In one lingering issue, the Alaska Public Offices Commission has refused Palin's request to keep secret the discounts that come from her husband's Arctic Cat sponsorship. APOC also said Palin needs to disclose all the gifts she received last year, rejecting her interpretation that she doesn't need to until after she gets around to actually opening the gifts.
Palin has told APOC "there are boxes of unopened mail at this point, even mail that was delivered in 2008."
This may be one of the dumbest excuses for not disclosing income that I have ever heard.
"Looky here your honor. Those gifts? In my house? With my name on them? From my supporters? Well those could belong to just about anybody!"
"Until you actually open them you cannot really prove they belong to me, now can you? You betcha."
"And as for that money from the Arctic Cat sponsorships....well our troops are dying overseas......and Todd is on the couch........I never spent any of the money no how.....so why do we have to count any of that either? All mavericky."
