Palin Emails: Todd is a “private citizen”…except when he’s not…
I have a little bit of personal experience with this Palin email thing. However, mine were so redacted, they were no fun at all. So, like many others, I’ve enjoyed making up my own searches of the awesome 2011 Palin Email Database, courtesy of MSNBC and Crivella West. The REAL fun happens when I’m searching [...]
Voices from the Flats – Will Palin Be Hit With Another Abuse of Power Finding?
By Geoffrey Dunn Sarah Palin’s erstwhile attorney Thomas Van Flein issued another of his bizarre missives on Palin’s Facebook page yesterday in what appeared to be a strange portent of a forthcoming legal ruling ready to crash down on Palin. In a commentary posted on a judge’s recent ruling in Alaska dismissing a suit filed [...]
Sarah Palin’s (un)Ethical Legacy Lives On
I remember back to August/September of 2008 when then-Governor Sarah Palin was the VP pick of John McCain. I was watching the news and Jason Moore of KTUU was covering the Republican National Convention. My jaw dropped when I saw State of Alaska employee, the Governor’s Communications Director Bill McAllister* chatting with Jason Moore about [...]
Oyster Round Up!
~Thick and fast they came at last and more, and more, and more! Here’s a round up of all the things that blipped on the radar this week that we would have written about if our request for a 72 hour day instead of the 24 hour one had been granted. Palin v. Common Sense [...]
Voices from the Flats – Geoffrey Dunn on Palin’s Latest Lie
One of our favorite contributors is Mudflatter, award-winning writer and filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn. His must-read book The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power will be published by St. Martin’s Press. Sarah Palin’s Latest Facebook Lie By Geoffrey Dunn Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin — recently dubbed by Gabriel [...]
Palin’s Legal Defense Fund Shell Game **UPDATED**
Yesterday, I was alerted to an entry by Sarah Palin’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, on the Palin Mansour Facebook Page (I bolded the information required to make a few salient points): Yesterday we learned that another “ethics” complaint that was filed against Governor Palin was dismissed as baseless. (If you are counting, the Governor is 26-0-1 regarding such complaints or [...]
Dude, Who’s My Governor?
It’s always the quiet ones… Behold the Shadow Governor. It looks like Todd Palin really did live up to his nickname. A huge quantity of emails from the State of Alaska have been released – not for the $15 Million originally quoted to MSNBC who made the records request almost a year and a half [...]
Voices from the Flats – Transparency in Public Records
>>>>>>>SSSKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!<<<<<<<<<<<<< That’s the noise of my fingernails dragging across the ground. I’m trying to resist, and I don’t know if any of you noticed or not, but I have myself a little much needed hiatus from Sarah Palin. The Alaska Legislature is in session, and matters of tremendous urgency have been going on on a [...]
Ethics Complaint Filed – Palin Still Begging Money from the Public
Those of you counting ethics complaints on your fingers and toes are about to run out soon. Yesterday another ethics complaint was filed against ex-governor Sarah Palin by her one-time political ally, Republican Andrée McLeod. This particular complaint addresses Palin’s legal defense fund, hubristically named “The Alaska Fund Trust.” Back in July, we learned through [...]
Palin Ethics Complaint – The Next Generation
Today, a brand new ethics complaint was filed against Sarah Palin. No, you’re not reading an old post by mistake. This is a new generation of ethics complaint. Ethics 2.0, if you will. It has been filed based on information revealed when ethics watchdog Andrée McLeod reviewed emails she obtained in response to a public [...]
Odds & Ends
Show Up for Wildlife TONIGHT! You’ve got just enough time to grab dinner and head out for the Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory meeting tonight at 6:30. It will be at the Rabbit Creek Rifle Range in the building on the north side of the lot. There will be many issues discussed involving the wolves [...]
Voices from the Flats – The Trooper in Troopergate Breaks His Silence.
Here’s something that will make you all chuckle. I remember back in the early days of Troopergate when it was first being reported that the governor had it in for a certain State Trooper named Mike Wooten who was formerly married to her sister Molly. Rumors were beginning to percolate that the newly removed former [...]
Voices from the Flats – Palin Critic’s Attorney on Being “Named” in Going Rogue
Governor Girl Agoniste By Donald Craig Mitchell Last July in Fairbanks, with Todd smiling at her side and Piper sitting in her lap, Sarah Palin watched Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell take the oath to fill out her term in office as Governor of Alaska. Then she vanished. For the past four months the Forty-Ninth State [...]
Pop, Ooze, Dung, and the Alaska Personnel Board.
Lots of good stuff floating around the internets. Here’s a little smorgasbord of tasty treats you may have missed. POP! Gubernatorial candidate Bob Poe wrote an excellent compass piece for the Anchorage Daily News that begins like this: I support equal rights for all people. And I support banning discrimination in Anchorage due solely to [...]
Oyster Round Up!
It’s been a busy week behind the scenes here at Mudflats Central. Summer’s end is in sight. Rainy season is here. And it’s only one week until I head off to Netroots Nation, thanks to all of you who so kindly voted for my scholarship. And thanks to those of you who have hit the [...]
