Palin's excuse for firing state Safety Commissioner: He was too tough on sexual assault

Here's the key graf, from the Anchorage Daily News:

"The last straw" leading up to Monegan's firing, Van Flein wrote, was Monegan's planned trip to Washington, D.C., to seek funding for a new, multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative the governor hadn't yet approved.

Keep in mind that Alaska has one of the highest sexual assault rates in the nation. And the kicker is that Palin thinks this explanation sounds better than admitting that she fired Monegan because he wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law.

Update: Alaska has the highest incidence of rape in the U.S.