palin ran a 527 group FOR ted stevens.....

[cliffordu]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html

[AllieB]

1. Here you go.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html

She was a director of his 527 group.

[cliffordu]

3. that damned google...All I can figure is I typed one of their names very wrong...

[gatorboy]

2. Palin Served As Director Of 527 Group Called ‘Ted Stevens Excellence In Public Service, Inc.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/01/palin-527-stevens/

[cliffordu]

6. I must have searched wrong...Or I'm just lazy...or had a stroke.....

missed that on my first google search


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[Blue_In_AK]

4. I don't have time to look for it now,

but I know that Phil Munger at ProgressiveAlaska did quite a few blog entries on Ted and Sarah's relationship. There's a lot of other good stuff here, too.

http://www.progressivealaska.blogspot.com/

[robertpaulsen]

Palin ran Ted Stevens 527!

Palin Ran Ted Stevens' 527

I was just speaking to a couple of GOP activists from North Dakota about Sarah Palin. These were very much the fabled “base” people who are “excited” by the Palin pick. Much like left-wing ideologues, it turns out, conservative activists have a real disliking of “bad” Republicans. So these guys didn’t know very much about Palin’s record in office, but they knew she was a solid conservative who’d managed to take down an incumbent Republican and still hold the statehouse for the GOP. And this, basically, is Palin’s qualification for office — she’s less corrupt than your
average Alaska Republican. As best one can tell this is true. But the extent of Palin’s distance from the Alaska Republican establishment can be easily overstated. Consider this reporting by Matthew Mosk:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state’s political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

Palin’s name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.

And:

Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation. But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.

Meanwhile, John McCain officially thinks 527s should be abolished.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/09/palin_ran_ted_stevens_527.php

[Hope And Change]

5. Check out this video....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=227203&mesg_id=227203

Credit goes to Amerigo Vespucci!

[Jersey Devil]

7. Oops! Pallin' around with felons, can't have that (nt)

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[soccermomforobama]

8. in the emails the McCain camp in regards to Troopergate

that they said supported Palin's firing of Walt Moneghan said that she did not want Moneghan going to DC to seek the funds because it could hurt her relationship with Stevens.

"In a July 7 e-mail, John Katz, Palin's special counsel, noted two problems with the trip: The governor hadn't agreed the money should be sought, and the request was "out of sequence with our other appropriations requests and could put a strain on the evolving relationship between the governor and Sen. Stevens."
http://www.dailypress.com/topic/la-na-trooper20-2008sep20,0,5464612.story

[high density]

9. There she goes, palling around with corrupt mofos.

[soccermomforobama]

10. she also got $$ from the same scheme that got Stevens in trouble

GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin accepted at least $4,500 in campaign contributions in the same fundraising scheme at the center of a public corruption scandal that led to the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens.

The contributions, made during Palin's failed 2002 bid to become Alaska's lieutenant governor, were not illegal for her to accept. But they show how Palin, a self-proclaimed reformer who has bucked Stevens and his allies, is nonetheless a product of a political system in Alaska now under the cloud of an ongoing FBI investigation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palin-took-contributions_n_123399.html

[central scrutinizer]

11. somebody's got some 'splaining to do!

Another day, another scandal.