Its about time that the decent people of this nation started hitting back:
Troopergate Investigator Stephen Branchflower has been slapped with two lawsuits, one by a group of Alaskan residents who believe his inquiry represents an abuse of their tax dollars and the other by five Republican lawmakers who called Branchflower’s tactics “McCarthyistic.”
Both suits were filed at the Third Judicial District in Anchorage on Tuesday.
Citizens Robert Bettishworth, James Dodson, Seth Church, David Eichler, Thomas Temple and Alan Simmons complained the $100,000 allocated to determine whether Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin abused her power in firing of a political appointee is “a statutorily unauthorized waste of public monies.”
The citizen suit raised doubts about Branchflower’s neutrality, citing public statements from the investigator’s “Project Director” Democratic Sen. Hollis French.
French, who is actively supporting Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, handpicked Branchflower to conduct an investigation to determine whether Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin violated ethics rules in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. French has publicly said he expects Branchflower’s inquiry to culminate in an “October surprise” that would hurt Palin’s chances of becoming vice president in November.
Their suit specifically detailed an exchange Branchflower had with Alaskan lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Friday. “Branchflower admitted that not only did Senator French actually remove a name from Branchflower’s subpoena list, but that he was not sure why French had done that,” their suit said. “When asked specifically about the removal of the name, Branchflower stated that he ‘would have to defer that question to Mr. French,’ thus admitting that the investigation was under the de facto control and direction of Senator French.”
Its just a political hatchet job – slime politics at its worst; the sort of thing which makes the left’s treatment of Bush look tame. Mostly, however, this is just all too typical leftwing politics – using a smear as means of undercutting the appeal of people who are better qualified, more honest and who actually plan to fight for the people.
In older times we would arrange for a poltroon like French to have a stripe or two laid on his back – treating him in accordance with his dirty dog tactics. But we’re more refined, now – and French has a bright future in Democratic politics, especially if his smear were to work. Democratic leaders only calculate a person’s worth by how much they help advance Democrats to power – questions of honesty, dignity and basic human decency don’t take a back seat to other considerations – for Democratic leaders, such concerns don’t even exist.
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