Anchorage, Alaska:  Sarah Palin’s top aide Frank Bailey has agreed to pay civil penalties totaling $11,900 to resolve an ethics complaint.  The complaint was filed on September, 2010 by Andrée McLeod when she learned that Bailey misused confidential documents and emails he had acquired while he worked for Palin.

“Justice has yet to be served.  I have called on the Attorney General to reveal all the public’s documents and emails that Bailey confiscated and shared with others when he left state employment.”

McLeod and members of the media have requested all of Palin’s email communications for the time she was Alaska’s governor.  Although some have been revealed, many couldn’t be located because of Palin’s rampant use of private email accounts for official business, and thousands more remain undisclosed as Alaska’s governor’s office cites executive privileges and other delay tactics.

“Every one of those confidential and still undisclosed public documents that were in Bailey’s possession must be made public,immediately, as Bailey broke the chain of custody when he illegally shared them with his co-authors Jeanne Devon and Ken Morris,” McLeod said.

“This is the second time that Sarah’s go-to guy has been found to have crossed the line.  The first was back in November of 2008 when I filed another complaint against Sarah and her staff, including Bailey,” McLeod said.

McLeod continues, “This agreement proves, yet again, that Sarah Palin’s account of her role in reforming Alaska’s government while governor is truly the only real ‘false narrative’ being bandied about.”

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NOTE: The settlement agreement from the AK. Department of Law is attached, and is also available upon request.

The initial September, 2010 McLeod complaint is attached, and is also available upon request.

By James Rainey

 As Republicans wage a sharply divisive presidential nominating contest, HBO is preparing to release a television film on the 2008 ascent of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin that seems sure to reopen the wounds of that lost campaign and reignite controversy over Palin’s fitness for office and the wisdom of putting her on the ticket.
“Game Change,” based on the 2010 book of the same name by two journalists, is not due to premiere on the pay-cable channel until March 10, but already on Friday Palin’s supporters were hitting back at its depiction of her as woefully unprepared to be a national candidate or be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Former John McCain campaign aides depicted in the movie, including Steve Schmidt, the campaign’s chief strategist, vouched for its accuracy in interviews with the Los Angeles Times this week.
“Game Change” shows Palin, portrayed by Julianne Moore, thrust on to the international stage, only for her handlers to belatedly discover the huge gaps in her knowledge of the world – ignorant of the Federal Reserve System, mistakenly believing Saddam Hussein ordered the 9/11 attacks against the United States and unaware that the prime minister, and not Queen Elizabeth II, ran the British government.
Some of the film’s plot points will be familiar to those who read “Game Change,” though some revelations will be new. Potentially more upsetting to Palin and her supporters is the way the film depicts the candidate’s outbursts and periods of nonresponsiveness that lead aides to describe her as “catatonic” and possibly mentally unstable.
Schmidt and a chief Palin ’08 aide, Nicolle Wallace, said they found it highly credible. Wallace said the film “captured the spirit and emotion of the campaign.”
Palin, who resigned as Alaska governor in 2009 and has gone on to be an author, reality TV star and Fox News Channel contributor, remains a significant figure in the GOP despite her decision not to seek the presidential nomination this year. She and her followers have begun denouncing the film, based on promotional trailers and accounts they have heard from others. Tim Crawford, treasurer of Palin’s political action committee, had not seen the movie but on Friday released a statement saying HBO should label it a “fiction.”
“I haven’t seen HBO’s latest effort at manipulating history,” Crawford said. “However, based upon the description and reports from people who have viewed the film ‘Game Change,’ HBO has distorted, twisted and invented facts to create a false narrative and attract viewers.”
HBO noted the depth of research behind the movie and said in a statement: “HBO has a long track record of producing fact-based dramas, and our mantra has always been, ‘Get the story right.’ “
Palin said on “Fox News Sunday” that she did not intend to see the movie and hoped others would not “waste their time” with the film. She also said “Game Change” was based on a “false narrative.”

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/19/3026332/palin-refutes-hbo-films-portrayal.html#storylink=cpy

Sarah Palin Has A Bootleg Linsanity T-Shirt

NYDN, h/t Emma C. 

Most of us are not wealthy and are neither racist nor homophobic. We are not all evangelica­l Christians. We are merely commonsense people, most of whom have faith in God, but respect people who do not share our faith (we pray for them rather than judge them); we believe strongly in fiscal restraint, less government intrusion in our lives, a fair taxation system and an agenda that is not only without discrimination but also includes all people regardless of their race, religion, sexual preference or economic status.

 We “RINOS,” as we have been labeled by the far-right commentators, are the Republican Party, too.

 If the eventual nominee of the GOP is not “conservative enough” for Sarah Palin or the Tea Party to endorse, then perhaps it is they who are not listening.

 Rob Sarnowski, Elgin

 http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/letters/10615890-474/palins-gop-too-far-right-for-me.html

By Steven Levingston

She’s still pitching her book, still hoping someone will come out and see her when she shows up at a signing, but Bristol Palin isn’t able to pack ‘em in the way she used to — if a recent classified ad on Craigslist was any measure. Bristol was in D.C. over the weekend along with her mother, Sarah, who spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Bristol’s book, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” came out in June last year and immediately slid off the radar after reviewers pretty much trashed her trash talk: “In the place of real insight, we frequently get catty asides,” wrote Stephen Lowman in The Post. “Some of her ex’s [Levi Johnston’s] trash-talk expertise must have rubbed off on her, because she dishes it out with aplomb.” The public, too, seems to have lost its appetite for Bristol’s brand of spectacle. She had to turn to Craigslist to beg people to show up at a book signing on Saturday at Books-A-Million in the District. In an ad on the Web site, Palin offered free, autographed copies of her book to the first 100 people to RSVP. Even the conservative DC newspaper the Examiner noted that the ad was “an attempt to entice fans to attend the event.” After first bursting into the spotlight during her mother’s run for the vice presidency in 2008, at which time it was revealed she was an out-of-wedlock pregnant teen, Bristol went on to slide across the floor as a contestant on “Dancing with the Stars.” She was herself the latest shooting star who was famous for a few moments for being famous, and now at last it seems the world is getting close to closing the book on her.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/political-bookworm/post/bristol-palins-craigslist-plea-for-fans/2012/02/13/gIQAQziiBR_blog.html

Since she was plucked from relative obscurity by John McCain to be his vice presidential candidate, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been at the top of the American political scene.

Recently, however, the ebb and flow of the primary season has called into question whether her political star has faded.

During the heat of the primary battles, all of the air in the Republican-conservative-Tea Party balloon has been sucked up — appropriately, by the candidates.

Since 2008 that air was the oxygen that fueled the Palin super nova.

The prospect of going from Momma Grizzly to political also-ran has prompted Palin to inject herself into the nomination process in order to remain relevant.

Sarah Palin's tightrope walk for relevance

However, instead of throwing her weight behind one candidate, Palin has chosen to walk a tightrope and strike a balance between being a king-maker and hedging her bets.

For example, she endorsed Newt Gingrich on a primary-by-primary basis in South Carolina, Florida and Nevada, but not because she thought Gingrich was the best to run the country, but rather, “to keep the process going,” and allow for “additional vetting.”

The high-wire act at play here is, if Palin gives a full endorsement to either Gingrich or Rick Santorum (it appears she has some apprehension about Romney), and Mitt Romney becomes the nominee or wins the November election, she could be on the outside looking in for a considerable amount of time.

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/opinion/article/Jim-Bellano-Sarah-Palin-s-tightrope-walk-for-3248267.php#ixzz1m2EllMvj
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Sarah Palin, you have embarrassed me and the GOP since 2008!

Today is Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday, so some of America’s most ubiquitous figures are celebrating in the best ways they know how. Sarah Palin, for instance, republished a thing she wrote for Reagan’s birthday last year, posted a picture of herself on a horse, and misspelled the word “Americans” on Facebook.com/SarahPalin, the Common Sense of our era. The half-term Alaska governor wrote: “America remembers our beloved 40th president today! In honor of President Reagan’s 101st birthday, American’s [sic] For Prosperity put together this great video reminding us of the time-tested truths Reagan stood for.”

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Read: The Daily Beast.. Life with Trig

It was just a few weeks ago that Sarah Palin took to Twitter to blast  Newsweek for running a cover story by her least favorite member of the lamestream media, Andrew Sullivan. It’s amazing how quickly things change though, as this week finds the former Alaska governor contributing to Tina Brown’s newsweekly. The essay, about her son Trig, was assigned to Palin after Rick Santorum’s decision to take time off from his campaign to be with his daughter, Bella, who came down with pneumonia last week, reports  The Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone. Besides featuring the aforementioned Sullivan cover story, Newsweek’s sister-site, The Daily Beast, also hosts the writer’s popular news blog The Dish. Sullivan has of course spilled much digital ink over at his blog having a go at Palin at every opportunity, especially in regards to whether or not she is in fact the mother of Trig. That she would contribute to the magazine that frequently features one of her greatest press enemies is strange, but then again, this is Sarah Palin. It’s not like her relationship with the press has ever been anything less than exceedingly weird and almost tortuous–especially with Newsweek, remember this? Also, Palin’s never really been one to actually stick with something (see her governorship and, um, this).

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/sarah-palin-from-newsweek-hater-to-contributor.html

Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) in a moment of distress during HBO’s “Game Change,” which premieres in March. (HBO)

The trailer for HBO’s “Game Change” is out, and it features a full dose of Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, portraying the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee on the verge of falling apart in the closing weeks of the campaign.

By James Oliphant

The much anticipated film premieres in March. Though it uses the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin as source material, the movie seems to have largely jettisoned the extended conflict in 2008 between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to more squarely focus on Palin’s explosive debut on the national political stage.

In the clip, John McCain advisor Steve Schmidt, played by Woody Harrelson, tells the candidate that he needs something dramatic to alter the trajectory in his campaign, something to capture the “YouTube” 24/7 news cycle. Enter Palin, who scores with her rollicking speech at the Republican National Convention before beginning to wilt under the glare of the media spotlight.

Schmidt and McCain’s team soon find to their dismay that not only is Moore-as-Palin thin on policy and disinterested in prep work, she is fiercely independent, bucking her campaign handlers at every turn. “I am not your puppet!” she barks.

The real Palin, who lately has been trying to insert herself into the GOP presidential fight between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, criticized the book when it was released for being inaccurate.

The release of the film (scheduled for four days after the “Super Tuesday” slate of GOP primaries) is likely to provoke another round of clashes between Palin’s defenders and detractors. 

Many scenes are documented and played out in this movie for television that show a clear lack of interest and character of the unknown hal- term governor Sarah Palin.

Movie Quote: ”We have to win this thing….I so don’t want to go back to Alaska”

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-game-change-palin-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown-20120202,0,4637681.story?

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