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To: mnehrling

there is an article in the Anchorage Daily News about her issues on the ticket. She and her staffers have to go thru her suitcases and return things that aren’t theirs, including gifts. Before you guys send gifts, please take note:

“Stapleton said another question is what’s going to happen with the “boxes and boxes and boxes” of gifts either given to Palin or a family member on the campaign trail, or shipped to her in Alaska. She said the gifts have to be valued to see what Palin is allowed to keep, and what she has to disclose.”

Government officials usually can keep gifts that are under a certain dollar value. For Governors, I don’t know what that is...if it varies from state to state, or if they are under federal guidelines.


218 posted on 11/07/2008 5:29:13 AM PST by merry10
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To: merry10
Our proposal would permit the Governor to accept and to keep all gifts valued under a certain amount (we believe that $285, the current federal standard, would be a reasonable threshold; we further recommend this standard be indexed to the federal law).

From link above

A $20 box of nuts or a $30 dollar bear shouldn't be a problem. jmo

220 posted on 11/07/2008 6:02:13 AM PST by Netizen (PRAY AND WORK HARD - MILLIONS OF MOOCHERS DEPEND ON YOU.)
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