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October 13th, 2008
Posted: 05:59 PM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) — Top state police officials urged Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s aides and husband to stop pushing for the firing of her ex-brother-in-law, with one warning it could cause “an extreme amount of discomfort and embarrassment.” That warning from John Glass, Alaska’s deputy commissioner of public safety, is included in a 263-page report that found Palin unlawfully abused her authority to press for the dismissal of Mike Wooten, her sister’s ex-husband, from the state trooper force. Glass said he warned Palin’s husband, Todd, that disciplinary action already had been taken against the trooper and “We could not fire him.” “And I also warned him that that it was going to cause some extreme amount of discomfort and embarrassment for the governor if they pursued this and it should never have become public. That it would just be not good for the governor if it continued, and that they needed to cease and desist,” Glass told former Anchorage prosecutor Stephen Branchflower, the report’s author. Glass is a former police chief of Palin’s hometown of Wasilla and a snowmobiling friend of Todd Palin. In Todd Palin’s account of the conversation, which took place in early spring of 2008, he said Glass told him, “I’m telling you as a friend, I love the governor, but I am telling you, stay away from this Wooten situation.” “I felt it was more of the same with troopers protecting a ‘brother’ officer,” Alaska’s “first gentleman” told Branchflower in written answers provided through his attorney. They were delivered on Wednesday, after he had resisted a subpoena for three weeks, and were not included in Friday’s report. |
 
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