Andree McLeod
Posted on 06/22/2009 6:27:12 AM PDT by Al B.
Gov. Sarah Palin reportedly now has more than $600,000 in legal bills as a result of ethics complaints, and a national campaign fueled by a conservative Web site reports bringing in more than $100,000 in the past week to her defense fund. The accusations are described by Palin supporters as frivolous attacks, and the governor's office says 14 complaints have been dismissed...
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Other complaints have not been settled, and Kristan Cole, the trustee for the legal defense fund, said the bills continue to climb and "my sense is they are over $600,000."
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"Our trust is one of the most, if not the most, restrictive and transparent legal expense funds in history," asserted Cole....
Cole says there is no legal limit on how much people can donate to the fund, but it has a self-imposed maximum contribution of $150.
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"You just cannot believe how many people really believe in this governor like I do and others do and are sending in checks for 5 and 10 dollars, saying this is all I have at this time ........
"It's really incredible."
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Rebecca Mansour of the Web site Conservatives4Palin, which did a "webathon" for the legal defense fund over the past week, said Palin has been unfairly targeted after returning home from running for vice president and deserves the help. Mansour said one reason for the webathon is because the fund set its maximum contribution at $150, which rules out the kind of $5,000 donation Alaska Rep. Don Young received from Trident Seafoods Corp. for his legal defense fund.
"The only way they are going to be able to pay it off is to cast a huge net and get (many) people donating," said Mansour, of Los Angeles.
(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...
These people are deranged.
Anchorage activist Andree McLeod brought up the webathon as she urged the Alaska Public Offices Commission last week to begin regulating the governor's defense fund.
She testified that there's no oversight as national personalities are advertising the fundraising and "organizers are encouraging people who have already given the limit to give money to other people to send to the fund ... please protect the public's right to know what this rogue governor is up to."
Good. I’m glad. That’s the one positive thing I’ve read this morning.
It’s a private fund, so the ankle-biters and spew and froth all they want, but the Alaska State government has no authority to “regulate” it like they want. losers.
The people that did this to Palin should be held accountable. They should be made to pay her legal bills; because they know what they said was false.
That's the 2nd straight major article on Palin from Sean Cockerham that's been reasonably fair. He's starting to resemble a journalist...LOL.
How much money did the Clinton’s raise for their legal funds? There is nothing unethical, illegal, shady, or otherwise improper about supporters of Palin raising money for her legal expenses. Nothing.
The comments section on this story desperately needs to be FReep bombed.
The good people in Alaska need to start filing legal, ethics, and bar complaints against the people filing all of these frivolous ethics complaints against Gov. Palin. What’s good for the goose...
Bombs away...
Sounds like somebody needs their skull creased w/ a baseball bat.
Maybe that's because the courts have dismissed 14 complaints as frivolous.
Oops, no “bombs away” - zero comments at the site, an I couldn’t post one (posting from phone, interface apparently not compatible).
Zero comments? Hmmm...that’s weird because I just checked and the loons were burning it up.
Andree McLeod
Does anyone have a link to donate to Palin’s legal fund?
Anyone the left considers too dangerous, or “unbuyable”, it tries to destroy with legal fees for phony suits. And most of our elected officials are—attorneys. Just a coincidence, of course, that the “legal” profession should have such limitless power to assault.
That’s what I was thinking. They lost. They should pay.
This Governor Palin fund should have restricted Alaska’s 20,000 plus state employees from being able to donate. All it will take is that one of them gets tired of the office brownnoser hustling donations for the boss to set off yet another soap opera.
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