Did Sarah Palin Resign as Governor Because of Money?
AP
Sarah Palin stepped down from her position as governor of Alaska in the summer of 2009, leaving behind a prominent political career in which she could have bolstered her image as a serious politician. The move left many speculating over Palin's motives, but a profile of Palin in New York Magazine purports to have the answers.
"To many, [Palin's resignation] seemed a mysterious move, defying the logic of a potential presidential candidate, and possibly reflecting some hidden scandal--but in fact the choice may have been as easy as balancing a checkbook," writes Gabriel Sherman.
Money is no longer a problem for Palin, who earned $12 million in the past year.
But before publishing a best-selling book, amassing speaking fees, signing television contracts and so on, Palin was reportedly under financial stress as governor largely because of legal bills."Her life was terrible [as governor]," one unnamed adviser says in the article. "She was never home, her [Juneau] office was four hours from her house. You gotta drive an hour from Wasilla to Anchorage. And she was going broke."
Some of Palin's fortune has come under scrutiny as she builds her media persona while keeping the door open for a return to politics. Some Tea Partiers, for instance, criticized Palin for taking her usual speaking fee of $100,00 to speak at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Her contract to speak at the convention included $18,000 for private-jet travel for her and five other people, according to two people who've seen the contract, New York Magazine reported.
And while Palin has been coy about her political future, New York magazine reveals she has long had the highest of political ambitions. Palin's former campaign manager, Laura Chase, related a story from 1996, when Palin was running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.
"We were sitting at my table one night and I said, 'Sarah, one day you could be governor,'" she said. "She just looked at me and said, 'I don't want to be governor, I want to be president.'"
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Don't forget "Drill baby Drill"! Rings kinda hollow to residents of the Gulf coast today. "They have technology today so drilling doesn't destroy the ecology"....... sure they do! LOL
Why does it seem that the last 2 leading republicans have 2-digit IQs?
It might be that they are easier to control. Do you think Karl Rove isn't drooling to have another sock puppet in the whitehouse?
What's funny and ironic is that if the Left would have left Governor Palin alone, she wouldn't be the multimillionaire political rock star that she is now. She would be doing her job in Alaska and gutting salmon.
I'm starting to see a pattern of "backfiring" here. Sarah is one case in point where liberal/media hatred seems to be backfiring. The Tea Party movement is another - first ignored, then discredited, then mocked, and now openly feared by liberals/media, and Democrats whose future in November is now very much in doubt. And I think the liberal/media opposition to the Arizona immigration law will also serve to galvanize the "sleeping grizzly bear" otherwise known as the American public (which 70% of Arizona residents support).
erichsh, thank for proving a point I've made on these boards many times before (followed by a rant that had absolutely nothing to do with my post)...
You can try to make whatever point you want all day long, hakori... but you sure managed to miss the point of my post even as you try to claim I "proved" yours. I offered up not one word of either criticism or support for Palin, and did not mention any other politician. The entirety of my post dealt strictly with how this story was reported, and the actions of her liberal opponents.