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Title: Palin Before Resignation: I Can't Take It Anymore
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... /02/23/national/a125856S95.DTL
Published: Feb 24, 2012
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2012-02-24 00:17:42 by Brian S
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Views: 3716
Comments: 9
(02-23) 19:17 PST JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- In the final months before she resigned as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustration over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers and their perceived efforts to "lame duck" her administration, along with outrage over ethics complaints that she felt frivolously targeted her and prompted her to write: "I can't take it anymore." The details are included in more than 17,000 records released Thursday by state officials — nearly 3 1/2 years after citizens and news organizations, including The Associated Press, first requested Palin's emails. By the spring of 2009, the emails show, Palin was regularly butting heads with lawmakers of both parties over her absences from the Capitol and over her picks for vacancies in the state Senate and her own cabinet. The emails she sent to staff illustrate Palin's growing suspicion that those legislators were seeking to undermine her administration by harping on how often she was away from Juneau, the state capitol. She asked her aides to tally how many days she was out of Alaska in 2008. The staff came up with 94 days, but 10 less if you count travel days when she was in the state part of the day, The absences included all of October and most of September while she was on the campaign trail as the GOP vice presidential candidate. "It's unacceptable, and there must be push back on their attempts to lame duck this administration," Palin wrote to her top aides on April 9. "That's only going to get worse as they try to pull more bs and capitalize on me being out of the capitol building for 36 hours." Palin also asked her aides to see if they could hold certain legislators'"feet to the fire" and hold votes on her nominees. She wrote words of encouragement to Wayne Anthony Ross, her nominee for attorney general, telling him to "stay strong." "Those who want to turn this into a kangaroo court will soon see you confirmed as Alaska's AG," Palin wrote. Ross was not confirmed, the first ever cabinet level candidate rejected by the Alaska Legislature. Palin traveled to an anti-abortion rally in Indiana the day he was defeated. Tim Crawford, treasurer of Sarah Palin's political action committee, encouraged everyone to read the emails. "They show a governor hard at work for her state," he said. The emails are the last of her emails from her time as governor, according to Alaska state officials. Citizens and news organizations, including the AP, first requested Palin's emails in September 2008, as part of her vetting as the Republican vice presidential nominee. The state released a batch of the emails last June, a lag of nearly three years that was attributed to the sheer volume of the records and the flood of requests stemming from Palin's tenure. The 24,199 pages of emails that were released last year left off in September 2008. When it became clear that the June release would not include all the emails from Palin's tenure last June, requests were then made for the remaining emails. Thursday's release includes 17,736 records, or 34,820 pages, generally spanning from October 2008 until Palin's resignation, in July 2009. Of those, 13,791 records were released without redactions, according to the governor's office. Another 965 documents were withheld. Several media organizations, including msnbc.com, said they were not informed of Thursday's release. Sharon Leighow, a spokeswoman for the current governor, Sean Parnell, said records in the governor's office indicated that MSNBC.com did not request the second group of emails but she said a CD containing the documents was being sent to their offices because it contained emails inadvertently omitted from the first release. Palin's frustration over a series of ethics complaints filed against her, one of the issues she cited when stepping down, emerges in a series of e-mails on March 24, 2009. "These are the things that waste my time and money, and the state's time and money," she wrote to then-Lt. Gov. Parnell. In an April 2009 email, she commiserated over a story indicating another ethics complaint was to be filed: "Unflippinbelievable... I'm sending this because you can relate to the bullcrap continuation of the hell these people put the family through," she wrote to Ivy Frye, an aide during the first part of her term, and to Frank Bailey. Later that day, in an email to her husband and two top aides, on the issue, she said: "I can't take it anymore." The first batch of emails released last June, before she announced she would not run for president, showed that Palin was angling for the vice presidential slot months before John McCain picked her to be his running mate. Those records produced no bombshells, while painting a picture of an image-conscious, driven leader, struggling with the gossip about her family and marriage, involved in the day-to-day duties of running the state and keeping tabs on the signature issues of her administration.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Still poking the "faithful" of the system I see.
Tag line: I wuz HACKED, cuz I SAY so! (Boris Y) "I'd vote for obama" (Mad Dog, Paul voter) IF RonniePAULIE runs as a repukelican't, (OR even as a demonRAT), against the messiah "king" obammy; I'd vote FOR him.
Wait I thought that's what she said to that black basketball player when she was in college.
I'd wager Juan McCain never heard her say "I can't take it anymore!".
Tag line: I wuz HACKED, cuz I SAY so! (Boris Y) "I'd vote for obama" (Mad Dog, Paul voter) IF RonniePAULIE runs as a repukelican't, (OR even as a demonRAT), against the messiah "king" obammy; I'd vote FOR him.
Didn't even finish the bridge to nowhere. I was so hoping the McCain would drive the Straight Talk Express across it, and disappear.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
It cracked me up to drive around town seeing "campaign" signs that had "PALIN" in large, large capital letters, and McCain in very small letters underneath her name. The same "strateeegery" is being implemented again. Seen the stories of the "Romney/Paul" ticket? LMAO The rubes will eat it up. "I'm voting for Romney cause Paul will be his VP choice!!!" they'll breathlessly announce. And the two party fraud continues,with the rubes begging for crumbs.
Tag line: I wuz HACKED, cuz I SAY so! (Boris Y) "I'd vote for obama" (Mad Dog, Paul voter) IF RonniePAULIE runs as a repukelican't, (OR even as a demonRAT), against the messiah "king" obammy; I'd vote FOR him.
BINGO!!!!!!!! I can't imagine Ron Paul EVER signing up as VP choice behind Romney. Romney goes against everything Paul stands for. As to the two-party fraud, yeah.......... (((sigh))) It'll keep going, until the financial collapse.
To: mcToejam, rat-boy, drippy, Alzheimer Fred, whitesands, t-bird, loonymom/ming, e-type jackoff, goober56, wreck, cal-CON, rabid dog, dummy DwarF, biff, harrowup the communist, and meguro. You're on the "a waste of human flesh" list. Piss off.
That's exactly what I said when the GOP nominated the stain and then again when he chose this bumbling bimbo as running mate.
Palin is on the right side. What she couldn't take was being bankrupted by all the baseless witch hunts. The right should do the same to the left. Litigate them to bankruptcy.
I thought Wasilla was the capitol.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
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I Can't Take It Anymore
#3. To: calcon (#2)
(Edited)
Wait I thought that's what she said to that black basketball player when she was in college.
#4. To: Brian S, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: hondo68, calcon (#4)
#6. To: Wood_Chopper (#5)
#7. To: calcon (#2)
I Can't Take It Anymore
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
#9. To: Brian S (#0)
...Palin's growing suspicion that those legislators were seeking to undermine her administration by harping on how often she was away from Juneau, the state capitol.
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