Estimates show Palin assets top $1 million

[terrya]

Estimates show Palin assets top $1 million By SHARON THEIMER and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writers
12 minutes ago
So much for that "she's just like Joe Six-Pack" crap.


WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin and her husband have pieced together a uniquely Alaskan income that reached comfortably into six figures even before she became governor, capitalizing on valuable fishing rights, a series of land deals and a patchwork of other ventures to build an above-average lifestyle.

Add up the couple's 2007 income and the estimated value of their property and investments and they appear to be worth at least $1.2 million. That would make the Palins, like Democratic vice presidential rival Joe Biden and his wife Jill, well-off but not nearly as wealthy as multimillionaire couples John and Cindy McCain and, to a lesser extent, Barack and Michelle Obama.

One measure of financial health: While there is a home loan, Palin reported no personal credit card debt on her most recent financial report as Alaska governor. That compares to average household credit card debt among Americans of $9,840 last year.

A more complete picture will come when Sarah Palin outlines her personal finances in federal paperwork in coming days. It will include details of any mortgage debt and at least rough dollar totals for bank accounts and investments.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081001/ap_on_el_pr/palins_finances

[Starfall]

1. This is a non issue

Not, really. She's not from a rich family, she worked her way. This just shows she made her own money. Are you against people who make money?

[Jane Austin]

4. She's not from a rich family?

Isn't she from the Heath family of candy bar fame?

[jakem]

5. i believe that was proved bunk.

[jakem]

6. welcome to DU!

[KittyWampus]

7. She collected money for working at home. HiGHLY unethical if not illegal. Billed a fortune for her

family's travel expenses. Also received multiple free gifts that were illegal.

And this is an estimate. We have no real idea how much graft her husband was collecting.

And this wasn't "WORKING HER WAY TO THE TOP". She was groomed by the corrupt GOP in Alaska as well as stabbing people in the back and using them and threatening them.

[Starfall]

9. My perception.

Well, that's just from the limited stuff (mostly newspapers) I read on her, so :D

Jakem: Thanks
:hi:

[City Lights]

8. The Obamas made their own money too, yet McPalin calls them elitest.

Why is that? Why is there one standard when judging Republickers, and another when judging Democrats?

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

11. Not at all, but when you do don't say you don't and pretend your

a moose 6-pack, blue collar type...

[kestrel91316]

2. Bet the meth lab she needed all those secret email addresses for

is pretty lucrative, too.:evilgrin:

[Bucky]

3. Governor in Ted Stevens's Alaska for two years & she can only cash in for $1.2mil? Damn.

Maybe she is an honest politician. Too bad she's a lying candidate.

[Zomby Woof]

10. That must be one helluva 6-pack of beer

Are the cans made of platinum?

[Jennicut]

12. Nice one. Once again, she lies. Biden makes way less then she does.

And yet she is "joe sick pack"? I don't care how she got or made her money, its the fact that she has acted like Dems are elitists. She gets no free pass on this one because of the way she acts.