Ethics complaints follow Palin (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Kevin Bohn
CNN

(CNN) -- With Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation this weekend, she will leave behind many of the problems and frustrations she has had running the state.

But she will have to continue to deal with one of her biggest complaints: the series of ethics accusations lodged against her that will follow her after she leaves office.

Since her bombshell resignation announcement, several new ethics complaints have been filed with state authorities, including one saying that she should not be able to claim per diem funds when she stays at her Wasilla, Alaska, home instead of Anchorage or Juneau, where she has offices. The governor's mansion is in Juneau.

At issue is a contention that she was charging the state when she stayed in Wasilla and commuted to her offices.

Just this week, a complaint was filed alleging Palin failed to submit completed and signed gift disclosure forms.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/24/palin.ethics/index.html




There was *another* complaint this week? :wow: I'm shocked, really. Just shocked.

[Blue_In_AK]

1. I believe we're up to 21 now.

Most of the talk up here in the past few days has been regarding her "Alaska Fund Trust" (i.e., slush fund). ProgressiveAlaska has a good overview here: http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2009/07/saradise-lost-book-3-chapter-27.html and I love the graphic

[dgibby]

5. Wouldn't she have made a great character on Northern Exposure?

At least until the wolves and polar bears ate her!:evilgrin:

[Botany]

2. and there is this little house on the lake that got built when she was mayor ..

.... by the same people who built the Wasilla hockey rink and somehow the materials for this
house might have been billed to the people of Wasilla.

[Betsy Ross]

3. Is that an airplane in the driveway? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Seaplane, Alaska's "universal taxi service". nt