{"id":439399,"date":"2011-06-11T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/11\/details-emerge-from-palin-e-mails\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T02:16:00","slug":"details-emerge-from-palin-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/11\/details-emerge-from-palin-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge from Palin e-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"116.740692236\"><span><span>10 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>22:16 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Details are emerging of Sarah Palin&#8217;s life as governor of Alaska, following the release of 24,000 pages of her e-mails by officials in US state.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the mundane matters of political office, the e-mails reveal her frustration over rumours about her family and marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Media organisations applied to see the e-mails in 2008 when she was picked as the Republican running mate.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Palin is widely viewed as a potential 2012 presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of e-mails covering Mrs Palin&#8217;s first 21 months as governor &#8211; from 2006 until she accepted the vice-presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p><span>Praise for Obama<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reporters from a number of news organisations descended on the Alaskan capital of Juneau on Friday to sift through the documents, which are only being released in paper form.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"19.2655367232\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-13733501#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\u201c<span>Start Quote<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m at the breaking point with the hurtful gossip\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>End Quote<\/span> <span>Sarah Palin e-mail<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some of the correspondence is written in Mrs Palin&#8217;s trademark folksy manner. The day after she was plucked from relative obscurity in 2008 for the presidential ticket of Republican nominee John McCain, she wrote to an associate: &#8220;Can you flippinbelieveit?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The e-mails reveal her irritation at the so-called Troopergate affair, when she was accused of pursuing a vendetta against her sister&#8217;s ex-husband, an Alaska policeman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do applogize if I sound frustrated w this one. I guess I am. Its killing me to realize how misinformed leggies [legislators], reporter and others are on this issue,&#8221; she wrote to colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><span>Tanning bed<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state of Alaska&#8217;s investigation into Troopergate found that Mrs Palin had abused her power by dismissing an official who had refused to sack her former brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>In another e-mail, Mrs Palin praises a speech on energy policy made by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, asking her aides to write a statement &#8220;saying he&#8217;s right on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The cache of documents includes examples of some of the hate mail addressed to Mrs Palin.<\/p>\n<p>The e-mails also reveal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A response in 2008 to a blog post alleging she had had an affair: &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m at the breaking point with the hurtful gossip\u2026 I hate this part of the job and many days I feel like it&#8217;s not worth it&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A demand in January 2008 to know who had leaked an e-mail, telling a colleague: &#8220;Hate to see you or anyone else being accused of purposefully setting me up with it being leaked, but that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hearing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Her attempts in several e-mails to find the identity of someone who alleged that she had not buckled her son, Trig, properly into his car seat<\/li>\n<li>Her frustration over state officials&#8217; access to a personal computer in her bedroom at the governor&#8217;s mansion without her notice, in which she writes: &#8220;Who, when, etc conducted this search of my bedroom&#8217;s computer and the other house computer?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A request to aides to set up a meeting with John McCain&#8217;s team, several months before he chose Mrs Palin as his running mate<\/li>\n<li>Her close relationship with her staff, praising them as &#8220;awesome and encouraging&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Her attempt to install a tanning bed in the governor&#8217;s mansion in Juneau<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The media have been perusing the heavily redacted documents, with several news organisations seeking help from readers.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post appealed for &#8220;100 organised and diligent readers&#8221; to help reporters get through the e-mails, while the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.nytimes.com\/palin-emails\/date\/2008-08-01\">posted the e-mails<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities withheld nearly 2,300 pages, citing executive privilege and privacy concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The treasurer of Mrs Palin&#8217;s political action committee said on Friday that the e-mails show a &#8220;very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The e-mails detail a governor hard at work,&#8221; said Tim Crawford.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Out of context&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sheer volume of requests for the documents are said to be the cause for the nearly three-year delay in their release.<\/p>\n<p>Requests have also been made to release e-mails chronicling Mrs Palin&#8217;s final 10 months in office. But officials have not yet begun reviewing those requests.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Palin told Fox News last Sunday that &#8220;a lot of those e-mails obviously weren&#8217;t meant for public consumption&#8221;, adding that some might take some of the messages &#8220;out of context&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Elected governor of Alaska in 2006, Mrs Palin resigned in July 2009 and embarked on a career as a public political figure.<\/p>\n<p>This has included appearances on the Fox News Channel and a reality television programme about her family life in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Palin has a fiercely loyal base among conservative Republicans, but she is also a divisive figure, provoking disdain from many Democrats and liberals.<\/p>\n<p>She has kept political commentators guessing on whether she will declare her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Palin recently embarked on a tour of national historic sites, with news media in pursuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13733501\" title=\"Details emerge from Palin e-mails\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details emerge from Palin e-mails<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 10 June 2011 Last updated at 22:16 ET Details are emerging of Sarah Palin&#8217;s life as governor of Alaska, following the release of 24,000 pages of her e-mails by officials in US state. As well as the mundane matters of political office, the e-mails reveal her frustration over rumours about her family and marriage. Media organisations applied to see the e-mails in 2008 when she was picked as the Republican running mate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Details emerge from Palin e-mails - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/11\/details-emerge-from-palin-e-mails\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Details emerge from Palin e-mails - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"10 June 2011 Last updated at 22:16 ET Details are emerging of Sarah Palin&#039;s life as governor of Alaska, following the release of 24,000 pages of her e-mails by officials in US state. 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