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Title: Georgia candidate paid nearly $100K to bring Palin to rally
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URL Source: http://tinyurl.com/3yd6ms8
Published: Oct 9, 2010
Author: Holly Bailey
Post Date: 2010-10-09 13:30:33 by Skip Intro
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Views: 2200
Comments: 4
Karen Handel's campaign to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination in Georgia got a big boost when she was endorsed by Sarah Palin this summer. But it can be expensive to be a Mama Grizzly. As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Aaron Gould Sheinin reports, Handel paid nearly $100,000 to bring Palin to an August rally ahead of a crucial runoff in the race. According to newly filed campaign reports with the state Elections Commission, Handel's campaign paid $92,000 to an Ohio-based air charter to fly Palin to the Aug. 9 rally. The campaign also paid $13,000 to rent space at a local hotel to house the event. Handel narrowly lost the GOP nomination to Nathan Deal on Aug. 10. While it does not appear that Palin charged a speaker's fee for the event, Handel's payout is unusual in that Palin's camp had previously said she wouldn't ask candidates to cover the costs of her campaigning for them. In an interview last year, then-Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton told me that Palin instead planned to cover travel costs through her political action committee, SarahPAC. A Palin spokesman did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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#1. To: All, *Tea Party On Parade* (#0)
Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a gal named Palin Well, the first thing you know, Sara’s a millionaire Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Sara and all her kin Y'all come back now, you betcha!” - Mr.Dobbolina Eat your heart out, Mudbot Dim.
You won't be missed, skidmark!
You won't be missed, skidmark! Darn.... you are calling Palin a skidmark. There is hope for you.
You're as stupid as skippy/skidmark/POS.
A poor soccer mom tryin’ to keep the jocks from nailin’
And then one day, she was shootin' at some moose
And up through the ground come some septic tank sluice
Alaskan politics, Republican TEA
Kinfolk said, Sara, move away from there!
Said, POX News is the place you oughta be
So they loaded up the truck and moved to the City
New York City. Movers. Shakers. People who read.
They would like to thank you folks for kindly droppin' in
You're all invited back again to this locality
To have a heapin' helpin' of their hospitality
Hillbilly, that is, set a spell, take your snowshoes off
#2. To: Skip Intro (#1)
Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Sara and all her kin
#3. To: Ibluafartsky (#2)
Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Sara and all her kin
#4. To: mininggold (#3)
you are calling Palin a skidmark.
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