AP INVESTIGATION: Palin children traveled on state

[chatnoir]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

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In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park.

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In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_el_pr/palin_family_travel

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Apologies if this was already posted in GDP - I searched but didn't see it.

[greenbriar]

1. GOP culture of corruption

the gift that keeps on giving

[SurfingAtWork]

2. Why I'm shocked, SHOCKED! That Sara has been gaming the system in Alaska.

[holiday]

3. kick

[roguevalley]

4. fucking bitch. I hate her.

[ecstatic]

5. That's nice, but when will they investigate her ties to AIP?

Freekin asshole calling the rest of us unAmerican while she pals around with secessionists! :argh:

[immoderate]

6. I'm shocked! Ritz-Carlton is only $215 a night?

:wow:

--IMM

[chatnoir]

9. Yeah, really. Maybe she got the 'govt' rate...

Though I sort of doubt the govt rate for the Ritz is that low.

Maybe the special AIP rate? :shrug:

[immoderate]

10. LOL out loud.

--IMM

[anneboleyn]

7. Yeah, she's a real "change" all right.

[sad sally]

8. what I am shocked about::

okay, taking the kids on a trip across America could be considered a great history lesson. If, and that's a big IF, the parents of said children were actually teaching them about America. Instead, we have a self-indulging egotistical Governor of Alaska and the quasi-governor of Alaska (Todd) dragging their school aged daughters and their "special needs kid" (which, as new parents of a "special kids" these people have no idea what that even means, nor do they seem to care to find out what it means- they seem to treat this precious little child as a sack of potatoes) from one radical political event to another - no schooling needed.

Sarah and Todd Palin, in my humble opinion, have demonstrated to America that they are the worst parents in the world. Why would you put your innocent children on display in the manner that these two people have done?

peace - until we all fly together what sense does it make?

[LynnTheDem]

11. Gov. Palin' is such a good upstanding citizen! So HONEST!

"...costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race...

With TAXPAYER money.

When taxpayers do that kind of shit, they go to jail.

[LynnTheDem]

12. after .. reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports

In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as "First Family attending" and "First Family invited" to explain the girls' attendance.

[chatnoir]

13. Cooking the books

'Fraud' is spelled the same in both the pro- and anti-America parts of the country. What a total grifter.