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The Washington Post reports that Sarah Palin culled the email addresses of nearly 23,000 Alaska business owners from a state database and used the information to spam them.
Palin wanted to reduce the fee for a business license, and she needed the cooperation of the state senate to do it. There were only three days left in the legislative session, and Palin was keen to get home to collect her per diem.
Palin’s "special message" included her official portrait, the state seal, and a partisan political message, "…contact your senator TODAY."
Earlier in her career, Palin helped secure her reputation as a "reformer" by firing a Wasilla city attorney who was allegedly doing Republican party politics on city time. Pete Jenkins, a conservative columnist in Alaska, claims that she later confessed to doing the same thing as mayor while she was running for governor. The spam incident shows that Palin continued to abuse her office for political purposes as governor.
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I hope she used the bcc function.
don’t think she’s sharp enough for that.
The list continues to grow…!
oh nooes, she did somthing illegal? (gasp) /s
She is the gift that keeps on giving….maybe we can give her back.
hey, ET’s friend, and fellow blogger, Shannyn Moore is on KO again!
Dame mcShame. That’s her name!
Actually Lindsey, (and I am not trying to support Palin’s actions or take sides) if her message said contact your state senators that is not a political message. If the message was encouraging business proprietors to “get the facts” I doubt that would cross the chalkline of ethics. However, if the message emphatically encouraged business owners to contact their senators to support a particular position… then we would certainly have a problem of ethics. In either case, the use of the data base itself is a likely violation no matter what the message was.
If we send her back to Alaska, we need to declare Alaska a disaster zone. Or even if she never goes back, those poor folks are going to have rampant PTSD up there!
What is it with right wing women who either spam American citizens or in my case, right wing Senator Susan Collins had her IT guy redirect a link to a post I did about an affair she had with a married man whose wife had Alzheimer’s and then attached a Trojan virus to one of the new redirect links, which caused my computer to become inoperable and then after the Trojan was removed, it corrupted my hard drive?
I can’t stand these kinds of women. They could never run on their morals or ethics and have to resort to crimes to get elected. Sick.
Here’s a link to the post I did if you’re curious:
http://whitenoiseinsanity.word…..rs-oh-boy/
Two more posts coming up fast pups. Brace yerselves. What can I say, news keeps breaking…
Everything she does is God’s will, don’t you get it. That’s why Todd (claiming to be part of the Executive Branch) doesn’t have to answer the stinkin’ subpoena and no one does diddlysquat about it.
She’s divine in lipstick.
Hurry up!!! I’m gettin’ ready to go out….*g*
Go Ian!
new Ian at the mothership.
Hmm, if everything that Palin does is “god’s will” and if she spammed people in Alaska, then by logic god herself must also be a spammer and she is the one who is sending me those daily messages on my Email account, “You have just won $3,000,000.00…”
@Poncho: Palin urged people to contact their state senators and urge them to support her bid to lower business license fees. I’d define that as partisan.
After all, Palin used the mailing to champion her own, Republican, legislative agenda.
A mailing urging Alaskans to cultivate a positive relationship with their state senator for the heck or it wouldn’t necessarily be partisan on its face, although, reasonable people might wonder why the governor was so interested in pimping the senate.
minor correction – PAUL Jenkins, not Pete…
Did she use her yahoo account?
You stole my line.
Now what I want to know is, if she did use her Yahoo account, will they shut her down?