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| Wed, 07-08-2009 - 11:07am |
Palin Faces New Ethics Complaint Over Reimbursements
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/07/AR2009070702711.html?hpid=moreheadlines
Within days of resigning from office, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is facing a new ethics complaint, accusing her of continuing to ask for reimbursement for travel expenses for staying in her own home in Wasilla while working in Anchorage, records show.
In February, following a Washington Post story that revealed the practice, state officials reversed a policy that treated the "per diem" allowances of $60 a day as legitimate, tax-free business expenses under the Internal Revenue Code.
In the new ethics complaint, filed with the Alaska Office of the Attorney General late Monday by Wasilla resident Zane Henning, there is no documentation showing how often Palin may have filed per diem claims in recent months. The complaint includes documents from Palin for the month of May, listing five travel reimbursement claims at $60 apiece. Henning is questioning the governor's request since the listed activities for those days were in Wasilla and Anchorage.
"The taxpayers of Alaska should not have to pay the governor, or any other public official, $60 a night to stay in their own home," Henning said in an interview.
State policy allows for reimbursement if a state official must travel 50 miles or more from his or her home for state business. Palin's lakeside home in Wasilla and the state office building in Anchorage are about 45 miles apart.
Palin's staff and officials in the state's Division of Administrative Services, which handles per diem claims, did not respond today to The Post's requests for information.
It is unclear whether Palin has paid income taxes on the reimbursements.
In February, when state officials determined Palin would owe income taxes on nearly $17,000 paid to her in travel reimbursements, the governor's spokeswoman, Sharon Leighow, said, "The amount of taxes owed is a private matter. If the governor collects future per diem, those documents would be a matter of public record."
In Palin's resignation speech last week, and in a follow-up letter posted on Facebook, she said the flood of ethics complaints had played a role in her decision to leave office. With Henning's new filing on Tuesday, at least 19 ethics complaints have been filed against the governor since she took office.



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You do realize that Zane Henning has filed previous ethics complaints against Sarah Palin which have been dismissed, right?
Pfffft. The "barracuda" has a history of being ruthless in getting what she wants.
<Palin ultimately fired two of them, the police chief and the museum director, and pushed two others into quitting.
In 1997, some residents considered her actions so high-handed that they tried to initiate a recall election.
“Four months of turmoil have followed in which almost every move by Palin has been questioned,” the Associated Press reported in a Feb. 11, 1997 dispatch. “Critics argue the decisions are politically motivated.”
Wasilla’s ousted police chief, Irl Stambaugh, sued Palin that year for alleged contract violation, wrongful termination and gender discrimination The police chief claimed Palin fired him not for cause but for being disloyal and because he was a man whose size – 6 feet and 200 pounds – intimidated her.>>
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One wonders. Were all those people with whom she has tangled "leftist nut cases"? Seems unlikely, don't you think.
Palin apparently can dish out that which she cannot/will not take. She's no victim of anything but her own MO.
Jabberwocka
Zane Henning is politically conservative.
~Were all those people with whom she has tangled "leftist nut cases"? Seems unlikely, don't you think.~
See my post above.
I guess if you think Palin has done something wrong, you must be a "leftist" nutcase.
Darn those conservatives pretending to be "leftist nut-cases". ;)
From what I've read this is
:)
This was an interesting video:
http://www.wasillaproject.com/index/2008/10/sarah-palin-fis.html
She seems to make her own rules. Like that expression... "flying by the seat of your pants".
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