Sarah Palin Ex-Aide Frank Bailey Fined For Using State Emails In Tell-All Book

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A former aide to Sarah Palin has been fined for using confidential emails to write a tell-all book.

An activist filed the complaint with the attorney general's office after hearing of Bailey's plans to use the emails he obtained while a member of Palin's gubernatorial staff. He wrote "Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin," which came out last spring.

The fines include penalties for disclosing confidential information to Bailey's two co-authors in drafting the book and also for publishing some information after being told it was not to be released.

In an email Tuesday, Bailey says he agreed to pay the fine because despite his best efforts, two items were left in the book that the state did not want published. He also says the state deemed it against ethics rules to share his own personal emails with his co-authors.

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Comments

[goserenee1]

01:26 AM on 02/24/2012

Oh please who would want her in office.

[Terrywister]

12:05 PM on 02/23/2012

Sarah is still hot. At least from the eyebrows down.

[SoCalNick]

11:49 AM on 02/23/2012

Acronym for SA-RAH PA-LIN

S imple
A rrogant
R ogue
A dvocating
H ate

P etulant
A irHead
L eaking
I gnorant
N onsense

…………………………………That is all

[olebroad1]

12:20 PM on 02/23/2012

B R I L L I A N T!!!!

[NoahScape]

10:24 AM on 02/23/2012

36 hours later, an SP thread still can't top 1,000 responses.

[Sita001]

10:18 AM on 02/23/2012

how long until she's a lizard like Jan Brewer?

[RockyMissouri]

02:00 PM on 02/23/2012

Imminent ...

[Americanwoman55]

09:37 AM on 02/23/2012

The towers are falling in snowland.

[Rosie2]

09:20 AM on 02/23/2012

Sarahs age is really starting to show, so among the shallow minded Teapubs that have been blind followers of her will soon fade, just as her looks have.

[mutopis]

09:09 AM on 02/23/2012

The fines include penalties for disclosing confidential information to Bailey's two co-authors in drafting the book and also for publishing some information after being told it was not to be released.

Is it me or the baggers actually helped confirm that the writers used actual information and would make it difficult to challenge them since they have actual court documents indicating their information are not only factual but come from an indisputable source?...

[robiejuan]

08:58 AM on 02/23/2012

"Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin."

Sound like a mental health issue? You betcha!

[Demidan]

08:36 AM on 02/23/2012

The only book S.P. should be mentioned in would be a "Scared Straight" book of mores.

[Demidan]

08:30 AM on 02/23/2012

S.P. is sure aging poorly in the spotlight,,,it's almost like "Her" god is punishing her for such vanity.

Me I just think her true ugIy is breaking out of it's makeup shell.

[ray newman]

08:40 AM on 02/23/2012

Then do explain how you get to a false narritive from 100% verbatum emails ??

[ray newman]

08:40 AM on 02/23/2012

If she ever did win, she'd quit,

[Carpetbagger 68]

08:41 AM on 02/23/2012

Your leader and hero is an Alaskan separatist?

And if winning means getting a judge to agree that the most damning things in the book are true, and that there were many more very true, very damning things that were edited out due to fear of litigation, then score one for Tundra Barbie.

[vietveter]

07:23 AM on 02/23/2012

She is never wrong. ///////she is the smartest woman in

America. she is never wrong.

See how STUPID that all sounds?

She is a 1/2 term quitter with an ego problem.

There, doesn,t that better describe old

Moose Jaw Barbie?

[mcmutter]

08:40 AM on 02/23/2012

thunder thighs ....

[Theresa L Bakko]

09:37 AM on 02/23/2012

YEP!!!!!!!!!

[westkar]

06:21 AM on 02/23/2012

Then palin should be fined for pretending to be a governor... Or was Todd the governor?l