According to the LA Times, Todd Palin spent quite a bit of time representing his wife in various matters, especially when it came to trying to get his ex-brother-in-law fired. Troopergate is getting more and more interesting.
Sarah Palin, who is officially the Governor of Alaska and fancies herself as a government reformer, continues to question Barack Obama’s ties to a domestic terrorist when he was eight years old. Yet both she and her husband failed to cooperate with a bi-partisan ethics investigation of Troopergate, after initially promising their cooperation. Apparently this was done with good reason, since the investigation concluded that she had abused her power as governor.
But did she really? According to the investigation, it was Todd Palin who initially contacted Trooper Wooten’s boss, Walt Monegan and continued to pressure him to fire Wooten. He also was a regular attendee at cabinet meetings and involved in high-level discussions with police unions, mining interests, Native American issues, and even the privatization of a dairy near the Palins’ hometown of Wasilla.
Maybe Sarah Palin didn’t abuse her power because Todd Palin is really in charge. Either that, or she is far from being the government ethics reformer she likes to portray herself as.