Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show

[Liberal_in_LA]

Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/25/ST2008092504011.html


By James V. Grimaldi and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 26, 2008; Page A08

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.


The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as governor include honorific tributes, expensive artwork and free travel for a family member. They also include more than $2,500 in personal items from Calista, a large Alaska native corporation with a variety of pending state regulatory and budgetary issues, and a gold-nugget pin valued at $1,200 from the city of Nome, which lobbies on municipal, local and capital budget matters, documents show.

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Palin has noted that passage of the tough ethics law was a proud accomplishment. She took office amid a widespread federal investigation of influence-peddling by Veco, a now-defunct oil pipeline services and construction company, that had led to indictments of prominent state legislators and eventually to charges against Ted Stevens, the state's senior Republican senator, who is now on trial in Washington.

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Sarah Palin is just a gift that keeps on giving, isn't she?

And to think a few short weeks ago, after McCain's convention bounce, people were WORRIED!

[book_worm]

2. Hey, McLame do you want to tell us again you did an extensive vetting of Palin?

I tell you Obama needs to make McCain's judgement the major issue of this campaign.