Sarah and the money

[khon]

Thought I'd dedicate this thread to the current actions of our favorite quitter: Sarah Palin

We all know she left her elected office behind a year ago, so what's she been up to since then ?

Well she started SarahPAC (http://www.sarahpac.com/), a poltical actions commitee "Dedicated to building America's future, supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation." And she's been travelling the country to rally support for conservative candidates, sounds great right ?

Well it turns out that might not really be the case, as seen if you look at the FEC report on this PAC (http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2010&strID=C00458588).

So far the PAC has raised $3.4M and spent $2.4M in 2010, so pretty succesful. What was this money spent on ? Well of the $2.4M they did spend $52000 (2&#37 on contributions for various candidates, the rest was spent on Sarahs travelling (http://www.sarahpac.com/) , her political consultants and buying copies of her own book (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...C-throws-the-book-at-supporters-83295617.html)

It's a pretty sweet deal, she travels the country giving lectures at $100000 a pop, while her donors cover the expenses of her private jet and first class hotels. In total her income has gone up more than 100-fold since she left office (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-palin-earned-estimated-12-million-july/story?id=10352437)

But don't worry, I'm sure she really resigned because she had the best interests of Alaska in mind, and it had nothing to do making money. And if you believe that I've got a couple of bridges to nowhere I'd like to sell to you.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I'm outraged! She is truly evil!

 

[boomerang]

 

[khon]

I never said she was evil, I simply said she's in it for the money. A political entertainer much like Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart.

 

[werepossum]

I never said she was evil, I simply said she's in it for the money. A political entertainer much like Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart.

By your standards she's about a gazillion times more serious than Algore, who makes her look like an amateur at making money . . .

 

[khon]

By your standards she's about a gazillion times more serious than Algore, who makes her look like an amateur at making money . . .

You're right, Gore is very similar to Palin at this point.

 

[boomerang]

Al Gore - $9 million dollar home (one of many btw)

The Clinton's - $11 million dollar home. (Her comments about taking things away from us for the greater good I guess applied to everyone but her)

The Obama's - multi millionaires. Made off not one, but two biographies. (Now there's a massive ego for you)

And so on, and so on. If anything Palin is an underachiever.

 

[PokerGuy]

What is your obsession with her? Who cares how the PAC money is spent, as long as it's legal and the people contributing to it are OK with it, STFU. You're just jealous.

 

[xj0hnx]

The Obama's - multi millionaires. Made off not one, but two biographies. (Now there's a massive ego for you)

Had they even done anything when they were written? Even better, a bio about a guy that hasn't done ...anything, shit, I'm going to start on mine.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I never said she was evil, I simply said she's in it for the money. A political entertainer much like Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart.

Millions of people in this country are only "in it for the money"....so what?

 

[Carmen813]

Had they even done anything when they were written? Even better, a bio about a guy that hasn't done ...anything, shit, I'm going to start on mine.

I'd guess that he had accomplished more professionally than either of us is every likely to match, given that his first book was written five years after becoming President of Harvard Law Review. Maybe I shouldn't include you in that statement, but I don't see myself becoming president of the American Counseling Association.

The second book was written to state his policy positions in preparation for running for office and isn't a biography.

 

[waggy]

I never said she was evil, I simply said she's in it for the money. A political entertainer much like Rush Limbaugh or Jon Stewart.

got news for you SO IS EVERY FUCKING POLITICIAN. Who fucking cares if stupid people are stupid enough to give this women money?

great she is makeing it hand over fist. You keep her in the spotlight she is going to get on the damn ballot. fucking fools.

 

[waggy]

You're right, Gore is very similar to Palin at this point.

AL Gore is fucking genius. the guy is the ultimate Car salesman.

His carbon credit scheme is just beyond amazing.

 

[xj0hnx]

I'd guess that he had accomplished more professionally than either of us is every likely to match, given that his first book was written five years after becoming President of Harvard Law Review. Maybe I shouldn't include you in that statement, but I don't see myself becoming president of the American Counseling Association.

The second book was written to state his policy positions in preparation for running for office and isn't a biography.

While some may think that's an accomplishment, and it may be, to me it seems that it's just an ego trip. I can think of hundreds of people that, in my eyes, accomplished way more. Was he the first president of the Harvard Law Review? First black president of the Harvard Law Review? Youngest? Did he dig himself out of poverty to get to where he was? What was the actual accomplishment?

 

[nageov3t]

so long as all of this money is freely donated, I couldn't care less about what she does with it.

if you're stupid enough to donate money to Sarah Palin, you deserve what you get.

 

[Gardener]

Thought I'd dedicate this thread to the current actions of our favorite quitter: Sarah Palin

We all know she left her elected office behind a year ago, so what's she been up to since then ?

Well she started SarahPAC (http://www.sarahpac.com/), a poltical actions commitee "Dedicated to building America's future, supporting fresh ideas and candidates who share our vision for reform and innovation." And she's been travelling the country to rally support for conservative candidates, sounds great right ?

Well it turns out that might not really be the case, as seen if you look at the FEC report on this PAC (http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?cycle=2010&strID=C00458588).

So far the PAC has raised $3.4M and spent $2.4M in 2010, so pretty succesful. What was this money spent on ? Well of the $2.4M they did spend $52000 (2%) on contributions for various candidates, the rest was spent on Sarahs travelling (http://www.sarahpac.com/) , her political consultants and buying copies of her own book (http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...C-throws-the-book-at-supporters-83295617.html)

It's a pretty sweet deal, she travels the country giving lectures at $100000 a pop, while her donors cover the expenses of her private jet and first class hotels. In total her income has gone up more than 100-fold since she left office (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sarah-palin-earned-estimated-12-million-july/story?id=10352437)

But don't worry, I'm sure she really resigned because she had the best interests of Alaska in mind, and it had nothing to do making money. And if you believe that I've got a couple of bridges to nowhere I'd like to sell to you.

Informative post, thanks.

+1 for striking a nerve with the rightwing nuts who both hate and love their High Priestess.

 

[Carmen813]

While some may think that's an accomplishment, and it may be, to me it seems that it's just an ego trip. I can think of hundreds of people that, in my eyes, accomplished way more. Was he the first president of the Harvard Law Review? First black president of the Harvard Law Review? Youngest? Did he dig himself out of poverty to get to where he was? What was the actual accomplishment?

He was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. He received funding for his first book as a result of this position, and the book itself is primarily about race relations. If don't know anything about his background, he didn't exactly have a silver spoon either, unlike most of our politicians. I'm not sure I'd say he grew up in poverty, but relatively speaking, it wasn't a normal childhood for the era. Bi-racial children were not common in the 60s, nor was the fact that he grew up primarily without a father in the home. Even today individuals with such a racial background face unique challenges, though we like to pretend they do not.

Honestly in many ways Obama is one of those "pull yourself up by the boot straps" individuals many on the right constantly wish people in life circumstances similar to his own would do. He is not a person who would have needed to become an elected official (let alone POTUS) to have, by most measures, an extremely successful life.

 

[Lanyap]

Is it legal? Are her PAC donators complaining about how their money is being spent?

She's the hot older cheerleader for the repub party. They don't want her to get elected to anything, they just want her to rile up the base for election time so they can get elected. The repubs also know that she irritates the hell out of the left by doing these types of things. The left has such a soft on for her.

 

[nobodyknows]

Is it legal? Are her PAC donators complaining about how their money is being spent?

What does the second question have to do with the first? Your saying that if what she's doing is illegal, it's OK as long as her donators aren't complaining????

I don't think so.

 

[xj0hnx]

He was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. He received funding for his first book as a result of this position, and the book itself is primarily about race relations. If don't know anything about his background, he didn't exactly have a silver spoon either, unlike most of our politicians. I'm not sure I'd say he grew up in poverty, but relatively speaking, it wasn't a normal childhood for the era. Bi-racial children were not common in the 60s, nor was the fact that he grew up primarily without a father in the home. Even today individuals with such a racial background face unique challenges, though we like to pretend they do not.

Honestly in many ways Obama is one of those "pull yourself up by the boot straps" individuals many on the right constantly wish people in life circumstances similar to his own would do. He is not a person who would have needed to become an elected official (let alone POTUS) to have, by most measures, an extremely successful life.

Meh, doesn't sound unique, or extraordinary to me, especially after having watched him "turn" into what I was pretty sure he was anyway, just another politician.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

What does the second question have to do with the first? Your saying that if what she's doing is illegal, it's OK as long as her donators aren't complaining????

Lol. Yeah...what that's exactly what he's saying! Sheesh.

 

[BoberFett]

You loony lefties just cannot stop talking about her, can you?

 

[bamacre]

You loony lefties just cannot stop talking about her, can you?

What else are they going to talk about, Obama's failures?

 

[Fern]

Thought I'd dedicate this thread to the current actions of our favorite quitter: Sarah Palin
-snip-

I'm no fan of Sarah Palin, and your post seems to accuse her of unethical behavior and perhaps even profiting personally from her PAC etc.

Looked to me to be pretty shady that her contributions to other like-minded candidates were so low. So I went to look up PAC spending rules to see how she could possibly get away with this.

Those rules are here: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/aboutpacs.htm

Since the PAC can only give $5,000 to any candidate I now see why that number is so low. Seems to me she doesn't support that many other candidates (nor that many support her), so I don't see how one could expect her PAC's contributions to other candidates should be high.

Still, you had me wondering where the heck all the rest of that money is going. I found this: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00458588&cycle=2010

Doesn't look out-of-the-ordinary to me. Political consultants and media expenses seem where most politician's money goes. So, I see nothing unusual yet.

BTW: She only spent about $60,000 on her book(s), you make it seem as thought it's much more.

In short, this looks like much ado about nothing, along with a heaping dash of "spin and innuendo".

Oh, and about her increased income, that's well explained in your link. $7 million book deal etc? That, and the other legit sources mentioned explains the big increase in her personal income. If the Dems and the MSM would stop bringing her up at every opportunity (whether legit or trumped up) she wouldn't be making all this money from books and speaking fees. Who would care?

Fern

 

[MotF Bane]

Informative post, thanks.

+1 for striking a nerve with the rightwing nuts who both hate and love their High Priestess.

That's why it's the leftists who brought her up again, right? :hmm: