Apparently, the $150K didn't include the 40K she spent on stuff for Todd, and there were various other purchases on scattered credit cards.
And apparently she was still receiving deliveries of tailored clothes after she announced that she had gone back to her consignment-shop clothing.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone bought that claim: if you watch how she's dressed, she's still dressed very well for the last two weeks of the campaign, much better than she did before she was nominated.
I'm really hoping she gets impeached when she gets home. Schadenfreude pie indeed.
I'm really hoping she gets impeached when she gets home.
I predict she replaces Stevens as Senator in a special election. Then she'll enter the Republican primary in 2012 where she'll get lots of press but very few delegates.
Doesn't Palin have to donate all her clothes and such now since they are no longer being used for the campaign?
I hear also a lot of it is "lost."
I'm really hoping she gets impeached when she gets home.
HAR.
This is the state that (probably) re-elected Stevens and Young (though FiveThirtyEight suspects election-rigging). Make no mistake, it's been known in-state for a long time that the politicians are on the take, and nothing has ever really been done about it because they bring home the bacon. Palin did win on a reform platform, but her numbers stayed high even when allegations came out against her. She brought a lot of dollars and attention to Alaska, and a lot of people are still very defensive of her. She might not get re-elected in 2010, but I doubt she'll get impeached.
I predict she replaces Stevens as Senator in a special election. Then she'll enter the Republican primary in 2012 where she'll get lots of press but very few delegates.
Or this.
This is one of my favorites: [link]
As is this: [link]
Oh, and this: [link]
And maybe this: [link]
She might not get re-elected in 2010, but I doubt she'll get impeached.
Well, yeah. OTOH, she has managed to piss off a lot of the Republicans in the state legislature, right? At the very least I suspect they're going to make things difficult for her.
I was on the phone with a coworker in Juneau the other day, and he said that she's lost a lot of her popularity since the nomination because the folks in AK didn't really know everything she was up to (the per diem bullshit, taking her kids to conferences on the state dime, naming unqualified childhood friends to well-paid positions), and now that they do, things are changing.
So even if her popularity remains high among Alaskans in general, I wouldn't be surprised to see more pushback from the state legislature.
What a great set of pictures! Thanks for linking.
The girls both look so composed. I'd be freaking out - MY DADDY JUST GOT ELECTED PRESIDENT!!! OMG!!!!
