I'm not sure if this goes in the insensitivity file, or the lie file. The major TV network news teams have detailed another example of untruthfulness from Palin, and this time it also highlights her incomprehensible - to all reasonable people - insensitivity to victims of rape.
Palin has contended that she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Moneghan because of insubordination, and has cited as her "last straw" his insistence on going to DC on a trip she is now categorizing as 'lobbying'.
Alaska leads the nation in sexual assaults against women.
The "last straw," the campaign said, was a trip Monegan planned in July to seek federal money for investigating and prosecuting sexual assault cases.
Despite Palin's claim she did not authorize the expenses for the travel, there is clear evidence that she did.
A travel authorization document signed by Palin's Chief of Staff Mike Nizich on June 18 approved Monegan's trip to Washington for the purpose of meeting Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
So she fired the Police Chief of Wasilla because he didn't think women who were raped should have to pay for their own rape kits, and Sarah did.
Then she fired the Public Safety Commissioner because he went to Washington to seek money to prosecute rapists, and Sarah didn't want any money to prosecute rapists.
But dammit, she built a sports arena! And she billed the state of Alaska for 312 days she and her husband and her kids stayed home.
That's priorities for you.
This is a 'woman's ' candidate? Can you imagine the uproar if a man did this?
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