The whole Branchflower report up to this point can be boiled down to Sarah and Todd Palin trying very hard to get Trooper Wooten fired. They hire a PI to investigate him, constantly file complaints and use the power of the Office to attempt to get him canned. They constantly say that he is unfit to be a Trooper and gives the whole department a bad name.
UPDATED: Included link (p. 38)
Then comes this incident:
The 2008 Police Memorial Day-photograph event
Shortly before the annual celebration of Police Memorial Day on May 15, 2008, Commissioner Monegan had dropped off a color photograph at Governor Palin’s Anchorage office with a request that she sign and present it at the ceremony. The photograph was of an Alaska State Trooper who was dressed in a formal uniform, saluting. He was standing in front of the police memorial located in front of the crime lab at AST headquarters in Anchorage, partially obscured by a flagpole. The picture to be signed by the Governor was to be used as a poster to be displayed in various Trooper Detachments around the state.
Shortly after he returned to his office from dropping off the photograph, he received a call from Kris Perry, Governor Palin’s Director of her Anchorage office who asked [according to Walt Monegan’s testimony] “Why did you send a poster over here that has a picture of Mike Wooten on it?” Until that moment, Commissioner Monegan never realized it was indeed a photograph of Trooper Wooten. Governor Palin cancelled her appearance and sent Lieutenant Governor Parnell in her place.
Less than two months later Monegan was fired.