Link to the Alaska Dispatch, who got a leaked copy electronically.
http://alaskadispatch.com/...
"
Blind Allegiance" is the story of Palin aide and confidant Frank Bailey's time spent working for the governor, from when she announced she was running for governor until her abrupt resignation in 2009. Heavily relying on e-mails between Bailey, Sarah and ex-First Dude Todd Palin, his memoir begins near the end of Palin's governorship with the following line:
On April 28, 2009, Sarah wrote a simple, but frequently repeated message: I hate this damn job...
Drawing on thousands of emails from the personal accounts of Sarah and Todd Palin as well as key members of the staff, Bailey reconstructs how the Palins' pathologies became apparent, and how he and other members of the team rationalized Sarah's increasingly erratic behavior and their commitment to a cause that was changing shape before their eyes. Bailey's stories and representative emails--which are not subject to FOIA requests and therefore will not be included in the email correspondence scheduled to be released by Alaskan officials this May--sketch a disturbing portrait of Sarah Palin and her inner circle. Given the recent news that Palin's political action committee has hired Michael Glassner, a veteran of both Senator Bob Dole's and Senator John McCain's presidential campaigns, as chief of staff, the revelations and insights of Frank's story are more necessary than ever, as the public will seek to learn as much as possible about the woman who seems to have her sights set on the national stage. Both a chilling expose of the inner workings of Palin's circle and the story of one man's slow drift from his most cherished beliefs and his ultimate redemption, BLIND ALLEGIANCE TO SARAH PALIN is sure to strike a chord with readers on both sides of the aisle
Although it's Bailey's book, and is ostensibly true to his voice, it has two co-authors: Jeanne Devon, the founder of the popular Alaska website Mudflats, and Ken Morris, a former Wall Street executive turned California novelist. Devon has been a big critic of Palin over the past few years. Morris's name showed up relating to Palin after he placed a $100,000 bid in an auction to have dinner with her in fall 2009. Since then he's penned a few columns about Palin for Mudflats and the Huffington Post
More details from Andrew Halcro
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/...
Regarding State Trooper Mike Wooten and Troopergate:
Despite my own dislike for Wooten and the lack of historical context for the compulsive attacks against him, my becoming Todd's go-to guy in an attempt to destroy another man's life remains inexcusable, representing a lack of common sense or due diligence. I should have known better. By the time Todd approached me to be his ally, I was fully aware that I worked for a couple who felt revenge a sweet drink. I joined in with much enthusiasm and too few facts."
Frank Bailey's memoir is a must read.
Updated by AnnetteK at Fri Feb 18, 2011, 04:20:44 PM
More details from Politicalgates.............
Trooper Wooten and how nearly all of us Rag Tags became pre-occupied with bringing him down, is a complicated story, less straightforward than describing the illegal coordination of the campaign with the RGA, or using an insider in the Halcro campaign to mine information, or phony letters-to-the-editors and op-eds. In those cases, we were running for office and felt the pressure of win-at-all-costs. Losing at the ballot meant losing the dream. On top of that, our chasing after Ruedrich, Fagan, Halcro, Lyda Green, Andree McLeod, ADN columnists, Governor Murkowski, John Binkley, and later, in 2009, an endless list of enemies, paled in comparison to the Trooper Wooten quest. And what, I wish to heaven I’d asked myself, was the importance to our job of governing Alaska in destroying Mike Wooten, and how was that remotely worth the hundreds and hundreds of man-hours spent trying to do so? How, for the love of God, would destroying him personally and professionally make the first family safer, as Sarah and Todd swore over and over was their main concern?
This tale, unfortunately, includes the worst of Sarah’s dysfunctional psyche and administration, including the compulsion to attack enemies, deny truth, play victim, and employ outright deception.
And while the seeds of the scandal were planted back in 2005 and continued unabated into 2008, the pathos was exponentially elevated when John McCain reached out to Sarah Palin as a savior for his floundering presidential ticket. As such, these events directly related to McCain’s own incompetent vetting process. As political Perfect Storms go, this resembled two Category Fives meeting head-on
Updated by AnnetteK at Fri Feb 18, 2011, 04:58:04 PM
The ADN has lots more
http://community.adn.com/...
Updated by AnnetteK at Fri Feb 18, 2011, 08:41:35 PM
http://www.themudflats.net/...
Jeanne Devon has confirmed she is co-author and has given some further interesting news.........
One of the things that makes this project really interesting is that Frank retained tens of thousands of emails between Palin and her confidantes, which were sent to him over the years, beginning in 2005, and going through the end of his relationship with Palin in the summer of 2009
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