How the hell is it news that Sarah Palin spent government money to fix up government property? Seriously.
The lady came in to office needing to fix up the Governor’s Mansion to make it appropriate for small kids and also fix up her office at the Capitol. After having the Murkowski’s there, you’d probably need a bio-hazard team.
Mind you, the work on her office area was not even for her.
The work on the Anchorage site created new offices for Kelly Goode, Palin’s legislative director, and Roseanne Hughes, director of external communications, McAllister said. The third office is reserved for “traveling staff,” who divide their time between Anchorage and Juneau, which are located 571 miles apart, McAllister said.
A Palin staffer said the Juneau mansion’s new blinds were installed to provide privacy.
“The residence manager determined that the blinds were necessary to prevent observation from the street of the family members,” administrative director Linda J. Perez said in an e-mail.
Mike McBride, past president of the Alaska Voters Organization, did not take issue with the expenses. “It’s not a tremendous amount of money. Things in Alaska cost substantially more than they do in other parts of the country,” McBride said. “It’s not an unreasonable number.”
Yeah, yeah, this can’t be media bias playing into the anti-Palin narrative. This paper endorsed McCain.
Pfffffffft.
If McCain pulls this off, I want media heads piled on the South Lawn of the White House. If he does not pull this off, I’ll take the scalps myself over the next few years in anticipating Governor Palin’s 2012 bid.
And the Sun Tanning Bed at the Mansion? [I love this tell.]
jehovahsbidness Wednesday, October 29th at 7:43AM EDT (link)[They just can't help themselves; although they're getting better. - Moe Lane]
It would have been cheaper with non-Union labor...
Vladimir Wednesday, October 29th at 7:44AM EDT (link)…but that would have gotten their panties in a wad, too.
So $50,000 on paint & miniblinds in a government office is a big deal, but $7,000,000 on faux Roman columns is much-needed Change!?
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Seasonal Affective Disorder Prevention Therapy (nt)
Uma Richie Wednesday, October 29th at 7:49AM EDT (link)nt
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -Lech Walesa
"Media heads piled on the South Lawn?"
wolfgang Wednesday, October 29th at 7:54AM EDT (link)Watch the Anger, Eric,the Anger.
The thugs that work for THE ONE will have you attending anger management classes for the next four years, then thought retraining classes for the four years after.
Freedom of speech dies on January 20th if McCain looses. It will take a little bit more than throwing a few bales of tea over the side of one of his majesty’s ships in Boston Harbor to gain it back.
Yeah Palin spent money on the Governer's House and Obama...
JadedByPolitics Wednesday, October 29th at 8:03AM EDT (link)just earmarked MONEY for his anti-American friends…..which one is worse? lets think about that….hmmm….yeah have to go with the anti-American friends!
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
28 minutes? YOU'RE out of the oven too early.
blooch Wednesday, October 29th at 8:08AM EDT (link)Run, half-baked gingerbread man, run!
“I have to admit that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a smart man. He was, in many ways, a psychologist.”–drealoth
Wow, almost as important
hunter Wednesday, October 29th at 8:18AM EDT (link)as firing employees under your control or being scrupulous and making sure your kids’ transport costs are documented properly.
Since when has a Governor not been able to fix the Governor’s mansion or accommodate staff effectively?
The Obamatons are a true joke.
The media takes to political control like ducks to water.
hunter
He can't, his legs are still floppy...
Raven Wednesday, October 29th at 8:45AM EDT (link)Or they were until the dog got him. Good boy, Moe.
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
"Anger, Fear, Hatred. These are the Dark Side of the Force."
Raven Wednesday, October 29th at 8:48AM EDT (link)The Dark Side has great power, but the price, Erick. Oh, beware the Price…
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
Eric, you are almost always right
Goldwater_Conservative Wednesday, October 29th at 10:06AM EDT (link)but talk of a SaraCuda run in 2012 is counter-productive, not because this election isn’t actually over, but because we can and will do much better in 2012 with a true revolution Jindal/Pawlenty 2012 -Now that excites me, and for all the right (non-emotional) reasons.
Treat it as a scandal,poof,
johnt Wednesday, October 29th at 10:23AM EDT (link)it becomes a scandal. So it is to the current electorate. Somewhere in America liberal voters are seething in rage over this, bloggers are posting their filth and fury over this latest assault on the Constitution and our freedoms. Everything, you see, is an assault on both.
First thing that came to my mind was former
Governor Blanco of Louisiana spending $400k on her official digs, right around the time of Katrina, no scandal, no problem.
I wonder what Jefferson would say about today’s depraved media.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
The reason it is a bit of an issue here
Achance Wednesday, October 29th at 10:57AM EDT (link)is that she wouldn’t need the extra office space in Anchorage if she’d actually stay in the Capital, Juneau. She’s rarely here except during the Legislative session, ninety days beginning in early January. Few of her commissioners even make a pretense of either working or living in Juneau.
Willow, a spot in the road after which one of her daughters is named, is the spot chosen back in the ’70s to which the capital was to be moved. The People have several times since then either refused to pay for moving it or outright rejected moving it. Yet, hope springs eternal in the giant sucking sound called Anchorage that they can get the capital moved to ANC de facto if not de jure. Under Gov. Palin, they’ve pretty much succeeded. The de facto capital move and the fact that a disproportionate share of her capital budget cuts that she so likes to brag about came in Southeast Alaska are the reasons she’s not so well loved in SE.
In Vino Veritas