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(Tenured Radical)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

"He says no.
You talk to him."



'Gov. Sarah Palin has asked Jim Hayes [scroll down to "92 Counts..."] to resign his post as a member of the University of Alaska Board of Regents. It’s a request that Hayes reportedly declined.

Palin’s Chief of Staff Mike Tibbles spoke with Hayes on the telephone late last week and asked him to step down, according to Sharon Leighow, the governor’s deputy press secretary. Hayes denied that request, Leighow said.

“That was followed up by a phone call by Gov. Sarah Palin herself who requested Regent Hayes step down, and again, it was my understanding, that he said no,” she said.


[This one's shaping up to be a real embarrassment for Alaska, which has had its share of embarrassments lately.]

... The governor, who appoints regents to the 11-member board, does not have the power to remove Hayes. Only the Legislature can do that, with a two-thirds majority vote in both houses.'

[The article ends with a bunch of stuff about the hapless legislature, which'll never pull itself together to vote on this, let alone get a majority vote.]



---fairbanks daily news-miner---