TrooperGate, Mike Wooten, Sarah Palin and Commissioner Walt Monegan, why can't the media tell the full story?

Mike Wooten, the 36 year old trooper who has admitted to bad judgement in the past, seems to fly under the radar whenever troopergate is mentioned these days. Mike Wooten has already been married and divorced four times by the age of 36 while also fathering 3 children. Mr. Wooten apparently drinks excessively and in a moment of admittedly bad judgement, tasered his 10 year old son (at the mildest setting) because his son wanted to know what it felt like to be tasered.

Isn't it ironic that politicians get labeled as being fence sitting, indecisive, spineless "which way is the wind blowing" enablers, who, when they try and be assertive, can easily be charged with abuse of power?

Do state troopers get paid well enough to afford Mr. Wooten to continue his current lifestyle that includes 4 divorces, drinking issues, and possibly other issues that are still unknown to the public? If the job of State Trooper pays well enough to allow for unethical behavior by Mr. Wooten to continue, that is reason enough to terminate Mr. Wooten as we don't need this type of behavior linked to the operation of any vehicle.

Does it make sense to allow Mr. Wooten to keep a job that relies on driving, if he drinks excessively? If drinking prior to work excessively impairs Mr. Wooten's judgement skills, should he still be a state trooper?

By choosing not to terminate Mr. Wooten, the since fired Commissoner Walt Monegan made a decision that not being intimidated by a politician meant more to him than the reality of the situation; that Mr. Wooten actually posed future financial threat to the state of Alaska because of his past behavior. Mr. Wooten's case history is a rich lawsuit waiting to happen should he ever be found guilty of behavior that injures another while on duty.

Let us not forget that Sarah Palin was found to have not broken any laws in trying to get Mr. Wooten removed from his job.

I respect Mr. Monegan not wanting to be told what to do, and I also respect Sarah Palin for trying to remove a state trooper from a position that could easily have cost the state of Alaska millions of dollars the next time Mike Wooten made a repeat "mistake", such as being inebriated while on duty, all it takes is for this behavior to cause an injury and the state of Alaska could be opening its wallet up big time.

Mr. Wooten remains a walking time bomb of liability to the state of Alaska and it appears to be a fiscally responsible move to have wanted him terminated. I guess it's ok to take action AFTER a train wreck kills 25 people in Southern California because of text messaging, but it's wrong to try and PREVENT similar misguided situations like letting someone uphold the law while inebriated?

I'm starting to understand how states go over budget, they are responsible for the actions of their own employees but they have very little lee way in removing them from their jobs.