Nobody will ever accuse me of being reticent to fire a misbehaving State employee, but I wouldn't have supported dismissing Wooten on the stale reports of interested parties.   I'd like to think I would have wanted them to do more to him for some of his directly known bad acts than they did, but I know that with Troopers you almost have to treat discipline as if it isn't bad enough to fire them, you let it go.   If you stack up a bunch of minor discipline on a Trooper, it will eventually get discovered by a defense attorney, and you can't have him/her testify in court anymore because of the challenge to his/her credibility.   Now you have a clerk working for Trooper pay, which is about what Palin's misadventures did with Wooten.