[quote]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
Governor Palin is currently under investigation by an independent investigator hired by the legislature[50] to determine if she abused her power when firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.[51][52] On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.[53][54] Her power to fire him is not in dispute, however, Monegan alleged that his dismissal may have been an abuse of power tied to his reluctance to fire Palin’s former brother-in law, an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten. In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann’s (and Palin’s) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson (at the stepson’s request), drinking beer in his squad car, and violating game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.[55] Incidentally, Wooten had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin’s sister, Molly McCann.[56] Palin replaced Monegan with Chuck Kopp, who, as she knew, had previously been removed from supervision while he was investigated for and cleared of sexual harrassment of an employee.[57]
Palin said that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and said that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he “did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues.”[58] Monegan claims that the two most-recent trooper graduating classes had the most recruits in years, and that Palin stated the audit Monegan provided made the administration look like it did not support the troopers.[59] Palin acknowledged that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.[58] Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions. Commissioner Monegan received no severance pay, though at the same time another dismissed Commissioner, Charles Kopp (who served only 11 days) received $10,000.[60]
In response to Palin’s statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal. The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who is overseeing the investigation, says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and that subpoenas are unnecessary.[61] The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.[58][62]
Palin later admitted that members of her staff had made about two dozen contacts with public safety officials about the trooper, including at least one “smoking gun” conversation.[63][/quote]
The wrath of a woman with power…
Think of all the mischief she might cause in Iraq, if she gets pissed off at her son’s supervisor or God forbid if her son starts dating among the ranks.
I have no source to prove Canada is not part of the US…