The charges that Palin has agreed to reimburse include the cost of her daughter Piper flying on a state plane to the start of the Iron Dog snowmachine race in 2008, and airfare and one meal for daughter Bristol to accompany Palin in October 2007 to New York for a women's leadership conference, according to the settlement.
The settlement was signed by Palin and Anchorage lawyer Tim Petumenos, who was hired by the state Personnel Board to investigate the complaint.
The settlement doesn't specify how much Palin will repay the state, but Petumenos said he was given an estimate from the governor's staff of about $7,000. For some trips, only a portion of the children's expenses will be repaid because parts of the trip were determined to be legitimate.
The vast majority of trips that included the Palin children appeared appropriate, Petumenos said. He said he examined more than 40. But for nine trips, the personal benefit outweighed the public benefit, he found.
It is taking some time, but bit by bit, little by little, Sarah Palin is finally learning what it means to be held accountable. Alaskans will no longer stand by and allow themselves to be taken advantage of by their public officials.
In other words "We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take this anymore"! (I always wanted to say that.)
What a maverick reformer!!
ReplyDeleteFirst lies about oper diem, then the car, and now family travel.
By settling the ethics complaint the governor has admitted being unethical in how she had the state pay for her kids to travel to non-official state business-related events.
What's next? Admitting that the railings in her house (which appear to be the same as those in the Wasilla Sports Center) were donations?
She's cleaning up all her tax evasions and corruptness so she can run for president in 2012. Does she think we'll forget about what she's done? You betcha!
ReplyDeleteIt really ticks me off that the result is she pays back the cost for these trips. It was an ethics complaint and there should be a finding that she violated ethics laws, which is obvious. It should not be a backroom deal where she just pays the money back.
ReplyDeleteIt is absolute nonsense that the laws are unclear, anyone with half a brain would have known not to do this. Oh Right.
bitch...
ReplyDeleteshe KNEW better..that is for sure....but she does use the kids like politcal props so ....
oye...
watching the Presidential Address....
thought I would say hi...
can you believe only a year ago....we would have never dreamed this could happen....oh wait..we did...
;-)
so that she pays back anything, isn't that an admission of guilt? a violation of ethics? and last i checked admission of guilt in such situations is rarely a case of degrees.
ReplyDeleteeh-hem, this is where i scream "IMPEACH HER! IMPEACH HER!"
My favorite part:
ReplyDelete"Palin called the complaint "an obvious political weapon, with an associate of a political adversary filing this and making it public --against state law."
In Troopergate, despite pleding to cooperate with the legislature's investigation, she filed a complaint against herself- and publicized it.
I guess that was "against state law", too, also, and she knew it.
You betcha.
She filed the complaint against herself so her hand-picked Personnel Board would find her not guilty...
ReplyDeleteSmae now - they just give her a slap on the wrist with a wet noodle... Having to pay back for ONE MEAL for Bristol, and what - nine trips out of 75 for her family?
Only nine trips of 75 were fraudulent? And the rest are State business? Gosh, that little Piper is a hard worker, isn't she?
ReplyDeleteAussie...right, she has Piper a second grader, Willow a 15 year old, and Bristol, who is too stupid to buy condoms, CONDUCTING STATE BUSINESS? WTF?
ReplyDeleteI would demand to see speeches, events, volunteer work, etc that these kids did to qualify hese trips for state business. 75 freaking trips....my kids are lucky if they get to go on a plane once a year! They think vacation os driving from Virginia to NYC to see family.
You know for someone who is always griping about folks not being on welfare, it looks like Governor Granny is the single largest recipient of welfare in the state of Alaska. $17,000K for staying in her own house...sheesh, that would cover my mortgage for 8 months, and sure beats food stamps, don't it?
She is truly as corrupt as her predecessor, possibly even more than Blago.