Former aide rips Palin in leaked book manuscript: Former governor broke election law, Bailey alleges

[highplainsdem]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin's closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and was consumed by petty grievances up until she resigned.

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Copies of the manuscript were forwarded around Alaska political circles on Friday. The Daily News received copies from multiple sources, the first from author Joe McGinniss, who is working on his own Palin book. McGinniss didn't respond to a message asking where he obtained the manuscript and the reason he circulated it.

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One chapter asserts Palin broke election law by coordinating with the Republican Governors Association during her 2006 campaign for governor. State candidates can't team up with soft-money groups such as the Republican Governors Association, which paid for TV commercials and mailers in Alaska during the election in a purported "independent" effort.

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In his book, Bailey says the allegation was true. Palin and her aides marched along the block in front of the hotel again and again in order to allow a camera operator to capture footage for the ad, he said. "(Palin aide) Kris Perry, when orchestrating that nutty- parade at the hotel, was following the directions of the RGA cameraman and/or whomever he was working for," Bailey wrote.

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Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/02/18/1711185/ex-aide-rips-palin-in-leaked-manuscript.html

[Blue Owl]

1. Republicans broke an election law?

GASP! You mean the same Republicans who just won by razor thin margin in Wisconsin?

[goddess40]

2. com on now - how could they have broken the law

when the laws don't apply to republicans in this country? At least it seems that way for the last 20 years or so.

[Plucketeer]

3. Oh come on you two!

Even if Palin DID break election laws in some fashion, they have the courts in their pockets if their law-breaking don't work for them!

[Kali]

4. "and was consumed by petty grievances"

yep that sums her up pretty well...this is news?

[Lifelong Protester]

5. So here's the big question...will the M$M talk this up or not??

Hmm....

[crickets]

6. Magic 8 ball sez:

Don't count on it.

[Lifelong Protester]

7. Magic 8 Ball sez:

"Oh, she's so wonderful" (the Magic 8 ball has been bought off too.)