CBS News: "Palin Spokespeople Deny Divorce Rumor"

(CBS) An attorney for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has denied a report that she and her husband are planning to divorce.

Sarah Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, told CBS News that the report of a divorce is "categorically false."

The Web site Alaskareport.com, citing "multiple sources," claimed today that the couple was planning to divorce. A similar report had been posted on the blog The Immoral Minority.

Another Palin attorney, Robert Barnett, also told CBS News that the divorce rumors were "totally untrue."

Among the points made to try to support the divorce claim was a purchase by Sarah Palin of land in Montana; the suggestion that the Palins were "noticeably not speaking to each other" during her appearance in Fairbanks last Sunday when she formally handed over the governor's office to Sean Parnell; and a report that she had been seen not wearing a wedding ring....


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/01/politics/main5204228.shtml

As many of you are already aware I DID receive a notification from Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein yesterday. It arrived in my e-mail in PDF form and you can read it over at the Alaska Report.

Now Van Flein is forcing me to make an admission that I have resisted addressing for the four plus years I have had this blog.

Yes I DO work in a Kindergarten class during the school year. My main job affords me some time during the day and I have chosen to use it teaching children to read, and helping them to become more independent. I do it because it brings me joy to work with these children and I believe, and have been told, that I am very good at it.

Hopefully that does not diminish me in the eyes of my visitors.

I NEVER discuss politics with my children and they have no idea, nor do most of the adult staff, that I am a blogger. Because to be honest that might diminish me in THEIR eyes.

So thanks to Van Flein you now know my dirty little secret. I am an assistant teacher in a room full of five year old children.

Understanding my love for my job and my desire to protect my children from a potentially frightening encounter, Van Flein threatened to serve my summons "at the kindergarten where you assist". He did not say the "school where you work", he specifically mentioned my classroom in order to frighten me into compliance. Why else would he have said that?

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As for the other parts of my post?

They will be reported on in the near future by more mainstream media, count on it. If they are not then I definitely have some asses to kick and some crow to eat. But as of right now I have every confidence that I will be vindicated.