Iceman they were dropped because she agreed to resign.   Period.

Yeah, but I bet neither of them quit before the expiration of their terms! She couldn't handle that pressure, then I wouldn't want her having to make a real decision.

Didn't anyone see the relentless number of frivilous lawsuits (by decision) that were attempted against her after she returned to Alaska?  

Oh yeah, probably just a coincidence she had to spend so much on defense lawyers.

(Taken from HERE. Some of the replies on that page are interesting...)

Sarah Palin Defense Fund Will Be Up And Running Soon

I have received several Inquiries about The Sarah Palin Defense Fund. A spokesperson for the Governor gave me the following information on it:

A legal defense fund should be up and running soon so keep your eyes out. I don't have the details to reveal now.

The fund is a grassroots effort led by Alaskans, and many Alaskans and Americans have contacted us to inquire how they can assist. We cannot thank you enough!!

Since her rise to national prominence, Governor Palin has been the subject of an onslaught of frivolous ethics complains by Democratic operatives. She now owes more than a half million dollars to an Anchorage law firm.

Make no mistake about it. These silly filings are so her Democratic opponents can say "Governor Palin has been the subject of ten ethics complaints." It is just plain dirty politics. They know the Governor was elected to fight corruption and this is an underhanded way to attack he squeaky clean image. It is the same way they used the silly wardrobe story to under cut her "just an average hockey Mom" image. Notice they never investigated how much the campaigns spent on Barack Obama or john McCain's suits.

Recently the Governor fired back calling the ethics complaints partisan, false and frivolous, starting with "the politically motivated Troopergate probe." She said the legal bills all stem from her actions as governor.


Even though the complaints are all based on her actions as Governor, she must use her own money to defend herself. She makes $125,000 a year. The legal bills are four times that amount.

Palin wrote in a statement:

"On August 29, it seems the political landscape changed in Alaska. Now, it seems in order to do this job as Governor, with the political blood sport some are playing today, only the independently wealthy or those willing to spend their income on legal fees to defend their official actions in office ... can serve," Palin said in the written response to Daily News questions.

The debt is owed to the Alaska law firm Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness, according to her financial disclosure.

To give you an idea of how silly the ethics filings have been, one was filed under the name of a soap opera character. Another concerned the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute using her photograph to promote seafood.

In all there have been 10 complaints and six have been dismissed. But each one has to be defended and each one costs money. Money the Governor doesn't have.

The latest and silliest of the complaints was filed Linda Kellen Biegel, a Democrat who blogs under the name "Celtic Diva." You can visit her blog and tell he what you think of her by clicking here.

It alleges a conflict of interest because Sarah Palin wore a sponsored jacket at the finish line of the Iron Dog Snowmachine race. It was the jacket worn by all members of her husband Todd's racing team. She was obviously wearing it to support Todd and not because of the "Arctic Cat" logo that was on it.

Click here for my earlier post on the "Celtic Diva's" filing.

The governor called the latest complaint "another frivolous ethics charge" by a political blogger. "This would be hilarious if it weren't so expensive for the state to process these accusations and for me to defend against these bogus harassments.

Palin's husband, Todd, is sponsored by Arctic Cat in the Iron Dog, the world's longest snowmobile race.

Palin calls the complaint "asinine political grandstanding" by a blogger.

"Yes, I wore Arctic Cat snow gear at an outdoor event, because it was cold outside, and by the way, today, I am wearing clothes bearing the names of Alaska artists, and a Glennallen Panthers basketball hoodie," Palin said in Tuesday's release. "I am a walking billboard for the team's fundraiser! Should I expect to see an ethics charge for wearing these?"

Lisa Demer has more details in the Anchorage Daily News. Click here.

An Glenn Beck attacked the frivolous ethics complaints on Fox News -

By the way, several of the Inquiries about the Sarah Palin defense Fund came to me on the new Sarah Palin Blog Twitter account. Please Follow the Blog on Twitter by clicking here.

The former U.S. vice presidential nominee, who's attracted an ardent following among conservative Republicans, may not be resigning because she's contemplating a run for the White House, as many media pundits are speculating.

 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces that she is stepping down from her position as Governor in Wasilla, Alaska, on Friday July 3, 2009. The former GOP vice presidential candidate made the surprise announcement, saying she would step down July 26 but didn't announce her plans.

 (AP Photo/Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Robert DeBerry)She may not be resigning because she's sick of all the ethics attacks and verbal abuse from the political left, and she may not be resigning due to revelations in a recent Vanity Fair article about her poor relationship with the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain.

 More to the point, she may not be resigning for the reason declared in her press conference Friday that because she's decided not to run for governor again in 2010, she's quitting her job to avoid being a "lame duck" governor. That feels to me like a lame excuse for Palin suddenly bailing on her duty to the citizens of Alaska.

 Instead, I'm considering the assertion of investigative reporter Brad Friedman in The Brad Blog, citing story confirmation from "multiple sources" in Alaska, that Palin will resign July 26 because of pending criminal charges for embezzlement during her term as mayor.

 The charges, Friedman claims, flow from federal investigators discovering that the Wasilla Sports Complex and Palin's house in Wasilla feature the "same windows, same wood, same products" – all supplied and installed by the same construction contractor, Spenard Building Supplies (SBS).

 As supporting evidence, Friedman excerpted an October 8, 2008, Village Voice story that the same contractors building the $12.5 million sports center and ice rink in Wasilla (SBS) also assisted Todd Palin with building his family's two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house in the town. Todd Plain described these contractors as his "buddies." If Palin or her husband, Todd, is indicted for misappropriating construction materials meant for the town sports complex to build the Palin's home, the ensuing embezzlement trial would make the many past accusations of local and state ethics violations pale by comparison.

 If convicted, Palin or her husband could be looking at prison time. Friedman said his sources in Alaska told him that federal investigators had asked them to remain quiet about the looming indictment, so none of his sources have gone on the record with their names. Further, Friedman said he was unable to gain confirmation from any federal sources. Consequently, without named sources, the reliability of Friedman's report remains in doubt.

 In fact, an FBI spokesperson has denied that Palin is being investigated by that federal agency. Logically, however, the FBI denial does not rule out an investigation by some other federal agency, especially the IRS, or maybe a state agency. If the IRS is involved, the alleged crime may be filing a fradulent tax return by failing to report embezzled construction supplies and services as income. Perhaps Friedman's Alaska sources mislead him, yet I must concede that he's repeatedly proven his credibility in the past by breaking many other far-fetched stories that later proved to be true, such as the 2000 and 2004 voting "irregularities" in Florida and Ohio.

 Naturally, I'm waiting for all the facts to emerge, but I have to admit that Friedman's reason for Palin's sudden resignation makes a lot more sense to me than anything else I've heard so far. Gov. Palin survived "Troopergate" and other state ethics scandals, so I can't imaging this "pit bull with lipstick" would resign because she's tired of the political in-fighting that she's been winning. And given that Palin's gubernatorial term ends in 2010,

 I cannot see any logic in ruining her chances for a credible presidential race in 2012 by prematurely resigning as Alaska governor. Her seasoned political advisors surely must have warned her that a "quitter" stands scant chance of ever being elected to the White House. And when I listen to Palin's disjointed performance at the hastily called news conference near her Wasilla home yesterday (see below), her inexplicable sports analogy of passing the basketball for the good of team Alaska only makes sense if she's about to face some challenge that would prevent her from performing her duties as governor, such as a criminal indictment.

 Finally, when I observe that the press conference yesterday sounded more like a Tina Fey Saturday Night Live comedy sketch than a serious press event from a serious potential presidential candidate, I'm increasingly led to the conclusion that Brad Friedman might have nailed the inside story, again. Did Sarah Palin resign as the governor of Alaska because she's about to be charged with a federal or state crime?

 There may be a conservative backlash against anyone asking the question or even reporting the allegation, yet that's predictable. Rather than attacking the messenger, let's see what the weeks and months ahead reveal.

  As far as I know I did not spread any falsehood,  Palin herself said she resigned because of all the charges brought against her.

 Maybe they were all nonsense and maybe there was reason for some of them. 

If it was me if they were all false I be darned if I would quit, and Palin doesn't seem to me to be a quitter either unless it is in her best interests.    So that makes me think there was something to some of the charges.

Uh-oh, that's a no-no. A mayor here in Erie got booted because it looked like he was making a personal profit from a community project, giving the business to a firm that he had a personal vested interest in. It was thrown out in court, but the stink completely ruined his political career because it cast so much doubt on his trustworthiness that he couldn't get anything done as a mayor after that.

 That is just too funny Iceman.  most democrats love what Palin does for them.  She and those like her is what got the last democrat in the Senate when that position had been held by republicans for over a hundred years.

She also is responsible for quite a few of the more intellectual in the republican party voting democrat.

Only the people who want to, fall for her Pants on Fire Lies like the death panel thing that has been debunked over and over again, and most people don't like politicians pushing lies especially after they have been clearly proven to be lies.

Keep drinking that koolaid.  lol

 I think I was dead on subject replying to your last remark and explaining why democrats don't fear Palin and instead are glad that she is a spokesperson for the republican party. 

  I missed that one to Alexste.   thought you were talking to him not me.

But what democrats would you be talking about specifically ?    Not that I don't doubt there are just as many dems as there are repubs  that have pulled that, just wondering if you know of any names and specifics in particular.

I will be just as happy to diss them as I am to diss Palin,  we need to get rid of those kind in both parties.

 You are right may not be a him,  sorry Alexste if you are a her for referring to you as a him.

Let's go with people who have not been caught and sentenced Iceman. 

  Some of those on both sides of the aisle. fraud never has been restricted to one party or the other.  And if they have gotten what they had coming to them then they are out of the picture.

I would rather deal with the ones who are still in the picture.  

I guess if you insist though I could look up all the republicans that have been charged like the Alaska Senator, but I don't know what that would prove.

I don't know where you guys come up with some of this stuff.

What I saw mostly were democrats saying leave Palin's kids out of it.   Some of them even wondered if the stuff was started by conservatives just trying to start something and lay the blame on them.

And like I said before if pointing out when Palin tells whoppers is attacking then she should quit telling whoppers and there would be no need to even bother with her.   

BTW, maybe she knows this and that is why she keeps on telling them.