Palin aides worked to sell Alaska gas deal

[sabra]

Source: AP

JUNEAU, Alaska — Sarah Palin’s administration paid close attention two years ago to how the public perceived her plans to bring a massive natural gas pipeline to Alaska, with one aide worrying the then-governor would face criticism of grandstanding for traveling out of state at a critical time for the plan’s prospects.

E-mail exchanges also show at-times close communication between staff and representatives of the Canadian company Palin picked to build the line. In June 2008, after her recommendation of the company and less than two months before the Legislature voted on the contract, Palin agreed to host people involved with the project at her home for a salmon feast and “informal gasline chat.”

“There’s a Costco in Juneau, if you know what I mean,” Palin wrote. “And my family is quite capable of setting out food and cleaning up afterwards.”

The correspondence is contained in more than 2,000 pages of e-mails between Palin’s office and others surrounding the pipeline process. The e-mails were released to The Associated Press this week under a public records request filed in 2008, when Palin was the Republican vice presidential nominee. Palin resigned as governor last year.

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Marty Rutherford, a Palin point person on the pipeline team, chided a TransCanada vice president in an Aug. 4, 2008, e-mail for comments the company’s chief executive made about the project requiring the involvement of Exxon Mobil, a company that’s had a bitter history in Alaska.

“We need to ensure that comments about the Producers are scripted in the future,” Rutherford wrote to Tony Palmer, TransCanada’s vice president for Alaska Development.




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[happygoluckytoyou]

1. PALIN was better of yelling DRILL BABY DRILL at her husbands business partner

only massage oil involved

[Scuba]

2. LOL

[tanyev]

3. “There’s a Costco in Juneau, if you know what I mean,”

No, I'm not sure, Sarah. I think you mean that you would go buy some food at the Costco, but you do have a remarkable talent for obfuscating even the simplest concept. I also think it's interesting that you say "my family" is capable of setting out food and cleaning up instead of "we are". Did you have that many kids just so you would have a long stretch of live-in servants?