.Ex-Palin aide rips her in leaked manuscript

[Joanne98]

Source: Miami Herald


A leaked manuscript by one of Sarah Palin's closest aides from her time as governor charges that Palin broke state election law in her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and was consumed by petty grievances up until she resigned.

The unpublished book by Frank Bailey was leaked to the media and widely circulated on Friday.

The manuscript opens with an account of Palin sending Bailey a message saying "I hate this damn job" shortly before she resigned as Alaska's governor in July 2009, less than three years into her four-year term. The manuscript goes on for nearly 500 pages, a mixture of analysis, gossip and allegation.

Copies of the manuscript were forwarded around Alaska political circles on Friday. The Daily News received copies from multiple sources, the first from author Joe McGinniss, who is working on his own Palin book. McGinniss didn't respond to a message asking where he obtained the manuscript and the reason he circulated it.




Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/19/2074909/ex-palin-aide-rips-her-in-leaked.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. I'll wait for the published version - I want Frank Bailey to get the royalties he deserves nt

[Tempest]

4. Yup.

No interest in depriving this man of the opportunity to profit from his harrowing experience with the dragon lady.

[underpants]

2. msnbc story

“We set our sights and went after opponents in coordinated attacks, utilizing what we called ‘Fox News surrogates’, friendly blogs, ghost-written op eds, media opinion polls (that we often rigged), letters to editors, and carefully edited speeches,” Bailey wrote. “Nobody needed to be told what to do; we understood Sarah’s silent mandate to do something now.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41669583/ns/today-books/

[underpants]

3. three take Sarah

But then, Bailey says, one day when he joined Palin and Perry at the Hotel Captain Cook for a fundraiser for another candidate he believes the RGA was filming a TV spot and that Palin and Perry knew they were participating in it. Bailey says Perry asked him to walk down the street with Palin for a short distance then go back inside only to do it over again. At one point, Bailey says, he saw her signaling a cameraman outside and then Perry sent Palin out to walk down the street alone.

That footage was later used in a campaign commercial paid for by the RGA. Bailey says he was shocked when he saw it.

"At this point in the ad, my chin dropped and I felt faint," he writes. "There was Sarah, striding out the glass door of the Hotel Captain Cook and turning left, up the street towards the spot where I'd seen her stop and go back for another take, over and over and over. Same clothes, same day, same event. The cameraman Kris and Sarah had been coordinating with, was from the RGA? I sat frozen. Something was terribly wrong and the food I'd just eaten rose up my throat."

"When those ads (sic) came out, you could clearly see that they were staged," Halcro says now. Halcro had by then spent a lot of time around Palin. He pointed out how strange it was that in the commercials she wasn't carrying the purse she always carried. He was blasted as a sexist for that comment.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/blogs/palin-watch/8852-frank-bailey-sarah-palin-knowingly-broke-election-law?start=1

[Historic NY]

5. could this really be the straw?

:popcorn:

[crim son]

6. What are you, nuts?

Everybody knows the liberal media will say and do anything to push its socialist agenda. :hi:

[Raschel]

9. They're not helping the GOP by keeping her 'alive'. She can't win if she runs

(can't believe our country could even have that conversation) She'll just kill any other candidate's chances. hehe

The only fans she has are her goofy minority.

[crim son]

12. You should be right, absolutely.

I've become very cynical about the wisdom of the American people, very freaking cynical.

[BenzoDia]

7. Consumed by petty grievances? No way. That doesn't sound like her.

[louis-t]

8. Her grievances aren't petty...

everyone really IS against her.

[Faygo Kid]

10. You Betcha!

The greatest political fraud of my lifetime (Truman baby here).

[russspeakeasy]

11. I say keep her alive....she is good fodder...even some of the

right wingers are hoping she'll disappear.

[tavalon]

13. Oh, damn,

is the Palin-free month over already!! I was liking not thinking about that petty, childish, grifter.

[sabra]

14. Former aide rips Palin in leaked book manuscript

Source: Anchorage Daily News

UNPUBLISHED: Former governor broke election law, Bailey alleges.

The unpublished book by Frank Bailey was leaked to the media and widely circulated on Friday.

The manuscript opens with an account of Palin sending Bailey a message saying "I hate this damn job" shortly before she resigned as Alaska's governor in July 2009, less than three years into her four-year term. The manuscript goes on for nearly 500 pages, a mixture of analysis, gossip and allegation.

Copies of the manuscript were forwarded around Alaska political circles on Friday. The Daily News received copies from multiple sources, the first from author Joe McGinniss, who is working on his own Palin book. McGinniss didn't respond to a message asking where he obtained the manuscript and the reason he circulated it.

Bailey, a political insider who joined Palin's 2006 campaign for governor and became part of her inner circle, has never before told his version of the Palin story. Bailey has consistently refused requests for interviews and did so again Friday. The book was co-written with California author Ken Morris and Jeanne Devon of Anchorage, who publishes the popular anti-Palin website Mudflats.

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One chapter asserts Palin broke election law by coordinating with the Republican Governors Association during her 2006 campaign for governor. State candidates can't team up with soft-money groups such as the Republican Governors Association, which paid for TV commercials and mailers in Alaska during the election in a purported "independent" effort.






Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/02/18/1711185/ex-aide-rips-palin-in-leaked-manuscript.html

[Kingofalldems]

15. K and R for the idiot freepers

[Lasher]

16. 'Wah, wah! I hate this job!'

Governor of Alaska and she hates the job. What a spoiled crybaby.