Damn! I Think This Is It … This Will Finish Palin
Palin’s gillnet
by Ben Smith (Politico)
Amid the vast volume of anti-Palin e-mails flying around at the moment, the one asserting that she once pled guilty to criminal negligence sort of sticks out, and seemed worth poking around.
Alaska state records show that she was charged in June of 1993, and pled no contest, to the serious-sounding charge.
Turns out that it’s less a major felony, more an only-in-Alaska moment, and that — like so many of these things — it’s surfaced in Palin’s earlier races, notably in 2002.
The details of the weighty charge: Using a drift gillnet to harvest salmon from the Bristol Bay area without an annual permit.
Here’s from the 2002 Anchorage Daily News:
In 1993 Palin pleaded no contest in Dillingham District Court to a fishing violation — failure to register as a set gillnet permit holder. And the violation was then mistakenly entered into the court computer system as being a felony.
Palin explained the fishing violation by saying that she had been a crew member but took over the permit for that season from her sister-in-law. Palin then forgot to switch her registration from that of a crew member to a permit holder, she said.
Palin called the court in Dillingham and straightened out the mistaken felony designation. The court clerk described it as a “data input error” and faxed Palin a letter of apology, saying the error has been corrected.
But in recent days reporters have anonymously received copies of the court record calling it a felony. “I think it’s pretty cowardly,” Palin said. “Somebody is peddling this five days before the election, obviously to smear my reputation.”
She later compared it to a parking ticket. (There’s another fishing license violation in the system for her, but that charge was dismissed.)
I think she’s the only nominee this cycle to have pled no contest on anything, and likely the first in American history to have a drift gillnet violation on the books.
Yeeeah … She’s toast.
NOTHING!!!
NEXT …
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Oh yeah, what about popping gum in 5th grade!
August 31st, 2008 at 4:41 pmI heard she once spanked her son
August 31st, 2008 at 4:46 pm…now I like her even *MORE*
August 31st, 2008 at 5:08 pmdid she get a parking ticket also?
August 31st, 2008 at 5:23 pmyea, but if your an indian or eskimo you can spear spawning fish so they cannot reproduce. Oh yea no bag limit. Any time of year. Now if I catch a Walleye on Leech lake that is between 21+28 inches I have to throw it back. Oh yea, I can only have one line in the water. But my license fee goes to stock that lake. Don’t get me started.
August 31st, 2008 at 5:31 pmWill Colmes suddenly be a game warden expert now as well?
August 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pmBack in Indiana when I was a kid we would go shinin’ coons…highly illegal and even more fun when you have a keg in the back of the truck and 3 loaded rifles in the gun rack. I’d love to send her a high intensity flashlight.
…btw liberal fucktards “shinin’ coons” is hunting raccoons with a flashlight. My extremely beautiful daughter has upheld the family tradition.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:11 pmOh no!! A gillnet and no permit? What is this world coming to?
Oh that’s right, a presidential “candidate” who is quite possibly running illegally and has also admitted to using cocaine.
August 31st, 2008 at 7:04 pm:roll:this is the best they can come up with?
August 31st, 2008 at 7:24 pmPretty funny, really. Remember that those sorts of things were what kept Sgt Barbara in Northern Exposure busy keeping order up there.
Sarah Palin is such a regular Joe, it’s not even going to be sport to try to knock her off her pins. It shouldn’t take too much longer for the dopes to get it and move on.
Would that their guys were as regular!!! Their camp would have a much easier job heading into the General. Such an ugly process …
August 31st, 2008 at 7:29 pmTrying so hard to smear her reputation… but to no avail. Like little kids screaming “ur mom! ur mom!” over and over.
Seriously, liberals… what’s so hard about having some decency?
August 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pmShe has cooties!
September 1st, 2008 at 2:34 am“You can’t make chicken salad from chicken shit.” A quote from the late Charley Eckman.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:52 amhas anyone but me thought that she has WAY more executive branch experience than the 2 dummyrats put together.. also WAY more command of military troops than 2 soros puppets combined.
September 1st, 2008 at 5:07 amI wonder if Hussein or Biden have ever been fishing?
September 1st, 2008 at 8:34 amYeah Jay he has
for votes using acorns for bait…
September 1st, 2008 at 10:24 amJay
I wonder if Hussein or Biden have ever been fishing?
Of Course Jesus’s Brother (Chosen ONE) has gone fishing he fed the Demorats convention with his one basket of fish
September 1st, 2008 at 10:48 am