Palin's resignation cost alaska thousands...lots of thousands

[greenbriar]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin's midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.

The preliminary figures obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request show it cost the state almost $14,100 for the July 26 swearing-in ceremony of new Gov. Sean Parnell.

The price tag for moving Palin — the former GOP vice presidential candidate — and her family from the governor's mansion in Juneau amounted to roughly $3,328.

Palin's spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, says suggesting the resignation cost the state is "incredibly misleading." She says the resignation ceremony was added to a previously scheduled governor's picnic and was organized by the lieutenant governor's office.

The tally doesn't include the estimated $100,000 it cost for a one-day special session last month in which lawmakers approved Palin's pick to replace Parnell as lieutenant governor and overrode her veto

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_re_us/us_pali...

[Spinzonner]

1. Compared to what it might have cost to keep her

Sounds like a bargain

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Exactly.

Even she says that her resignation saved the state millions in legal fees investigating "frivolous" ethics complaints. Sean Parnell, himself a serious conservative, has his own issues, but he at least seems to be honest and above-board, qualities that Sarah could never claim.

[brewens]

2. Of course she was capable of doing something so stupid...

that it would have cost them millions more had she stayed.