Sarah Palin has earned $12 million since July 2009

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Sarah Palin waving goodbye to the low paying Alaska Governor’s job

Since quitting half way through her term as Governor of Alaska in July, 2009, Sarah Palin has earned, a conservatively estimated, $12 million. Her decision to cash in on her failed stewardship in Alaska and the disastrous ticket she shared with John McCain has proven to be a winning strategy, financially.

Television and book deals and a heavy schedule of speaking appearances worth five and six figures all add up to a pretty penny for America’s newest entrepreneurial success story and there’s plenty more where that came from. An upcoming election season, will see this money making dynamo slip into high gear and the coin will continue to roll in.

The $125,000 per year salary she earned as Governor of Alaska, couldn’t keep this one woman business in shoes these days and stepping on to national stage on a full time basis was a logical step. Hinting that she might enter the 2012 presidential race, keeps people with more money than sense willing to keep signing checks.

I hope that the new found riches will not spoil this small town girl, as vast amounts of money can tend to do, and that she will remain the same ordinary American, that 20% of the population think she is.

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Holte Ender will always try to see your point of view, but sometimes it is hard to stick his head that far up his @$$.
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13 years ago

Holte…
You r going to do the due diligence on that & respond,
right???
Cuz off the top
I know two gov actions that were set up long before she took half assed office.
But

I do admire this fellow’s loyalty.

sunklhammer
13 years ago

All you Plain-bashers crack me up, as you reveal just how terrified of her you really are, behind the veil of bashing.

This article first appeared a couple years ago, but I kept it just for the pleasure of shoving it you morons faces:

http://restlessbrainsyndrome.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-wrote-following-piece-in-july-and-its.html

“The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it.It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.

“1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and
singing “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.

“2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has
done anything similar.

“3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her
own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never
mentioning-I imagine-that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

added after original posting
FFY07- Murkowski’s federal requests total: 63 projects @ $349,497,000
FFY10- Governor Palin’s federal requests total: 8 projects @ $69,100,000
It’s 80% not 85% … oops

“4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while
baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

“5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

added after orginal posting (from Tommy Report Petroleum News 8/09)
“…Cashman also notes that it’s unlikely that Exxon/Mobil would have started drilling in Point Thomson had Governor Palin not taken a tough stand with producers… Even under ACES, Exxon/Mobil and its partners should be able to recoup more than 45% of their $1.3 billion cost of developing their phase 1 Point Thomson project , it is doubtful the Point Thomson partners would have made the decision to move forward with the high pressure gas cycling project under ACES if they weren’t in danger of losing their leases tot he State of Alaska.”

(Feb ’10) Well, they started drilling (the first drilling there since 1983. February 9th They hit a pocket containing 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s a shit-load of gas … now equaling 25% of all the gas in the North Slope. Palin sure has a knack for making the right decisions, huh?

“6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.

“By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.”

I forgot to mention in this original posting the a couple of years ago, Palin also posted the State’s checkbook and ledger on line, displaying any check over a thousand bucks, who and what it was for.

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Reply to  sunklhammer
13 years ago

Man, Sunk, you are an asshole wherever you go!

13 years ago

Think of all the millions of parents who are trying to convince their kids that if they want to get ahead and be successful, they have to stay in school and work hard. And all the kids have to do now is answer “but Sarah Palin is dumber than a post, took 7 years to finish college, and doesn’t do diddly squat except preen in front of TV cameras, and she’s made $12 million. Neener neener neener.”

Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

Did you know this empty vessel attended something like 6 colleges in four years until she found one that would actually give her a degree.

Jess
13 years ago

Here in California some state senator is CSU Stanislaus to determine how much she was paid to speak here. The university foundation said it did not have any of the contract, blabbity blabbity and some students went and did some dumpster diving found the contract. They were shredding papers they claimed they did not have. Linky goodness below. This is why a lot of those teabaggers vote against their own interests I am thinking. They hope beyond hope, a little of that luck will rub off on them and they too will become rich.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/04/sarah_palin_stanislaus_leland.php

=^..^=

Jess
Reply to  Holte Ender
13 years ago

It should say the senator is forcing CSUS foundation to come clean and determine how much she was paid. I start doing word salad whenever $ister $arah, Our Lady of perpetual victimhood is mentioned.

=^..^=

13 years ago

Sarah Palin is a half-term half-wit.

Admin
13 years ago

Sarah the Palin is a prostitute. She has no ideological core. She is the ultimate narcissist. It is all about her. Very enlightening post my friend.

SJ
13 years ago

Idiots in America have at least 12 million dollars in buying power despite the recession.
–And this is what they subsidized.
Staggering.

13 years ago

yeah… $$$$$ in her eyes. I really don’t think she gives a crap about America or ideologies or policies or …etc. What she does care about is $$$. I’ve thought so since the just before the election she lost… by a a freakin’ landslide!
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