New Palin spokesman has not yet had enough kool-aid and mistakenly tells truth about ethics cost despite Governor's attempt to lie to us yet again.

This from The Plum Line:

One of the chief reasons Sarah Palin has given for resigning as Governor of Alaska is that her state’s taxpayers are being forced to spend money defending her government against ethics complaints that would otherwise fund teachers, cops, and road repair. ("Sniff, sniff" is that bullshit I smell?)

But in response to our questions, a spokesperson for the Alaska governor’s office just gave us new information that casts serious doubt on this assertion. The revelation makes the resignation episode even stranger, and raises fresh questions about the real reasons for her abrupt departure. (OH my God, how could it get any STRANGER?)

During her resignation speech last week, Palin presented herself as a heroic defender of the taxpayer. She said that money being spent on government lawyers to defend against these “frivolous ethics violations” could be “going to things that are very important, like troopers and roads and teachers and fish research.” Palin repeated exactly the same point this week.

But David Murrow, a spokesperson for the Governor, said in an interview that much of this money was budgeted to the lawyers in advance and would have gone to them anyway, even if state lawyers hadn’t been defending against these ethics complaints.

In response to our questions, the Governor’s office provided us with a detailed breakdown of the millions Palin has claimed has gone to defending against ethics complaints. (How does $12,747 in Water Quality Intiatives figure into this total? Okay who accused her of unethically screwing up the water quality?) It does list roughly $1.9 million in expenditures.

But Murrow, the spokesperson, acknowledged to our reporter, Amanda Erickson, that this total was arrived at by adding up attorney hours spent on fending off complaints — based on the fixed salaries of lawyers in the governor’s office and the Department of Law. The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing. The complaints are “just distracting them from other duties,” Murrow said.

Ruh Roh! It looks like somebody forgot to remind Mr. Murrow that he is SARAH PALIN'S spokesperson which means telling the truth is NEVER the correct response to a reporter's question. It is so hard to find good unethical help these days!

In other words, while these lawyers might have been free to do other legal work for the state, the ethics complaints have apparently not had the real world impact Palin has claimed, and didn’t drain money away from cops, teachers, roads and other things.

So essentially the Palin administration is trying to blame everyday lawyer expenses on these ethics complaints. Next thing you know she will be blaming her recent resignation on bloggers! How silly is th.......oh yeah I forgot.

FINALLY! The MSM is finally beginning to see what we in Alaska have known for quite some time. Sarah Palin is a habitual liar. She lies about EVERYTHING! Pipelines, rural problems, purchased clothing, endorsements, babies, she lies, and lies, and lies. (Do you think that is enough to get me one of those awesome Van Flein letters or should I go on?)

THIS, this is the woman that so many in the GOP are hanging their hopes on. The Republican party is plummeting toward the ground in a veritable freefall, and Sarah Palin is handing out anvils.