Sarah Palin: Hilarious
by Josh Orton, Thu Jul 09, 2009 at 07:35:14 AM EDT
It's hard to say which of Palin's explanations for resigning was most hilarious.
My previous favorite: instead of governing responsibly, Palin says lame-duck governors waste time and money by jetting around on junkets, international trade missions, etc....and that's just not something Palin wants to put the people of Alaska through. So, you know, she might as well resign now (the un-mentioned option of actually governing responsibly for the balance of her term was apparently ruled out).
But Greg Sargent's found a new contender:
One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state's taxpayers are being forced to spend money defending her government against ethics complaints that would otherwise fund teachers, cops, and road repair.
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But David Murrow, a spokesperson for the Governor, said in an interview that much of this money was budgeted to the lawyers in advance and would have gone to them anyway, even if state lawyers hadn't been defending against these ethics complaints.
The Anchorage Daily News picked up Greg's story:
Palin administration officials provided the Daily News with a breakdown of what it says are $1.9 million in costs. Most if it is a per-hour accounting of the time state employees, such as state attorneys, have spent working on public records requests, lawsuits, ethics complaints, and issues surrounding the Legislature's "Troopergate" investigation last summer of Palin."Is it a check that we wrote, no, but is it staff hours, yes," Sharon Leighow, spokeswoman for Palin, said of the expenses related to state employee work.
Those state employees would have been paid regardless.
Let's take a moment to admire the irony: Alaska state employees are now wasting time trying to defend Palin's fibs about the cost of wasting state employees' time.
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