The person who wrote the article commented on that.
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>Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:55:44 -0700
>From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Sarah Palin - Fiscal Conservative?
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>i found an article this morning stating that her expenses were lower than several former governors but at the time i did not know that her expemses were in question so i just deleted the article and i have so many that i can't find it in the deleted folder. i do not even know who sent it or anything to help me look.
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>--- On Tue, 9/9/08, KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> From: KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Sarah Palin - Fiscal Conservative?
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 6:35 PM
>> Kendall,
>>
>> I have to agree with part of the author's statement
>> that *per diem *stipends
>> aren't that unusual--at least they weren't back
>> when states' coffers were
>> full. I would agree that $16K is excessive, but I also
>> know that Anchorage
>> to Juneau is a haul--and there is no road into Juneau from
>> the north. It's
>> only air or water, and in the winter, just water. So why
>> not stay in the
>> Governor's Mansion instead of the commute? Maybe
>> that's what she should
>> have done. I guess it depends on whether or not it would
>> have cost Alaskan
>> taxpayers more to keep the gubernatorial manse up and
>> running 24/7/365 than
>> it would to ship the family back and forth.
>>
>> *Per diem *stipends are a thing of the past for most civil
>> servants (like
>> me). Used to be that you would get your stipend up front
>> and then make good
>> money by staying at Motel 6 and eating at McDonalds.
>> That's not the case
>> anymore--at least not where I work. Travel has been cut
>> back--wa-a-a-y
>> back. If you want to go to a conference, for instance, you
>> have to write up
>> a justification that's darn near perfect (I should
>> know, because I have to
>> write travel justifications for everyone in my agency--no
>> kidding.). If the
>> travel request passes the manager's and director's
>> red pen then it goes
>> before a board for approval. If they approve it then you
>> have to bring
>> receipts in for reimbursement--meaning that you better have
>> a lot of slack
>> in your personal credit card account because you personally
>> pay for
>> everything up front and then your application for
>> reimbursement goes back to
>> the same board for approval. It can take up to three
>> months for your
>> reimbursement to appear, and they don't cover the
>> interest you're racking up
>> on your card. That's why I don't use American
>> Express--I could never afford
>> to pay off a trip in one month.
>>
>> I used to work for OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), a
>> non-profit
>> academic library data service in Dublin, Ohio. I travelled
>> around the globe
>> installing local library cataloging systems (written in
>> MIIS--look that one
>> up!). I almost doubled my salary in *per diem* money while
>> I was
>> travelling, but that was almost twenty years ago. I hear
>> they run a tight
>> ship these days.
>>
>> Anyway, I think we're going to hear that Palin is an
>> angel and a demon.
>> Truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I just heard
>> over the weekend
>> that some guy accused Obama of doing crack cocaine and
>> having sex with him
>> in the back of a limo. Might be true, might not--nobody
>> knows the truth
>> except two people. I'm not going to take the word of
>> some Duluth crackhead
>> any more than I am the word of some pissed-off Palin
>> neighbor. No one is
>> unstained in this world. You just have to pick who you
>> think will serve the
>> interests that are closest to your own heart and let the
>> chips fall.
>>
>> Time for chow!
>>
>> Kyle
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Kendall D. Corbett <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> > Saw this in the WashPost and thought it was
>> interesting....
>> >
>> >
>> > *Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home*
>> >
>> > Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088.html?wpisrc=newsletter
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > Kendall
>> >
>> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
>> redundant!)
>> >
>> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
>> unreasonable one
>> > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
>> Therefore, all progress
>> > depends on the unreasonable man.
>> >
>> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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