Tawddd former "first dude" resigns his job....how will they live and pay off her huge debt?

[greenbriar]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The husband of former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has quit his oil field job on the North Slope. Todd Palin's resignation as a production operator for oil giant BP PLC comes almost two months after his wife stepped down as Alaska governor and shortly before the release of her highly anticipated memoir in a deal rumored to be worth millions.

"Todd loved his union job on the Slope and hopes to return," Meghan Stapleton, Sarah Palin's personal spokeswoman, said in an e-mail Friday. "For now, he is spending time with his family."

The resignation was effective Sept. 18, according to BP spokesman Steve Rinehart.

In addition to working on the North Slope, Todd Palin was a commercial fisherman and for years has participated in the world's longest snowmobile race, the Iron Dog. He was unofficially referred to as the "First Dude" and also took part in official duties, such as hosting a tea for former first ladies of the state.

Todd Palin earned nearly $34,472 working part-time last year for BP in Prudhoe Bay and about $51,679 in the family's commercial fishing business, according to state financial disclosures. He also had $5,600 in snowmobile race winnings and an undisclosed discount on snowmobiles from racing sponsor Arctic Cat.

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[AllieB]

1. I hear Stephanie Miller's voice yelling 'Taawwwd'

when I saw your headline. :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

2. I wondered this the other day.. No fun havin' to work & all that..

So now the palin family is "off the grid".. Here's hoping she makes a LOT of money from that book.. COBRA only lasts just so long, and once they have to self-insure, she might be wishing she was still on the public dole :) Apparently the speaking tour thingie has not panned out the way she thought it would, and once the right wing bulk-buys of her book end up dumped at BigLots, she'll be just another has-been.

[virgogal]

3. I heard she got 7 million for her book. I hope I'm wrong.

[parasim]

4. She was asking for an 11 million dollar advance for her book deal...

and last I saw it was valued at 7, so I think they're doing just fine.

[xchrom]

5. why don't michael moore critics here post facts like this -- or have fainting spells about this --

'Todd Palin earned nearly $34,472 working part-time last year for BP in Prudhoe Bay'

:shrug: in fact why aren't their 'facts' this concrete?

[spanone]

6. i see ms palin has a personal spokeswoman....now isn't that special?