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Which "Dems" attacked her family? Are you saying news commentators such as Olberman or late night TV hosts like Letterman are "Dems"? I don't recall hearing any elected Democrats or Democrat party officials attacking her family. Could you clarify?

I assume that Olbermann, Maddow and Letterman are Democrats and would be very surprised if they supported any Republicans for office. The Libertarians don't seem to have paid much attention to her since she lost the election. The remarks you have attributed to McCain and Limbaugh are also reprehensible and do not somehow justify the way the Palin family was treated.

You are doing what Palin does, defending her by attacking people who only reported her actual actions. Palin never should have been picked as a VP running mate.

I assume that Olbermann, Maddow and Letterman are Democrats and would be very surprised if they supported any Republicans for office. The Libertarians don't seem to have paid much attention to her since she lost the election. The remarks you have attributed to McCain and Limbaugh are also reprehensible and do not somehow justify the way the Palin family was treated.

AustinC: I accepted your previous post on its face without challenge because you seem to do your homework. But, in the interest of fairness to the truth, according to the FBI, Palin is not under criminal investigation for corruption as reported by your sources.

Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation: a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges.

The suddenness of Sarah Palin's resignation Friday raises the question about whether Palin is leaving to avert a major scandal. One logical place to start looking is the affair that has Alaska political circles buzzing: an alleged scandal centered around a building contractor, Spenard Building Supplies, with close ties to Palin and her husband, Todd.

Many political observers in Alaska are fixated on rumors that federal investigators have been seizing paperwork from SBS in recent months, searching for evidence that Palin and her husband Todd steered lucrative contracts to the well-connected company in exchange for gifts like the construction of their home on pristine Lake Lucille in 2002. The home was built just two months before Palin began campaigning for governor, a job which would have provided her enhanced power to grant building contracts in the wide-open state.

SBS has close ties to the Palins. The company has not only sponsored Todd Palin's snowmobile team, according to the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, it hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004.

Though Todd Palin told Fox News he built his Lake Lucille home with the help of a few "buddies," according to Barrett’s report, public records revealed that SBS supplied the materials for the house. While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin blocked an initiative that would have required the public filing of building permits—thus momentarily preventing the revelation of such suspicious information.

Just months before Palin left city hall to campaign for lieutenant governor, she awarded a contract to SBS to help build the $13 million Wasilla Sports Complex. The most expensive building project in Wasilla history, the complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow.

Prior to her sudden announcement, Palin gave every indication that she intended to complete her tenure as governor.

On July 1, Palin met with Alaska Senator Mark Begich to discuss funding for the missile-defense systems that would be stationed in Alaska. In May, Palin initiated a plan to circumvent the state legislature by introducing a ballot measure that would ban minors from receiving abortions without parental consent. She vowed to be the first to sign the measure event though it would not be certified until August 2010.

In a press conference today, Palin blamed the media for her demise. "You are naïve if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard," she declared, using a basketball metaphor to refer to the flood of critical stories published about her.

On July 1, CBS reported that a story authored by me and journalist David Neiwert for Salon.com in October 2008 about Palin's ties to a secessionist political party caused her deep personal distress, and provoked a rancorous series of exchanges with her campaign manager, Steve Schmidt. Coupled with a withering profile of Palin published in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair, the new round of exposés may have been too much for Palin to stomach.

Palin may have resigned from politics altogether. According to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Palin "has told some of her biggest backers in the national Republican Party that they are free to choose other candidates for 2012." But those choices are dwindling at a surprisingly rapid pace.

Three more ethics complaints against Palin in the works
AlaskaReport has learned that at least 3 more ethics complaints will be filed against Sarah Palin in the near future. Of course her cronies at the Personnel Board will probably sweep them under the rug – but at least the crimes will have a light shined upon them before they do… Also – A long simmering embezzelment/IRS scandal is still being looked at by the feds. Stay tuned…

I wasn't aware that she is to be charged with criminal acts of corruption. Simply resigning can't save her from that. If the charge is true, then she belongs in jail just like Blagojevich. Why though, if the Dems had this kind of serious stuff against her, did they spend so much time attacking the family?