Tanning bed - gate

[Liberal_in_LA]

No scandal here...other than the scandal of the VP nominee having a tanning bed when the P nominee
is battling skin cancer.

(*** on edit... When does a Governor, mother of 5 have time to lie about in a tanning booth? ***)

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5813754&page=1

Tanning Bed to Troopergate: Palin Aides Kept Scrambling
Questions About Tanning Bed in Governor's Mansion -- Sends Aides Scrambling
By RHONDA SCHWARTZ
Sept. 16, 2008

Governor Sarah Palin had a tanning bed installed in the Governor's mansion in Juneau, Alaska. A spokesperson says she paid the expense out of her own pocket.

In the 2½ weeks since Palin was named to the GOP ticket, McAllister's phone has been ringing off the hook from national reporters who have descended on the state to look into the background of the governor.

Monday, US Weekly and a blog, NarcoNews, reported that "the former beauty queen's penchant for a bronzed body" led to the installation of a "private tanning bed" shortly after she took office.

"She paid for it herself," said McAllister from his Anchorage office. He told ABC News he had "no idea" why she had installed the machine but confirmed it was installed in the mansion.

[mak3cats]

1. Not an important issue...

...SAD is a common phenomena so far north (I have friends in AK). Lots of people there have tanning beds to combat the long hours of darkness.

Her fundamentalist religious whacko-ness disturbs me much more...