Palin's mid-term resignation comes with costs {to taxpayers, natch} (AP)

[eppur_se_muova]

By RACHEL D'ORO (AP) – 34 minutes ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she is quitting Sunday to save the state the cost of investigating what she says are frivolous ethics complaints against her, but even her mid-term resignation comes with a price tag for taxpayers.

While the final transition bill will be a fraction of the roughly $2 million Palin says the state has shelled out in ethics probes, that hasn't stopped residents, letter writers, bloggers and legislators alike from questioning what they see as the unnecessary costs of the governor leaving office 17 months before the end of her term.

The major price tag will be a one-day special session of the legislature to confirm the new lieutenant governor and to consider overriding Palin's veto of stimulus funds for energy projects.

"She has single-handedly and unnecessarily created both expensive issues," Anchorage resident Jeanne Ashcraft complained in a letter published in the Anchorage Daily News.

It's too early to calculate transition costs, said Linda Perez, the administrative director for the Alaska governor's office.
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[opihimoimoi]

1. Estimated to be rounf 65 Trillion$$$....whaddah dufus

[katanalori]

2. No price too high for Alaskans methinks....

Considering what she cost the State of Alaska with her unethical behavior and grifting (collecting per diems by working at home/refusing to work in State Capitol of Juneau and charging the State illegally for her kid's travel), I say no price is too high to get rid of her.
Now she is the problem of the entire Country. Conrats Alaska, condolences U.S.A.