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Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin
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PALIN: Hockey Arena Builders Built HER a HOUSE!!! Embezzlement/Ethics Probe
Think Progress Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
 Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home: Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weeks that “a long simmering embezzelment/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds.” In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “ trust me with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.” But she also bemoaned “political operatives” who have “descended on Alaska” to investigate “all sorts of frivolous ethics violations.” Palin said this “politics of personal destruction” was one of the key motivating factors behind her decision today.
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Re: PALIN: Hockey Arena Builders Built HER a HOUSE!!! Embezzlement/Ethics Probe
I dunno, lulz.
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Re: PALIN: Hockey Arena Builders Built HER a HOUSE!!! Embezzlement/Ethics Probe
Ut OH!
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SBS helped construct Palin’s home:
Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
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Todd you big dummy.
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Re: PALIN: Hockey Arena Builders Built HER a HOUSE!!! Embezzlement/Ethics Probe
Here we go... I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg!!!
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Re: PALIN: Hockey Arena Builders Built HER a HOUSE!!! Embezzlement/Ethics Probe
When will her affair with the atheist black man from Oklahoma come out?
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Think Progress Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?
 Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home: Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.
SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.
Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.
Alaska bloggers have reported in recent weeks that “a long simmering embezzelment/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds.” In her press conference today, Palin asked the public to “ trust me with this decision and know that it is no more politics as usual.” But she also bemoaned “political operatives” who have “descended on Alaska” to investigate “all sorts of frivolous ethics violations.” Palin said this “politics of personal destruction” was one of the key motivating factors behind her decision today.
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Thank you for going to the trouble to post this! This is the first place that I've found that has a plausible theory as to why she quit. I knew that dog wouldn't hunt (i.e., something in the milk wasn't clean)! With this news, hopefully this scandal will put S. P. out in the political wilderness never to be heard from again!
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I knew something had to be up with her. Little Miss Attention Whore would never just quit out of the blue.
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I've been dyiiiiing to post this one for the longest. So in honor of Sarah Palin's World Class Epic Fail and a chance for David Letterman to have sweet sweet revenge come Monday, this little ditty pretty much sums up my feelings and the shitstorm that'd about to implode big time!!
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Did you see her speech about her resigning?? It was completely incoherent. Maybe that was a ploy- confuse the people so they won't know what to ask you! She's sick. Also, how does she expect to run in 2012 when she didn't even finish her term? The fact that she couldn't finish the remaining year and a half of her term shows that something major is definitely brewing!
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Here we go... I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg!!!
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Did you see her speech about her resigning?? It was completely incoherent. Maybe that was a ploy- confuse the people so they won't know what to ask you! She's sick. Also, how does she expect to run in 2012 when she didn't even finish her term? The fact that she couldn't finish the remaining year and a half of her term shows that something major is definitely brewing!
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Going for 2012 has nothing to do with resigning cuz Obama, Clinton, and the Maverick all continued to be senators all thru their campaigns...they are catching up to her that's what I think.
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When will her affair with the atheist black man from Oklahoma come out?
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Donno...why don't u post it up?
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Aztec, come get your gal!
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