Posted on 06/29/2009 2:23:11 PM PDT by Hawk720
The turnover continues in Gov. Sarah Palin's public relations staff, with her top spokesman, Bill McAllister, forced out after less than a year in the position.
Replacing McAllister is David Murrow, an author of Christian books who lives in Chugiak.
McAllister moves to a newly created position as communications director of the Department of Law.
Murrow said he was too busy to talk to the Empire on Friday, but earlier told the Alaska Budget Report Newsletter he began the job June 10 and is paid $103,716 annually.
The governor's office has not publicly announced the new appointment, and has been slow to announce the hiring of the last three communications directors.
Murrow told the Budget Report that he owned a media production company that once did work for a Palin campaign, and is also author of two books on Christian men and church.
According to the American Library Association's Booklist, "Murrow advocates injecting a strong shot of testosterone into the proceedings to restore the masculine spirit to the church," in his first book, "Why Men Hate Church," published in 2004.
In 2008 he published "How Women Help Men Find God."
McAllister, a former reporter at the Empire, was working for Anchorage's KTUU-TV covering Palin and the Alaska Legislature when Palin hired him to be her top spokesman last July.
His nine-month tenure as Palin's spokesman was highlighted by an antagonistic relationship with Alaska's news media.
At one point Anchorage Daily News Executive Editor Pat Dougherty posted on his Editor's Blog an open letter to Palin suggesting a meeting to improve relations.
Dougherty told Palin it would not be productive to bring McAllister to that meeting.
McAllister declined to comment to the Empire, but told the Anchorage Press newspaper that the move out of the position was made at Palin's request.
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So did I. The instant the bias shows up, I’m done.
Murrow sounds like a great guy. Good pick, Sarah.
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