arrested a couple at their
Willow home. Michelle Motta said for years she tried to warn
authorities that her three young nieces lived in the midst of a
methamphetamine operation run by their parents, Phillip Dean and Laura
Jackson.
Alaska State Troopers reported finding a "large active meth lab" in a
detached garage shop. The house was a frigid mess, with piles of dirty
dishes, clothes everywhere and frozen pipes, investigators said.
Through a hatch in the shop floor, the team found an underground room
with a meth lab in one corner, as well as old marijuana root balls and
lights from a past pot-growing operation.
An investigator said the team didn't find the children at home but saw
signs of them there. Motta said the girls - ages 14, 8 and 6 - at
times slept in the garage with the lab.
A year ago, the oldest girl detailed the household's rampant drug
problems and squalid living conditions in a handwritten letter to a
judge.
"My parents grow marijuana and crystal the(y) did the drugs that they
bought in front of (my sisters)," the letter begins. "They spent most
money on them instead of food or doing laundry. I got left home with
nobody there I got left home with drug(g)ies..."
Motta now has custody of her three nieces. The Jacksons are jailed at
Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in Palmer.
Children sharing homes with meth labs face the risk of contamination,
fire, explosion, neglect and hazardous living conditions. Caseworkers
report little children complaining of breathing problems from toxic
fumes rising off chemicals such as acetone, ammonia and hydrochloric
acid.
When authorities surrounded a converted bus housing a meth operation
in Big Lake in January, a 13-year-old boy who answered the door
bragged that his mom cooked the best meth in the valley, according to
the troopers.
During a 2003 bust at a house outside Wasilla, officers discovered
five children living inside, all younger than 8 years old.
The calls about meth to children's services in Wasilla accounts for as
many as 40 percent of the agency's total monthly child protection
calls.
The troopers are aggressively going after meth labs, said Capt. Ed
Harrington, the supervisor of the state's drug and alcohol enforcement
unit.
"It's just not a simple process," Harrington said. "Just because
somebody calls in and says 'So and so's cooking meth' doesn't mean
we're going to kick the door in the next night."
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With less than 10,000 residents, Wasilla is but 12.4 square miles of
the 24,000 square mile area that makes up the Matanuska-Susitna
borough.
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Young filmmaker raises awareness of Valley meth use
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?s=7435891
Friday, Nov. 30, 2007 by Lori Tipton
[] ][ []
Family physicians vital in fight against child abuse
http://www.aafp.org/fpr/assembly/index.html
2001
On Sep 3, 3:47 pm, lc <lol7...@msn.com> wrote:
> "There is a plane load of GOP Lawyers in Alaska, right now....cutting
> deals and "shoring up" the base..offering choice Ambassadorships,
> offering special appointments with all the trimmings, posh office
> arrangements...in exchange for dragging this "investigation" and any
> others out, till after the elections..(or just dropping it all
> together due to lack of evidence) and to start the choir singing the
> praises of Sarah Palin...."
>
> Palin Aide Dodges Trooper-Gate Depositionhttp://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palin_aide_dodges_t...
> This Is Sarah Palin's Conventionhttp://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/353450