Word: monegan
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SARAH PALIN, Republican vice-presidential hopeful, when asked about an Alaskan legislative panel that concluded she abused her power as governor by pressuring Walter Monegan (below), then the state's public-safety commissioner, to fire a state trooper over a family dispute...
...Before being appointed Public Safety Commissioner in 2006, Monegan worked for several units of the police department including Internal Affairs, Crime Prevention and Detectives, eventually getting appointed as Anchorage Chief of Police...
...this case I knew that I had to have the right people in the right position at the right time in this cabinet to best serve Alaskans, and Walt Monegan was not the right person at the right time to meet the goals that we had set out in our administration." - Gov. Sarah Palin
...Sept. 15, investigative reporters Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Monegan's first wife had made claims of domestic abuse and threats on her life against him; at one point Moldovan filed a restraining order against Monegan. He denies the accusations but admits to accidentally dislocating his wife's shoulder before they were married during a playful "wrestling and tickling" match...
...Born in Seattle in 1951 to Elizabeth and Walter C. Monegan Jr.; raised by his grandparents in Western Alaska in a town called Nyac...