Mrs. Palin goes to Warshington

Say it with me John McCain: Wash WASH WASH. WASHington. Not WARSHington. That drove me nuts last night listening to his speech.

The RNC came to an end last night, and the termites are starting to appear from the woodwork. From CNN.com:

Aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin improperly obtained her former brother-in-law's state police personnel files and cited information from those records to raise complaints about the officer, the head of Alaska's state police union said Thursday.

"It's apparent to us that the governor or someone on her staff had direct access to his personnel file, as well as his workers' comp file, and those are protected," said John Cyr, executive director of the Alaska Public Safety Employees Association.

"In the center of all of the controversy is Trooper Wooten's continued employment," the former police commissioner said. "My job was to provide passion and support to 900 people -- almost 900 people -- in the Department of Public Safety, and one of them -- which included Trooper Wooten -- was an irritant to her."

Palin tried to have her ex-brother-in-law fired from the Alaska State Troopers, and when the person who would do the firing, her public safety commissioner, refused, she fired him instead. Her lawyers claim that Wooten signed a waiver releasing his personnel files to the public domain during his divorce from Palin's sister. But that doesnt explain why Gov Palin needed access to them. Just a bit of a conflict of interest. Nice vetting there McCain.