SP watch -- this is troubling. "Sarah's Weekend Away" - The Mudflats [View All]

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http://www.themudflats.net/2009/01/28/sarahs-weekend-away/

There’s lots of speculation about what exactly our governor will be doing this weekend. Here’s the scoop, straight from the governor’s office.

Friday evening, the governor will be dining with Fred and Marlene Malek. Mr. Malek is a “prominent business leader” and like most prominent business leaders who invite politicians over for swanky private dinners, there’s more than first meets the eye.

Fred Malek received his 15 minutes of fame in the 1970s as deputy director of CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President), the Nixon White House operation behind Watergate. Unlike many of his former associates, Malek walked–but not out of Washington. After lying low for a time, he made his political comeback as a leader in the Republican Party in the late 1980s, only to resign as deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1988 when an ugly incident from his past came to light: At Nixon’s behest, he had drawn up a list of Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where Nixon thought a “Jewish cabal” was out to get him. Nonetheless, Malek rebounded yet again in 1992 as campaign manager for the Bush/Quayle ticket.

Now a GOP fundraiser, Malek once wrote a most explicit description of political influence. In a briefing paper on the federalbudget to Nixon in 1972, Malek asserted: “All major grants and construction decisions for the next fiscal year were reviewed prior to the finalization of the budgets to ensure to the extent possible they impacted on politically beneficial areas.”

The hostess is a big Republican political donor, and apparently a fan of Fred Thompson.

Palin feels “honored” to have been invited to this event, and looks forward to discussing Alaskan stuff with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan, and others in attendance. Here’s where you can have a mental image of Sarah Palin introducing herself to Alan Greenspan just like she did to the fake Nicholas Sarkozy. “Hiiiiii! I’m Sair-aah!” While you’re at it, you can imagine me (as though I would ever be invited to such a thing) spraying my Syrah all over the white shag carpeting and Mitch McConnell.

Then Saturday, she’ll meet with staff in her D.C. office, and then it’s off to the Center for Strategic and International Studies luncheon, and then the Alfalfa Club Dinner. She’ll be able to rub elbows all weekend, talking about “Drill baby, drill” and begging Obama not to give Alaska any money.

She will not be speaking at, nor attending the RNC Winter meeting. Hmmm. Decided against partisan stuff, apparently.

A commenter at the ADN website said this about Mr. Malek: "Fred Malek is the guy Nixon sent to count the "Jewish cabal" at the Bureau of Labor statistics. Count he did and them Jews wuz transferred or fired. Seig Heil! He lied about his behavior when confronted about it in 1988 but was still kicked off Bush 41's team. Ten years later, the Nixon tapes proved it was even worse than had been reported. After "Representative Deregulation" Phill Gramm was ousted from McCain's team after his "whiners" remark, Malek became McCain's chief economic advisor. You remember: In the morning, the U.S. economy was "sound." In the evening it was in crisis."


She's pallin' around with some pretty dangerous people. We have to keep an eye on her, as much as we'd like to ignore her.