Palin Voice Coach Billed As "Get Out The Vote" Expense

Politico:

From the Robert Draper piece:

[A]n elegant ... woman sat alone at the far end of the bar ... Her name was Priscilla Shanks, a New York-based stage and screen actress ... who had found a lucrative second career as a voice coach. Shanks's work with Sarah Palin was as evident as it was unseen. Gone, by the evening of her convention speech, was the squeaky register of Palin's exclamations. Gone (at least for the moment) was the Bushian pronunciation of "nuclear" as "nook-you-ler." Present for the first time was a leisurely, even playful cadence that signaled Sarah Palin's inevitability on this grand stage.

Shanks' name does appear in McCain's campaign finance report.

It's reported as: "Operating Expenditures / GOTV CONSULTING."

As in "Get Out the Vote."

Read the whole story: Politico

Comments

[Yve72]

The RNC should demand their money back because Palin's voice is still annoying and far too snarky.

[Hedonist88]

Palin still has an irritating squeaky screechy voice that can drive anyone to suicide

[marytny]

The RNC is sure creative with their bookkeeping.
Voice coach goes into the GOTV column?

I think that belongs in the BS catagory....

[emily00011]

She really doesn't want to have to pay for anything herself.

[TrueBlueMajority]

I'm a liberal Dem but I will PERSONALLY pay for this woman's voice lessons... her voice grates on me like fingernails on a blackboard and if I can't avoid hearing it for the next 12 days (and for all the time she campaigns for 2012) then please let me pay for some voice lessons for her so she won't drive me around the twist!

i usually love unique accents but she's like biting on a piece of tin foil!

[Doofus]

Agreed, but it's more her pitch than her accent, for me.

The Repos need to lose this if only because of her voice, PLEASE.

She will drive senators mad if she 'has her way' with them, or whatever
it is she would do as 'President of the Senate'.

[HowIronic]

It just goes to show that you can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. How much good could have been done with the money spent to clean this woman up?

[beac]

Voice coach - check!
Wardrobe consultant - check!
Rehearsed, yet poorly executed, answers to questions about world events - check!

Palin is clearly running for Miss VP of America.

Fortunately on 11/4, America will give her the old elbow-elbow-wrist-wrist-wrist goodbye!

[Teeninchee]

The hockey mom who needs a voice coach to do what? Cheer for her kids' team? Boy, GOP payin for a lot of stuff.

[ajax2]

Because no one in their right mind can listen to her.

[Teeninchee]

still whipping out that tube of "lip gloss" by that other name? Sow's ear is never gonna be a silk purse.

[Sumocat]

Wait a second. Am I reading correctly they used the voice coach before the convention, yet she slipped back to saying "noo-ku-ler" during the debate? Looks like that was money well spent.

[1PALady]

Cindy and Sarah have been competing to see who could look the best on stage.

[judyc]

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who thinks they're capable of more than they actually are.

[deeppeace]

This isn't 23/6?!?! Oh, lordy, what next.

[loudyk]

I've been saying all along that she needed a voice coach. That was obviously a waste of money because I haven't noticed any difference in the way she speaks and she still doesn't put 'g's on the end of her 'ing' words. Her voice still reminds me of nails on a chalkboard....I can hardly stand to listen to her.

[deeppeace]

I can hear it now: "I'd like to perfect my alaska fishwife screech, please."

[voter42]

This is not surprising. Nothing about the McCain/Palin campaign has any substance. Keep dressing her up in nice clothes and help her learn to speak. Maybe all the hardwork will help her in her next career after her political career ends in November!