What Is Sarah Palin Building, and What Does It Mean? (They're sooooo obsessed with her!)

Newsweek's The Gaggle ^ | May 24, 2010 | David A. Graham

[2ndDivisionVet]

Experienced New York Times Alaska hand William Yardley has an intriguing dispatch from Wasilla in this morning's newspaper. He writes about the Palin family's relationship to the small town where Sarah Palin got her start as mayor, and draws a mixed portrait: Palin is frequently on the road and isn't seen around town the way she used to be, but her husband Todd also tells the reporter that his family doesn't intend to move anywhere: "Where else would we go? Alaska is our home."

One of the more interesting nuggets is midway through the article:

Even the most concrete new development in the Palin family, an enormous structure rising beside their existing 3,400-square-foot house on Lucile Lake, is something of a mystery. Based on the limited evidence in the planning department at Wasilla City Hall (the city does not require building permits), the building's footprint alone is 6,000 square feet, but much of it is two stories. Various sources have said the project includes a television studio (Fox News, [Sarah Palin's father Chuck] Heath said), apartments for Mr. Palin or the Palins' older children (Bristol Palin, 19, has said, however, that she is living on her own with Tripp and paying her own bills with the help of handsome speaking fees) and a well-appointed office for Ms. Palin.

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Family compounds aren't mutually exclusive with political ambition, but if one were intending to run for president, building a compound like this hours away from the nation's political center would be a strange move.

[curth]

I’m sure Governor Palin is tossing and turning in her sleep every night.

[Non-Sequitur]

What Is Sarah Palin Building, and What Does It Mean?

It means she's a very wealthy woman in her own right and can do anything she damn well pleases with her money.

[reaganrevolutionin2010]

The new building is the one on the right.