Posted on 02/05/2010 10:55:42 AM PST by Hawk720
Officially he was the first gentleman of Alaska. More people called him the "first dude." But newly released e-mails show that Todd Palin was busy doing more than snow machine driving and salmon fishing during Sarah Palin's two and a half years as governor and vice presidential candidate.
Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked "confidential" from his oil company employer to a state attorney.
While 1,200 separate e-mails were released this week, 243 others were withheld by the state under a claim that executive privilege extends to Todd Palin as an unpaid adviser to the government. Still, just the subject lines of those e-mails provide a glimpse of the ways the Palins divvied up their responsibilities when she became governor in December 2006, less than two years before Republican Sen. John McCain pulled her onto the national political stage by nominating her as his vice presidential candidate.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Meanwhile, they yawn at Climategate stories.
At least he wasn’t nagging us to eat veggies and lose weight.
*yawn* oh they try so hard.
Two for the price of one, wasn’t that the Clinton phrase?
When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
When the government fears the people, we have freedom!
Sarah scares the crap out of the government and their media sycophants.
GO SARAH!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
People are surprisingly open about how much of a role Michelle Obama plays in her husband’s decision-making process, but that’s beside the point.
I am a huge Todd Palin fan. I want that WHOLE FAMILY in the White House.
Sounds like any spouse of a chief executive.
Good thing he wasn’t in charge of overhauling health care and did it behind closed doors....oh wait, that was Hillary, the first lady
These people look for everything and anything to knock Sarah.
They need to get a life.
Here here! :)
sw
They have neautered themselves with their own knives. Now they are grasping for potency.
The Palin’s are a Christian family ... one would expect a Christian husband to be involved in decisions. If he weren’t her most trusted advisor, why would she have married him?
But, even separate from that, it is stupid to assume that ANY political spouse is uninvolved in their spouse’s political decisionmaking. As always, career decisions have an effect on the family — particularly when the family is in public view, and such decisions can thrust the family into the limelight, or affect further career prospects. Difficult political decisions are, therefore, likely worth discussing with a spouse.
SnakeDoc
Blue plate special.
YAWN!
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Sorry Palinites...this is bulls**t of the highet order and way out of line.
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May we assume that you would have zero problem with MO receiving background checks on business people?
Great job, guys! What's next:
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