Palin: No pay raise for me, thanks
posted at 6:51 pm on December 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Good politics, good sense. She was absent from the state for two months; she got a monster raise just two years ago; state revenue is down thanks to the crash in oil prices; and the polish this will put on her fiscal conservative cred is worth more than the money anyway, especially with Blago in the news.
A new state commission appointed by Palin recommends boosting the governor’s pay from $125,000 to $150,000. The State Officers Compensation Commission says the lieutenant governor, department heads and legislators need more money too.
But if the commission pushes ahead with a pay raise, Palin won’t accept the money, said spokesman Bill McAllister.
“Her view is, it’s just not appropriate to accept a pay raise in the middle of the term.”…
It’s unclear if Palin would give the money to charity — as commission chairman Rick Halford predicted Tuesday — or simply not receive the extra pay.
Pay raises should go only to politicians who have excelled above and beyond all expectations — like, say, Congress. Exit question: How is this stupid, corrupt, and/or venal? An obvious explanation eludes me but I’ll be watching Olby and Maddow tonight to find out.
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she is savvy and and ethical, nice combination.
rob verdi on December 18, 2008 at 6:52 PM
by the way screw the left and the media.
rob verdi on December 18, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Gov Palin is 100% legit! Can’t wait to vote for her a second time.
christene on December 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Hah! One more piece of evidence that Trig is not her baby!
Cicero43 on December 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM
awesome
joey24007 on December 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM
DITTO!
christene on December 18, 2008 at 6:55 PM
I will work tirelessly for her if she runs in 2012.
Firebird on December 18, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Gov Palin is 100% legit! Can’t wait to vote for her a second time.
christene on December 18, 2008 at 6:54 PM
I can’t wait to vote for her a third time!
Did I say third? Uh…
Bishop on December 18, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Dear God in heavan, I love this woman.
Onager on December 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM
ow is this stupid, corrupt, and/or venal?
What an obvious cynical ploy. A truly honest politician would not only accept the pay raise but demand more.
peterargus on December 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM
I love Sarah, but if we’re ever going to run off together, we could use that money.
Cicero43 on December 18, 2008 at 6:58 PM
She is awesome! 2012 can’t come any sooner!
jencab on December 18, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Sarah, once again you have proven to me why I look up to you. You betcha at Team Sarah they will also receive these news extremely well.
Why dont’cha do a nationwide tour, “just because?”
WE MISS YOU SARAH, TODD, PIPER AND FAMILY!!
ProudPalinFan on December 18, 2008 at 7:04 PM
Leading by example!
Governor Sarah Palin,you go girl!
canopfor on December 18, 2008 at 7:04 PM
You then sir have a digestive tract of steel if you can do that.
Good move for the Governor, showing some real fiscal management and responsiblity and showing the ability to say “no” even when it’s directly for her own benefit.
Hog Wild on December 18, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Good golly, miss molly, what ethical, classy thing will she do next?!
LEBA on December 18, 2008 at 7:08 PM
All the comments I said in the headline thread apply here too. To recap: Sarah rocks. The ADN sucks. The Alaska legislature is now stuck with not accepting the raise or looking like jerks. They can’t take it after the governor personally rejected it.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:08 PM
I wonder what the thugs,oops,I mean, Liberal’s
in Chicago thinks!haha.
canopfor on December 18, 2008 at 7:09 PM
The only thing worse than feigning political acumen and experience, is feigning a moral disgust for money in politics. Hey Palin, if you are really serious, why not dock your pay for time spent campaigning? That sound about right, AP?
Weight of Glory on December 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM
No dude. They’ll be talking about the racist emails that the night janitor forwarded, and how those are somehow her fault.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM
You mean she didn’t drop the F bomb when talking about her salary? What kind of governor is that?
chunderroad on December 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Our ‘favorite’ female conservative Kathleen Parker once said that ‘the only cardinal sin in secular civilization is HYPOCRISY.’ The lefties are beside themselves in trying to prove Sarah is a hypocrite and not being to find any evidence that she is. Their consolation: they have 4 years to dig up some dirt. Good luck!
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 7:12 PM
She won’t need a raise. She probably got plenty of options to get paid now that she went national. Her days of skimming per diems are over.
LevStrauss on December 18, 2008 at 7:13 PM
This woman rings true every time. Bring on 2012.
irishspy on December 18, 2008 at 7:13 PM
You left out.. “And TOTALLY HOT!!!!”
44Magnum on December 18, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Who will get the honor of first troll in the thread?
joey24007 on December 18, 2008 at 7:14 PM
enjoy her Alaska we’ll be borrowing her again in 2012….
sven10077 on December 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Love me some Sarah Palin! No kidding, she is the real deal & she puts her money where her mouth is. Let’s hope she decides to run in 2012.
Conservalicious on December 18, 2008 at 7:16 PM
While on the campaign trail she was still serving as governor and fulfilling all of her duties as governor. You might have noticed the two BlackBerries she carried with her everywhere.
She’s not independently wealthy. She actually needs her salary. Do you begrudge a person their paycheck?
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:16 PM
This is a politically good move,
in this financial debauchery,that
was caused by Liberal Democrats,
and according to the Left,America
is in a recession,shouldn’t the
Liberal politicians be “PATRIOTIC”,
like BIDEN has suggested,and take
a DECREASE IN PAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on December 18, 2008 at 7:16 PM
What is a troll supposed to say-that she is setting a bad example by not being a pig at the trough.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Hey, why do you want to reduce the pay of everyone in Congress to zero?
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Weight of Glory: There is nothing wrong with being paid for doing your job. What is immoral is when you are a governor and guilty of political simony.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 7:20 PM
Just take a look at some of the comments here. They’re already bringing up per diems (which are legal and ethical, and hers are less than her predecessors), and if that fails, they are saying that she doesn’t need the money now because somehow she’s now “rich” because everyone in the world knows her name.
This woman could find the cure for cancer, and the left would accuse her of putting cancer specialists out of work!
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:22 PM
Sarah Palin could bring about world peace, and the left would accuse her of being anti-military!
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 7:25 PM
ramrocks: I was referring more to Sarah’s character and to her principled positions based on Reagan conservatism-simply put her past sex life or if she is corrupt. Per diems are small fish to fry. They will not prevent her from fulfilling her destiny.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 7:29 PM
That certainly is the non-Ivy League thing to do!
huckleberryfriend on December 18, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Gee-whiz folks! AP asked an exit question that required “thinking” like the nuts on MSNBC. I gave it a shot to participate in the “exit question” festivities. So, NO, I don’t think someone should deny their paycheck. Good grief.
Weight of Glory on December 18, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Buzz killer….;)
Hog Wild on December 18, 2008 at 7:33 PM
heh. It’s what I do.
Weight of Glory on December 18, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Dude, your PDS imitation was so good we took you for one of them.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Viva la Cuda!
petefrt on December 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Well , there’s a senate seat for sale down in Illinois..
the_nile on December 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Now that should be a t-shirt. I would wear that one! I already own the “Viva la Reagan Revolucion” tee.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Thanks…I think. I’m going to shower now.
Weight of Glory on December 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM
I miss her. *tear*
Mommypundit on December 18, 2008 at 7:41 PM
She shy about $475K.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Fat lot of good it does that poor turkey! Well, we know she doesn’t need money for clothes. You’d think she’d accept a raise to help pay for “her” new baby, though, wouldn’t you? Etc., etc.
Jim Treacher on December 18, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Don’t feel bad. I thought you were being sarcastic. Same thing happened to me the other day.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Good idea. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up looking like this.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:45 PM
If she can afford to do this she must be geting money under the table.
This is the proof we’ve been waiting for!!
kcewa on December 18, 2008 at 7:50 PM
By the way, she could become a grandmother this weekend.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 7:51 PM
So how much does being a Dick pay these days??
BigWyo on December 18, 2008 at 7:51 PM
I’m waiting to see what the Trig Truther story is going to be after she has the baby. Should be interesting.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM
If Sarah sneezes it’s news. That’s the mark of a rising superstar. And rising superstars do not usually go away or ride into the sunset unless it’s on their own terms.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM
10 bucks that there’s a joke about how she could use that money to pay back the RNC for her wardrobe on Olby. And the fact that she didn’t will make her the worst person in the world.
Sir Corky on December 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Are you serious?
Weight of Glory on December 18, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Well, her family’s wardrobe is already all paid for……
Noneya on December 18, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Bristol is faking the pregnancy to cover for Willow? Or Piper?
kcewa on December 18, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Yeah, the Trig Truthers are all panting over this at Palin’s Deceptions. They have been analyzing news footage of the Palin family attending church at the Wasilla Middle School after the arson attack on the parishioners at her church. They have somehow now become convinced that Bristol’s pregnancy is faked.
(Apparently she was really pregnant while her mother was faking pregnancy, but now she’s faking it as some kind of alibi that she couldn’t be Trig’s mom. You’ll get a headache if you try to follow their logic.)
In between analyzing photos, they come up with other brilliant analyses – for example, did you know the reason that Sarah doesn’t live in the Governor’s Mansion is so that the “domestic staff” can’t steal her used tampons for DNA analysis?
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Noneya: how many ways do you have to say it that Sarah returned all the pieces of wardrobe that the RNC bought for her and her family to be used during the campaign? Sarah and family kept nothing, nil, nada.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Sarah is for real…another example of her integrity. She is so unlike most politicians and people, who from what I am seeing are getting more desensitized, cold hearted and selfish. I have lately been dreading going out, because I leave in a good mood and get hurt somehow–I lost count how many times this has happened. I am sure I could write a book.
I often feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone!
Sarah you are one good woman!!
Conservatives R Us on December 18, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Really? A little evidence for that? Link?
I didn’t think so.
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 8:04 PM
There is a better chance that Elvis is still alive than Sarah is not Trig’s mother.
technopeasant on December 18, 2008 at 8:05 PM
…………. you have fun with that.
Gov. Sarah Palin………… still causing the Left pain.
………….. Todd, you be good to your woman this Christmas!
Seven Percent Solution on December 18, 2008 at 8:05 PM
what a bunch of weirdos those people are
joey24007 on December 18, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Those people are nuts. I’m waiting for them to try to steal her records. I hope her doctor has them locked up somewhere.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Great woman, and she’s not even trying to con somebody out of a vacant senate seat . . . but of course her name isn’t Kennedy.
rplat on December 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM
I’m sure the left will find someway to stick her head in the toilet on this one too.
They always do.
Bastards.
Hawkins1701 on December 18, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Allah, might as well move this one to the left column with all the other Palin threads.
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 8:11 PM
They were all obsessed for a while that Bristol was ‘hiding’ from them. I posted a comment that she wasn’t hiding, she had been traveling with the campaign (this was mentioned in a couple of pool reports) but that the campaign had obviously made a gentlemen’s agreement with the press about pictures of her. I tried to point out that the press obviously felt that satisfying the crazy curiosity of Trig Truthers was not a legitimate reason for to publish pictures of a 17 year old girl. I never checked to see if it got through.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Apparently, I can’t be bothered to fix typos when I edit my sentences.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:15 PM
gosh she is just brilliant. She has great political instincts and knows what the people want
ousoonerfan15 on December 18, 2008 at 8:24 PM
I just assumed you were some uneducated ignorant Alaskan hick who didn’t know how to use proper English, like Kennedies do. :)
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Heh. Change the state to Tennessee and you got it man.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Sarah Palin: My 2008 “Man of the Year”.
Mutnodjmet on December 18, 2008 at 8:30 PM
I was going to try to predict the first troll post but I think everyone above has most of the potential responses covered. So I think they’ll just go for
1) personal attacks on Palin and
2) calling Hotair commenters knuckle-dragging wingnut cultists or something.
fiatboomer on December 18, 2008 at 8:32 PM
“If that shit ever spreads to Washington we’re f***ing doomed”
the_nile on December 18, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Heh. Change the state to Tennessee and you got it man.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:28 PM
You’re from Tennessee and you say “Heh”? Do you have a blog?
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 8:36 PM
So, what is your purpose in ALWAYS showing the “winking” photo of Governor Palin? Why do you insist upon it? She did it in good faith. You are doing it to demean her.
rlwo2008 on December 18, 2008 at 8:40 PM
LOL. Never met him when I was at UT. Of course, I was an undergrad, not a law student.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Dudes, I just discovered where the trolls get the mother-lode of their nonsense. This article was linked up on the HuffPost and everywhere else. My favorite part was the assertion that she’s done nothing to help her state’s energy infrastructure… Gee, the writer must have overlooked the matter of that natural gas pipeline, and the AGIA requirements that call for access points in Alaska, which will lower the cost of energy for Alaskans. And he forgot the stuff about Alaskan jobs. The writer insists that Palin has done “nothing”. Ethics reform, a renegotiated severance tax plan, and a natural gas pipeline are “nothing”. Oh, and he has choice quotes to prove that she’s “stupid”.
The writer then goes on to insist that the Alaskan legislature move to impeach her over the Troopergate fiasco. He demands that they do it first thing this January. Stay tuned for the moonbats to push for her impeachment in the coming New Year. They will not be satisfied until she is inside the burning church, if you get my meaning.
What’s interesting is the accusations they toss at her: arrogant, narcissistic, lying ego-maniac, etc. What alternate universe are they living in?
Check out the crazy article and register at the site so you can post comments. Though I must warn you, reading the article gives you a sort of Alice through the Looking Glass experience. It’s like you’ve been transported to the alternate reality where Spock has a goatee and Palin is Blagojevich with a better hairdo.
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Or we could have self-trolling!
fiatboomer on December 18, 2008 at 8:42 PM
yeah, get a new picture
joey24007 on December 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM
You live in California too?
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 8:46 PM
The one with the flag in the background is nice.
the_nile on December 18, 2008 at 8:47 PM
any picture of Sarah is nice
ousoonerfan15 on December 18, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Does anyone have a link to a good article explaining the per diem thing?
ramrocks on December 18, 2008 at 9:01 PM
That guy gave me a headache. I would say that with the whole Tasergate thing that she would have been better served to have taken a day to call her staff into her office to find out the facts. Then the next morning she should have made an upfront apology taking responsibility for all of it. Even though it was her husband and her staff, and that budget issues were the reason for the firing. Send the message that the buck stops here, and I take full responsibility for my staff’s actions. Then she should have noisily fired a couple of them. That would have made it much harder for the legislature to trump the whole thing up, and put a much quicker end to it. That’s basically what she’s done with the pay raise. She took a day to look at the commission’s recommendations, saw that it was a political minefield, and nipped it in the bud before it got off the ground.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 9:03 PM
NYT here, and WaPo here. Of course they slam Palin by their tone, but they mention the rebuttals/responses.
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Palin/Patreaus 2012
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on December 18, 2008 at 9:13 PM
NYT picked up the racist email story, but wrote their own article about it. Her spokesman expanded his comments from the AP article to say:
Think that’ll make the the PDS critics shut up? No, I didn’t think so either.
meltenn on December 18, 2008 at 9:17 PM
You lecture everyone one else on misinformation yet you keep spreading this myth around. There is no natural gas pipeline and there will never be a natural gas pipeline under AGIA, it’s pure fantasy.
lowandslow on December 18, 2008 at 9:17 PM
I am a fan of Petraeus, so don’t get me wrong. But career generals just don’t make good Republican politicians. They’re too used to authoritarian solutions and going with the flow of prevailing politics. Look at Colin Powell for an example. But I could support him for VP or SecDef, no problem.
When was the last good general-turned-politician we had? Even Ike was not that great from a conservative point of view. (He was only good compared to FDR.)
The more I look at history, the more I realize that George Washington was a truly unique person.
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 9:19 PM
Hmmm, do you have any evidence for this, or just the mutterings of your garden gnome that are picked up by your tinfoil antennae? Why did the legislature enact Palin’s pipeline plan if it’s so freaking impossible?
Jim62sch on December 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Yeah, or “This is just cheap political grandstanding. Nice try, governor, but it will take more than this to bury the sleaze associated with your per diems and wardrobe.”
ddrintn on December 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Suck it. Suck it hard, and suck it long all you RINO columnists (Yes. I’m speaking to you, Kathleen) and Huck.
I wish Mitch Daniels looked this good in heels (/sarc).
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on December 18, 2008 at 9:31 PM
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