Open Thread – Baldy and the Swamp
We’ve had a good solid four months of winter now. And thanks to the marmots who apparently hibernated right through Alaska’s official “Marmot Day” on February 2nd, the news is not good. Sleeping right through the designated shadow analysis period, it appears as though the marmots have assured us a few more months.
So, it becomes necessary for Alaskans to find ways to cope, which for me usually means that I think of the other half of the year, when there are things like chlorophyll and birds. I find myself daydreaming and planning for all the things I’ll do when summer comes. It almost doesn’t matter if I really think I’ll do them or not. It’s just nice to dream. That plus red wine, chocolate and an X-tra large steaming bowl full of denial gets me through.
The picture above was taken in Trapper Creek, Alaska – a couple hours north of Anchorage. This was a nice day to think about. The flat area with the grass is known to the residents of the immediate area as “the swamp.” Not particularly romantic, but descriptive nonetheless. The mountain in the background is known as “Baldy.” You would never imagine that a scene that could be entitled “Baldy and the Swamp” could be so lovely.
If you don’t mind, I’m going to go hang out on a reclining deck chair and catch a few rays… just as soon as I get some lemonade. You’re welcome to join me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA#watch-main-area Palindrome – Lost Generation
A PALINDROME is not a hangar for Sarah Palin’s ego, it’s a word or phrase that means the same read forwards or backwards. Well, this reads with a completely opposite meaning when read backwards. This video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP.
Happy Friday all.
Lovely sky over mountains, AKM. Another Mudflats Moment of Zen to hold in my head and my heart when the “X-tra large steaming bowl full of denial” needs some especially sweet spice to enhance it…a little cinnamon for the soul.
Have a happy, everyone.
Nice work on the Palin Tax dodge story!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/palin-did-not-pay-taxes-o_n_450344.html
2200 comments by 07:30 EST !
Haha, that’a a good suggestion.
The photo is great, and I like the cloud very much.
AKM~
Just thought you might like to know that Mudflats has been credited with breaking the tax cheat story on MSNBC online.
lovely scenery, enjoy
@Scorpie, that is good news.
@Scorpie. How neat!
Nice morning here. Ice dripping from the sky, and coating. Snow later on, and it can’t change over too soon for me! Not a fan of ice.
AKM, I will be in Anchorage a week from today! Sent you a message.
I’m on the deck with you AKM . . . sun rays warming our eyes that are peeking through our balaclavas, and our jackets and overalls are getting less frozen and stiff. I think, though, I’ll stick to the hot chocolate instead of the iced lemonade. I’m just glad that I’m not in the mid Atlantic.
Congrats of breaking the tax cheat story. You Rule!
Hey Pups, They just showed AKM’s picture of the Palin cabin on Good Morning America. Ole Granny must be in a fourth gear tiz-spin.
Granny Paylin must be fit to burst! I’m getting great pleasure out of the fact that all this is hitting the airwaves just as she is gearing up for the Tea Party speech.
Nice pic. This was the time of year in winter when I used to open my back door if it even looked like it might be warm outside to let some fresh air in.
The Mat-Su tax guy did a flyover Thurs. Ruh-Ro!
hi folks. After the tax story, and the tax cap… I’m wondering how much the Palins pay for property tax on their places on Lake Lucille. We have a cabin on a lake in Meadow Lakes Ak where the property tax went from 1300.00 per year in the late 90′s to 4,000.00 per year in 2010. (How much did it go up due to mayor palins running up the bills… even though we are residents of the mat su borough).
In addition to all the free labor and materials from SBS (im sure this is true:)
did she put a tax cap on her Lake Lucille houses? Can we do a review of laws she made where she benefits?
tweetii
I like this part of the AP story “Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, says it is not the responsibility of property owners to report structures that go up on their land. ” Go up? Magically appear? Gosh, I didn’t notice that some structures “went up” on my land.
Does anybody know what a scofflaw is? I’ve heard of them. Let’s take her advice re: Rahm Emmanuel and reduce government by removing awl of her “appointtees” since she willfully broke her oath to serve thus invalidating the state’s need to keep it’s end of the bargain. Can’t help it. She broke the contract unilaterally also too. Furthermore, let’s hold the ameliorating, necessary vote for governor immediately. We don’t have to wait around to be polite.
Quite an impact. I hope Rachel D’Oro sends you a nice thank you note and a box of chocolates.
It may actually be that it is the property owner’s responsibility to report new structures – but I don’t see how that gets Palin off the hook.
Look at it this way: I am responsible for paying my income taxes. I once did some moonlighting for a small business that failed to report my pay to the government – but it was still *my responsibility* to report that income when I filed my return and I was still liable for paying income tax for those earning even though I hadn’t been “caught” by the authorities.
If I had not paid those taxes, and later were found out, I would not in any way have been off the hook just because I had gotten away with it for a couple of years because the IRS had not audited me.
Congrats AKM on breaking the tax cheat story and for actually getting the credit you so richly deserve from the AP and elsewhere. You rock!
Thanks for the opportunity to let us all take part in the relaxation AKM.
As you have done an amazing job the last couple of days . . . .
Lemonades up–to you!
sdragon – I’m glad you saw them show the picture of the ‘cabin’ because I can’t find any sign of it on GMA’s website-
Jane in NC@15. GOL! (giggled out loud)
Lots of misinformation running around on the MSNBC ‘Cabingate’ thread and the mindless comparisons to some others re: taxes is staggering: each situation is a separate issue and are not comparable a la apples and carrots. I don’t have the time to fight the stoopid, unfortunately.
I don’t know if I left this on another thread here or somewhere else, but I think technically Van Flein’s statement is true: property owners do not have a responsibility to report the structures that ‘magically appear’ on their property.
But they do have the responsibility to report the VALUE of those structures. Cleaver, really, but that’s what lawyers do.
Anyhow, I think his and Meg’s statements take the wind out of the sails of any future trying to blame the whole thing on Scott Richter. We don’t know what arrangement they have with Mr. Richter, other than he takes care of the paperwork, apparently. The only way they can claim ignorance is if the agreement was that Richter was to be responsible for ALL taxes.
If that is the truth, why didn’t Van Flein say “The Palin’s agreement with Mr. Richter is that he was to pay 100% of all property taxes owed and as such the Palin’s were not aware of this oversight. They will be contacting him immediately to get the matter resolved.” or something like that. But no.
If taxes were split in any other way, I find it very hard to believe that the Palin’s never saw a copy of the tax bill that clearly showed a value of $0.00 for the structures they knew full well were there and valuable in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Scott may have done the reporting, but as co-owners, the Palin’s had equal responsibility to correct the error.
Again, have Van Flein or Meg Stapleton explained anything like this to us? No. And it’s too late now. If they try now, we will know for certain it is a lie.
Morning ~ Would be honored to have a gass of lemonade with you…
Rain here again today…not good with 3 doggies inside…have a great day everyone..be careful out there…
So, Tom Tancrado got the Teabaggers off to a good start by claiming that people who can’t spell the word vote or say it in English (huge applause) voted in the radical socialist.
I have read comments on right wing blogs and it isn’t US who can’t spell.
Over 2,700 posts on HuffPo for the tax evasion story. Fun!
Jane: it is just like Nixon when he said, “mistakes were made” not I made a mistake but they “were made.” Just like buildings “go up.”
Congrats on the tax story. The picture posted got me thinking…you should publish a small book or something with all of the beautiful Alaskan scenery (I’m thinking along the lines that Andrew Sullivan published his book). I’d totally buy it!
17.02.020LAND USE PERMIT.
(A)The land owner or authorized agent shall obtain a land use permit from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Department prior to the commencement of construction.
(1)the construction or placement of any building whose gross floor area is 480 square feet or greater;
(2)any addition exceeding 10 percent of a building’s gross floor area and that results in a total gross floor area of 480 square feet or greater;
(3)an increase in the number of dwelling units within those areas of the borough with land use regulations addressing the number of dwelling units;
(4)a change in the principal use of any lot or building within those areas of the borough with land use regulations addressing such uses;
(5)any development within a special flood hazard area, under the definitions set forth in MSB 17.29;
(6)the construction or placement of any structure within 75 feet of any watercourse or waterbody, under the definition set forth in MSB 17.55.020(D).
(B)Permitted construction activities shall commence within three years from the date of issuance of the permit. The applicant may request that the planning and land use director approve up to two 12-month time extensions.
(C)The planning and land use director may administratively grant minor modifications to an approved permit as long as the proposed modification complies with all code standards. Minor modifications shall consist of no more than a five percent change in gross floor area or a change of less than 10 linear feet in the placement of a building. The applicant shall submit an updated site plan and a narrative description of the proposed modification for the planning director’s review. No fee is required for the submission of a request for a minor modification to an approved permit.
(Ord. 06-192(AM), § 3 (part), 2007)
$carah, you’re not in Wasilla anymore.
I knew some of the anti-Obama conspiracy theories out there, but this article showed me the depth of the insanity.
Via Buzzflash on Twitter:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/obama-secret-police
And, BTW–Here’s something interesting; found this at the bottom of his bio on the firm’s website:
Mr. Van Flein is presently the Vice-Chair of the Anchorage Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals, appointed by Mayor Mark Begich in 2004.
Heh. Wouldn’t you think Van Fleabag knows something about land use and development? He’s lying, just like Stapletongue, and eventually, Palin, is.
Syrin calls the Safari Lake property “Todd Majal.”
Just caught David Schuster, MSNBC, just released e-mails showing Todd’s involvement in
running Alaska’s government. More to come….
This was just posted as a comment on HuffPo:
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MSNBC reporting that newly acquired e-mails show that Todd Palin (not a government employee, ever) actually helped craft policy for Alaska and leaked information concerning the oil company he worked for.
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Do we know anything about this yet??
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From that AP article: “Dunivan [the Mat-Su Borough tax assessor], however, said owners are required by state law to report any omissions or errors in their tax assessments.”
Required by law. And I think we can assume this person is a credible source.
Who embarks on *any* construction project like this without thinking about how it’s going to affect their taxes? And it’s not like their co-owner put up a storage shed and didn’t tell them – these are *houses* – and Sarah has volunteered that she has been there and stayed in them.
It’s been noted before that the Big Lake address for Richter Investments is the same one used by the Alaska Inaugural Committee. I was really curious about this and came across a recent report by the Center for Governmental Studies that describes how politicians use loopholes to evade campaign finance laws, where contributions are limited. Low and behold, one of the examples cited is the Alaska Inaugural Committee (I’ve also posted this in Palingates as junasie14):
“In Alaska, post-election donations to Governor Palin’s inaugural committee came from four mining companies, including Northern Dynasty, a co-developer seeking to influence Palin to speak out against a state-wide measure that would have imposed costly environmental regulations on mining operations. The mining interests did not play a major fundraising role in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. Alaska Inaugural Committee, Inc., the nonprofit corporation that raised funds for the events surrounding the inauguration, was not required to publicly disclose the amounts donated to it for inaugural balls and travel for the governor and her family.”
So this committee took in political donations which did not have to be disclosed, and their website directed all correspondence and donations to the same PO box in Big lake being used by Richter Investments (http://www.alaskainauguralcommittee.org/contact...). The site shows Debbie Richter as the Committee (and campaign) treasurer, and states that “any net proceeds will be donated to charities of the Governor’s choosing. None of the proceeds will be used to support any political party, candidate or for any other political or lobbying purpose.”
Ha! The study quoted above found that post-election donations were specifically made for lobbying purposes. And Sarah’s favorite charities are what again? Oh that’s right, there is no need for disclosure. Conflict of interest would appear to be an understatement here.
This certainly begs the question of what the relationship was between Richter Investments, this non-profit money machine, and some lovely vacation properties, not to mention one very busy post office box. Can $arah’s web be any more tangled?
lilybart @24 – I just got done reading the Raw Story article about Tancredo’s idiotic opening speech at the Tea Party convention. Omigawd – they just decided to start off with a big bang of crazy, eh ? $P’s going to have to work hard to beat that one.
Here’s the link : Tea party opening speaker says Obama won because US doesn’t require literay tests for voters – http://bit.ly/a4nOBS
Here’s a snippet :
>>The opening night speaker at the Tea Party convention suggested a return to a “civics literacy test” to protect America from presidents like Obama — a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
In his speech Thursday to attendees, former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”<<
Can you even imagine how many from the home-schooled far right would fail this miserably ? ( to be honest, I have to wonder how I'd do! )
Good morning AKM and puppies. Would be pleased to join you on the veranda having a tangy glass of lemonade with a sprig of mint from the garden while enjoying the gorgeous view.
Am gearing up for the impending snowstorm due to hit us later this afternoon. Predictions are for up to six inches with high winds. I have tickets to a concert I’ve been wanting to see for weeks and it looks as if I may miss it. Sigh.
My wonderful neighbor is excited because he will have the chance to use his brandy-spankin new snowblower to clear the sidewalks in the neighborhood. I appreciate his help more than I can say since my home is a large corner property (yes all our assessed taxes are up to date and correct including all structures thereon – LOL)
What a very satisfying turn of events lately – no?
I was sooooo pi**ed at the media yesterday for not crediting AKM with breaking this story. I went on every website I could to make sure they understood that she was the one who got the information and did the research and posted the blog that started it all and linked to Mudflats. I see, this morning, that she is finally get her richly deserved acknowledgment in the media! Fair is fair.
Someone commented over at Palin’s Questions (http://palinquestions.blogspot.com/) that other property owners are going to be angry because they may have added “cabins” without reporting them, and I replied that I question his attitude that laws only apply to those who choose to obey them? I believe that this is the crux of this matter.
I think this story has broader implications than what we see at the moment. The documented fact that she called someone else’s integrity into question over the precise thing she is a party to is utter and blatant hypocrisy. It is just jaw-dropping, mind-boggling mandation!
Not sure why but my post with a link to Tancredo’s remark at the opening speech of the Tea Party Convention saying that the only reason Obama won is that no longer require a civics/literacy test for voters. I thnk it’s because the word “bl@ck” was quoted in there. Here’s the link while we wait for it to resurface out of the mod vortex:
http://bit.ly/czxVsW
1,100 people signed up for Palin’s speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35249730/ns/politics-washington_post/
Article states the function sold-out, and people are being turned away. In my opinion this convention is fairly small for a “national” group.. just getting more media than it deserves.
Yep, MSNBC is breaking open the e-mails they got through FOI and they show that Todd had his hand in state affairs and confidential information being passes from an oil company.
I wonder how those pink handcuffs will look on them… I hope they have two pairs!
to wit: “Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor’s husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked “confidential” from his oil company employer to a state attorney.”
They invite everyone to go read, and pick them apart with any other information they might be able to put together.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics/
Here’s our chance.
#31,32 and 34. WOW…..the proverbial s%&* is hitting the fan!
Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that the first gentleman, Todd Palin, exchanged with state officials draw a picture of his influence on policy in the Sarah Palin administration. Other e-mails are still being withheld by the state of Alaska.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics
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About time!
Jinx R’ipley!
Today is looking very good so far.
Great job AKM, I think you opened that door Grannys always talking about!!!!
Can’t wait to see if she gives her speech! And what her wig looks like today! And does anyone else wonder if she got any sleep last night? LOL Shadenfreude, Thank you.
MSNBC story on Mr Palin Shadow Gov:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics/
Read it and rejoice. It think this gives a lot of strength to Andree McLeod’s case. I wonder if the Alaska Constitution has a statute on “private citizen unpaid advisors” in the ethics section.
Also there is some hanky-panky about financial disclosures from Tahd’s work email account at BP to his personal email and thence to the gov’t
email. That looks very damaging.
wooohoooo~ Turd has some splainin to do …loving this…LMBO
#37 @ Polly Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 7:23 AM
1,100 people signed up for Palin’s speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
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How many did they drag in off the street with a bribe of a free meal???
This is a great article this morning. Regarding Todd’s emails as “First Dude”–
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics
Wow! This MSNBC info. is unbelievable! Todd receiving and giving confidential info., holding government meetings, trying to get airplane rides for family on the citizen’s dime, hiding bills for tanning bed. It goes on and on…. I wonder what kind of Vice-President he would have made if McCain had won. This to me is one of the most damaging stories I’ve heard.
@ 48 LiladyNY
How many did they drag in off the street with a bribe of a free meal???
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So true. “Complimentary” tickets are often given to fill up a room at events.
Great story about T.P.’s activities as shadow governor as read in S.P.’s official e-mail messages!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics//
Forum discussion on how we can figure out what to do next to make sure the story gets legs can be found at the following.
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9350.msg100524/topicseen.html#new
When you read the article regarding Todd posted above, be sure and “rate” it so it goes up in popularity.
Just let me get my lemonade. Big news all over the tubes so I guess it would be a good time to sit back, relax & let the “wild rumpus roll”.
If any of you find anything good stuff re. emails, please consider posting it here and on the Forums, also too.
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9350.msg100524/topicseen.html#new
It’s a good way to keep the information organized and continually visible.
There’s so MUCH good info. Bree is giving brief snips of just a few emails she’s read so far and it’s just jaw-dropping.
The Alaskan laws appear to be unavailable to be applied in any instance with this former regime and its continuing holdovers. More’s the pity. We have a constitution; we are a duly constituted state fifty years old for crying outloud. In fact, we are crying out loud in the wilderness. Federal government do you hear us? Why are our laws not applied here in Alaska anymore? People are being run over slipshod. This state government needs to be reigned in.
My head is going to explode… I’ve been waiting for this since the very beginning, when I found AKM and this blog. There is SO MUCH stuff… and the thing is, we all knew about it ALL thanks to AKM. WE are so ahead of the game, that I can’t imagine the shock and awe of those people who have never heard any of this.
The door has been opened Mrs. Palin…. Plow on through! Unfortunately it’s going to lock behind you and have bars on it, but whatever!
UNbelievable. She even has emails about how to discuss her pregnancy. Tinfoil hat time!
..AKM’s news plus MSNBC e-mail story… when it rains it pours!! Spotlight on Sarah and the Alaskan Goverment machine… Parnell will be forced to do “the Right Thing” , or face repercussions at the polls, if he wants run for Governor.
I was just thinking of switching my glass of lemonade for a glass of champagne or is that premature?
I can feel the GOP slowly backing away from Sarah. Shun!
I think the SpongeBob song says it best, “It’s the Best Day Ever!”
Ha! Trapper Creek! I came up from Massachusetts last summer, rented an RV, picked up my grandkids in Anchorage and headed out for … Trapper Creek! Stayed overnight in the campground there. Very nice place. Strolled around the next morning; guess we must have walked in or viewed the swamp. Drove over to Talkeetna for lunch (a *great lunch, by the way). Felt like we were in McKinleyville, CA – very laid back. Thanks for the reminder of that great trip!
an excellent resource: http://www.crivellawest.net/
click on the left side list to look at whatever you want.
Just one of those emails is enough to land her in jail.
Trying to hide the cost of hooking up her tanning bed as part of legitimate government expenses. What idiot writes an email about that?!
14 tweetii,
You asked what the Lk Lucille taxes are. They are listed presently at $6,230 under the address at 1140 – 2.13 acres. That is for the 1st Wasillabilly house.
The 6,230 is for first house. The new building and back building that appears to be attached to the house in the pictures is new and has not been added as yet.
There is also a lot listed under address at 1120 for land only $1,365 – 2.16 acres. There was a Warranty Deed registered July 14, 2009 from Nevada Mak Jum to the Palins.
Question to Mudpups: Is the 1120 address the property next door that is seen in pics with the house painted white on it?? I ask because of it having a recent Warranty Deed registered or is it the land that the 2nd Wasillabilly house was built on??
http://www.matsugov.us/myproperty/detail.aspx?taxID=1054B01L004
Holy smokes, I just watched that video at MSNBC!!!! Trying to hide tanning bed expenses, Todd’s opinion being asked for policy decisions, trying to figure out how to handle the children’s travel? Plus, so much more !!!!!!!
Wow…and Wow. Todd was even more involved than I thought in running the state.
Shows that Palin couldn’t handle the job on her own. Doesn’t say much for her governing skills, does it. What the Hell was going on up there?
Gee…. is this on Foxnews yet? I bet not… and I bet they are all pulling their hair out right now! LOL
Wow. Just read the MSNBC article – reposting here.
They finally got their emails, and it’s not good. How bout this little snippet:
“……Sometimes information from outside flowed through him to the government. In one instance, the e-mails show, Todd Palin sent confidential financial information from his longtime employer, the oil and gas company BP, to a lawyer for the state, which does a lot of business with BP. The e-mail of financial results, written by Steve Marshall, president of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., was marked “confidential”; it told BP staff about financial results and the levels of annual bonuses to be received. Todd Palin received that e-mail from Glenn Trimmer, the secretary-treasurer of the United Steelworkers local where he was working while on a leave from BP. Palin forwarded the e-mail from his work account to his personal account, then forwarded it again from his personal account to an attorney for the state, along with financial details for a second year.
BP did not reply to a request for comment sent Thursday to the company’s press contact. …….”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics//
Somewhere there’s a post menopausal woman panting like a dog trying to memorize her note-cards for tonight’s big money grab. The tax evasion story
was perfect timing AKM. This email thing is huge! I’ve been reading about it all over the place, I’m not sure they’ll find anything illegal but she now has zilch credibility. There were things tawd didn’t even consult with let alone inform her of. I don’t think the state of Alaska is going to be very happy to find out a fish picker ran their state for 2-1/2 years without even being elected.
Todd was a private citizen and held NO position in the government, nor was he elected “by the people” to be privy to confidential information. How was any of his involement (making policy decisions, sitting in on meetings, getting confidential emails,etc) legal? He held NO public position.
It also said that he passed confidential information from his employer to influence decisions.
There is NO reason that ANY of his emails/comments,etc be redacted. NO REASON. He was a private citizen , and if he could see them….every private citizen should have the SAME rights as Todd Palin. Not allowing others to see them is setting up the Palin’s as “elitists” with special rights not available to “real American’s”.
I think a lot of heads should role with this information. Not only is it bad for Sarah and Todd, but what about others in goverment who included him in emails and decisions without taking a stand?
To me, these prove she unethical and a weak leader….she needs hubby to help her do her job. Another black eye to the women’s movement….she needs a man to help her do her job. Sad….very sad.
There are lawsuits in those emails. Especially Todd passing on confidential BP information to the state’s lawyers.
My goodness. Christmas again on a dark and dreary February day! I am going to join you, if I may, and bring along a tray of yummies! What a lovely, lovely day this is going to be!
Tidbits from msnbc article:
‘The governor coached her staff on how to disguise the amount of electrical work needed at the mansion to hook up her new tanning bed.’
(snip)
‘Often the governor wasn’t included on Todd Palin’s e-mails at all. The staff went straight to him, or he went straight to the staff.
On a Saturday afternoon, June 23, 2007, for example, Todd Palin wrote to Sarah Palin’s political aide, Ivy Frye, asking about a state judge to be appointed from the city of Soldotna. The name is omitted from the e-mail.
“I’m getting calls from Soldotna about the next judge appointment,” Todd Palin wrote. “Is (redacted) on the list, I’m getting calls from folks hoping he’s not selected. Let me know what’s happening so I can put to rest some of the rumors.”
Frye replies, “(Redacted) was nominated alond [sic] with 3 other guys-just received the names last wk. I’ve heard the same feedback as you. Gov has 45 days to make appt. Will interview in about 2-3 wks.”
Todd Palin replied, “Thanks, Ivy.”
That entire thread was actually in reply to a different topic, in which Frye passed on to Todd Palin detailed information about the Labor Department having wage and hour claims against a company whose owner had served on Todd Palin’s “Disaster Cabinet.” The e-mail describes the company’s back payments in detail, including what the company’s lawyer told the state about the owner’s debts.’
Bwahaahaahaa!!!
Why would they need a “strategy” to deal with the pregnancy??????
Now I know why I bought the box of 30 bags of micro pop corn on Wednesday!!!
S * IT, meet FAN
From Palinoia 41 minutes ago at Palingates:
Here is yet another area to research: The State of AK is citing that Todd was an “unpaid” advisor. I just found the confidentiality form that all employees have to sign, and some of the rules regarding nepotism, including those that apply to the Executive Branch.
Someone needs to dig through all of this, because, if they want to call Todd “an advisor, ie, employee” even if he wasn’t being paid, it would appear that there may be strict rules against it, since it is nepotism. Also, there are strict guidelines/statutes about who and when confidential information may be released, If Todd were a violation of the Nepotism rules, then he should NEVER have had any access or discussion with anyone regarding state business, especially that of a confidential nature.
Dig, dig, dig folks!
Here are the links:
Confidentiality Form (newest version):
http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/Human_Resou...
Personnel Management Memo, Statewide:
http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/DOP_Home/pd...
FAQ’s of Nepotism:
http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/DOP_Home/pd...
Statutes these policies were based upon:
AS 39.90.020, Nepotism prohibited, and AS 39.52.120 and AS 39.52.150, Executive Branch Ethics Act.
2 peo
No ethics. No scruples. No commonsense. No shame. It’s too much.
ok, I jumoed the gun a bit, I guess the correct term would be “perimenopausal.”
Although from personal experience I can attest to the fact that very stressful events can throw your *ss right into full blown menopause in a matter of weeks.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics/Palin_e-mail_reveals_a_powerful__first_dude_-83637157.html
More interesting details here:
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9350.new.html#new
“* The governor coached her staff on how to disguise the amount of electrical work needed at the mansion to hook up her new tanning bed.” and more.
baby gate:
From: benefits, benefits (DOA sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:10 PM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Health Dependent Enrollment update
Governor Palin
This is a reminder from the Benefits Section to let you know that, to date, we have not received the
dependent verification documents for your new child.
To ensure continued coverage for your newborn, please submit a copy of the child’s Birth Certificate
to us within 60 days of the date of birth. Claims submitted for your dependent child after this time
period will be pended until this documentation has been received by the Benefits Section.
If you have any questions or need assistance with this process, please contact our office. We would
be happy to help.
Thank you!
Benefits Section Division of Retirement and Benefits PO Box 110203 Juneau, AK 99811-0203 Toll
Free: 800-821-2251 In Juneau: 907-465-8600 Fax: 907-465-4668
fawnskin mudpuppy Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 8:56 AM
baby gate:
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Where is that dang birth cert again? Tawd!!!
Wow, the e-mail story is big. Am wondering how SP will manage to keep her chin up while delivering a speech tomorrow night. Yep, will be hard to pull away from the old computer today.
The MSNBC story says the emails they got cost them much less than the 5K Celtic Diva was charged:
“That’s still the laborious approach the state has taken, at what it says is a cost of more than $500,000 in staff time, but the prices it is charging have come down considerably. The state charged msnbc.com only $323.58 for the records released this week.”
74 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 8:40 AM
There are lawsuits in those emails. Especially Todd passing on confidential BP information to the state’s lawyers.
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this one realy stick out to me, wonder what BP has to say
So by last summer there were so many eyes watching the Alaska that Todd couldn’t do Sarah’s job for her any more, and she had to quit?
#88 @twain12 Says:
74 Seagull Junker Palin Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 8:40 AM
There are lawsuits in those emails. Especially Todd passing on confidential BP information to the state’s lawyers.
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this one realy stick out to me, wonder what BP has to say
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I imagine BP’s legal staff is figuring out how to distance themselves as far as possible from Todd Palin as we speak.
The Palins are crooks. Plain and simple.
If there was a journalist or a group of journalists out there in the MSM with a shred of integrity left (and some courage), they would MAKE their careers with the amount of information from the blogosphere on Palin and the corruption that was her half-ministration. If you even take ONE issue and investigate it, the fall-out would be enough to derail her starry eyed hopes for the WH.
Take this exchange between Olbermann and Wolfe last night re. R-Gate – the prominent question was “How will Palin respond when she is eventually confronted with her inconsistent, hypocritical and self serving stance in relation to the R Word controversy?”
My response? “HA! She will NOT be asked because a) she gets a pass to say and do anything with no press push-back and b) as was mentioned during the exchange by Wolfe, she doesn’t give press conferences so HOW will they push back even if they want to?”
No, there will be no push back. R-Gate will once again disappear into the blogosphere because the MSM is not interested in truth or even some form of investigative journalism.
My dream is that one day, someone with the nerve and the credibility will sack up and dive into the treasure trove of information on Palin, piece together every last fraudulent episode of her political life then present it to the world. Maybe after she is exposed so thoroughly, she will go away. They would have so much information already available to fact check and so many sources to interview. But alas. The dream remains unfulfilled.
opps, forgot to post the link….
http://firedoglake.com/2010/02/05/early-morning-swim-keith-olbermann-and-richard-wolffe-discuss-palins-selective-retarded-outrage/
Reading through the emails, it becomes very clear that she does not like Lyda Green. But then we knew that.
I have been a state employee in Ohio for 32 years and thought our politicos were corrupt and inept, but I have to take my hat off to you Alaskans! Your politicians are not only inept and corrupt, they also keep good records. Now you will have to watch her pals shoveling like cats with too little kitty litter, trying to hide the evidence at the same time they point at the other cats and claim “its all their scat and none of mine!”
And oh, I just want to say, if Palin really does show she’s got the conviction to stand up for Trig against ANYONE and comes out to specifically denounce Limbaugh, Beck and Rick Perry’s top aide for their offensive language like she did to Rahm – I will come onto this blog and personally pen and post my congratulations and applaud her on her stance. I promise.
Ok – so now, we wait.
Preserving electibility is the main concern of the Alaskan repub regime. What about our laws. Can’t they apply to those guys? If “they” break every one of those laws are there no ramifications for them? The in session Alaskan legislators need to sunset all the state of Alaska regulations as a first priority because I believe only selected laws and regulations are enforced anyway. If it’s a free for all can we just be honest and say so and that anything goes and oil companies can tell us what to do or not and then we can all go have a very stiff drink like in the good old days before they all got here?
RE tonight’s speech in Salina, at least she has one non-school-attending handler with her:
from http://www.salina.com/
“2/5/2010
TIM UNRUH
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Friday night’s speaker at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and dinner, landed in Salina at 8 p.m. Thursday.
According to chamber President and CEO Dennis Lauver, Palin was met at the Salina Airport by the chamber.
Palin, who is traveling with a daughter, is staying at a local hotel, Lauver said.
Palin will speak to a packed house at the chamber event at the Salina Bicentennial Center.”
This email mishegosh might not mean much now, but it will prevent her from seriously running for President. And that is enough for me! I can live with yet another wingnutty jerk on FOX, but she is DONE as far as serious governing is concerned.
London Bridges falling down, falling down. London Bridges falling down my Sarah lady! Take the key and lock her up, lock her up, lock her up!
…you’ll have a VERY long wait, aussiegal !!! best call up for a couple of cases of Foster’s to help pass the time…
More from Salina:
http://www.ksn.com/content/news/extra/story/Palins-Salina-visit-stirs-up-excitement/CRstbxg3kE6EF_8KiPsiww.cspx
“There doesn’t seem to be any liking or disliking,” said Daran Neuschafer, chairman of the board for the Salina Chamber of Commerce. “It seems to be loving and hatred.”
And for that, the Chamber has gotten more than it bargained for. Phone calls and e-mails have come in from members and non-members, voicing their disapproval.
“It’s gotten personal in some areas, which has been a little disgruntling,” Neuschafer said.
But it hasn’t stopped there. A group of Salina residents, who call themselves “Reality Not Celebrity”, are holding an alternative banquet at the same time as the Chamber’s banquet Friday night.
“When we first discovered that Sarah Palin was coming to town under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, we thought, ‘My gosh, surely there has to be a better set of ideas that represent this community,’” said David Norlin, organizer with Reality Not Celebrity.
rebekka: She will have no trouble holding her head up high because she is SHAMELESS.
The USA Today article on the Todd emails has an excellent photo of Todd and Sarah that should be added to the permanent collection of scary Palin images.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/msnbc-alaska-e-mails-show-todd-palin-deeply-involved-in-state-matters/1
Of course she won’t be prosecuted for anything in Alaska, governor no backbone Parnell is too busy suing the feds so he can get elected in the fall.
Can’t figure out why her emails seem to be largely coherent and in recognizable English while her speech is decidedly not. Does she fake abject stupidity when she speaks to appeal to ‘real Americans’ or is there some sort of developmental delay (note I did NOT use the ‘R-word’) in translating her written words to spoken ones?
We are posting some of the emails over in the forum if anyone wants to take a look. It is very obvious so far that Todd was heavily involved.
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9350.msg100546/topicseen.html#new
Fawnskin @84 – interesting email re: waiting for the new baby’s info for benefits. I wonder if was ever submitted or if they went an alternate route to take care of health coverage.
Decided I’d probably need some wine for this weekend so I took a walk to burn off some of this ” so much info!” energy. The owner of the store and the clerk mentioned that I looked rather perky. Gave them a quick synopsis of the Palin info that was surfacing. Both of them admitted to not knowing much about $P but that whenever she spoke , her stupidity made them want to throw things. They asked for more info about her and I launched in to it. It was like telling ghost stories around campfire! The look on their faces was priceless. I think someone could take “Stories of Granny Grifter” on the road and it’d be a hit.
Off to read more emails !
The thing that is most clearly exposed with these emails, is that Sarah Palin is a pathological liar.
So, anyone know what happened with the emails that Celtic Diva received? She has had them for a long time, and I have not seen a post on them. I was shocked to see the MSNBC ultimately paid around $300 for their emails, yet CD paid what – $5,000? Did I misunderstand this?
107 BuffaloGal Says:
start writing Right now
Search link for emails already down,
Keep trying.
http://www.crivellawest.net/
For the Tea Bag Nation, the tax avoiding/cheating will probably just enhance Sarah’s bonifieds. Aren’t taxes one of their main issues?
As for the Todd e-mail scandal, think of this. Todd was pulling all these shenanigans while still a member of AIP, which could be considered Alaska’s Tea Bag Party. He only dropped his membership when Sarah got the VP nod. Tea Baggers will still back them, but fortunately they are a crazy minority and most Americans in the middle will now get a good look at the Palins and turn away from her in my opinion.
I only hope when all is said and done, Todd and Sarah have done jail time and lost every penny of their new found riches and fancy homes and are sharing a cell with Vic Kohring at the prison in Taft, California. (Taft was formerly named Moron, how fitting) Then when they all get out they can share a trailer rented from Vic’s parents which they got a tax break on for being senior citizens as long as it wasn’t rented or used by anyone else. Man the Vally is full of tax cheats!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_centralia_s_final_days Came across this and though how many people remember or even knew about this.
“Palin, who is traveling with a daughter, is staying at a local hotel,”
Yes, the norwegian blue@97, and somebody has to be paying for that absolutely unnecessary extra airline ticket and hotel stay and food expense.
If the Palin family was paying her expenses, that would be fine. But I sincerely doubt that. So either the Salina CofC is, when there are about a bazillion better things they could do with that money to help their business members and the community, or (I suspect), she agreed to have the PAC pay for her and the Nameless Daughter’s travel expenses, which is not what it says the money is going to when you donate to SarahPAC. Which really is fraud. Legal fraud perhaps, but fraud nonetheless.
Is this not the epitome of ‘wasteful spending’? Paying Pillow’s or Billow’s travel expenses ain’t gonna create a single job, now, is it? I thought Conservatives were watchdogs, against wasteful spending. How can one brain have such a disconnect?
Huh… funny, nothing on the Fox News home page about all of this….
Color me shocked :\
Rob in CA, I think that is right. I am annoyed as I contributed to Celtic Diva. Let me hasten to add that I am not annoyed with CD, but the people who charged her so much.
BuffaloGal, it’s after six here and I am already enjoying a glass of wine. I expect my spelling will get considerably worse over the next few hours!
I am so enjoying all this.
It seems that the State has a problem with producing “public records”
for a reasonable charge. There is a reason WHY they are called PUBLIC
Can we do a survey of how many Governors discuss confidential government info with their spouse? And the spouse has a desk at the Capitol? And info is flowed to & from the Gov. office via the spouse?
BP point is interesting …….
Do believe this could be a bag of worms for everyone involved.
KateinCanada@89 – I think you’ve hit the nail on the head!
some talking heads on MSNBC thing this is not going to hurt her, things it’s quite common that spouses are involved in running the office.
@ 05 Mickey7 Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 9:55 AM
Can’t figure out why her emails seem to be largely coherent and in recognizable English while her speech is decidedly not. Does she fake abject stupidity when she speaks to appeal to ‘real Americans’ or is there some sort of developmental delay (note I did NOT use the ‘R-word’) in translating her written words to spoken ones?
Okay, I was sort of remembering my own kids (both having learning differences) that one could do the computer better than he could talk and the other could talk better than he would write.
(I always said that if I could smash the two of them together with their differences I would either have a god or a vegetable. Talk about opposites.).
So I looked up dysphasia, being one of those labels that had been thrown around when the docs where trying to label the kids.
Web MD:dysphasia
Pronunciation (dis-fā′zē-ă)
Impairment in the production of speech and failure to arrange words in an understandable way; caused by an acquired lesion of the brain.
Syn: dysphrasia
Now they used this with the one who could talk but not write. So I really don’t know if it could be used for those who write but can not talk coherently.
So could this be true for SP??? Naw, I don’t think so. I don’t think she actually writes the facebook or the emails.
By the way, the labels on my kids?? now 25 years old and 30 graduated from college?? They ended up with paragraphs written on how the wiring was just different in their brains.
Yup, labels. Jeez
think not thing , sorry
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/msnbc-alaska-e-mails-show-todd-palin-deeply-involved-in-state-matters/1
Major King Kong bumpit.
Not an attractive look.
another guy just mentioned that he agrees that it is not unusual for spouses to be involved but that the BP thing warrants some more looking into
Why is her writing better in the emails? In the emails she knows exactly what she wants to say. “Hire my friend. Get rid of my enemy. Pick up the kids. Help me finagle something.” It’s not hard to articulate these. Policy statements, not so much.
twain12@119, but how common is it that a spouse is involved to this extent? not very, i think. the extent of todd’s involvlement is stunning. clinton openly delegated healthcare to hillary and look how the rightwing went nuts over that.
i think the worst parts are the parts that are shady (hiding tanning bed costs) or illegal (todd’s sharing confidential bp info).
also, the fact that todd was still a member of the AIP while acting as shadow gov lends a real sliminess to his actions.
The “Tea Party” convention got underway in Tennessee Thursday evening with former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo kicking it off with these words, “People who could not even spell the word ‘vote,’ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.” According to CNN, the statement was followed by cheers.
The featured speaker for the weekend in Alaska’s very own Sarah Palin.
Okay, pups, what does the T in T-Party stand for?
haTe
inTolerance
bigoTry
stupidiTea
Trouble
Tipsy
Tangled
Tormented
Twisted
?????????
I have a sinking feeling that none of this will hurt her….i’m sure anything that could have hurt her was blacked out under the guise of privilege.
126 txindygirl Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:45 AM
also, the fact that todd was still a member of the AIP while acting as shadow gov lends a real sliminess to his actions
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i hope something will stick.
not quite sure why they are turning down attendees for the palin speech after 1100 have bought tickets. i attended a function at Opryland that had over 8000 people sitting down in one room and there was another function as big or bigger at Opryland Hotel the same weekend and the two large groups never even used the same restrooms……….this is how big that place is.
so why only 1100 seats?
btw – about ten years ago is when i attended the function. the hotel at that time employed 50 full-time horticulturists to tend the gardens. yes FIFTY.
Oh ye of little faith Twain12. This is the MSM now. Before it was just bloggers. She can write us off easily. Once Fox starts to do their jobs, THEN you know it’s over for her.
And PS… is my new Gravatar showing up? hehehheh
,,Spouses giving opinions and being asked to present something to the office holder has been a normal event since King and Queen times…HOWEVER.. I don’t think they DIRECTLY were in the loop, or made and implemented decisions concerning the goverment and its appointees on their own… Hillary was on the healthcare bit , but she WAS appointed by Bill, and a public announcement was made in that regard. and it was said/documented that Pat Nixon was sort of holding things together at the end when Tricky Dick Nixon was losing it from Watergate…but THAT is not the same as what’s being portrayed here..
OOps… it’ll take an hour… here is a preview though…http://tinyurl.com/2zsquj
If the Republicans are the party of “No”, maybe the Tea Party is the party of “Taint”?
I’ve been checking out the recently posted palin email database, very cool!
There was one interesting email correspondence I came across where Todd seems interested in some guy named Terry Clark. Frank Bailey is using state staff and resources to do a background check on him on behalf of Todd.
To find it just do a search on ‘Clearly Arctic’ here: http://www.crivellawest.net/
This email database is a treasure trove waiting to be plundered.
jojobo1 Says:
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Centralia? Yep…I lived in Northcentral PA for 30 years before retiring to NC to be near the children.
I remember Centralia very well.
Gee whiz, it’s hard to get off to work, with all the latest revelations in the Palin Kingdom. At 11 a.m. I’ll tune in to Shannyn’s radio show, play it in the background, while I file or something, to hear Shannyn’s take on what’s going on.
txindygirl Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Major King Kong bumpit.
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…methinks TWO bumpits, one to cover each horn!
130 ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck,
CNN is reporting that the Bagger events that are going on right now with the various learning sessions like “Networking” and “How to get youth involved” are only 600 tickets.
https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1707
is the link to sign a petition (Obama/Salazar) protesting opening the Beaufort Sea to offshore drilling, which, for those unfamiliar with Alaska’s (huge!!) geography, is adjacent to ANWR.
Please sign and distribute widely. If this stuff interests you as much as it does me, become a Biogems Defender (just your email) while you’re there. Thanks.
Health and peace!
Whoa. I hope the they enjoy those E-mails with their “Tea”. Such insight into the workings of a “reformer” governor and first dude.
#86 rebekkah says:
Am wondering how SP will manage to keep her chin up while delivering a speech tomorrow night.
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I don’t think her base care to read negative things about her, even if it’s about truth…she knows this and will be fine with it. One benefit to her is that she fell into the most loyal and do-not-want-to-be-informed crowd that ever lived.
Even if this never puts her behind bars, her Kingdom of Palinbots will forever feel betrayed, her Fox colleagues, anyone who put their total trust in her. It’s going to be a hard weekend for those who defended her to the last straw.
There are too many indiscretions in these e-mails for anyone make more excuses. It’s over for Sarah as far as her integrity and banner of righteousness is concerned.
twain12@128 – you betcha!
ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck@130 – my guess is that they want to be able to say they turned people away. no need to mention that capacity wasn’t an issue…. move along folks… nothing to see here… please ignore the empty seats…
Yea, wonder how these emails affect Sarah’s status as a credible commentator on Fox News? Will Fox really have her on the news giving her advice/opinions?
It’s been said that during the last part of Reagan’s term that he was in the early stages of alzheimers and that Nancy took over many duties.
Oh, now I get Tawd’s involvement!
Lainey @141 – just posted and hadn’t read your reply – agree, there’s an element of her followers like you say, who will be in denial, but where are their boundaries? How much damage does she have to do before they decide enough is enough? The rice-eaters are going to have a hard time with this, I’ll bet.
“Palin E-mails” currently #1 in “Top Stories” on Google News!
I see London, I see France, I see Palin’s underpants(on fire)
Lainey, sorry me again. Just wanted to clarify, that you didn’t say, “about bots being in denial” – I just inferred from what you said that it meant that. Am doing the word game here – didn’t want to put words in your mouth. Should have quoted your response first. Blah. Too much coffee!
I think the reality is that people who love her won’t think anything of this and will accuse others of being ridiculously picky. In fact, they will probably laud her for ‘subjecting’ herself to her husband’s input. People who know she’s a corrupt politico will simply see this as more evidence to support their position. Meg Stapleton will come out on the offensive attacking the msm and left-wing blogs. Levi, Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt will maintain radio silence with what they know about Palin. In short, nothing will change.
How much you want to bet Scott Richter takes the fall for the tax fiasco on their shared property? The woman is Teflon as long as she inspires blind faith and has plenty of willing fall guys. What I can’t figure out is how she finds so many people to fall on their swords for her.
So many great links and comments!! I’m laughing and learning and am surrounded by open browser windows. There is no way desk work is being done today. I’m just hoping that the poor house I finally end up in has a wifi connection.
I have a question for those souls who managed to get through a reading of $P’s magical mystery novel – When she talks about her trip to Texas for the energy conference, ( wild ride) – Does she mention the days before going ? Does she mention anything about ” Todd and I had been looking forward to this trip” or something similar ? Thanks!
Oh no! Shannyn’s show is coming on soon. How much input can an aging brain handle before it catches fire ?
Irishgirl – I might have to join you in that cocktail soon! ( well …not IN the cocktail. that’s just crazy talk )
Tancredo had the balls to stand in front of Teabags and denigrate people who can’t spell? Did they throw their shoes at him? Morans.
At the very least, it’s over for any presidential aspirations. At least today confirmed that.
I read that the State of Alaska only charged NBC like $325 for ALL of this info.
Sine we KNOW how much S’carah hated ( obsessed about ) the AK bloggers you can be 99% SURE that the outrageous amount they asked Celtic Diva to pay compared to the MSNBC request can not be justified. This was PERSONAL and I am sure S’carah had directed ‘ her People ‘ to find ways to stop it.
S’carah’s PEOPLE thought that Celtic Diva would not pay that amount ( if it was large enough ) or she couldn’t. They thought the problem was solved. Silly Sarah. She always ‘ misunderstimated ‘ the ingenuity and will of the Bloggers to get the Truth out.
I think Celtic Diva has a case to be made that she get some sort of a refund.
How else could you ‘ explain ‘ it or spin their excuse.
Poor Scarah! Such a rough week for her, The ScarahPac, The Property Tax Evasion, and now ALL these Emails that show how manipulative and underhanded she is.
Oh dear, I don’t think honest law abiding Christians or fans or Republicans are going to view this too favorably. No siree, those who were on the fence will be off and those already against her will use all this to point out she is not who the Repubs should back.
Romney and Huck fans will be pouring through these emails to find dirt, and gosh there is so much dirt when you look closely, eh?
Can’t happen quick enough for me. Stop this crazy lady and the hate groups.
Shannyn is on.
Wonder how this will affect the campaigning for McCain and Perry. Will they still want her support. How will they get out of this dilemna. Wonder what Steve Schmidt is thinking?
Buffalo Gal is right. Here too, I can almost smelling the smoke coming out of my ears.
Poor Scarah! Such a rough week for her, The ScarahPac, The Property Tax Evasion, and now ALL these Emails that show how manipulative and underhanded she is, it also shows how incapable she is on her own, and oh dear, her ethics are showing.
No doubt the sticky or illegal docs were withheld or redac’d. And hopefully they will not be or are not destroyed. At this point that would fall under Parnell and his administrations responsibility, I wonder if he’s willing to take that risk, I guess he would if he had to cover his own butt too.
And isn’t the recent AK Supreme (?) Court Judge settlement in favor of the gov using private email accounts coming at a convenient time, bet that Judge knew MSNBC was getting these emails. Did Toad help appoint him? or were Toad and Scarah influential in keeping him in his seat after his drunk driving arrests, that brought cries of “disbar and that he should step down”, so he could be a useful tool down the road.
I don’t think honest law abiding Christians or Republicans are going to view this too favorably. No siree, those who were on the fence will be off and those already against her will use all this to point out she is not who the Repubs should back.
Romney and Huck fans will be pouring through these emails to find mud worthy of slinging, and gosh there is so much dirt when you look closely, eh?
Can’t happen quick enough for me. Stop this crazy lady and the hate groups.
161 rebekkah,
Read this morning that Brown is going to stump for McCain so he may toss his “queen” to the curb as Brown is the “golden boy” now
lol, sorry for double post, it didn’t want to go through the first time and I added to it the second try.
Irishgirl Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Rob in CA, I think that is right. I am annoyed as I contributed to Celtic Diva. Let me hasten to add that I am not annoyed with CD, but the people who charged her so much.
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Not sure that the cheque has actually been sent (I think that number was their initial quote designed to scare her off). But if she has paid, CD should ask for a refund!
LOL! http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2010/02/05/e-mails-reveal-piper-palin-ran-alaska-in-2008/
E-mails reveal Piper Palin ran Alaska in 2008
February 5, 2010 by William K. Wolfrum
[snip]
“If we pay one cent. One cent in taxes, I will poop myself,” Piper Palin wrote to the family attorney from her Yahoo e-mail account – Barracuda2@yahoo.com. “Do you hear me Poop!”
While many political observers question whether it was proper for a child to have such power in the oil-rich state, one anonymous Republican said that it was normal operating procedure.
Shannyn is rocking!
166 @The Problem Child
Made my day!
If you don’t want to d/l Silver whatever Gates’ software to hear Shannyn’s show:
http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/Media/player/view/kudo4.asp?call=kudo&title=ListenLive&skin=KUDO
jojobo1–the spouse LOVES telling people about Centralia.
So many e-mails, so little time… I love the “Backstory” portion of the MSNBC story (page 2):
“State officials said they could not figure out how to electronically search or distribute the e-mails. But such work is the bread and butter of firms like Crivella West, a Pittsburgh company which offered to do that work for the state for free. After the state ignored its offer, msnbc.com contacted the company, which agreed to scan in the photocopies to turn them back into searchable text, and to set up the documents in a public archive.”
So, Crivella gets the publicity of a lifetime. I hope they are good corporate citizens
After reading more of the Palin emails, one thing that really stands out is the sheery amount of @$$-kissing performed by Ivy Frye. It is off the charts and sickening, really.
Don’t know why ya alls are getting so excited about some media outlet finally covering the Todd Palin email crap… those of us who are regular readers of AKM’s and Shannyn’s and IM and Diva and a bunch of others knew about that garbage a year and a half ago. Wtf took the media so long? Did they only discover this week that a number of the AK bloggers have a high level of credibility??
68 ds55 Says: February 5th, 2010 at 8:24 AM
Just one of those emails is enough to land her in jail.
Trying to hide the cost of hooking up her tanning bed as part of legitimate government expenses. What idiot writes an email about that?!
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ummmm… hahahaa!… ummm… s’error palin d’idiot?
there are no boundaries with those zombie-like people…in their hateful, incited feeding frenzy against ‘the man’…I pray that these new email & tax stories, that are hitting all the airwaves, are on some unstoppable runaway train and at the end of the line diminishes and destroys her power in a huge way!
I’ve been to Centralia… Paula, too, perhaps. Smokey and stinky on Rt 61.
For those concerned about faux’ lack of coverage, I will give them credit for covering the bullying death in western MA. Maybe they can convince s’error to head on up to South Hadley and conduct the investigation that the school district seems unwilling to do… would keep her out of trouble!
Wonder what my sorry ass Gov. Perry thinks about a tax cheat coming to campaign for him this Sunday ??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tWZNxnABk
I’m hoping folks like Andree McLeod and Andrew Halcro will be file some suits about BP, travelgate, and committee appointments that are revealed in the emails.
Celtic Diva talking to Shannyn right now.
Not one word on the Ocean of Urine site about Cabingate or Shadow Governor emails.
LiladyNY–awww, are they upset or something? Are they not having a good week? Maybe we should send them a plate of cookies or something…! /snark
Celtic is ripping on the State. She tucked away the refund she got (she still paid thousands to MSNBC’s $300 and change) from the State pending a ruling on privilege claimed on some of the e-mails. That’s what I guessed she was up to. (see my post on the cabin thread in response to RRH).
From NBC: A broader request by msnbc.com and other news organizations for all e-mails sent and received by the governor and about 50 top officials — about 25,000 in all — is still pending. Last week, Sarah Palin’s former staff, now working for Gov. Sean Parnell, requested additional time, as required by the public records law, to respond.
This is only the TIP of the iceberg!
Shannyn h/t to Mudflats again for the break cabingate
#181 @ InJuneau Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 2:30 PM
LiladyNY–awww, are they upset or something? Are they not having a good week? Maybe we should send them a plate of cookies or something…! /snark
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Based on my last post at #183, I think they’re gonna need a big ol’ sheet cake of mandation!
Holy Hoosegow Batman!
Can you say fraud, ethics violations, State of Alaska Constitutional violations, tax fraud, violation of Employee Confidentiality Agreements, conflict of interest, collusion? I’m sure an attorney can put it all into perspective for us.
About now, I bet Sarah is wishing she would have “blinked” when John McCain knocked on her door.
Do you think this all would have come out if she had said NO. Before August 2008, no one in the Lower 48 had any idea who Sarah Palin was; she’d probably still be Governor, and getting away with anything she wanted.
Thank heavens she said “YES” to McCain.
I lived through the whole Watergate saga back in the 70′s, and this story is following the exact same path. Started out small, and continualy grew bigger and bigger until Nixon resigned.
I wonder who they’ll get to play Todd and Sarah in the movie ? Who will play Meg ? And who will play AKM ?
Oh. my. goodness.
What a busy day here on the Mudflats and also too throughout the tubes! Only halfway through comments but must jump in:
R’ipley @60
Good one! As a third generation door-slammer (reformed), there’s something deeply satisfying about this image.
aussigal77 @ 97
I, also, too. What you said.
*waiting with aussigal*
*er, also too going to finish the comments and follow some links*
sauerkraut Says:
February 5th, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Don’t know why ya alls are getting so excited about some media outlet finally covering the Todd Palin email crap… those of us who are regular readers of AKM’s and Shannyn’s and IM and Diva and a bunch of others knew about that garbage a year and a half ago. Wtf took the media so long? Did they only discover this week that a number of the AK bloggers have a high level of credibility??
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my thoughts exactly. we must be spirit twins.
Of course cofp site would say nothing, why tell any members who did not read or hear about it an idea of what is going on or how corrupt palin seems to be
Other spouses may contribute to discussions at home or like Bill Clinton did appoint Hillary but none had their spouse do illegal things like looking up police records ect like palin seems to have done.police officers who do things like that can be fired with cause. No one wants a twofer IMO thats one reason Hillary lost.
Before the recession, I was employed in a job that required confidentiality. I got information all the time I couldn’t share or talk about. My husband was in the same boat several years ago. Neither one of us ever talked about confidential information. Neither of us asked the other for advice in confidential matters. We’d occasionally talk about laws or ethics, but never ever a specific case. Ever.
This is like a speeding ticket. Yes, others have done it and not been caught. But the Palins have been caught, so they’re the ones that get a ticket.
Not politically relevant, but another example of the spinning hamster wheel that is the Grifter’s brain: In one email (June 7, 2008) she entreats her staff to make sure “lots of fresh fruit and veggies-no processed foods” are available for the kids- then in the very next sentence wants to set up a tab at El Sombrero. Although Mexican food is delicious, Crunch Wrap Supreme is usually not connected with “healthy eating”. Reviews of El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant (Juneau) mention blandness, but recommend the Halibut Fajitas.
BuffaloGal @109
I’ll join you around that campfire. “Tales of Granny Grifter” sounds spectacularly spooky/scary. I may have to polish one up, myself. (Must finish polishing a curious marble from Lee323 first, though.)
txindygirl @128 Amen, sister!
Moose Pucky @ 129
T in T-party also, Too: cheaT and depraviTy
and sTinkeroo (that one’s from my cousin Sally, of blessed memory)
and @ 136 “If the Republicans are the party of “No”, maybe the Tea Party is the party of “Taint”?”
Too True. tuttuttut
Almost dark here in my forest. I’m a speedy speller, but a terribly slow typist. peck…peckpeck… peck… so I need to wrap this up and sign off for tonight.
For $arah PAYlin and her minions, I offer the Rabbi’s prayer for the Czar: God bless you and keep you…Far Away from me (and the Mudpuppy Nation, also, too)!
To all of the Mudpuppy Nation, Shalom Bayit, Peace in Your Home.
*flying off to light the candles, break bread, drink some wine, and enjoy the progressing of the weekend*
If she had said no to mccain, and thats a big if, she would’ve been a multi-term governor and robbed the AK people left and right! BUT that would’ve been their problem, not mine.
As we dig through the infamous e-mails, don’t forget to share what you find! We are discussing this in the Forum as well- join in
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9350.msg100629/topicseen.html#new
This link will get you right intoo the forum.
@ # 162 Say No
“And isn’t the recent AK Supreme (?) Court Judge settlement in favor of the gov using private email accounts coming at a convenient time…”
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Judge McKay, whose decision you are referring to, is not on the Alaskan Supreme Court. Andree McLeod has filed a Reconsideration motion with McKay. If he refuses to change his decision, then it may be reviewed by the Alaskan Supreme Court. See AKM’s most recent post on “Dude, Who’s My Governor?” Near the bottom of that post, she has a link for the Reconsideration motion.
Mudflatters!!!
Congrats to AKM and themudflats.net!
Shoutout from Keith Olbermann tonight when he showed the “cabin” picture and credited themudflats!
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10037/1033996-84.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml
Fox paying for TV studio in sarah’s home
Tawdry, Tortured, Tainted T-Party.