From the Anchorage Daily News (thanks, hotair.com), Gov. Sarah Palin’s reasonably lengthy record has now been completely expunged of whatever wrong-doing anyone has chosen to throw at her:

The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.

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Both investigations found that Palin was within her rights to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

But the new report says the Legislature’s investigator was wrong to conclude that Palin abused her power by allowing aides and her husband, Todd, to pressure Monegan and others to dismiss her ex-brother-in-law, Trooper Mike Wooten. Palin was accused of firing Monegan after Wooten stayed on the job.

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The Palins have argued that Wooten was a loose cannon who had tasered his stepson, drank beer in his patrol car, and threatened Palin’s father, and that their complaints that he shouldn’t be on the force were justified.

Uh, yeah, that stepson was something like 10 years old at the time!

Anchorage lawyer Timothy Petumenos, hired as independent counsel for the Personnel Board, also found that Gov. Palin violated no State ethics laws, no other officials violated Alaska’s ethics act, there’s no need to conduct any further hearings, and the state needs to address how to deal with official emails and records.

This is all very cool, but, in my opinion, has little to no effect on the race at this point.

-Phil