If I lived in Alaska, I would upset too. Governor Palin abused her position for personal reasons and many people repeatedly warned Palin that her actions were legally dangerous.
She had her personnel director and state attorney general call officials at the Department of Public Safety about a personnel matter. Didn't the
attorney general know that such issues are confidential? If the Public Safety department had actually engaged these conversations, Palin would be in much deeper legal trouble.
Glass, the guy who got put on "administrative leave" for carrying out the Governor's wishes "tried to sound the warning that continuing to pressure anyone and everyone in the matter would end in an unbelievable amount of embarrassment for the Governor and everybody else."
The report says she knowingly "permitted Todd Palin to use the governor’s office and the resources of the governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."
Palin fired Monegan which was okay according to Alaska law, but the guy she replaced him with only lasted
a week - he resigned due to the reemergence of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint. According to the published report, the replacement testified that when contacted by Glass, the staffer's exact words were "Todd is really upset with Monegan."
Yuck. All of this was published before Palin was the VP candidate. Just a portion of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act states that "A public officer may not use state time, property, equipment, or other facilities to benefit personal or financial interests; attempt to benefit a personal or financial interest through coercion of a subordinate or require another public officer to perform services for the private benefit of the public officer at any time."
http://www.law.state.ak.us/pdf/ethics/Statutes-AlaskaExecutiveBranchEthicsAct_AS39.52_.pdf