A real nugget from the Vetting Roundup that shouldn't be missed - Palin used substantial Wasilla resources to run for Lt. Governor in 2002, after accusing her mayoral opponent in 1996 of doing the same thing.
Vetting Roundup
From local AK media, via Editor and Publisher:
In her 2002 Lt. Governor bid, Mayor Palin used city employees, telephones, computers, fax machines for campaign fundraising and literature. On her candidate registration form, she used her City Hall fax number, and her mayoral e-mail address. Records show that Wasilla city property was used to contact supporters, donors, media contacts, and media purchasing. [Anchorage Daily News, 7/21/06]
But the story has a typical Palin twist. Misuse of city resources is precisely what Palin had accused her mayoral opponent of doing in 1996. During that run, she was also accused of padding her resume, another characteristic Palin turn.
In 1997, Frontiersman columnist Paul Stuart wrote that after Palin had criticized her opponent for using City Hall resources for political gain, "when Palin was asked back then (by me) why the lodge where she claimed, in her campaign, to have gained her management experience, had no record of a borough business license or of paying any bed tax, she paused and said it might have been because the place had no clients for a year or so." In an article describing the possibility of recalling Palin, the Frontiersman wrote the "reasons include Palin's alleged falsification of her credentials during the campaign last fall." [Frontiersman, 1/22/97, 2/5/97]
False credentials and rank hypocrisy : the birth of the Palin Reform Agenda.
As someone commented elsewhere, if a Gambino don whacks another crime boss, can he call himself a crime-fighter?