Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:25:16 PM
More from the ABC piece:
In response to inquiries about the document Friday, the
McCain-Palin campaign provided a statement from Randy Ruaro, another
aide to Palin.
According to Ruaro, Monegan asked for — and received — approval for
the travel without telling Palin’s staff his reason for going. “As a
matter of routine, the travel was approved by Mike Nizich … weeks before the actual purpose was made clear by former Commissioner Monegan,” Ruaro wrote.
“When you receive permission to travel, it does not mean that you
receive blanket authorization to discuss or do whatever you would like
on that trip,” he added.
I.e. Monegan’s stated purpose on the travel report, “To attend
meeting with Sen. Murkowski,” didn’t clue Nizich or anyone else in to
what it was, precisely, he wanted to meet with Murkowski about. Again,
it doesn’t speak well of Nizich and/or Palin if they’re signing off on
travel vouchers before demanding specific reasons for the trip,
especially for an employee who’s supposedly gone renegade, but this does
jibe with Katz’s e-mail on July 7. They found out what he was going to
D.C. for, told him to cancel the trip, he refused, and voila.