Palin Work Emails Sent On Personal Yahoo Account, Obtained By Paper

The Alaska Dispatch obtained copies of work-related emails sent by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin early in her administration -- on a personal Yahoo account. The emails show the governor frustrated by the Alaska bureaucracy.

Read the whole story here (site currently down.)

One email reads:

"all this back and forth with some of the people whom i have chosen gets pretty frustrating, especially knowing there are still people on board like (Mike) Chambers and others who have to be replaced,'' Palin wrote in a characteristic style of random capitalization and punctuation. "it should be easier than it is [for] Mike -- for me to say I want to hire someone and then they get hired. "we've hired people I don't even know, people who have adamantly opposed me and my agenda - and i would be an idiot for trusting them now, and yet we have a lot of people out there who WANT to work for a new administration who are just plain losing faith already.''

Palin's email account was hacked in October 2008 by the son of a Tennessee Democratic state representative. Palin has been criticized for using private email accounts to conduct state business.

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[Zibop]

09:20 PM on 01/08/2010

palin, the successful failure.

[CyrusBeaucephus]

03:32 PM on 01/07/2010

All of our tr0//z voted for this woman--think about it

[treadway123]

04:33 PM on 01/07/2010

She complained as a councilman that the mayor was just had a Bussiness Management Degree an it wasn't good enough! They didn't need a manager, just her instead(Beauty Queen want ta be)

[twinskids]

09:39 AM on 01/08/2010

Yes she did!

Then as mayor-once elected she ended up having to hire a city manager to handler her "mayors" job.

[bones1955]

03:22 PM on 01/07/2010

Was listening to Monica Crowley on Sunday's 2009 year awards for McLaughlin Group. She thinks Palin is the best kept secret for the GOP. It's amazing how this woman just keeps coming back again and again. Isn't her 15 minutes up yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mover]

08:36 AM on 01/30/2010

Extreme leftists keep reviving her.

[pxgabriel]

01:29 PM on 01/07/2010

She is the biggest whiner I have ever seen. she is not a manager. Can you imagine working in an office with a boss like her. She has absolutely no managerial expertise.

[Mover]

03:38 PM on 01/08/2010

Yes there are mounts of evidence that cannot manage anything. Not a family, city, or state. Oh wait, she did all of thise things and di them very well.

Yeah, we wouldn't ant those experiences in a leader. We want a manager that blames everyone else for the work he has to do.

No doubt our pearless leader will fire someone to show us what a great manager he is.

[Zibop]

09:22 PM on 01/08/2010

Drink much?

[BonesAK]

04:47 AM on 01/12/2010

Family: son-->Army or jail
daughter--> teenage unwed birth
City: When Sarah left , $20 million in debt
State: quit because????

If that is doing them well....OMG!

[DCX2]

01:21 PM on 01/07/2010

Palin got her email "hacked" by a teenager who googled the answer to her security question. He went to Yahoo and said he lost the password to Palin's email account. Yahoo prompted him with her security question, "where did you meet your spouse". He googled and found out it was in high school, so he tried several variants of "Wasilla High School" until he succeeded.

I would like to take this time to remind everyone that if you have a security question (e.g. "where did you meet your spouse") for any sensitive account (e.g. email or online banking), please make sure that the answer isn't something you can find on the Internet.

[treadway123]

04:35 PM on 01/07/2010

Alaska law says it is (INLEGAL) for her to use her personal account for Goverment bussiness of any kind! Another Ethic violation that will be throwen out if it hasn't been already!

[figure8]

01:18 PM on 01/07/2010

She managed to get her hubby and kids benefiting from the state right away, Todd sat and conducted some shady Troopergate calls and meetings, kids traveledl to events unauthorized, I'd say she pulled a snatch and grab for family but the bureaucracy got in her way to get her friends on the payroll.

[Mover]

03:40 PM on 01/08/2010

How much of the taxpayers dollars did she spend taking her spouse to a romantic dinner in NYC?

[DeanAdams]

12:47 PM on 01/07/2010

I guess when you attend 5 colleges some things fall through the cracks -- such as learning how to write.

[treadway123]

04:41 PM on 01/07/2010

That was 6 colleges, one or two semester in each! Finally got a broad casting degree that she seemed to think thats all the education she needed for mayor, Gov. she quit an even V.P she tried for

[Meldy1]

12:06 PM on 01/07/2010

iam not surprised ,she's a twisted,stupid girl,all along,why on earth they voted her as governor?/were the alaskans suffering from a lingering disease during the election???or maybe death panels,who decided for them??

[Char59]

12:46 PM on 01/07/2010

I have to disagree with twisted and stupid, I would say sly and sneaky and knows exactly who she is trying to fool.

[twisted-european]

01:18 PM on 01/07/2010

In what respect, Charlie? Sly, my foot!

[treadway123]

04:43 PM on 01/07/2010

Your right! She's sneaky,revengeful and very sly! She like Power an noteriety, an it drives her to seek attention at every turn! Do as I say or get the H-out, seems to be her moto!

[entropyisfun]

11:03 AM on 01/07/2010

English translation, please?

[Lizard49]

10:15 AM on 01/07/2010

Meet the Focker.

[Pippen]

12:34 PM on 01/07/2010

ROTFLMAO Lizard49 flawless and hilarious thanks

[Womanvoter4Obama]

10:14 AM on 01/07/2010

When you read these emails and then look at her Op-Eds and speeches..all of her written words lately how can you HONESTLY think she has written her own opinions?

[Mover]

03:50 PM on 01/08/2010

Why are you reading another woman's emails???

Life: none?

[Womanvoter4Obama]

06:48 PM on 01/10/2010

First of all Mover..KMBA. Secondly her emails are public domain..she's a public official she should NOT have been using her yahoo email in the first place for state business. That was the whole crux of this problem, but we all know Sarah's not bright enough to follow rules. That's kind of why she fled from office.

[janedorothy4]

09:07 AM on 01/07/2010

Pelosi was laughing about candidates making promises on the campaign trail that arent kept and laughed about it in front of the cameras. In other words laughing at the fools who believe what candidates say when they are running for office.Yet newspapers go after Palin and release private emails. They would never do that to Pelosi who treats us like a bunch of fools.

[millertime]

10:20 AM on 01/07/2010

Pelosi was laughing because of the lack of support on a public option from the President, after he supported it during the campaign...nothing more....

[Mover]

03:54 PM on 01/08/2010

Guess again.

She was asked specifically about "transparency". A campaign promise that she did not make, but Obama did make, many times.

Her nervous laugh had zero to do with Barry's softening on the Public Option.

(he softened because he doesn't know about or acre about any single item in the so-called reform bill. None of them do. He just wants to make the campaign sound bite for his re-election bid in 2012.)

[Char59]

12:21 PM on 01/07/2010

This article is about Palin... not Pelosi...

[marinade]

09:05 AM on 01/07/2010

Palin is not a leader.

She divides and creates conflict.

[sisyphus93]

09:05 AM on 01/07/2010

The left's obsession with all things Palin is pathological.

[Lilly-G]

09:16 AM on 01/07/2010

Those who think Palin is anything but an id*iot are pathologically possessed.

[mrobins3]

08:33 AM on 01/07/2010

"and i would be an idiot " ... YES!!!! correct!!!

[ThirdSection]

10:24 AM on 01/07/2010

ALMOST correct-- She should have used the simple present tense rather than the conditional.