It's Monday and you know what that means. Yep another ethics complaint against Sarah Palin!

Please accept this letter as an Ethics Complaint against Governor Sarah Palin under Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act (Alaska Statute, Title 39, Chapter 52) (AEBEA), stating as follows:

Sec. 39.52.120. Misuse of official position: (a) A public officer may not use, or attempt to use, an official position for personal gain, and may not intentionally secure or grant unwarranted benefits or treatment for any person.

Sec. 39.52.130. Improper gifts: (a) A public officer may not solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, a gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, employment, promise, or in any other form, that is a benefit to the officer's personal or financial interests, under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the performance of official duties, actions, or judgment.

The AEBEA states that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust. It is declared that high moral and ethical standards among public officers in the executive branch are essential to assure the trust, respect, and confidence of the people of this state; and that a code of ethics for the guidance of public officers will discourage those officers from acting upon personal or financial interests in the performance of their public responsibilities.

Governor Palin is using her official position for personal gain and to intentionally secure unwarranted benefits to state workers who are poised to derive benefits from the Alaska Trust Fund; a newly formed group whose primary purpose is to collect huge amounts of money from people in Alaska and the Lower 48 for the Palin’s and selected state officials’ personal use for a time in perpetuity, under Alaska law.

Governor Palin is perched to improperly receive an enormous amount of money for herself and her family and position a pool of pre-paid defense lawyers organized to deflect consequences of wrongdoings, among other things. This fund corrupts the integrity of the Governor’s Office, the governmental and public process. It corrupts the people’s right to hold their governor and administration officials accountable. It increases Palin’s conflicts of interests and erodes the faith and confidence of Alaskans in their public officers. This fund violates the intent, purpose and spirit of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

And believe it or not the Alaska progressive bloggers have absolutely NOTHING to do with this one. No I swear.

See?

An ethics complaint has been filed against Gov. Sarah Palin, claiming the legal defense fund she established last week to challenge such claims is an ethics violation itself.

Kim Chatman of Eagle River filed the complaint Monday with the Alaska attorney general's office, seeking an investigation by the Alaska Personnel Board.

Chatman claims Palin, the former Republican vice presidential candidate, is misusing her official position for political gain and receiving improper gifts.

Palin has said she's accumulated more than $500,000 in legal fees defending herself against a dozen or so ethics complaints and for representation in Troopergate, the Alaska Legislature's probe into the firing of her former public safety commissioner.

I wonder if 13 ethics complaints is some kind of record. It must be right?