Palin Rumors

[JackSpratts]

"I gave a direction to all my commissioners if they were ever in their house, whether it was Juneau or elsewhere, they were not to get a per diem because, clearly, it is and it looks like a scam -- you pay yourself to live at home."

- Tony Knowles, the democratic governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2000


Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel
James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick

ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.

Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.

The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.

"The policy was not to reimburse for family travel on commercial airlines, because there is no direct public benefit to schlepping kids around the state," Knowles said. The rules were articulated by Mike Nizich, then director of administrative services in the governor's office, said Knowles and an aide to another former governor, Walter Hickel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[Ðiego]

She's such a mavericky reformer! And smart too! Well, smarter than McCain, seeing as she attended 5 colleges to get her BS degree..

Palin spent her first college semester at Hawaii Pacific College, transferring in 1983 to North Idaho College and then to the University of Idaho. She attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term, returning to the University of Idaho to complete her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism

And she's had nothing but BS ever since. Gotta love those mavericks..

"It's the stupid, Stupid"


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[daddydirt]

Originally Posted by JackSpratts

"I gave a direction to all my commissioners if they were ever in their house, whether it was Juneau or elsewhere, they were not to get a per diem because, clearly, it is and it looks like a scam -- you pay yourself to live at home."

- Tony Knowles, the democratic governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2000


Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel
James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick

ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.

Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.

The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

what a great post jack. show the first few paragraphs of the story and then cherrypick a comment from a former Democratic governor.

allow me to post a few quotes from the same article that you "neglected".

Gubernatorial spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said Monday that Palin's expenses are not unusual and that, under state policy, the first family could have claimed per diem expenses for each child taken on official business but has not done so.

The state finance director, Kim Garnero, said Alaska law exempts the governor's office from elaborate travel regulations. Said Leighow: "The governor is entitled to a per diem, and she claims it."

Leighow noted that under state policy, all of the governor's children are entitled to per diem expenses, even her infant son. "The first family declined the per diem [for] the children," Leighow said. "The amount that they had declined was $4,461, as of August 5."

Gov. Palin has spent far less on her personal travel than her predecessor: $93,000 on airfare in 2007, compared with $463,000 spent the year before by her predecessor, Frank Murkowski

i wonder what Governor Knowles' expenses were.

typical trash by the "respected" Washington Post ........front page article with a bold headline inferring that she did something wrong. yet all one has to do is to read the entire article to find that she in fact did nothing wrong.

i expect something like this every day until the elction.

[JackSpratts]

never said she broke the law dd, as a matter of fact the 3rd paragraph of my post quotes a current official as saying it was "permitted." so enough w/the cherrypicking stuff.

if alaska pols voted themselves the privledge of fleecing their constituents it doesn't make it right, especially for self described reformers. if all you've got is she didn't violate some toothless laws you've got nothing.

maverick reformer?

nope.

more of the same?

yep.

expect to see the real palin begin emerging very quickly. trust me, it ain't gonna smell like the fish she peddled to the rubes at the convention.

[reg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGPFPBmzRrQ

i know not everyone likes wolves, but ... : (

[Ðiego]

Despite denials by the Palin campaign, new evidence proves that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin had a direct hand in imposing fees to pay for post-sexual assault medical exams conducted by the city to gather evidence.

Palin's role is now confirmed by Wasilla City budget documents available online.

Under Sarah Palin's administration, Wasilla cut funds that had previously paid for the medical exams and began charging victims or their health insurers the $500 to $1200 fees.

Totally sick. The Gov of Alaska, whom Palin later replaced, then had to write a statute into Alaska law to stop the practice.

It's also worth noting that Joe Biden wrote US laws against this practice, co-authored by Obama. McCain voted against funding the measure.

McCain/Palin: anti-choice, pro-charging for 'rape kits' to victims


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