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10.24.2008 9:50 am

Palin reported to give deposition here, before dropping puck

Special to the Post-Dispatch
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News accounts, including on CNN, report that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will be doing more than dropping the puck during her visit to St. Louis later today.

Various sources (including some partisan ones) say that the Alaska governor also will be deposed by lawyers in connection with the “Troopergate” controversy, which centers on allegations that she and her husband had tried to use her clout to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as an Alaska state trooper.

St. Louis sources say the deposition will taken in Palin’s hotel room here. (For security and news reasons, we are NOT disclosing where she is staying.)

The regional spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign declined comment yesterday on the matter.

According to MSNBC’s First Read, Palin is to be deposed “by the independent investigator working for the Alaska personnel board. The interview will be under oath.”

Todd Palin is to be deposed separately.

Her personal attorney, Thomas Van Flein, was traveling on the campaign plane Thursday, according to news reports.

UPDATE — At the moment, Palin is in Springfield preparing for what is expected to be a huge rally of supporters. Here’s from the Associated Press:

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of people bundle up to wait almost nine hours to get a good spot to see GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at a campaign rally in Springfield.
 
The Alaska governor is scheduled to begin her speech at noon Friday at a rally in the parking lot of Bass Pro Outdoor World. Some spectators braved a stiff wind and chilly air to arrive by 3:30 a.m., long before gates opened at 9 a.m.
 
The event was initially scheduled for an arena at Missouri State University. But after all 4,000 tickets were snapped up within 90 minutes Wednesday, the Republican Party moved the event to Bass Pro’s massive parking area to accommodate a larger crowd.
 
Speeches in advance of Palin’s address are set to begin at 11 a.m.

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I’d love to see one of those big,burly Blues “enforcer” slam Palin to the boards when she drops the puck.That will be a real St.Louis welcome!

— steve665
10:13 am October 24th, 2008

Hey steve665, you’re a real man for wanting to see physical harm done to a woman. Whoever is with you found a real catch. But that’s typical of liberals who hate, even to the point of physically harming anyone they disagree with.

— Palinsupporter
10:20 am October 24th, 2008

steve665,

Nice comment. Suggesting that someone direct violence towards a candidate for Vice-President of the United States is unthinkable.

I hope you’re not from St. Louis.

— The Truth
10:24 am October 24th, 2008

Hey steve665, you’re a real man for wanting to see physical harm done to a woman. Whoever is with you found a real catch. But that’s typical of liberals who hate, even to the point of physically harming anyone they disagree with.

excellent point, Palin supporter–sorta like using inflammatory rhetoric at rallies that inspires wing-nuts to become unhinged and call out “kill him” and “off with his head.”

Not really a great time to talk about HATE and “liberals” given the explosive, offensive comments made by Repugnicans such as Michelle Bachmann and the NC rep recently–saying we HATE America and other nonsense…would you care to enlighten all of us as to how that is productive or fair or “American?”

Palin will be a (well-deserved) footnote after this election…I am just amazed that there are still people out there like you who defend this nasty, divisive, phoney, self-righteous, hypocritical “pit bull in lipstick.”

— don
10:28 am October 24th, 2008

Go Sarah!!!!!!!

— Cheryl
10:33 am October 24th, 2008

side comment–notice how all of these McCain-Palin rallies require TICKETS as opposed to being open to everyone like Obama’s rallies…?

Besides having an odor of “elitism,” It doesn’t take a brain-surgeon to figure out that they want a 100% friendly crowd there…not too many protestors are going to spedn “up to nine hours” to get tickets on the off-chance that they might be seen or heard.

I also LOVE how they always parade out the kids…what type of mother subjects her child to crowds like this…anyone who has had children knows that pediatricians strongly recommend NOT bringing infants out unnecessarily for at least the first 6-8 weeks of their lives. Guess “ordinary folk” like the Palins can’t affored baby-sitters…but their contributors apparently can affored to buy a 7 year old girl a Louis Vitton bag that costs more than most of us make in a week.

She’s trash…pure and simple.

— don
10:34 am October 24th, 2008

Wow…tough guy behind the computer wanting to see Sarah Palin “slammed” at a hockey game. Most people get so caught up in this campaign and trying to defend “their” views that they forget who “they” are. Most of you can’t tell anyone what you as an individual think…you are all just sheep being led to the slaughter by a media with an agenda. Think for yourself, be your own person. You would have to be a fool to think that one side of this polital contest isn’t being treated fairly. Do you think the media, or Hollywood can even come close to relating? Do they really know what real Americans go through? I don’t think so…but keep listening to their story…maybe then you will be lucky enough to catch the quarter they flip you after you deliver their half-soy, low fat whipped cream, mochachino sissy drinks. Wake up and be an individual thinker…not some D or R robot. Uninformed people make me sick.

— Brent
10:39 am October 24th, 2008

Don, I’ll defend her. Please tell me how she is any more phoney that Obama? I have a lot of nice things to say about what she has accomplished in her life. Tell me what Obama has accomplished in his life. I bet I hear crickets chirping.

As for hating anything, let’s tally up the number of times we have heard hateful things about eachother’s candidate or party or hate speech in general by the other party. I bet I win. You can bet I’ll use: Rev. Wright, Rep. Lewis, Maxine Waters, Madonna, Bill Maher, Chevy Chase, John Daily, Joy Bahar..just to name a few. Add on the vile comments from the Daily Kos and Huffington Post and some obnoxious liberal bloggers here, and I’m just getting started.

Glad to hear that all the clothes that have been purchased for Palin is going to charity or given away. I’m betting the total dollar amount given away far surpasses Joe Biden’s charitable giving of $3000 in 10 years. Way to go Joe!

— Logicprevails
10:40 am October 24th, 2008

Don,

I don’t think you are stable. You need to put down the Kool-Aid my friend. You are a hostile individual who likes to think that their opinion and rage matter more than others. You, and people like you, are the sole reason why our political process doesn’t focus on true issues. You are sad, sad, person that swims in the shallow end of the pool of life.

Post something worth reading…worth thinking about. You spew from your mouth the very thing that you claim to protest. do you honestly think that BO and JB don’t do the same things? Are you that blind…uninformed? Get a grip on reality my friend…politicans are politicians. You can take all that pie in the sky campaign promises from both parties and leave them on the steps of the White House because that is exactly where they will be.

I want to give you the benefit of the doubt…but you are certainly making it hard. You should just stop posting and save face.

— Brent
10:45 am October 24th, 2008

don - anytime is a good time to talk about liberals and hate. That’s what they stand for. Yeah, you might quote some isolated example of a Republican doing something. But look at the last 8 years and the utter hatred that has come from the looney left and groups like code pinko, moveon, all the “impeach Bush” bumper stickers, every American newspapers editorial pages, etc. You people are the one’s causing the divisiveness, not Palin.

— Palinsupporter
10:48 am October 24th, 2008

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