Yes, my friends, good news comes in many forms. This weekend, it’s a reminder that you can still redirect your hard earned dollars away from workaday concerns like bills, vacation or retirement and into the coffers of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Just head on over to the Alaska Fund Trust (AFT) and let the love flow! And what, you may ask, will this money be going for? Her reelection as governor? A 2012 run at the White House? No, I’m sorry… nothing quite so pedestrian as that. No, it seems that AFT is raising money to “retire” more than half a million dollars in debt that Ms. Palin has run up in legal fees, defending herself from the various legal charges and ethics complaints rising against her since… well, pretty much since she took office as the Governor.
You’d think that her previous cash grab efforts with SarahPAC might have been able to help out somewhat. But that hope may have been derailed when the GOP consultant group in charge, Campaign Solutions, bailed out on the PAC almost immediately because of, ummm… more ethics issues over the establishment of the PAC itself. Now there’s even somebody holding a “webathon” or selling some hijacked Girl Scout cookies or something to beef up the bank account.
Some of Palin’s most vocal defenders, and associates of the new Trust, describe all of the complaints against the Governor has having been “political” and “baseless” as well as saying that the complaints have been “dismissed.” Oh really?
How much money was spent by both sides in the investigation of the tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer cash which were paid out to a few farmers, including the father-in-law of Palin’s school chum and incredibly unqualified head of Agriculture, Franci Havemeister? Those payments were determined by state auditors to have been illegal and were part of the sprawling Dairygate scandal which has never gotten a full hearing on the national level. (See this article for a full timeline.) But I guess that means they were “dismissed.”
How about the legal costs surrounding advice given to several state employees to ignore subpoenas by the equally unqualified ambulance chaser cum Attorney General who later resigned in disgrace. I guess that was all “dismissed” also, eh?
And I’m not sure how much her supporters should be asked to pay for defending the Governor against ethics charges she filed against herself. The list goes on, and enough time has passed by now that many of the things which should have made you angry or depressed about Palin’s history in Alaska may just make you laugh today.
But hey… this isn’t taxpayer cash coming from government coffers we’re talking about here. It’s all voluntary cash, freely given by her adoring acolytes, so the link is up there for you to send your money in right away. Enjoy!