Today in the Hotel Captain Cook a press conference was held in the “Advenuture Room” and as I settled in to my seat I thought to myself, what a perfect location.    The purpose of the press conference was to discuss the ruling on an ethics complaint filed against Sarah Palin almost a year ago.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By Linda Kellen Biegel Blue Oasis *************************** Sarah Palin filed her final POFD (Public Officer Financial Disclosure) on time according to APOC (Alaska Public Offices Commission) rules. However, Palin has proven herself to be selective as to which rules she chooses to follow and how completely she follows them. For example, we’ve seen nothing “disclosed” [...]

I know what you’ve all been thinking.  Yeah, there’s SarahPAC, and yes there’s Sarah Palin’s legal defense fund, The Alaska Fund Trust, and you’ve donated to both.  You may have even donated to the campaign.  But you’ve been frustrated because you want to find a fresh new way to open your wallet in the name [...]

It’s interesting to seethe spin coming from the Palin camp regarding the newly discovered illegality of Palin’s legal defense fund, The Alaska Fund Trust.  Trustee Kristan Cole is spinning so hard in her panicky 3-page press release, you might as well just give her a funny hat and call her a whirling dervish. Part of the basis for [...]

Well, the dust-storm kicked up yesterday by the leaking of the investigator’s findings regarding the Alaska Fund Trust is still raging.  Presumably taken off-guard, the Palin administration and the Alaska Fund Trust have been scrambling. A three-page, single-spaced, 10 pt. type press release just came from Kristan Cole, the Trustee of the Alaska Fund Trust.  [...]

[Read this story at The Huffington Post and Buzz it Up!] The Alaska Fund Trust, the most hubristically-named piece of legal defense fundraising in the state of Alaska, has felt the sunshine of scrutiny, and it isn’t holding up too well.  It seems as though the Associated Press got its mits on some interesting information [...]

Is there such a thing as too much blog material?  Back in the old days before Sarah Palin was on the national scene, I’d cruise around the internet to see what was happening, and when I was stricken with inspiration, I’d create a post.  Sometimes they were long, sometimes short.  Sometimes inspiration came right away, [...]

Anchorage resident and registered Republican Andrée McLeod has filed an ethics complaint today with the Attorney General’s Office charging that Governor Palin violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act and knowingly, intentionally and willfully abused her official position and state resources for partisan political purposes and withheld official action for personal and political interests. “We’ve [...]

Wasilla resident Zane Henning will be filing an ethics complaint today against soon-to-be-ex-governor Sarah Palin for continuing to collect per diem expenses from the State of Alaska while still living in, and commuting from her own home. One of the things that will still be getting some attention from government watchdogs, and legislators are possible [...]

It an amazing display of a different kind of “don’t ask, don’t tell,”  the Palins when asked to disclose how much the gifts Todd Palin receives from Arctic Cat (his sponsor for the Iron Dog snowmachine race) are worth, and they replied with silence.  They “can’t” tell us.  (looking around furtively and whispering in your ear)  [...]

Regarding this latest ethics complaint against Gov. Sarah Palin to be dismissed, filer Andree McLeod says that “her publicly funded partisan and publicly funded state staff and resources for personal partisan political purposes that have nothing to do with the state’s interests and everything to do with her personal, extremely partisan political Washington, D.C., beltway [...]