why are you so sloppy and careless with your accusations? If you still don't believe this, file an FOIA request.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin's office has released a nearly $2 million cost breakdown detailing what the resigning Alaska governor says the state has paid tackling ethics complaints against her.

The spreadsheet compiled by the governor's office totals more than $1.9 million reportedly spent by various state agencies to handle the complaints as well as public records requests.

Palin, who steps down July 26, has racked up more than $500,000 in personal legal debts on top of that.

According to the cost breakdown, expenditures by the state Department of Law added up to more than $850,000.

The governor's office says its expenditures totaled more than $425,000 in nearly 6,000 hours of staff hours.

Palin's staff released the numbers to back up her contention the onslaught of "frivolous" ethics complaints have cost the state millions of dollars and thousands staff hours.

http://newsminer.com/news/2009/jul/07/palins-office-details-complaint-costs/

"The Bridge to Nowhere", does anyone remember how she used that crap about "I said thanks, but no-thanks"? That is, until the slow to respond national media finally reported the truth, that she supported the Bridge to Nowhere until it was obvious that Congress was not going to fund it, and that she had nothing at all to do with killing it. Its time the national media caught up to Palin's latest lies, thank you Joan!

Was very happy to hear your remarks on Hardball. Had been waiting for over a day to hear somebody - anybody - point out that Sarah was lying about the costs to Alaska. Great job!

The lies that silly, shallow woman tells are astounding but more stunning are the people that aren't bothered by that characteristic. Imagine if it was your child telling you obvious lies. Or a spouse. Or even a neighbor. It isn't the "liberal elite media" who are treating her unfairly. (And since when is pointing out an untruth "unfair"? It's the Media's job to do that!!) Read the comments from her neighbors in Alaska - from the people who know her best and have known her the longest. Granted there's a few who support her no matter what she does but many, many people in Alaska point out one lie after another. Each time I read of this lie or that lie that she's told, I immediately think of her children... they have to know Mommie is a liar. I feel sorry for them, they have to be embarrassed. All the celebrity and money in the world won't make up for that. We're going to see at least one of them on Oprah some day or writing books of their own. The woman has no credibility. None. I'm not even going to go into her lack of intelligence, intellectual curiosity or where she stands on the issues. I've ask myself why I care any longer since she lost last fall. The answer is because she came within a heartbeat of being in the WH and that is still a terrifying thought. That plus she has some powerful "elite" insiders behind her even though she pretends to be an outsider(Cheney, Malek, Murdoch for instance) and that scares me. I'll watch her as long as she's anywhere in the public eye.

In the search for the reasons why Palin did what she did, I think that the most probable reason is that she's just lacks common sense. I think she was a bad governor and her resignation just proves it. I know nothing about her Lieutenant Governor, but I suspect that the state of Alaska will be immeasurably improved by his being put in charge. As for what happens to the country, only time will tell.

...gets what some consider to be frivolous FOIA requests. Some states even have their own FOIA laws on the books, in addition to the federal Freedom of Information Act. Staff is hired to process them. It's their job. Unless they're putting in overtime on Paln ethics ones, and/or they're neglecting requests on other material, staff time involved shouldn't be separated out.

And, of course, the charges made to those requesting records through the FOIA should also be taken into consideration with regard to the bottom line.

However, to repeat myself once again: The reason Sarah quit is because she threw a tantrum about the Vanity Fair article and said "That's is! I'm done!!" without thinking the process through. Then, being the publicity hound that we all know she is, she held a press conference to announce it...and now she's stuck.

At the moment, there is NO serious money to back up any Republican presidential candidate, so . . . at the moment, it hardly matters which kook the rank-and-file support for the nomination.

When that changes, or I should say if it does, so will the "political landscape."

Okay. It took me a while.

Don't you think that her reasons for resigning were a little more about publicity? She had fallen out of the limelight. Now she is getting interviews and all kinds of press. The worst situation for her might have been that we would ignore or forget her. People seem to love to talk about her.

My prediction we haven't seen or heard the last of her. She thrives on attention. And she seems to know just what to do in order to get it.

why the media let Bush get away with so much and why the media let Obama get away without more detail when campaigning?

that's is what new media does. since reagan, we have had a brain dead media that spends more time sucking up than reporting.

I'm always mystified when any of our more intelligent commentators believe Sarah Palin has the stability and intelligence to have any kind of ongoing national presence. I can foresee Fox's hosts, well practiced at damage control, inviting her in to repeat a particularly pithy remark. But when she launches into observations such as the White House's (imagined) "Department of Law" ability to throw out ethics charges when Palin's in residence, the only feasible response would be a hasty farewell to their favorite goodbye girl. She wouldn't make it onto the Town Council in our small town.