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Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’
MSNBC.com ^ | February 4, 2010 | By Bill Dedman

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boygottge; getpalin; msnbc; msnbccrybabies; palinfamily2012; palinisawesome; pravadmedia; toddpalinrocks
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1 posted on 02/05/2010 10:55:42 AM PST by Hawk720
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To: Hawk720

Meanwhile, they yawn at Climategate stories.


2 posted on 02/05/2010 10:56:55 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning" Obama 2/4/2010)
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To: Hawk720

At least he wasn’t nagging us to eat veggies and lose weight.


3 posted on 02/05/2010 10:57:26 AM PST by altura
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To: Hawk720

*yawn* oh they try so hard.


4 posted on 02/05/2010 10:57:41 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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To: Hawk720

Two for the price of one, wasn’t that the Clinton phrase?


5 posted on 02/05/2010 10:58:27 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Hawk720

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!!


6 posted on 02/05/2010 10:59:27 AM PST by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: Hawk720; a fool in paradise; altura

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.


7 posted on 02/05/2010 10:59:30 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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To: Hawk720

Sounds like any spouse of a chief executive.


8 posted on 02/05/2010 10:59:58 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


9 posted on 02/05/2010 10:59:58 AM PST by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin)
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To: Hawk720

These people look for everything and anything to knock Sarah.

They need to get a life.


10 posted on 02/05/2010 11:00:17 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Jim Robinson

Here here! :)


11 posted on 02/05/2010 11:00:25 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Yep. I could just see sweet little Piper hosting the press corps. What a doll!

sw

12 posted on 02/05/2010 11:01:28 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife (11/02/10)
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To: Hawk720

They have neautered themselves with their own knives. Now they are grasping for potency.


13 posted on 02/05/2010 11:03:08 AM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: Hawk720

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


14 posted on 02/05/2010 11:03:19 AM PST by SnakeDoctor (Life is tough; it's tougher if you're stupid. -- John Wayne)
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To: dead

Blue plate special.


15 posted on 02/05/2010 11:03:27 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: Hawk720

YAWN!


16 posted on 02/05/2010 11:04:08 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Hawk720
received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments....

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Sorry Palinites...this is bulls**t of the highet order and way out of line.

17 posted on 02/05/2010 11:05:24 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Hawk720
OK. So let's assume Todd Palin actually did do nothing as First Dude except ride a snow mobile and catch some fish.

Does that mean MSNBC would now be reporting about what a responsible governor Sarah Palin was for not allowing her husband any input into the political process?
18 posted on 02/05/2010 11:06:09 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
People are surprisingly open about how much of a role Michelle Obama plays in her husband’s decision-making process

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May we assume that you would have zero problem with MO receiving background checks on business people?

19 posted on 02/05/2010 11:07:06 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Hawk720
Yeah, MSNBC and NBC News sure is liftin' the lid on Dudegate!

Great job, guys! What's next:

"Trip's Poopy Diaper EXPOSED!!!!"
(only on NBC)

20 posted on 02/05/2010 11:07:14 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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