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Papers have reportedly been filed for a new corporation to cash in on her fame with myriad money-making projects. One is Black Ice, a consulting firm specializing in personal vendettas.

Describing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tendency to appoint her friends to high-level state jobs, The New York Times wrote last month that “The Wasilla [Alaska] High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government.”
TWI’s Laura McGann reported yesterday about Palin’s tendency to reward her friends with cushy jobs.
The Los Angeles Times [...]

Palin often calls herself working class. But over the course of her political career, when faced with policy choices on issues important to blue-collar voters, Palin rarely breaks in their favor.

The Associated Press has been digging into Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to find some astonishing examples of ethically questionable behavior.
The most remarkable is a push by Palin in 2002 to pass a zoning exception, which she ultimately received, so that she could sell her $327,000 house on Lake Wasilla:

TPM reports that city records from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, indicate that there is more to the story of her pay cut. On the campaign trail, Palin regularly boasts that she reduced her pay, a move she says was not popular with her husband Todd.

Here’s Sarah Palin’s original TV ad from her 1996 run for mayor of Wasilla, AK. She looks a little less pitbull, a little less Tina Fey, and a lot more 1980s (inexplicably).  Watch her spin her children on a tire swing and preach “conservative, more efficient government”:

The Washington Post reports this morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin frequently billed the state a per diem — meant to cover travel expenses on official business — for nights spent at her family’s home in Wasilla, Alaska.
The state also picked up the tab for the first family’s travel expenses when accompanying Palin on state [...]

Via Politico’s Ben Smith. Have you ever wanted to try your hand at investigative reporting? If so, now’s your chance.
The city of Wasilla, Alaska, has posted online a collection of documents from Gov. Sarah Palin’s six-year stint as the town’s mayor, as well as her two previous years on the city council. You, too, can [...]

TALKEETNA, Alaska — Looks like a feud has kicked up between The Times of London and the local paper that covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown, the Mat-Su Frontiersman.
Here’s the paragraph that started it in The Times:
[Wasilla is] a small, unkempt-looking place, defined by a series of out-of-town stores, a huge lumber yard, a ramshackle bar [...]

WASILLA, Alaska — In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being shooed out of the parking lot — but I’ll get to that in a minute.
It felt a bit like a high-school gym or auditorium, with wood floors and [...]