This is an interesting Palin email...

if you want to see Palin's true character, that is.

On Monday, April 2, 2007, at 4:17 pm, Sarah Palin used her illegal-to-do-official-business-on Yahoo email account to reply to a very long message from a Nome resident named Karen McLane regarding NovaGold (and its subsidiary Alaska Gold Company) and their fast-tracked mining permit application. For some strange reason, no one bothered to inform the Nome residents that NovaGold was going to do cyanide leaching at their newly-permitted gold mine. And naturally, the Nome residents were plenty pissed when they found out. So they wrote a letter to the governor asking her to stop the cyanide leaching operation: "What we seek is to have it mined in a responsible manner...the industry (Nova Gold Resources) will tell our legislatures that they intend on mining responsibly; however, the mere use of sodium cyanide does not fill me with confidence that the company is in fact wanting to mine responsibly and be a steward of the environment."

Let us rewind to the first paragraph of Ms. McLane's message:

We didn't have much time to talk at the interview here in Nome Saturday 1515-1545 (Madam Governor, you were stuck in Anchorage waiting for a mechanical problem with the jet when the Lt Governor met with myself, Sue Steinacher, Karen Olanna, Dian Haecker, and Nancy McGuire the two latter being from the Nome Nugget, the three former being members or board members of the Bering Straits Citizens for Responsible Resource Development.

Palin's response: "I'll read all her info in a bit here, but right off the bat - does she know we don't fly in 'the jet'? Is she a reporter?

If nothing else, at least the woman is consistent. It's almost refreshing. She worships at the church of Sarah Palin, and she clearly isn't trying to or isn't capable of effectively hiding it. Most politicians are probably just as self-involved as she is, but they're able to effectively hide beneath the guise of public servant.