Rules Schmools..."Sarah's Values" as they apply to the legal system

by: Celtic Diva

Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 10:43:13 AM AKST

Back in April, I did THIS POST when a then-unknown Kim Chatman joined the Juneteenth lawsuit, legitimizing it with an Alaskan resident so it could move forward in the courts.  The basis of the lawsuit:  Sarah Palin did not issue a proclamation celebrating Juneteenth in 2007, even after numerous reminders from Alaska residents.

Making this proclamation is part of Alaska law:

Juneteenth, a holiday observance which celebrates the freeing of the last remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, has been adopted in 29 states and was signed into law in Alaska in 2001. The bill known as HB 100 specifies that the "governor shall issue a proclamation observing the day."

Officials were also concerned that this was just part of a pattern of behavior:

In a related development, National Juneteenth Chairman Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D has requested a meeting with Governor Palin to allow her an opportunity to reconcile the conflict surrounding Juneteenth, stating that in addition to the 2007 failure, Palin "not responding to invitations to participate in the annual Alaska Juneteenth Celebration has created doubts in the minds of Alaska Juneteenth leaders about ever receiving any support for Juneteenth from the governor".

Early this morning, I received a link to this press release in my email:

Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 4, 2009 -- Former Governor Sarah Palin, in the wake of her much publicized book and upcoming interview on Oprah, has rejected a settlement offer in the 2009 Juneteenth lawsuit (Case no. 3:09-cv-00091 United States District Court of Alaska). The plaintiffs' settlement offer, made by jazz musician Gregory Charles Royal and former Palin supporter Kim Chatman, was for Palin to merely follow through on what Alaska Assistant Attorney General Margaret Paton-Walsh said Palin would do: issue the 2007 proclamation.

Palin has been accused by the plaintifffs and has publicly admitted that she failed to issue the 2007 Juneteenth Day Proclamation which was required under Alaska statute. Palin has also been accused by African American leaders in Alaska as being the first governor in the state not to support the holiday observance.

The Alaska Attorney General's office said that former-Governor Palin would honor the settlement.  There is no way the Asst. AG said that without corroboration with the Palin camp.

Commenting on Walsh's statement made in a July 2009 Associated Press article "that the governor is going to issue the 2007 proclamation" and that "a very big deal is being made out of a very small clerical error", Royal said: "Palin's choice, which should be clear to everybody at this point, to defy the African-American observance demonstrates exactly why we pushed in a lawsuit, what some called a trivial issue. We knew what she would do and just sat back to watch it play out. Her motivations, which as far as their racial component, we will let the public debate. Her claims that public resources have been wasted fighting ethics complaint is, well need I say more? The cost of our settlement for her to comply with the law, zero. The continuing cost to the state for her to evade issuing the proclamation, I'm sure she knows the math."

Palin's refusal to comply proves that this was no "small clerical error."  So Palin lied...again.

This doesn't surprise any of us who truly know the nature of Sarah Palin.  However, I am always flabbergasted that Palin refuses to make the logical, adult decision and instead chooses the spoiled high school cheerleader solution...blatant defiance no matter what the consequence.

But it doesn't end there.

The most interesting part of this case is the extremes Palin seems willing to go to in order to get her way...extremes that are clearly pushing the patience of the judge:

In a October 26th order, Alaska District Court judge Timothy Burgess has also ordered Palin to explain by November 4th, her claims that she has not been served the lawsuit which sparked a flurry of motions in August:

"It is unclear to the Court whether the defendant continues to contest that she was served"...."If service is still contested, the defendant must explain what steps she believes the plaintiffs must now take in order to properly serve her, and how she suggests this be accomplished." " The defendant is cautioned that so long as a party receives sufficient notice of the complaint, Rule 4 is to be liberally construed to uphold service'"......"Among other attempts at service, the plaintiffs filed an unexecuted service of summons stating that when their process server attempted to serve the defendant at the Governor's Office, her executive secretary refused to accept service."...."Sufficient service may be found where there is a good faith effort to comply with the requirements (for service) and further compliance ... is only prevented by the defendant's knowing and intentional actions to evade service."

Sarah Palin has a pattern of not only defying due process but putting her own family, friends and employees in legal jeapardy by having them do the same.  

If you think for a minute that secretary's refusal to accept the documents from the process server was NOT at the behest of the former Governor, read Andrew Halcro's tantalizing post.  He shares some newly-gleaned information from one of the co-authors of former Palin aide Frank Bailey's upcoming book, "...the book that will contain the REAL Sarah Palin story, "Renegade:  Sarah Palin's Hatchet Man."  The new information surrounds Frank Bailey's infamous call to State Trooper Rodney Dial, requesting his help to get Palin's former bro-in-law Mike Wooten fired:

Todd Palin refuted that they ever pressured Bailey into calling Dial, however this is a great example of the plausible deniability that they've become so adept at.

Minutes after Bailey's phone call to Dial in February 2008, he sent an email via his Blackberry to Ivy Frye, another one of the three close insiders to the Palin family that were hired in her administration. Just got off the phone with Rodney, Bailey wrote to Frye, I don't think he gets it.

Phone records also show that the night before Bailey's call to Dial, Todd Palin placed several phone calls to Frye leading up to Bailey's call to Dial.

So who pressured Bailey into calling Dial? It seems that Todd Palin pressured Frye into pressuring Bailey into making the call, thus Bailey's revalation to Dial that he was calling on behalf of Sarah and Todd and in doing so Todd could deny culpability.

I'm practically giddy in anticipation of THAT book!

But back to the Juneteenth case:  it seems that Palin is supposed to provide information by the end of today to explain herself.  Based on my experience with her legal manuevers, if she bothers to provide the paperwork, I don't believe it will be particularly explanatory.

This is just one more legal issue to put on the list of "cases to watch."

Sarah Palin unleashes...Ivy Frye?

by: Celtic Diva

Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 07:05:20 AM AKDT

In answer to Ivy's tweet, I said this:

@ivyfrye--Sarah Palin's babysitting hack tries to go all "Monty Python killer rabbit" in Twitter: http://divasblueoasis.com

Here was Ivy's response to me:

Ahh, thx! @celticdiva "Sarah Palin's babysitting hack" -- thx 2 all frivolous ethics filers checking out my PRO-PALIN pg! #spwbt #teamsarah

Here was my response back:

@ivyfrye --just following another unqualified Palin appointment who has no ethics; story here-- http://divasblueoasis.com
about 7 hours ago from Twitterrific in reply to ivyfrye

Amazingly, her tweets to me stopped and she blocked me from following her!  I'll check regularly to see what idiocy she spews!

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Oh look, it's Palin's shopping buddy, babysitter and rabid attack bunny!!!!

Ivy Frye now works for SarahPAC--another quality Palin employee to work with Darth Stapletongue!

I saw this "tweet" from Ivy Frye this morning (that sounds like it came from a 5-year-old):

@SarahPalinLinks These are all bad:  @AkSyrin @palin_deceiver (see his bio), @Emperor_Bob @celticdiva @Mudflats @GreatGrey @huge #spwbt

Oooooh...I'm so baaaaaaaaaaad...but as you can see, I'm in awesome company!

When I call Ivy a "rabid attack bunny" I'm actually being nice.  There are other words I could use:

--Ivy Frye was known as Palin's overpaid babysitter:

Another confidante of Ms. Palin's is Ms. Frye, 27. She worked as a receptionist for State Senator Lyda Green before she joined Ms. Palin's campaign for governor. Now Ms. Frye earns $68,664 as a special assistant to the governor. Her frequent interactions with Ms. Palin's children have prompted some lawmakers to refer to her as "the babysitter," a title that Ms. Frye disavows.

--Ivy Frye as Palin's assistant and in the spirit of "openness" and "transparency," wanted to find out how to make State of Alaska purchased Blackberrys default to private Yahoo Accounts (therefore, very difficult/impossible to access through records requests).  We know this because of an email to Anand Dubey, (Director of Enterprise Technology Services) from a record's request.  We also know as the result of the email court case by Andree McLeod:

"There's a reason the governor should be using her own official e-mail channels, because of security and encryption," the lawyer said. "She's running state business out of Yahoo?"

On March 17, minutes after peppering a state official about whether e-mails about state business contained on a personal BlackBerry could become public, senior Palin aide Ivy Frye addressed a message to both Palins and two other aides: "In sum, it's just as I thought -- questions of confidentiality are still unanswered by law."

--Ivy Frye was the person who (again in the spirit of "openness" and "transparency") tried to intimidate blogger Ak Syrin (Sherry Whitstine):

And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor's career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.

"You should be ashamed!" Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. "Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!"

--Ivy Frye has demonstrated that she is willing to "give her all" for Sarah Palin.  It appears from emails discovered between the two in records requests, that she was having a relationship with Alaska Associated Press writer, Steve Quinn.  

He (Steve Quinn) is reportedly involved with one of her assistants, aka 'state babysitter' Ivy Frye. There are documented emails between the two that were released as part of the Troopergate investigation. I believe more were redacted. The AP needs to get Steve Quinn out of Alaska if it wants to restore it's reputation as an unbiased news source.

Soon after the revelation, Ivy was moved out of her job with Palin and Steve Quinn was whisked away from his AP job in Alaska.

--Ivy Frye is a lot like Palin in that she changes jobs like she changes clothes:

According to legislative sources, the governor has pardoned both Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye and plans on transferring them out of the governor's office over to the Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority (AIDEA).

Both Bailey and Frye have figured large in the operations of the governor's office and both have created more baggage for this administration than Louis Vittone.

Frye has held no fewer than four different positions since she was hired after helping on Palin's campaign back in 2006. Frye was originally in charge of Board's & Commissions until she made a mess out of that job and then she was transferred to the Department of Administration. That job lasted until the commissioner couldn't handle it anymore after Frye reportedly told her that she only reports to the governor. Then, Frye was moved into a position entitled special assistant to the governor, where among other things, Frye worked on ways to get around public disclosure laws by using her Blackberry.

I'd sure like to read her SarahPAC job description!

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Ivy has been spreading a number of lies about Andree McLeod:

Having been there, I was genuinely scared for Gov Palin when friv ethics filer andree mcleod stalked events/camped out in office

@C4P ethics filer mcleod "jumped" gov palin @ gop convent last yr-- a wk b4 trig was born! i distracted mcleod so gov could get to her suv.

None of that ever happened...but when has that bothered a Palinista?!

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