The following facts about Sarah Palin's brother in-law, Mike Wooten, were confirmed by a 2005 State Police investigation:He used a Taser on his stepson.
He shot a moose without a license, violating a law he has responsibility for enforcing.
He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
He told others his father-in-law would "eat a [expletive]ing lead bullet" if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.
Wooten's tenure with the Alaska State Police also includes a reprimand in January 2004 for negligent damage to a state vehicle; a January 2005 instruction after being accused of speeding, unsafe lane changes, following too closely and not using turn signals in his state vehicle; a June 2005 instruction regarding personal cell phone calls; an October 2005 suspension from work after getting a speeding ticket; and a November 2005 memo "to clarify duty hours, tardiness and personal business during duty time."
At the conclusion of the 2005 investigation, the State Police concluded Wooten exhibited "a significant pattern of judgment failures," and decided the appropriate discipline was… a ten-day suspension.
You would never know it, but the 268-page report to the state legislature found "Governor Palin's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statuatory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads." So note that the firing of Monegan was not the abuse of power; the series of contacts about Wooten was.
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