Alaska Must Release Palin E-mails By May

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from msnbc.com: "The state of Alaska has until May 31 to release about 25,000 pages of e-mails from former Gov. Sarah Palin and senior members of her administration, the state attorney general declared Wednesday. ... the delays in dealing with public records from the Palin administration will have stretched out longer than the Palin administration itself. She was governor for 966 days. By May 31, the request from msnbc.com for the official records will be 986 days old. State regulations usually require records to be made available within 10 days, but state officials said they were overwhelmed by the volume of the e-mails."

Comments

Re:Palin the Populist Plutocrat

[Locke2005]

I used to live in Alaska. I still can't believe half the people up there were stupid enough to vote for this dizzy bitch. Please tell me you weren't one of them! My biggest complaint about Sarah and all the other "conservatives" is that they seem constitutionally incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy... they've adopted self-delusion as a lifestyle, and it fits them well.

Re:As we don't like republicans.

[spun]

It could be that strong women engender more hatred. Or it could be that she really is a "greedy, selfish, uneducated, calculating, egotistical nightmare." She certainly seems greedy, look at her spending of campaign money. Selfish? Surely she has demonstrated that. Uneducated? By her own words, obviously so. Calculating? Okay, every politician is that. An egotistical nightmare? Look at this very story and tell me she isn't!

Perhaps people despise her because they feel that her brand of political discourse is damaging to the country. Perhaps they feel it is unfair that someone like her can become a millionaire, a governor, a candidate for vice president, and a well paid political consultant without having any of the skills or qualities usually required by those jobs. She is just one more piece of evidence that we do not live in anything even resembling a meritocracy, and that galls some people.