Remember that email that was blasted out to everyone who ever donated to Sarah Palin’s (il)legal defense fund?  The one that decried the “vicious campaign” perpetrated by left-wing activists to destroy her, and was sent at exactly 2:18pm Alaska time?  It talked about all the “hysterical commentaries” from the lamestream media about the ruling that her legal defense fund [...]

  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.  [...]

Linda Kellen Biegel is the proprietor of the Blue Oasis blog and has done an outstanding job of following up on many issues involving ethics complaints, ethics legislation and how we can hold our elected officials accountable to us, the people who elected them. While it takes effort to participate, and give testimony, and maintain [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

Another ethics complaint was filed today against Governor Sarah Palin.  That makes a baker’s dozen!  Somewhere there’s got to be a lawyer who will charge for the first twelve and do the 13th one free.  You know….like a punch card. Eagle river resident Kim Chatman charges that Palin’s newly formed “Alaska Fund Trust” violates the sections of [...]

The amazing shape-shifting, now you see it – now you don’t Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund is coming soon….we think. Last week some guy from Texas started one because Bill O’Reilly said he’d give money to it.  Palin mouthpiece Meghan Stapleton was quick to come out with a statement disavowing it, and saying that they [...]

This doesn’t happen often, but it does occasionally.  I write a post, and then days later I find it in my ‘Draft” folder.  I stare at it for a minute and think “Surely, there’s some mistake.”  I know I posted that!  But, no.  There it is….all dusty and never used, sitting in my closet.  And [...]

There are certain milestones in a professional career that mark an ascension, an achievement, a distinction….they are a clear message that you have “arrived.”  Depending what the career is, it might be the corner office, the primo parking spot, your name on the letterhead, or the ever-popular six weeks of vacation. For Alaska politicians, there [...]