With friends like these....threats and emails

As much as it displeases me that people within the Governor's office choose to be this unethical in their usage of government emails and time, it also displeases me that , who had no intent of being involved in this mess, is now going to have his sexual preference questioned by this email. My guess is no one checked with him to see if it was ok to publish this sensitive information. Someone could have simply blacked out his name. I think it shows an equal lack of ethics to post such an email without considering this persons privacy. In the future I would hope Mr. Halcro would take the proper steps to either protect the individuals mentioned in these emails or refrain from posting them in the first place. What you should be highlighting is the improper conversation between people in Sarah's favor using government email accounts to spread rumors and gibberish. A simple permanent marker could have kept the focus where the focus needed to be kept. I appreciate your insight and the information that you provide to Alaskans and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't be the one using careless judgement like the Governor's office. Thanks

You have not seen anything until you see the stud-dog attack dog himself, Sarah's dad Chuck Heath in action. The lead dog Sarah learned all her aggressive, use everyonel for your advantage, show no mercy to the weak tactics from her father. She must love him very much to honor him in this way. I predict that with every minion like Patty Sarah enlist to battle and every victim Sarah levels, Sarah will never be satisfied and will continue her angy reign because I do not believe that she ever got the approval from her father that she so seeks. As Sarah stumbles and fails to live up to her father's expectations, Chuck will become more angry and Sarah more desparate. Run Sarah run, your team are the dogs like Patty-girl and the musher is your father.

I want to know what the blacked out emails say. I can't imagine Tony or Frank doing this sorta stuff. But they didn't have these nifty slogans going for them..."New Energy" "Fresh Face" "Breath of fresh Air" "Take a Stand" "New Direction"

Wow, Andrew...each day brings more and more filth surrounding this administration. I hope they ALL go to jail for what has gone on behind closed doors. As the two ladies (who got the 4 boxes of emails sent to and from the administration through Freedom of Information), continue digging through those mounds of emails, I am sure they will produce more and more incriminating emails. I hope they keep them coming. It seems this may just be the tip of the iceberg. This is the stuff of books and movies. True but unbelieveable. As for what was said to Ralph by Patty Bielawski..why on earth we we want to be involved with TransCanada? Truly sickening......

that her TC Alaska threat-spewer gal pal bats for the other team..... If it was good enough for Josh, shouldn't it be good enough for Trans Canada et al??

I've said this over and over. There's an inherent problem with electing a journalist into public office, when fellow journalists cover them. I'm sure there is an instinctive need to protect their own. If they make the journalist/public official look bad, it reflects poorly on them. This should be a lesson to all: if you want fair journalistic coverage of a public official, don't elect a journalist as the public official.

Let me get this straight. We have a sitting legislator threatened by a member of the Trans-Canada team after the vote for AGIA, with several witnesses. We have a former Trans-Canada employee serving the administration, and that employee’s former employer being awarded the license. We have the first dude involved in policy meetings, and one on one meetings with state commissioners. We have a governor, who today, has shown zero loyalty to someone she nominated to be commissioner of public safety. We have a governor who was willing to dismiss the claims of inappropriate behavior of the same guy who she said she “fully supports.” We have former gas station owners claiming to be an “expert” in the oil industry. We raised taxes on the #1 taxpayer in the state nearly 300%, and then claim to be a “stable financial environment” for oil exploration and development. And we have citizens of this state, who defend all of this behavior, by saying “Frank Murkowski was an ass.” Halcro, Fagan, Porcaro, Rydell, Rydell, Neocon Todd, Val, 2-Watt, and a host of others who frequent this blog, my friends, we will have our day. Thank you Governor. Thank you for hiring Little Billy away from KTUU and letting a curly haired pit bull name Jason Moore take his place. The truth, they say, will set you free.

Patty is obviously WAY out of line. Ralph (and every other legislator who voted no) did exactly what he was supposed to do - debate for what he believes in an honorable way. This example of how the pro-AGIA folks interact with those who hold an opposing and losing view point AFTER they've won the vote - I can only imagine the threats they issued PRIOR to the vote. Which leads to the question - was the passage of AGIA the result of intimidation and threats of retribution? The Senate should take this repulsive behaviour into consideration. If they're considering voting for AGIA out of a fear of retribution instead of a sincere belief in AGIA, they still have time to do the right thing and throw their hats in with the other legislators brave enough to vote no. And dear Miss Patty should lose her lobbyist position and be thrown off of every board on which she holds a seat as she cannot be trusted to separate her personal grudges from the business she is conducting. Thoroughly unprofessional.

Ok, before you assume I'm being crass, look at this logically. What comes out of an ear is wax, which has a protective function. What comes out of an anus is....ummm....well....you get my point.

Is Sheila a journalist or a gossip girl? This email is truly pathetic. If there are more emails like this one out there, the Palin administration should be preparing their resignation letters and packing their offices today. Sheila should be ashamed of herself. The Palinistas will disassociate themselves from Sheila PDQ when they realize the previous relationship they shared will now be used against them. If this is an example of executive privilege, then it is clearly an abuse of power by a group of catty and arrogant individuals who wouldn't be where they are if they lived in any other state. The contents of this email are disgusting.

The communication on the Ear email is disgusting and pathetic. How the ADN can send paid staff to scrape the bottom on the barrel for non-news bits of gossip while turning, for over two years, blind eyes to actual news happening under their very noses is reprehensible. Did every reporter at the ADN assume once Sarah was tapped as V.P. she'd waltz to D.C. with them in tow as her staff - and for this reason they kept their pens locked away for the past 24 months, choosing instead to put their cameras to work, outdoing themselves for taking as many easy-on-the-eye pics of Sarah? It would appear so. Has anyone kept a list of people who formerly had jobs in journalism/t.v./radio who were given jobs on Sarah's staff? There's a whole lot of them, I know that. Maybe Sheila thought she'd be rewarded with a V.P. chief of staff position if she just kept churning out all the cutesy Sarah material week after week. Sorry, Sheila, your food ticket looks like she's going to be sitting in front of a special investigator real soon. Then perhaps Alaskans can see all the email correspondence between you, her and her staff. If the one attached to this article was distateful and repugnant, I can't imagine what the rest will contain. Honest, transparent, ethical, decent? Right.

..Inexperienced, unqualified... and arrogant will get you into trouble 100% of the time.. --Mat Maid -- Gov. "Todd Palin got mad..." --Firing Monegan -- w/appearance and possibly over personal matter... --Hiring Kopp -- without even looking at the Man's background... --ACES -- Thank Goodness for $140 oil to keep it up for now.. --AGIA - Don't expect any gas until 2027 Canucks aren't even considering the gasline until 2019. ..."Failures every one of them... " Watch the Oil Patch Dry up to nothing after oil prices drop to under 75 a barrel... Alaska will be another "Santa Barabra"..."off limits"...and become an economic desert zone for development... By that time Palin willl have grown govenment ANOTHER 23%... Come on... $12 BILLLION dollar operating budget for 630,000 people? Go forward to 2015: --Massive layoffs --Income Tax --Continued high energy costs --Major Stores closing/Empty Malls --State budget slashed .. Permanent Fund down due to 5 year average --Federal govenment weaned off by Palin's 'self sufficieny BULLCRAP" policy.... --Reduced Federal Dollars into the State --permanently... ---"Unqualified... and Arrogant will get you into trouble 100% of the time...." "something is....'wrong'" Some how it feels like we are all in a 747 Jetliner and we all just found out the cockpit crew is extremely drunk...

Is is possible that Dave Donaldson of Alaska Public Radio Network did not report this incident out of concern for public radio's state funding and Governor Gigit's veto pen?

Andrew, Please get these e-mails out front - too many folks won't open that PDF file. I am glad I did. The EAR is just a vent for nasty liberals and Toomey is a nasty, mean spririted, vindictive person - a perfect fit for the ADN and the Palin Family Government. Can you imagine if you or anyone who was not part of the Alaska Inteligencia wrote those vicious and gossipy comments about someones sexual orientation. These are the least tolerant people on the planet but it makes them "feel better" to preach to the rest of us about tolerance. Tommey and Dunlop Shohl are both just mean people that the ADN gives a forum for personal vendetas. Did any one see Dunlops latest piece of garbage today implying that Wooten and Kopp are the cause of these problems but no mention of Alaska's dopey first family ? If you get a chance go to New Sagayas downtown or to one of the local coffee shops on Sunday morning and watch the Begich/Berkowitz lawyers--in-spandex crowd come in for their lattes and first read of the paper. These folks go right to the EAR to see what dirt Toomey has concocted with her little band of croonies. I think Alaska and many in the rest of the country are waking up to Liberals like Toomey and Shohl just being mean people biased by their own sad lives but feeling the need to injur others.

Ralph need not worry....it won't be long before Patty won't be sitting on any boards anymore after the AGIA nightmare surfaces.....by this time Sarah will have her 6th kid named "treble" palin....Ralph's problem is he is just flat smarter than all the other meatheads in Juneau....Super Dave summed up the Palin admininstration perfectly yesterday on the fagan show...."they fixed the patience headache by cutting there head-off" by my own admission l am only a 2-watt due to lacking brain-matter confirmed daily by my wife......but l am even smart enough to know AGIA is nothing but a financial virus.......and people got all excited over buying a jet....before this is over there going to miss that thing.....I mean where is smarty pants Patty going to work in 24 months?? maybe at the Palins coffee stand in Trapper Creek sharing shifts with Sarah. 2-watt