Seems Sarah Palin installed a tanning bed in the governor's mansion in 2007. "She did. She paid for it with her own money," Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska's Department of Transportation and Public Facilities told Us Weekly. McCain/Palin go to Defcon 1 Over This Scandalous Revelation: According to Wetherell, it was paid for with her own money and purchased used from a health club.