Palin Scrubbing Turns Up an Undeclared Car Wash

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

ST. PAUL -- In addition to being a mayor and raising four children, Sarah Palin found time for another venture in her Wasilla years -- she was part-owner of an Anchorage car wash.

Palin and husband Todd each held a 20 percent stake in Anchorage Car Wash LLC, according to state corporation records filed in 2004.

A review of Palin's gubernatorial disclosure filings indicates that she failed to report her stake in the company on the form that requires candidates for governor to disclose any interest in a nonpublicly traded company.

The car wash venture was not entirely smooth sailing. State records show the business ran into trouble with Alaska's division of corporations business and professional licensing after Palin became governor of the state in 2006.

A Feb. 11, 2007 letter to the governor's business partner advises that the car wash had "not filed its biennial report and/or paid its biennial fees," which were more than a year overdue.



Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/02/palin_scrubbing_car_wash.html

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Kudos to the Post headline writers!

[Alexander]

1. She's so incompetent, she can't even run a car wash.

[RamboLiberal]

5. And another failed startup - Rouge Cou

Palin's gubernatorial disclosure filings also reveal her involvement in another failed startup -- a marketing business which was to go by the name Rouge Cou, which evidently is a literal French translation of "red neck." On the 2005 form, Palin describes the firm as one for which she secured a license but did not conduct any business.

Above from OP.

Jon Stewart can tell his writers to just take the week off. Stephanie Miller was right - this is SNL and Palin is really being played by Tina Fey!

[mwb970]

21. Rouge Cou?

Droll, Sarah, very droll.

[VWolf]

37. Shouldn't it be Cou Rouge ???

They couldn't even get THAT right???

:rofl:

[tanyev]

24. What kind of marketing? Multi-level marketing?

Hmmmm?

[girl gone mad]

28. What is that? 3 Failed businesses?

Too bad she didn't have Papa Bush around to bail her out.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

33. If it was really French, wouldn't it be Cou Rouge?

[Retrograde]

41. French? FRENCH???

What's wrong with English, huh? If it was good enough for Jesus it should be good enough for her.

Or is this another "qualification": see, she speaks French!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. Remember when Nixon visited Paris...

shaking hands with folks and saying "Merci...merci..." ("Mercy...mercy...")

[roguevalley]

15. I used to gas up there on the way out of town. I don't remember

seeing it lately but next time I am in Anchorage, I will go see it. It was quite a place and one of the last places to gas up before going out of town proper. The LCC thing I remember.

[Iris]

23. but Republicans love "entrepreneurs" - if the ones who are bad at it.

[lumpy]

43. Another version of George W. Bush,

sticky fingers in many pies.

[Kerrytravelers]

2. This lady is just the gift that keeps on giving.

I can't wait to see what is next! :rofl:

[Journeyman]

9. Makes every venture onto the internet seem like Xmas Morning! . . .

[AlinPA]

26. I was thinking it's like an Easter egg hunt. nt

[aquart]

34. I know!

I can hardly wait to hit the refresh key and see what else has turned up!

[tavalon]

16. Enjoy it while you can,

it will be over by about Sunday. McCain didn't think this one through very well and he wasn't the least bit aware, once again, of the power of the internet and liberal bloggers. I can't wait until we have Lieberman as his next pick. That one will be almost as much fun.

[mcctatas]

3. So we have a seccessionist leaning, tax dodging, power abusing

flat earther on the mccain ticket? Wonderful! :eyes:

[woodsprite]

38. You forgot extreme religious whacko. n/t

[dweller]

4. i read 'undeclared war cash'

and thought... hooboy, she's in it now...

:silly:

dp

[enki23]

6. money laundering?

.

[Sub Atomic]

7. I don't know but...

they say she was a champion of bucking against the 'corruption' in Alaska.

I think in order for you to buck against that 'corruption' you need to know who is corrupt and whom isn't.

I wonder how she got all of her insight?

[dysfunctional press]

31. that was my first thought as well...

a car wash is generally a big-time cash business.

[Journeyman]

8. "Steadily depressing, low down mind messing, working at the car wash blues". . .

Sarah Palin -- the gift that keeps on giving. Makes every venture I make onto the internet seem like Christmas morning.

Jim Croce: "Car Wash Blues"

Well, I had just got out from the county prison
Doin ninety days for non-support
Tried to find me an executive position
But no matter how smooth I talked
They wouldnt listen to the fact that I was a genius
The man say, we got all that we can use.
Now igot them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Working at the car wash blues

Well, I should be sittin in an air conditioned office in a swivel chair
Talkin some trash to the secretaries
Sayin, here, now mama, come on over here.
Instead, Im stuck here rubbin these fenders with a rag
And walkin home in soggy old shoes
With them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues

You know a man of my ability
He should be smokin on a big cigar
But till I get myself straight I guess Ill just have to wait
In my rubber suit a-rubbin these cars

Well, all I can do is a shake my head
You might not believe that its true
For workin at this end of niagara falls
Is an undiscovered howard hughes
So baby, dont expect to see me
With no double martini in any high-brow society news
Cause I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues
So baby, dont expect to see me
With no double martini in any high-brow society news
Cause I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues
Yeah I got them steadily depressin, low down mind messin
Workin at the car wash blues

[Ian David]

10. To be fair, she couldn't declare her ownership because she was running a prostitution ring in it.

Some people say.

[Ian David]

11. Doesn't The Vice President carry a "Nuclear Football," too?

What if she "forgets" to update the launch codes and they're a year out of date?

[truthisfreedom]

12. Washington Post! Amazing!

The car wash story hits the MSM!

[Ghost Dog]

22. Head exploding here.

This is going beyond even my most cynical imagination, and at such a pace.

Guess I'd better head off out to a religious retreat. :hippie:

[central scrutinizer]

13. Please, make it stop!!

I can't get any work done - every few minutes there is another revelation and I am glued to DU.

[blossomstar]

27. Heehehehe me too! It's better than a trashy novel.

[a la izquierda]

14. "workin' at the carwash...

doo doo da doo doo, at the Palin carwash."
Oh, my god, this is killing me. :popcorn:

[JawJaw]

36. "Well, those cars never seem to stop coming"

"Keep those rags and machines humming"

[undeterred]

17. She should have been taken to the Vet a long time ago.

[Jade Fox]

18. My god. We couldn't make this stuff up!!! nt

[L. Coyote]

19. In 2004 Palin declared of herself on campaign contributions "NA/housewife"

and "homemaker" (somehow combined) in two instances. One of the two says NA under occupation in combination with housewife or homemaker. Found this on http://opensecrets.org. Mid-year dates as recall.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. Your one-stop shop for all your Sarah Barracuda muckraking needs!

http://kissmybigbluebutt.com/palin_2006%5B1%5D.pdf

Here's the homepage of the lady responsible for this weighty tome:

http://kissmybigbluebutt.com/

She's a real hoot! If I can find it, I'll post her account of a meeting in which Bugman DeLay gets absolutely NO respect.

[Plucketeer]

25. What IS that flushing sound???

:hurts: <-McPain CamPain

[4lbs]

29. She fits right in with the top of the GOP....

Seeing as how the current Chimp in charge, Bush, had several failed and mismanaged businesses before becoming Gov of Texas, this fits right in with the GOP style.

[Telly Savalas]

30. McCain just sealed up the critical voting block of owners of failed car washes

The man's a freakin' genius.

[GinaMaria]

32. Is somebody keeping score?

What's her tally up to now? This is beyond embarrassing for the GOP, it is embarrassing for the entire nation. We look like a country imbeciles.

[Turbineguy]

35. Hey don't knock it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvAhDDqqHls

[gtar100]

39. For Repubs, 'owning' the business far more important than its success

It's happening. The vocal right-wingers love her. And the fact that she had a business is icing on the cake. That there were problems with it...well that can easily be ignored. Just ignore. Happy smile on their face. She's "pro-life" (misnomer) and "pro-family" (misnomer again) and she'll cut your taxes (misn... no that's just a lie, unless you're in the class that doesn't need it) - 'nuff said.

I heard a co-worker yesterday, "you know, I actually like her!"

And that's a guy who will gain nothing from a mccain administration but will probably hang onto "family values" "lower taxes" "smaller government" "god loves conservatives" to his death-bed.

I just don't get it. They talk about all these ideas but when I stop fighting them, I just see contempt in their eyes.

[Retrograde]

40. Shoulda gone with Fiorina: she ran H/P

ran it right into the ground, some would say, but she was at the helm of a Fortune 500 company.

The more I hear about Palin, the more she sounds like W in heels.