White Powder

Suspicious white power was sent to Sarah Palin as well as seven other Governors. Authorities are investigating whether the white power sent to Palin’s Juneau office was in anyway dangerous. The white power that was sent to the Governor of Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island have already been tested and have been found to be harmless and all shared the same postmark from Dallas. The postmark on the letter that arrived in Juneau in illegible.

Palin Changes Her Mind

Sarah Palin has refused to release her testimony regarding the Troopergate investigation in which she may have violated state ethics laws when firing Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan. The governor gave her sworn testimony on Oct. 24 while on the vice presidential campaign trial. Immediately following her testimony Palins attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said that she was planning to release the transcripts of her sworn testimony but she never did.

 The governor has maintained she did nothing wrong , since the beginning of the investigation has said that she wanted to make everything public.  “The people of Alaska — and of the nation — deserve to have a decision from the proper tribunal putting their minds at ease that suggestions of misconduct that have circulated on the Internet and in some media outlets are not true. I therefore am waiving the confidentiality that usually covers personnel board complaints,” Palin said

 

Palin and Huckabee

 

Barack Obama has not even taken his seat in the oval office yet and already there is much speculation about who will be running in 2012. Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin are defiantly GOP hopefuls because of who they have a firm grip on the evangelical vote. Polling from CNN Opinion Research shows that Huckabee holds a 9-point favorability edge over Palin in the evangelical vote but Palin holds a 7-point edge over Huckabee among likely Republican voters who do not consider themselves evangelical or born again. Some are speculating that they could become a republican dream team by swooping all different kinds of republican voters.

 

 

Palin in Georgia

Governor Sarah Palin was back on the campaign trial but this times its no behalf of Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia. Senator Chambliss failed to reach 50% of the vote during the general election and now is engaged in an intense runoff against Jim Martin, Palin came through to show her support.

Palin traveled all around Georgia supporting her party and letting the public know that she is not ready to get out of the national spot light. Palin is quickly becoming the new face of the Republican party, a face much different than that of George Bush or John McCain.

“She’s a very, very fresh face for every Republican, and some independents”, said Fred Davis, the lead media consultant for McCain’s presidential race. “She is a breath of fresh air.”

Many political analysts are saying that If Palin wasn’t to run for president in 2012, stops like the one she is making in Georgia are a good start. 

Palin, not the only one with a new Wardrobe

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was no the only candidate that used donated campaign money to buy clothes. Five other candidates have been found guilty of misusing funds to pay for there wardrobes. According to a the Federal Election Commission Democratic Reps. Loretta Sanchez of California and Rob Andrews of New Jersey, Republican candidates Bill Dew of Utah and William Breazeale of North Carolina and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr each spent hundreds of dollars on clothing. These expenditures violate a ban on campaign money for personal use.

A similar complaint that was filed against The RNC for the thousands of dollars spent on Sarah Palins clothes prior to the Republican National Convention. The McCain-Palin campaign has said some of the clothing was returned to stores soon after its purchase.

Palins Turkey Pardon

Sarah Palin was interviewed while turkeys where slaughtered in the background. Palin visited a turkey farm in Wasilia, Alaska before thanksgiving in order to pardon a turkey afterwords she did an interview with KTUU channel 2 news from Anchorage Alaska. The interview took place in front of a man who was strangling turkey to death. Palin seemed oblivious to what was taking place behind her. The video has become very popular on YouTube where it has received over 3.1 million hits.

Mental Health Board Picks

Sarah Palin has begun focusing on Alaskan issues after a hectic 2008 election run. Palin has appointed three new Alaskans to the State Mental Health Board including Nina Allen, Randall Jones and Timothy Peters. Allen is Homer resident who has been the chief executive officer of South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services since 2006, Jones has been practicing Psychotherapy in Anchorage for 30 years and Peters is an anchorage attorney with experience in child custody law. Alaska’s Mental Health Board is in charge of Federal and State laws concerning mental health services.

Hacker

A hacker who broke into Sarah Palins personal email has been linked to an internet service provider in Knoxville Tennessee. Federal agents searched a student’s apartment at the University of Tennessee looking for information connected to the Hack. The 20-year old student David Kernell, who’s father is Democratic state representative was hosting a party when the feds raided his campus apartments. Many Internet experts have compiled a list of evidence pointing to the student. No charges have been filed in the case but the investigation 

continues.

Some Bloggers have defended the hacker on the grounds that Sarah Palin used her personal email for states business and therefore it should be available to the public. A lawsuit file by a former Alaska state employee Andree Mcleod would force Palin to reveal her personal emails. All state email accounts are subject to public record and there is controversy surrounding emails that palin sent to public officials using her personal emails.

2012 Plains

The Republican Party received disappointment from last week’s election but an optimistic Sarah Palin is not ruling out 2012. She admits that the campaign trail was a brutal ride but says that she would not hesitate to run in 2012 as long as its gods will.

“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door,” Palin said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. “And if there is an open door in ‘12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”

Palin claims that some of McCain’s top aids spread rumors that she burdened the McCain campaign and ended up costing John McCain votes in the final election.

“I think the economic collapse had a heckuva lot more to do with the campaign’s collapse than me personally,” “There were a lot of times I wanted to shout out, ‘Hey, wait a minute, it’s not true.’ It’s pretty brutal.” Palin said on the Today show.

 Palin has expressed how surprised she was that the McCain campaign did as well as it did despite the unpopularity of the Bush administration.

“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration? How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we’re talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing,” Palin said in a story published by the Anchorage Daliy News.

Palin is far form out of the spotlight has many up coming interviews with CNN, Fox News, and NBC. She will also be attending the Republican Governors Association conference in Florida.

Many people across the country would love to see Palin run in 2012. One supporter, Sally Love, from West Michigan said, “I feel she would be a great president……I know she cares for the middle class. I feel she would be a great leader.”

 

Clothes get Returned

The wardrobe bought for Palin prior to the Republican National Convention created a storm of controversy and criticism. Now lawyers are trying to figure out what clothing belongs to the Republican Party, what was returned and what should remain with Plain. Palin herself spent all day Saturday trying to figure out her $150,000 wardrobe.

Her father Chuck Heath, commented on Sarah’s dilemma. “She was just frantically … trying to sort stuff out,” Heath said. “That’s the problem, you know, the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for.

“Nothing goes right back to normal,” he said.

Heath, also said that the entire clothes hullabaloo is “ridiculous.” The McCian campaign has said that about one third of the clothing was returned right away because it was either the wrong size or didn’t fit Plain right the campaign official said.

On Friday, Palin told reporters: “Those are the RNC’s clothes. They’re not my clothes. I never forced anybody to buy anything.”

“I did not order the clothes. Did not ask for the clothes,” Palin said. “I would have been happy to have worn my own clothes from Day One. But that is kind of an odd issue, an odd campaign issue as things were wrapping up there as to who ordered what and who demanded what.”