Palin: Doing Private Business using Public Resources

Sorry, I can't link to this because it came from Lexis-Nexis.

From the Anchorage Times July 21, 2006:

While Sarah Palin tries to spin herself into a legitimate candidate for governor, the past becomes her mortal enemy... She ran much of her failed 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor from her office as mayor of the tiny community of Wasilla. Records and interviews indicate she used city time, city telephones, city employees and city computers in the effort to one extent or another...

She actually listed the Wasilla City Hall fax telephone number, 373-9096, on her Alaska Public Offices Commission candidate registration form for "candidate information." She used her mayor's e-mail address, sarah@ci.wasilla.ak.us, for "campaign chairperson" on the same form... Records show Palin called on city telephones, at all hours of the work day, supporters, contributors, media contacts, the guy who made her political campaign media buys and at least one company that does a lot of election work.

A search through surviving city computer records indicates campaign materials were ordered from City Hall and even were to be delivered there, "Attn: Mayor Palin." She had city employees on city- paid time arrange travel to benefit her campaign and perform other campaign tasks. Then, there are accounts of her doing everything from cobbling up campaign signs to drumming up campaign money from her office. The city's business in the last few months of the campaign, many observers say, seemed to be the very last thing on her mind. To top it off, there is no indication she repaid the city for the incidental expenses the city incurred...

Fast forward. Palin nowadays is desperate to be a "new" politician -- honest, forthright, bright, a better choice. Frankly, she is just bad news with a nice hair-do...

-- from his WH office. (Of course, the screaming hyenas finally slunk off when it was proved he'd done nothing wrong).

Now, with this, I'm sure the GOP cockroaches will find a way to frame Palin's blatant disregard for rules and regulations as a beautiful thing.

and the willingness to be a maverick and disregard the rules to get the job done!

:sarcasm:

...isn't that something you can get fired for?