Palin quickly corrects unreported financial exdentures for 2007. Updated!

Gov. Sarah Palin has added to her financial disclosure forms two free trips that she took nearly two years ago but failed to report.

Palin, who was Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, made the disclosures last month but after Election Day, when she and McCain lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The trips were first revealed in a story by The Associated Press in October.

The free trips were taken in April and May of 2007 and should have been reported within 30 days under state ethics law. The Nov. 17 disclosure forms note that the reports were "not filed timely due to administrative error."

Bill McAllister, the governor's spokesman, said this week that the mistakes were made by travel support staff. He said he could not explain the timing of when and how they were caught but that it was irrelevant because the error was corrected.

In my opinion the only reason this Governor comes clean about ANYTHING is when an investigation is imminent. From what I have learned about the legislature recently they are even less likely to be Sarah Palin supporters then before she lost her bid for VP.

In other words it is very possible that Palin will soon face increased scrutiny from Alaskans and state politicians and she is hurriedly getting her house in order before the microscope turns in her direction.

Update: Fellow Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore has more on this topic.

Update2: This almost slipped past my radar: Palin and husband Todd also received travel, food and lodging valued at $4,620.12 to attend a Republican Governors Association event in Texas, in April - gifts that were not reported until August, according to disclosure forms.

For the new kids in the class this is the notorious Governor's meeting during which Sarah Palin's water supposedly broke and she flew for 12-16 hours to get back to Alaska. She then drove past two large well outfitted hospitals and then continued to drive ALL the way to Wasilla to have her doctor Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, a woman with limited experience delivering babies and NO documented experience delivering high needs Downs Syndrome babies, bring little Trig into the world.

How interesting to learn that Todd was also at the meeting, and that if indeed Sarah's amniotic fluid was leaking, he did not insist that his wife immediately stop to at the hospital before boarding a plane, with no emergency medical capabilities, and flying for half of a day back to Alaska. And then, caring husband that he is, drove her for another hour to Wasilla on icy winter roads.

This story has never made any sense to me, and seeing it brought up again in this context just re-opens those old questions again.