Sarah Palin quits


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Palin stepping down this month

washington (cnn) -- gov. Sarah palin announced friday that she will step down as alaska's chief executive by the end of the month. She will not seek election to a second gubernatorial term in 2010.

As the 2008 republican vice presidential nominee, palin had been considered one of the front-runners for the gop nomination in 2012.

"people who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved alaska," palin said at an announcement from her home in wasilla. "serving her people is the greatest honor i could imagine."

palin was elected governor in 2006. She was tapped as arizona sen. John mccain's vice presidential running mate last year.

Palin said she was transferring authority to lt. Gov. Sean parnell, who will be sworn in at the governor's picnic on july 26. Video watch palin's announcement »

palin added in a statement that she was "determined to take the right path for alaska even though it is not the easiest path. ... Once i decided not to run for re-election, i also felt that to embrace the conventional lame duck status in this particular climate would just be another dose of politics as usual, something i campaigned against and will always oppose."

a republican source close to her political team told cnn's john king that it was a "calculation" she made that "it was time to move on." the governor's "book deal and other issues" were "causing a lot of friction" in her home state, the source said, adding that he believes she is "mapping out a path to 2012."

another source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said palin "thinks she has accomplished goals she has set forward. ... She sees what a positive influence she has had on people's lives from traveling the country in the last year."

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That is a rather lame reason for quitting. If she think the pressure is tough now, imagine that spotlight the President is under. No way in hell this woman is ready for the toughest job in America.
 



cat daddy said:
That is a rather lame reason for quitting. If she think the pressure is tough now, imagine that spotlight the President is under. No way in hell this woman is ready for the toughest job in America.
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Exactly! But the sad thing, if she decides to put her name in the hat for 2012, there will be the "idiot" supporters that will vote for her.
 
I don't know if this is true, but the truth is going to find it's way out sooner or later.

Did an embezzlement scandal force Sarah Palin to resign?

Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the rumor is that an Alaska building company called Spenard Building Supplies (SBS) was awarded a contract by Palin to build a hockey arena in Wasilla, AK, and in return, SBS helped construct Palin’s home:

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin’s snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few “buddies,” according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.
Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an addition $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.

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They said months ago she was going to do a reality show and that she had been paid millions upfront.
 
Styles said:
I don't know if this is true, but the truth is going to find it's way out sooner or later.
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This has been an ongoing thing all doing the election and the media caught flack for not asking her about it, more than likely this is what's really going on.
 
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