Within seconds of John McCain's selection of Palin, her political enemies in Alaska began spreading word about "Troopergate.".(The Week)(Sarah Palin)(Brief article)

Within seconds of John McCain's selection of Palin, her political enemies in Alaska began spreading word about "Troopergate." The alleged scandal is that Palin fired Alaska public-safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he would not fire a state trooper who had been involved in a messy divorce with Palin's sister. As details emerged--often on the front pages of papers that hadn't lifted a finger to look into the life and times of Joe Biden--it became clear that Palin did indeed want the trooper fired, in part because he had violated all sorts of rules of conduct. But there were other reasons for her to want to get rid of Walt Monegan; Palin's lawyers made a pretty convincing case that Palin and her top aides had become exasperated with Monegan's refusal to follow the governor's policies. In ...