| July 3, 2009 | - Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska announced that she would not seek reelection and that she would resign by the end of July. “'We're not retreating,'” she said, citing General Douglas MacArthur, who was not the author of the quotation. “'We are advancing in another direction.'” No one knew why she resigned. “Everybody I’ve talked to thinks it’s a little crazy,” said conservative pundit William Kristol. “But maybe not. What is she going to accomplish in the next year as governor?”
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AP via NO Times-Picayune
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LAT
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LAT
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WP
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Politico
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Anchorage Daily News
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NYT
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NYT
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| December 14, 2008 | - Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska was damaged by a fire, likely arson. Governor Sarah Palin issued a statement affirming her “faith in the scriptural passage that what was intended for evil will in some way be used for good.”
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Anchorage Daily News
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AP via Denver Post
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| November 21, 2008 | -
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey, then gave a televised interview as other turkeys were slaughtered in the background. “It's nice to get out,” she said as an upended turkey was killed, “and participate in something that isn't so heavy-handed politics that it invites criticism.”
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BBC
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| November 11, 2008 | - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is expected to sign a $7 million book deal, was asked if she planned to run for president in 2012. “I'm like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, Don't let me miss the open door,” she said. “I'll plow through that door.”
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AP via IHT
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| October 23, 2008 | - Financial records revealed that the Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000, or $2,500 per day, to clothe and accessorize vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. “She needed some clothes,” explained McCain.
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Huffington Post
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Politico
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| October 3, 2008 | - Vice-presidential candidates Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin debated in St. Louis. Commentators noted that during the debate Palin was successful in repeating Republican talking points, despite having appeared incoherent and ignorant of the basic principles of American government during interviews earlier in the week. “Oh, man,” said Palin, “it's so obvious I'm a Washington outsider, and someone just not used to the way you guys operate.”
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New York Times
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| September 23, 2008 | - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, visited New York City and met with world leaders from Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Colombia, as well as Henry Kissinger and Bono, and agreed to speak to the press. “It was great,” she said.
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CNN
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MSNBC
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| September 17, 2008 | - Former Justice Department terrorism prosecutor Ed O’Callaghan tried to stall a pending ethics inquiry into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.
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Bloomberg
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BBC
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ABC
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Anchorage Daily News
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TPM
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Newsweek
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AP via Detroit Free Press
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| September 10, 2008 | - Former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift, chair of the Palin Truth Squad, demanded that Obama apologize for saying that McCain's promise to change Washington amounted to putting “lipstick on a pig” and insisted that the pig was Sarah Palin. “As far as I know,” said Swift, “she's the only one of the four... who wears lipstick.”
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Washington Post
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| September 8, 2008 | - Reporters discovered that the Alaskan governor's official jet, which Palin claimed to have sold on eBay, was in fact removed from the site and sold, at a loss, to one of Palin's campaign contributors.
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The Independent
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| September 1, 2008 | -
McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate. Palin, an evangelical Christian, supports the death penalty, believes that the “jury's still out” on global warming, opposes abortion, and is mother to five children: Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and five-month-old Trig, who has Down syndrome. Rumors arose that Bristol, 17, was the actual mother of Trig; in response, Palin announced that Bristol was actually five months pregnant with the child of a man named “Levi” and would soon marry him.
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Telegraph.co.uk
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Washington Times
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Washington Post
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Independent
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| December 0, 2000 | -
Alaskan lawmakers issued a report concluding that Governor Sarah Palin broke state ethics laws when she sought to have her ex-brother-in law, a state trooper, fired from his post. Palin announced that the report cleared her of any “legal wrongdoing or unethical activity,” even though it did not.
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CBS News
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