Palin before resignation: I can't take it anymore

I'm not sure if this counts as a Current Event or not. I'll leave that up to the mods to decide. The article was posted over 2 hours ago, but it talks about events that took place as far back as 2007. I'll call it a Current Event because these are relatively new revelations dug up out of those e-mails of hers that every liberal wanted to see so badly last summer.

Palin before resignation: I can't take it anymore​

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — In the final months before she resigned as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustration over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers and outrage over ethics complaints that she felt frivolously targeted her and prompted her to write: "I can't take it anymore."

The details are included in more than 17,000 records released Thursday by state officials — nearly 3 1/2 years after citizens and news organizations, including The Associated Press, first requested Palin's emails. The emails, most from Palin's final 10 months in office, illustrate what Palin has said all along: The intense scrutiny of her family and work was a financial and emotional drain that forced her to step down as governor.

In a March 19, 2009, email to spokeswoman Sharon Leighow and aide Kris Perry, she complained that more than 150 freedom of information requests had cost the state more than $1 million, adding: "and who knows what all the bogus ethics charges have cost the state."

She expressed anger at having to pay for her own defense, with a bill that at that point totaled more than $500,000, saying her husband had to go back to work on the North Slope because of it.

"We've all had to pay for our OWN legal defense in this political bloodsport — it's horrendous — why do you think Todd is on the slope today?" Palin wrote. "I am paying to defend in my capacity as GOVERNOR — actions taken in my official position. This is unheard of anywhere else."

She added that she had been the target of "many frivolous suits and charges since the DAY I became VP candidate. I can't afford this job."
Palin expressed frustration with the media in an April 11, 2009, email: "If there were any other way I could speak to Alaskans without going through some of these reporters, I sure would." Palin currently works as a commentator for Fox News.

By the spring of 2009, the emails show, Palin was regularly butting heads with lawmakers of both parties over her absences from the Capitol. She asked her aides to tally how many days she was out of Alaska in 2008. The staff came up with 94 days, but 10 less if you count travel days when she was in the state part of the day, The absences included all of October and most of September while she was on the campaign trail as the GOP vice presidential candidate.

"It's unacceptable, and there must be push back on their attempts to lame duck this administration," Palin wrote to her top aides on April 9.
Citizens and news organizations, including the AP, first requested Palin's emails in September 2008, as part of her vetting as the Republican vice presidential nominee. The state released a batch of the emails last June, a lag of nearly three years that was attributed to the sheer volume of the records and the flood of requests stemming from Palin's tenure.

The 24,199 pages of emails that were released last year ended in September 2008, as she was campaigning with GOP presidential nominee John McCain. Thursday's release includes 17,736 records, or 34,820 pages, generally spanning from October 2008 until Palin's resignation as Alaska governor, in July 2009.

Tim Crawford, treasurer of Sarah Palin's political action committee, on Thursday encouraged everyone to read the emails. "They show a governor hard at work for her state," he said.

Several media organizations, including msnbc.com, said they were not informed of Thursday's release.

Leighow, now a spokeswoman for the current governor, Sean Parnell, said records in the governor's office indicated that msnbc.com did not request the second group of emails but she said a CD containing the documents was being sent to their offices because it contained emails inadvertently omitted from the first release.

Palin's frustration over a series of ethics complaints filed against her, one of the issues she cited when stepping down, emerges in an April 2009 email in which she commiserated over a story indicating another ethics complaint was to be filed: "Unflippinbelievable... I'm sending this because you can relate to the bullcrap continuation of the hell these people put the family through," she wrote to aides Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey.
Later that day, in an email to her husband and two top aides, on the issue, she said: "I can't take it anymore."

Earlier, after a Feb. 18, 2009, Washington Post story titled, "Back Home in Alaska, Palin finds cold comfort," was pointed out to her, she emailed her husband. "Would you pray for our strength. And for God to totally turn things around... Enough is enough. May we see victories and feel His hand of mercy and grace." He replies, "I did."

In a Sept. 26, 2007, email to Perry and her husband Todd, titled "Marital Problems," Palin writes: "So speaking of... If we, er, when we get a divorce, does that quell "conflict of interest" accusations about BP?" Her husband was a former BP employee on the North Slope.

 

Curious. They don't show the actual email to back up their claim as proof. Logic suggests that the emails reveal there was absolutely nothing corrupt or unethical in them from Governor Palin.

 

Just more smear tactics. Not even a link to back their article up. That last paragraph seems pretty suspect to me. AP probably wants to cash in on this new movie coming out that trashes Palin.

 

She had to pay her OWN legal expenses? Well cry me a river Palin, and welcome to the real world.

 

And she holds Presidential aspirations? Lol...

"I can't take it anymore."

So much for the Quitter in Chief...

 

Interesting.

You are willing to accept the wild speculations on a Birther blog without demanding any evidence from them....but in this case you say that the absence of evidence supports Palin.

Logic suggests an extreme bias towards Palin and against Obama.

 

I have no problem with someone having to pay for their own legal defense.

As long as the loser has to pay the entire cost in the end.

How does that change your view?

Or are you just interested in legal attacks against people you don't like?

 

Is that what she said to Glen Rice?

 

We'll never know, will we, because she chickened-out and ran away from her responsibilities. Frivolous or otherwise if she had the least shred of integrity she would have stayed-put and fought those lawsuits. But, no, she 'couldn't take it anymore' and ran off, whining.
And this is someone to be respected? So, yeah, cry me a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing river.

 

Is it weird I read all your responses in Spock's voice?

 

I dream of palin whispering those words into my ear " I can't take any more"

 

Resigning didn't get rid of the nearly 18 or so lawsuits.

After resigning, the lawsuits followed her into her private life which she had to pay out of her own pocket.

According Todd Palin, he said these lawsuits cost them about $700K.

Do you feel better now?

 

When you do something wrong you should pay ... unless you have a Good Lawyer.

 

What did she do wrong?

All lawsuits were thrown out.

 

Not creepy at all.

 

Then why is she paying $700k ... ?

Maybe she should paid for a Good Lawyer.

 

Trust me ... it won't be a whisper ...

 

Ah, poor little down and out Sarah. Were those people mean to you?

Gets up in the big leagues and can't take the heat. Perhaps next time she will think before she runs for public office, if that ever happens again.

 

if people can just bankrupt the states governor with ethics claims that have no merit then Alaska should pull their head from their asses and change the law.....something like that is obviously ripe for abuse.

 

That's so much crap. She did stay and fight those law suits, that's why she had over 500,000 in bills fighting them.

I can't blame her if she did say it. I can't believe what the Left did to her. Obama said to leave the family out of it and Liberals did all they could to bring her family into it. They accused her husband and daughter. They called them all trailer trash. Sent a whole plane load of lawyers up to Alaska and even went through her trash looking for things to use against her. They accused her of having an affair with her husband's business partner, called her daughter a whore, Palin a witch, accused them of using state money to fix up their home. I could go on and on of the trash they tried to do to her and her and her daughter's baby, etc.

 

She did more for the state of Alaska than the previous two governors combined.

 

... and who ... I mean what was she doing?

 

Yes. Wasn't one of her crowning achievements increasing the taxes on businesses in order to pump up the Alaskan Socialist Fund which then redistributes the wealth to Alaskan residents?

Sounds great. Let's do that nationally.

 

Even if it is true, a lot of people get into jobs that they previously thought they could handle, only to find out otherwise...

Doesn't really mean anything, just that you may have overestimated what you could handle...

*shrug*

Even if true, I don't see the big deal...

 

What a bunch of BS.

Who in their right mind would spend millions of dollars litigating frivolous lawsuits if they didn't have to?

And why do leftists like you have such a delusional hatred of Sarah Palin? Personally, I would never vote for her, but the sheer hate and vitriol that is directed at her by so-called "liberals" is borderline psychotic.