Bad Judgement? Palin's 'Reformer' Myth (Jason Leopold)

[struggle4progress]

by Jason Leopold
September 3, 2008

... In 2002, Palin – still mayor of Wasilla with a population of about 6,700 – ran much of her campaign for lieutenant governor out of Wasilla City Hall on city time, according to documents first obtained in July 2006 by an editor for Voice of the Times newspaper in Anchorage. (I obtained some of those documents from former Wasilla city officials this week.)

The documents show that Palin used city computers to manage her campaign and billed taxpayers for mailings, phone calls and literature. Palin also had her city secretary, Mary Bixby, print 75 thank-you notes to campaign donors and book a campaign related trip Ketchikan in May 2002 while on city time.

Former city officials said Palin and her campaign staff worked upwards of 10 hours a day using Wasilla City Hall as her campaign headquarters where campaign faxes were sent and received, and campaign staffers used city phones to solicit donations.

On Palin’s lieutenant governor candidate registration form with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, she used the e-mail the city gave her — [e-mail] — for “campaign chairperson” contact information and the Wasilla City Hall fax telephone number for "candidate information” ...

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/090408Leopold.shtml

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Remember what the Republicans did to Al Gore for making a couple of phone calls

apparently for campaign purposes from his WH office?

[woodsprite]

2. Hadn't thought of that. Good point!

Is someone keeping a running list of all of her crap? Kinda like there is re: bush. It would be easy to point people to.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Beware of anything written by Jason Leopold

He's about as trustworthy as Page Six of the NY Post.

[struggle4progress]

4. Meh! Leopold got played by an unreliable source on whether a Rove indictment was coming up. If you

think these claims, about Palin's unethical misuse of public resources to run her campaigns, are untrue, do feel free to provide evidence: but Leopold isn't the only one reporting it -- and I've seen no reason to think that he's wrong