{"id":194509,"date":"2008-09-17T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/17\/sarah-palin-hates-rape-victims\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T10:19:00","slug":"sarah-palin-hates-rape-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/17\/sarah-palin-hates-rape-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Hates Rape Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new twist of Troopergate, the McCain campaign is saying that Palin fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/troopergate\/story\/527346.html\">was &#8220;insubordinate&#8221; over budget issues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>On May 7 of this year, Randy Ruaro, the governor&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, complained in an e-mail to Rehfeld, the budget director, that Monegan&#8217;s department &#8220;is constantly going off the reservation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The last straw&#8221; leading up to Monegan&#8217;s firing, Van Flein wrote, was Monegan&#8217;s planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn&#8217;t yet approved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, not only did she sign off regarding <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">charging rape victims for rape kits<\/span>, she is now saying that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fired her public security director because he was looking for money to help rape victims<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Alaska has the <a href=\"http:\/\/dwb.adn.com\/news\/alaska\/crime\/story\/8825231p-8726532c.html\">highest per capita rape rate in the nation<\/a>, and it appears that Palin is determined to punish the victims.<\/p>\n<p>This is repugnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new twist of Troopergate, the McCain campaign is saying that Palin fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan because he was &#8220;insubordinate&#8221; over budget issues: On May 7 of this year, Randy Ruaro, the governor&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, complained in an e-mail to Rehfeld, the budget director, that Monegan&#8217;s department &#8220;is constantly going &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,972,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}