The state of Tom Van Flein's state contract?
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Last week, Governor Palin's lawyer Tom Van Flein was quoted in the Anchorage Daily News as saying that his "firm last Friday terminated its state contract, worth up to $95,000, to represent the governor's office."
Not true. The contract wasn't cancelled.
Van Flein has a written contract with the State of Alaska. Like all such contracts with the State, it has provisions governing termination. Termination requires notice to the State, typically in writing.
According to my sources, Van Flein did not provide notice of termination to the state, either in writing or orally. If one was to ask either Van Flein or the people in the Department of Law responsible for managing his contract to provide you with a copy of his notice of termination they will be unable to produce one. It doesn't exist.
If confronted with this, I imagine Van Flein will say there was some "confusion" or "miscommunication" between him and the state. But he's the only one who seems to be confused.
The people in the Department of Law weren't confused. When he said that his contract had been terminated it was very much in force, and the people in the Department of Law responsible for administering his contract didn't have a clue what he was talking about.
Someone should check to see if the contract is still in force today.
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