Dead Man Walking: Exit Colberg

It's a cold day you-know-where when I disagree with you. We must have slightly differing ethical standards since I disagree with this statement: "The fallout from the Troopergate subpoena fiasco has taken its toll on a guy whom all would agree is highly ethical." Highly ethical? How? A highly ethical person would have stood up at the very beginning and said, "Whoa, wait a minute! This is wrong and I'm not participating." The very fact that he went along with something he probably knew was wrong from the beginning demonstrates a lack of ethics in my book. I don't care who he was getting pressured by, it was wrong! How we behave or act under pressure is more telling of our character than during less difficult times. IMO Colberg is as unethical as the rest of the Palin cartel.

Andrew, OK here is a scenario: About 2 weeks ago during a closed staff meeting Todd & Gov Palin raised an idea, since the Trooper-gate issue was being brought into focus again. Now we blame Talis Colberg for Trooper-gate mishandling and shift focus to him for the legislators and media to grab. Talis is a liability and can’t be trusted so we need to cut him out of the loop. Think about it folks with Talis gone this will be a dead issue and the media and Legislators will have nothing to go on & we can also can blame the legislators. First we wait until the start of Iron Dog so Sarah & I will be out of town like when firing Walt. Then we have “someone” on Monday notify him he is FIRED (oops I mean “has resigned”) but let him know he better keep his mouth shut or no kind words or recommendations from the boss! During this meeting other names were bantered about who need to be watched for questioned loyalties like un-named gas line hindrances see your past blog. This is a scenario it is only a scenario from the Atwood building twilight zone…

...Wayne Anthony Ross as the next Attorney General!

Colberg seems to have left his ethics on the side of the road when he joined up with GIMO (Governor in name only) Palin. I have always felt the law applies to ALL of us, and Colberg indicated (for whatever reason) that some of us can "choose" which laws to obey. Last I heard, if Congress issues you a subpoena, you don't have the right to refuse. You do have the right to not incriminate yourself, but you have to appear. That's how I feel about Legislative subpoenas. Those that were issued subpoenas should have appeared, as required by law.

Who would take the job, that is the question. Any respectable lawyer in Alaska will run from it like a scalded dog.