Sarah Palin's Emails $10,000 To Access

motherjones.com:

How much would you pay for access to the emails Sarah Palin has sent and received as governor of Alaska? Would you part with $10,000 for them? That's basically what her office is asking.

During the general election, I filed an open records act request for all emails that had gone to and from Palin in her official capacity. And Alaska citizen watchdog Andre McLeod, who had long been peppering Palin's office with similar requests, did the same. At a time when Palin was on the hot seat as Senator John McCain's vice presidential running mate, her office replied that it would cost over $65,000 to round up all of Palin's emails and that Mother Jones would have to cover this cost.

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Comments

[VeroucaSalt]

Why pay for the emails when you can get a hacker to obtain them for free?

[some-realtalk]

Who wants to bet that 4 years from now access to those emails will still NOT be possible!!

[zippy2112]

Obama's e-mails are posted on the web for all to see, why can't Palin put her e-mails on the web for all to see?

[deosil]

Another Palin - Bush similarity­...VEILED IN SECRECY.

Same IQ, both have fake accents from states they are not from,neither one can string a sentence together, both say NUK-U-LAR, both pathological liars.

[some-realtalk]

Sarah Palin, having already been found GUILTY of Ethics Violation, for using her office to try to influence the actions of the police chief, for her own personal gain of getting her ex-brother - inlaw, and then eventually firing him because he did not do what she wanted. --- (sounds a little like Blaogojevich doesn't it, he also tried to use his office for his own personal gain, something politicians, ARE NOT supposed to be doing) -- and part of the reason Sarah Palin was found GUILTY of Ethics Violation a month ago!

Now AGAIN, Sarah Palin is trying to gain personally from selling emails from her State Job --- You know, I really hope this opportunist Sarah Palin goes the way of Blagojevich, because she seems to have forgotten that she is not working to gain for herself, but working for the taxpayers who pay her salary!! Gawd she is truly vile!!!

[zippy2112]

running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain - violated no ethics laws, according to a report released by the state personnel board on the eve of Election Day. An earlier, separate investigation by the Legislature found that Palin had abused her office.
"There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters," the personnel board's report said.

[deosil]

Why won´t anyone CALL PALIN ON THIS. She WAS found guilty, but now she says, OH THAT´S BEHIND ME NOW..oh, yeah, how come? It´s n been dealt with yet. She had a fake stack of papers compliled in her favor, alot of people bought that BS.
I would think with ALL these interviews ONE commentator would ASK HER A REAL QUESTION about HER ETHICS and scandals instead of trading moose meat recipes.!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

[some-realtalk]

Sarah Palin, having already been found GUILTY of Ethics Violation, for using her office to try to influence the actions of the police chief, for her own personal gain of getting her ex-brother - inlaw, and then eventually firing him because he did not do what she wanted. --- (sounds a little like Blaogojevich doesn't it, he also used his office for his own personal gain, something Senators are not supposed to do) , and that's why Sarah Palin was found GUILTY of Ethics Violation findings!

Now AGAIN she's trying to gain personally from selling email from her State job --- You know, I really hope this opportunist Sarah Palin goes the way of Blagojevich, because she seems to have forgotten that she is not working to gain for herself, but working for the taxpayers who pay her salary!! Gawd she is truly vile!!!

[SoCalAmerican]

How about a starting eBay bid of $1.00 and see where we go from there?

[newshawk14]

This lady is sounding more like the female equivalent of Illinois governor Blagojevitch every day,
please let her fade into a well deserved obscurity. Hopefully, Alaskan law allows impeachment.

[Proud Bay Man]

"Young Trigg, let's remove all the homophobic, personal, misspelled, lying crap that was also on My Wikipedia page"

[Sandy248]

$10K??? Do the Wasilla yahoos need money to pay back the RNC for those clothes?

[Gladys1963]

The price tag is just a stall tactic--her staff needs more time for spell-checking.

[Toonadude]

I'll trade her even up.
1,000 sheets of her e-mail for 1,000 sheets of my toilet paper .....sligh­tly used though....­. sorry.

[mdlw]

Palin has been associated with a group for nearly 20 years that advocates seizing the wealth, calling it "wealth transfer." Their goal is to eradicate all other religious expressions other than their own, and enforcing a government based on their specific beliefs. Don't believe me...pleas­e check out this site-

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/11/5/13585/8320/

[Tom Joad]

she should be charged with violating FOIA - she had no right to conduct state business on private e-mail accounts. surely, this is a crime for which she could be prosecuted.

[Toonadude]

Palin consulted with Cheney on this. Seems that following that discussion, she concluded that if one can get sh*tfaced and blast a man with a shotgun and not even be inconvenienced by an investigation, then she can discuss an illegal personell matter on her own computer without disclosing it to the public.

It's all relative.

[deosil]

I remember the FIRST day Palin hit the news. An article quoted someone as saying PALIN IS LIKE CHENEY. SHE CAN LOOK YOU STRAIGHT IN THE EYE AND TELL THAT BLACK IS WHITE. It´s all a staring contest after that. That is her strength.
Her bluff should be called at every turn..star­ting with TROOPERGATE.

[jcollell]

Oh boy. Somehow she manages to keep herself in the news and not in a good way. When will she finally be gone? Given the current trend, not for a freaking long time. Good think I stocked up on ibuprofen.

http://www.youspar.com

[keepemhonest]

Open & transparent government comes with a HUGE price tag for Palin.

[pipp]

Who would benefit from the pay off? Unwed pregnant teen aged Alaskan Moms and their babies? Or Sara and Todd's high rollin' travelin' perks for them and the kid's lifestyle?

[deosil]

Not JUST traveling perks, the Palins builut heir McMansion while the ARENA was being built...YO­U DO THE MATH.