MyDD :: Todd Palin's biz partner moves to seal divorce papers (UPDATED)

Todd Palin's biz partner moves to seal divorce papers (UPDATED)

by spunkmeyer, Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:34:59 PM EST

This is a developing story which may or may not have legs, but it's worth keeping an eye on it. From Andrew Sullivan today:

Here We Go

Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God.

The link to the docket where the motion is listed isn't responding right now - presumably because of server overload.

UPDATE: So if you can get the link above to load, you'll see that the "Motion to Make Case File Confidential" has already been denied. Presumably this means we'll see whatever's in it. As I say, this may be nothing. But worth paying attention to.

Tags: Todd Sarah Palin divorce (all tags)

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The young and the restless (republics....) (none / 0)

Smoking gun to the infidelty charges?

Yikes, these people DO live in a soap opera up there.....

On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....

by WashStateBlue on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:37:16 PM EST

Re: Todd Palin's biz partner moves to seal divorce (2.00 / 1)

Court has denied motion to seal.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

by jsfox on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:39:29 PM EST

Can you give me a link? (none / 0)

I'd like to update the diary with it if you have one.

by spunkmeyer on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:40:45 PM EST
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Re: Can you give me a link? (2.00 / 1)

I believe it's the same one you have you just have to keep trying.

http://www.courtrecords.alaska.gov/pa/pa .urd/pamw2000.docket_lst?68762762

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

by jsfox on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:44:52 PM EST
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Re: Can you give me a link? (none / 0)

Thanks. Updated.

by spunkmeyer on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:51:47 PM EST
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I wonder if this means.... (none / 0)

that the repugs will be applauding Edwards now at their rallies?

by IowaMike on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:41:59 PM EST

Whatever... (none / 0)

It might just be that he realized people were going to be digging into his business and was hoping they wouldn't be able to.

Of course, now he's ensured that they'll be trying to get that information.

"Hey, check it out. You just had yourself a glue OD. So you're learning another lesson. Don't do too much glue, or your night sucks."

by vcalzone on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 01:46:54 PM EST

someone saved it (none / 0)

http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/cgi-bin /readart.cgi?ArtNum=4301

by highgrade on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:02:10 PM EST

appeal? (none / 0)

vote blue in 2008

by sepulvedaj3 on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:21:41 PM EST

Re: Todd Palin's biz partner moves to seal (2.00 / 1)

So people are going to snoop into some guy's divorce who has nothing to do with the campaign?

That is pretty F'd up.

by RichardFlatts on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:51:06 PM EST

Great (2.00 / 1)

Lets waste more time on this type of thing. I mean its not like we can win on the issues. Oh wait a minute WE CAN WIN ON THE ISSUES!

Grow up people, stop peeping into keyholes and start using the issues. My God, why are we afraid of the issues all of a sudden

"You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment"

by xenontab on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 03:05:58 PM EST

You're so right (none / 0)

Screw touchdowns. We can totally win this thing on field goals.

by spunkmeyer on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 03:41:17 PM EST
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Yeah, that's been working well so far (none / 0)

We are 0 for 2 in hidden scandal department, and so far all we have done is contribute to her popularity and let her skate on issues

Isnt our campaign supposed to be the one where we dont wallow in the mud.

"You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment"

by xenontab on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 06:51:19 PM EST
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No reason (none / 0)

to try to seal them, unless he has something to hide. Sorry, but it's true.

She needs to be discredited to the conservative right. There's only so much even they will turn a blind eye!

by Pa Woman on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 03:28:53 PM EST

Re: Todd Palin's biz partner moves to seal . . . (none / 0)

The NEnq will have to do its own story on that. Scott and Deborah Richter are apparently involved in a different scandal, and he may have moved to seal because of that, not the one people are drooling to see. The sealing may be exciting people for the wrong reasons.

SP had a legislative director named John Bitney. The tale told there in the Ak press is that he was fired at the insistence of the Palins for dating a lady who was either the ex or the soon-to-be ex of an originally unnamed Todd Palin pal. Scott Richter and the Palins are reported today to own jointly certain real estate near a nice lake, five lots. So he might qualify as a business partner.

The firing was quite sudden and after a compromise that he move out of the Gubernatorial office into a Department. was supposedly rejected by the Palins, and the firee found out when they cut off his blackberry account. He was picked up promptly after his firing by a big wheel in the Legislature named Harris, and the pressure to fire him there also allegedly came from the Governor's office but apparently it didn't work.

The lady in this drama has been identified in the Ak press as Deborah Richter, a government employee. If this is the same family and the divorce mentioned in the Bitney scandal, it might well be that the Richters or Mr. Richter attempted to seal their divorce file to keep their family matters and his business and their rather smaller scandal out of the national press. It could be that this smaller scandal, a sort of Troopergate-lite, is the occasion of the filing.

Realistically, if the scandal at issue here is the Bitney firing, it would make sense, since national press are mad for any sort of scandal and little folk can get eaten up and damaged irreversibly by disclosure of private matters which the national press will have forgotten in two days.

Stop drooling. If NEnq makes its case, drool then. In the meantime, this is unseemly.

by Christy1947 on Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 06:48:19 PM EST

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