Legal Fees: The First Family Defense

The maximum civil penalty for an ethics violation is $5,000. If she had just pled mea culpa and paid the maximum fines for all ten charges, she would have paid only $50,000 instead of $500,000. No, the money was not to defend for the ethics charges, it was to hide the violations.

Sorry but this Artic Cat Jacket is one of the ones that needs to be scoffed. Sure there are problems when it comes to costing the state travel money or some such more important matter. But a jacket with a team sponsor is a bit too nit picky considering the decades of graft on both sides of the political isle. The Jacket complaint is a non-event; it deserves no response. It is a politically motivated egotist trying to step into a limelight, and as ridiculous as the complaint is, I hope she does get the attention she craves. What this complaint IS good for is to give credulity to Ralph Seekins and his proposed ethics legislation that jeopardized people with valid ethics complaints. Because of all the expense of sorting through the chaff of frivilous complaints by limelight seeking egotists, you strengthen the argument for the powerful and unethical to have legislation like Seekins' in place, and cause a chilling affect against the common person having a valid letter of the law grievance addressed in a manner that does not involve extortionate risk and reprisals.

What's even more revealing is that early on in her term, the issue of the state not paying for her children's travel was apparently brought up by her staff but ignored by Palin...This is the same way she acted as mayor the "I'll do it until a judge tells me I can't" attitude, Sarah Palin has not learned from the past and is bound to repeat performances. Her loyal bots will see this as just another chance to rescue her as she plays the victim. The Sarah PAC has lots of money and can call on the Scientology supporters for funding since there seems to be no limits to deep pockets. Also what happened to her book deals there should be plenty to pay her expenses and legal fees, But just in case she needs financial help here is my two cents...Sarah start listening to those that have some moral & ethical standards.

Since Sarah Palin has lived above her means by hiring a lawyer that she couldn't afford, she needs to let Todd or someone else in her own family bail her out, not other citizens who had nothing to do with her ethics troubles. I'm sure that the Palin family has assets that they could sell or that Todd could get a (first?) second job to cover the costs. I'm sure that Sarah could find a way to work for or borrow the money rather than to ask fellow U.S. citizens who may be experiencing financial troubles with their home mortgages, job lay-offs, and such, for it.

Andrew has struck this one dead center. I will ask a somewhat rhetorical question here. How many ethics complaints did Tony Knowles face, and what were his legal bills? I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing both were a smaller number than our current "transparent" Governor has.

Palin should try to get help on legal fees from Greg Renkes and Randy Ruedrich. I'm sure they feel her pain and understand all about blood sport.

Sorry Palin- that's how things roll. YOU act unethically -when that's your campaign ---platform and people are going to take notice. If Palin had ethics and accountability she wouldn't need all the legal help. One question for Palin-since she stated-"Now, it seems in order to do this job as Governor, with the political blood sport some are playing today, only the independently wealthy or those willing to spend their income on legal fees to defend their official actions in office ... can serve," - does that mean she won't run for office again? ---Believer in Truth, Integrity and Ethics

What about the one she filed against herself (Petumenos)? I wonder how much that cost her in legal fees. And she likes to ignore the fact that, while her attorney originally had a contract with the state so that her legal fees would have been covered, her campaign- when they decided to hijack state government (the Ed O'Callaghan-Meg Stapleton hootenanny)- told her that Van Flein would have to retroactively become her private attorney. She agreed, and should live with the consequences.

Oh great! Now Palin actually wants her own bailout. This could be a comedy routine.