Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’

[Contrary1]

Who would have thunk? Maybe the fact that Todd is a seccessionist will lose her a few fans. Somehow, I doubt it. Just goes to show how strong the spousal ties are. A plus for the morons.

"Officially he was the first gentleman of Alaska. More people called him the "first dude." But newly released e-mails show that Todd Palin was busy doing more than snow machine driving and salmon fishing during Sarah Palin's two and a half years as governor and vice presidential candidate.

Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked "confidential" from his oil company employer to a state attorney.

While 1,200 separate e-mails were released this week, 243 others were withheld by the state under a claim that executive privilege extends to Todd Palin as an unpaid adviser to the government. Still, just the subject lines of those e-mails provide a glimpse of the ways the Palins divvied up their responsibilities when she became governor in December 2006, less than two years before Republican Sen. John McCain pulled her onto the national political stage by nominating her as his vice presidential candidate.

The still-secret e-mails between Todd Palin and senior officials reach into countless areas of state government and politics: potential board appointees, constituent complaints, use of the state jet, oil and gas production, marine regulation, gas pipeline bids, postsecondary education, wildfires, native Alaskan issues, the state effort to save the Matanuska Maid dairy, budget planning, potential budget vetoes, oil shale leasing, "strategy for responding to media allegations," staffing at the mansion, pier diem payments to the governor for travel, "strategy for responding to questions about pregnancy," potential cuts to the governor's staff, "confidentiality issues," Bureau of Land Management land transfers and trespass issues and requests to the U.S. transportation secretary..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35238034/ns/politics/

*On edit: "take the news miner off the press release address list for a few days, see how long it takes them to realize their not on the list."

Case closed. :rofl:

[YOY]

1. Here I thought it was just his powerful lack-of-batheing smell.

n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Cheney wannabe.

[FSogol]

3. Todd Palin - First Cuckhold

:shrug:

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. Shadow Governor Dude wants to be Shadow President Dude. n/t

[Warpy]

5. I doubt the woman could function at all

without Todd covering her. She can't focus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania

It would explain a lot about her whole life.

[Blue Owl]

6. Oh my Gawd -- TAWD!

You devil you.

:evilgrin:

[UTUSN]

7. K&R #9 n/t

[Orsino]

8. They reveal a lazy-ass governor. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Palingates and Bree Palin, two of my favorite Palin gossip sites,

are busy going through these e-mails now. I'm sure they will be very entertaining.

http://palingates.blogspot.com/

http://breepalin.blogspot.com/


Couple these with the taxes not paid on the undisclosed cabins -- the fun is just beginning. :)

[HipChick]

10. Todd Palin forwarded Confidential BP financial information..

Confidential information
Todd Palin also often served as a conduit for information to flow from one part of state government to another. When a friend or campaign aide's spouse got a state job, he was often notified. At other times, he notified the governor's office.

Sometimes information from outside flowed through him to the government. In one instance, the e-mails show, Todd Palin sent confidential financial information from his longtime employer, the oil and gas company BP, to a lawyer for the state, which does a lot of business with BP. The e-mail of financial results, written by Steve Marshall, president of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., was marked "confidential"; it told BP staff about financial results and the levels of annual bonuses to be received. Todd Palin received that e-mail from Glenn Trimmer, the secretary-treasurer of the United Steelworkers local where he was working while on a leave from BP. Palin forwarded the e-mail from his work account to his personal account, then forwarded it again from his personal account to an attorney for the state, along with financial details for a second year.

BP did not reply to a request for comment sent Thursday to the company's press contact.

[malaise]

12. Moving on...nothing to see here

Wait a minute....the $hit has hit the fan :rofl:

[malaise]

11. Thanks for these links

I've stocked up on popcorn. This will be fun. I'm also anticipating a nice Housegate at some point. :popcorn: :rofl:

[HipChick]

13. Schuster's really enjoying this..Taxgate and now Emailgate..

lol

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Can you stream Shannyn Moore?

She's talking about this stuff right now on her show on KUDO. http://kudo1080.com/

[HipChick]

16. thanks! OMG

she just said, one of Palin's staffer just said..they never talked to her, it was always him they interfaced with...

[steven johnson]

15. I like the tanning bed ruse and justifying family travel under Alaska funding

The Dude abideth too much.

MSNBC says that, among other things, the emails show:

•The governor coached her staff on how to disguise the amount of electrical work needed at the mansion to hook up her new tanning bed.
•Palin and her staff "stewed" over a state agency's refusal to provide a plane so their children could fly to Todd's family's home in Dillingham even though the Palins said it could be justified since they were going to attend a bill signing. Sarah Palin called the decision "outrageous," and an aide said it provides "a great excuse to privatize" the governor's jet service.
• The manager of the Palins' travel schedule searched for a public event to use as justification ("I just need one") to charge the state for an airplane flight for Palin's daughter, Willow, who made the trip but had missed the event given as its justification.

MSNBC: Alaska e-mails show Todd Palin deeply involved in state matters
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[Contrary1]

17. Mea Culpa...not possible say the Freeps.

"Wasn’t Todd working on the North Slope at the time?..."

"Why is illegal or unethical to talk to your spouse about your job?"

"But Obama may be criminaly liable for “not” releasing his real birth certificate."


Reading comprehension is yet another skill they are lacking. :crazy:

[HipChick]

18. MSNBC was quoted $15M

and then it went down to $323 for the cost...other Alaskan citizens were quoted $5000...Tawd was allowed for free


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27228287/