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.
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Yeah, I'm sure Laura Bush was always receiving background checks on people.
i don’t care for any of the Obama’s or their tactics...
I do not put the Palins in the same category as the Obama couple. The Palins are good, ethical, patriotic Americans.
Palin/Palin 2012?
Isn't that the press corpse? ;)
The linked background check appears to simply gather publically available information. I don't know that the governor of Alaska or her spouse has any legal access to information beyond that.
Michelle Obama is welcome to gather the same publically available information about any business executive. So am I. So are you.
This report is simply MSNBC hyperbole, to be expected from a Democratic party operation.
And what makes you think she doesn't? Certainly Hillary recommended and aproved most of Bill's appointments, and we all know that Michelle has a big hand in Obama's appointments. Do you think they do that blindly?
Todd Palin sounds like a shrewd, protective, and strong character. Exactly the kind of man to stand by his to-be-President wife.
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Standing by his wife includes receiving background info on people? Do you really believe that? I bet you don't.
Sit down before you get dizzy.
It’s noticeable that the press rarely or never mentions that the First Dude is an Inuit. You can be sure it would be all over the media if this were a Democrat with a designated minority spouse.
Forget the affirmative action ploy, however. That’s a game that Democrats play.
Todd is a native Alaskan who knows the state, has worked all his life in very Alaskan type jobs, has built an Alaskan business, has an extended family that knows the state, has a wise grandmother. He knows what Alaska needs and what Alaskans want, and he played a large part in educating Sarah about that when they first met. Of course, Sarah grew up there and is no dummy herself. But there’s no question that the First Dude made a real contribution.
That is exactly what the spouses of chief executives do and we see it with every administration in the White House.
But is in interesting that no one cares that Michele has influence on the current president and no one really cared that Larua played a role in the Bush administration or how Hillary played a role in the Clinton administration or that Nancy played a role in the Reagan administration.
wtc,
i think you’re the one dizzy with PDS: Palin Derangement Syndrome.
No PDS here, just a practice of looking at everything equally without any spin (which makes you dizzy). If the article were exactly the same except for the name (replace TP with MO) I have no doubt at all that your reaction would be quite different and would in fact be closer to the appropriate one.
More Alaska anklebiter-initiated nonsense...
We know that Nancy Reagan helped make some policy decisions. Hillary Clinton sure did. Why couldn’t Laura have been a sounding board for President Bush the same way his Mother was for his Father when President Bush 41 was in the White House?
Now if it was shown that Todd Palin was the only one recieving the background check, I would be concerned. But that he was involved in running his eyes over sensitive information? No big deal. Many eyes can sometimes catch things that would otherwise have been missed.
All businesses worth their salt do background checks, credit checks,all kind of checks. To deal blindly would be sheer stupidity.This is much ado about nothing.
1) the news source is MSNBC- the king of spin media.
2) I have not gotten the “other side” of the story.
3) I don’t even care to because it doesn’t strike me as much of a “story” anyway.
4) I am pretty anti-Romney because of the corrupt, slick types of people he has surrounding and allying with him, but I don’t tend to comment on obsessive partisan coverage of any kind.
5) The Palin family belongs in the White House.
Great. If they can’t skewer Sarah, target Todd.
IBTZ?
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