Palin Ethics Complaints' Cost Factor In Her Resigning: Lt. Governor

WASHINGTON — The official in line to be Alaska governor when Sarah Palin resigns this month says she talked to him about the toll that ethics investigations has taken on her.

Alaska Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell says Palin cited the millions of dollars being spent to deal with document requests and other matters. All but two of the 15 ethics complaints filed against Palin have been dismissed with no findings of wrongdoing

Palin was the Republican vice presidential nominee last fall. She announced on Friday that she will step down as governor on July 26. She has been the state's chief executive for just 2 1/2 years.

Parnell appeared on "Fox News Sunday."

Comments

[kareemachan]

" Ethics complaints against Gov. Sarah Palin and top members of her administration have cost the state personnel board nearly $300,000 over the past year, almost two-thirds of which appear to be from the Troopergate investigation of the governor.

That's according to new figures released by the personnel board, which described them as "independent counsel expenditures." The board hires private lawyers to investigate the complaints. The expenditures were released after the personnel board expressed frustration at the costs of the complaints. Palin has said the state is wasting money trying to resolve "frivolous" complaints against her.

The bulk of the expenses – $187,797 – appear to stem from Troopergate, the messy case involving Palin's former brother-in-law, a state trooper, who got on the wrong side with Palin and her family. "

[kareemachan]

So much for "millions and millions".

[merrylee]

Moosefeathers Gov !

per her trainwreck of a resignation, Palin stated these complaints had cost Alaska "millions" when in fact, just last Saturday, Anchorage Daily News posted the $$$ - $276,000.00

soon to be Gov Parnell better unhitch his wagon from the Palin star asap

[HekmabaJuzimax]

You're right about Parnell. Millions is what it WILL cost Alsaka, when they find out the extent of the damage she allowed occur. She got out while the gettin' was good.

[HekmabaJuzimax]

BTW, that is the expression on her face when she spoke, one of a person about to get away with something.

[boynxtdoor]

Early gift. Is it christmas already?

[osage]

SARAH PALIN'S "POPULARITY" IS BASED ON HER GOOD LOOKS AND OR HER GENDER

Has there ever been a more shamelessly obvious example of a good looking woman exploiting her sex appeal to reach undeserved and or unwarranted heights of personal gain, adulation, notoriety and or celebrity than in the case of Sarah Palin?

Paris Hilton? Anna Nicole Smith? Pamela Anderson? Eleanor Roosevelt? Golda Meir? Margaret Thatcher? Mother Theresa?

[buffalodeb]

Bah-bye

[tallcoolone47]

The progressives did their jobs and did them well, using tax payer money that might have been better used to serve the people. They brought ethics charges against the Governor at a rapid clip regardless of the lack of evidence, but after all they were not really looking to make anything stick, muddying up the water works just as well as clear facts.

I salute the valiant progressive liars in this victorious quest, salute, salute, salute!!!

Meetings scheduled for next week to pick a new target.

[Elizabeth44]

The fact that the ethics complaints "didn't stick" was more a factor of the governor's three person hand-picked panel than the real content of the complaints. The largest portion of the tax payer money was spent on "troopergate" which Sarah brought before the panel to stop the investigation.

[kareemachan]

Yeah, they used all of $296,000, mostly on the one she brought against herself with her handpicked panel.

[nuclearmonkeys]

Quitting doesn't make ethics violations go away. But I'm all in favor of her quitting regardless.

[birchtree3]

I looked up three words in the dictionary yesterday

casuistry
sophistical
specious

and all the definitions were Sarah Palin

[nuclearmonkeys]

Had to look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry myself. But yes, it does fit Palin nicely.

[bayside]

Never have we had a gov. resign because of too many ethics investigations. She had problems of ethics, and abusing her authority in both jobs she held. If we had a honest justice in alaska we would have not had the corruption into stevens his son, young, former gov. muloski, who if we did this would have been in jail..The justice in alaska is just as guilty for covering it up..

[jimbeaux1961]

Again, Clinton was how much in debt when he left office? What's good for the goose...

[kareemachan]

Huh? Congrats on having an absolute null content posting. You should be proud.

[dinglebe]

If the legal bills are climbing from the ethics complaints, maybe she should just allocate bail-out money. At least all of the lawyers in Alaska will be employed.

[bigsioux]

Sarah can now start her own social networking site: "QUITTER."

[purplejesus]

loser

[henrypapillon]

geez, the Republicans never felt sorry for the Clintons. they hounded them from day one.

[numbnuts]

Hawaiian Pacific college-----1 semester
North Idaho College--------2 semesters
University of Idaho---------- 2 semesters
Matanuska-Susitna College --1 term
University of Idaho----------3 semesters
Notice a trend can't stick with anything.

[dinglebe]

None of them would offer a moose hunting scholarship.

[jimbeaux1961]

Most schools wouldn't accept pelts for tuition.

[kareemachan]

And let us not forget the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission that she quit as well.