Palin Says Alaska Needs New Ethics Policy
The ethics complaint, filed Friday with the state personnel board, alleges that Palin has been paid for media interviews.
AP - Saturday, July 11, 2009
The ethics complaint, filed Friday with the state personnel board, alleges that Palin has been paid for media interviews. Palin's chief of staff, Mike Nizich, called the allegation absurd.
"It is amazing to me that anyone could think that -- let alone put their name behind it and once again seek to distract state officials and needlessly increase their work load," Nizich said in a statement late Friday. "The state is losing the value of some of its expenditures when public servants are pulled away from important assignments to deal with far-fetched and mean-spirited allegations."
Palin says her family has racked up more than $500,000 in legal fees and the state has poured about $2 million of taxpayer money into investigating the complaints. A spokeswoman later clarified that most of that expense was for staff time by state lawyers and others who have helped Pain defend herself.
Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, said the complaint was filed by an Anchorage resident, who faxed it to a local television station.
Van Flein said Palin has never been paid an appearance fee or received other compensation from any television or radio show or other media interview.
The complaint is the 17th filed against Palin and the second since she announced July 3 she is resigning. Most of them have been dismissed as baseless. (see full story here)
1 comment:
I think the best way to handle these baseless attacks is for the Ethics Committees to charge anyone who made the baseless attack a fine to cover the time and money spent to review it.
IMO, if this is how they want to play, let them pay. If they continue to allow this to go on, the blood thirsty Progressives will use this as a way to get their opponents out of office once they win.
A new law to achieve this (making those who file baseless claims pay) won't come into effect unless the Republicans start playing the same game. Let them file baseless attacks against every Democrat Governor in the United States and keep it coming until they cry "Uncle". Then they will suddenly see the need for reform.
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