The Raw Story | Texas evangelicals funded effort to kill Palin 'troopergate' probe
You can't see Russia from Texas.
But that's where some of the money that helped an effort aiming to kill a probe investigating whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acted inappropriately in firing the state's public safety chief came from.
Gift records show that an evangelical group and two law firms working with it paid $185,000 to represent six Alaska legislators in an unsuccessful bid to quash the state legislature's investigation into "troopergate."
The evangelical group -- Liberty Legal Institute -- is affiliated with Focus on the Family's James Dobson. Liberty is the legal arm of the Free Market Foundation, which "lists its guiding principles as limited government and promotion of Judeo-Christian values," according to the Anchorage Daily News....
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