A fund was set up but Palin seemed uncomfortable with soliciting for it. With the 2010 elections imminent it would be difficult for her to push conservative candidates and tin cup for her legal fees at the same time.
No, the dems filed a ethics complaint against it and locked up the funds for the year or so. Palin stopped pushing it while the ethics charge was being fought.
re Palin’s legal defense fund: I was unaware that there was such a fund. Now I feel even more guilty!