Poor, poor Sarah.
She has to return $400,000 or so from her little 'piggy bank'.
It's not her fault though, it's Obama's fault in upside down world.
Alaska Daily News....
http://www.adn.com/...
Former Gov. Sarah Palin is settling an ethics complaint by agreeing to return more than $386,000 collected in a legal defense fund before she resigned last summer.
snip........
The settlement says the fund collected $386,856 before she resigned and $33,546 after. As of March, the fund had spent $87,680 on legal and other expenses, according to the document.
Which is odd, because Palin has a FB Post up (of course), which says among other things....
http://www.facebook.com/...
"Thus, to this very moment, the money received was frozen and no one, not the Palins, not the Palins’ attorney, no one ever received a penny from the Trust on the Palins’ behalf."
snip.........
The Personnel Board initially appointed an "independent" investigator. That investigator, we later learned, had connections with, and was associated with President Obama. The Personnel Board had hired President Obama’s personal law firm as an "independent" investigator to review whether a fund created to raise money to eliminate a debt incurred as a result of Governor Palin’s opposition to President Obama was appropriate. We objected to both the illegal leak and the blatant political influence, and a new investigator was appointed.
Not to worry though, she's got another one set up already
However, I know and you know that no public official should ever have to bear the financial brunt of these attacks. And Governor Palin can lawfully raise money now through a brand new – not official but let’s call it "real" – legal defense fund without any risk of offending an investigator or state law. And such a fund now exists at
.
One of the statements in this new fund is...
"They know she is making a difference in her work to return America to the Constitutional principles
that made it the great and exceptional nation it remains."
Ummm, "return it to what it remains?"
In other Palin news, Glenn Beck thinks Sarah should take over the Gulf Disaster
http://www.politicususa.com/...
Beck said, "If I were Sarah Palin, and I’m not...I would be down in the Gulf and I would be meeting with the heads of Shell and the heads of Exxon. I would be meeting with all of them, and I would be meeting with all of the engineers. I would be having my own summit down there, and I would develop policy, and say this is what we need to do. Sarah has the weight behind her. She understands the oil industry. She can get these people together, and she can get the engineers together, because her husband is an oil rigger. They have the connections and the knowledge to put a team together and say Mr. President, this is what we do."
Jeebus, like it's not terrible enough.and to finish, comments from some of her loyal fans.........
The nice thing about the new fund is that the maximum donation is $13,500 (instead of $150
).
Well, I'm glad the Guv can just move on now from this ridiculousness. I remember clearly Kristan Cole and Eddie Burke having a good laugh at the thought that the defense fund would have an ethics complaint brought against the Guv. Well, I'm glad it is resolved and look forward to donating to the new fun. And its great to hear from Meg Stapleton again :)
Sarah remains undefeated.
I know I shouldn't always look at things in the context of whether or not she runs for President, but two comments on that. If Thomas van Flein, Meg Stapleton, RAM, and JR are any indication, Sarah is an amazing judge of character, talent, and intelligence that will serve her very well in the Oval Office.
UPDATE h/t to Palingates http://palingates.blogspot.com/
Sarah's shiny new Legal Defense is just announced today, and already we can prove that the people who run this new Defense Fund are LIARS!
The new "Sarah Palin Legal Defense Fund", which officially has absolutely nothing do to with SarahPAC, Sarah Palin's political action committee, shares the same address and phone number with SarahPAC!
And I would eat my hat if "TC" doesn't stand for "Timothy Crawford", the treasurer of SarahPAC (see our post about Timothy Crawford).
Sarah, you are so BUSTED! ;-)