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.
--- On Tue, 9/9/08, KE Cleveland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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:
>
> > 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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