[MetroMan]

This from RawStory.com makes a lot of sense.

In the wake of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation on Friday, rumors are beginning to circulate that she might have acted in anticipation of a previously unsuspected scandal being revealed.

Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore suggested at Huffington Post that “rumors of an ‘iceberg scandal’ have been circulating” even before today’s announcement.

“Resignation is certainly out of character for Sarah Palin,” Moore noted. “Senator Mark Begich had a meeting with Sarah Palin two days ago with no mention of her leaving office. Palin’s press secretary, David Murrow had posted on his Facebook page Wednesday, ‘David Murrow is considering life’s ironies.’ He was hired less than a month ago. Yesterday he wrote, ‘There’s gonna be some fireworks this weekend!’”

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo similarly suggested, “Remember that based on the public record, Palin is a wildly unethical public official, guilty at a minimum of numerous instances of abusing her authority as governor. And a lot of very damaging information has come out about her in the last few days — though mainly embarrassing information about her character rather than new evidence of bad acts. I would not be surprised if this latest round of revelations shook something else loose that we haven’t heard about yet.”

Moore later spoke by phone with BradBlog’s Brad Friedman and told him that “Palin is ‘resigning as part of damage control’ due to a scandal this is ‘not of a family nature.’”

“The governor would not be able to continue her job when it comes out,” Moore told Friedman. “Why would Mark Sanford not resign, but Sarah Palin did? Her family didn’t even know about the resignation until they were standing with her by the lake when she made her announcement.”

Update: BradBlog is now reporting additional information received from Alaskans who follow Palin: “I’ve now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin’s house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the ’same windows, same wood, same products.’ Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.”

Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast offers additional details:

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. …
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 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.
Questions about the construction of Palin’s house are not new. An article last fall by Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice offered many of the same speculations that are now being presented by Blumenthal and others as possible explanations for Palin’s resignation.

If these allegations turn out to be accurate, Palin’s problems would be ironically similar to the scandal which torpedoed former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens’ career. That also involved improvements to his home for which he made no payment.

 

[MetroMan]

I was just thinking, with all these Governor scandals going on in the last year, Dalton McGuinty can be considered a Saint.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

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.

okay, not really exciting so in reality, the house was built including a sex room with various assortments of sex toys & a built in power washer & floor drain for midnight scat orgies right?

 

[nfitz]

I was just thinking, with all these Governor scandals going on in the last year, Dalton McGuinty can be considered a Saint.

Given the amount of corruption in State and City politics in the US, I'd say most of our Ontario/GTA politicians are saints ... outside Vaughan and the school boards at least.

 

[adma]

I was just thinking, with all these Governor scandals going on in the last year, Dalton McGuinty can be considered a Saint.

Don't you believe it

 

[Long Island Mike]

Is this Sarah Palin's last hurrah...

Everyone: I was surprised as many were to read about her coming resignation as Alaska's Governor-it makes me wonder if there is some scandal about to become public that could cost her any chance at higher office.
The plot thickens...LI MIKE

 

[Therion]

Everyone: I was surprised as many were to read about her coming resignation as Alaska's Governor-it makes me wonder if there is some scandal about to become public that could cost her any chance at higher office.
The plot thickens...LI MIKE

Yeah, it just doesn't make sense without the scandal. Why would you remove yourself from public office if you're planning on making a run for the presidency? 3 more years of governorship would have boosted her "executive experience" credentials quite a bit. Something's rotten in the state of Alaska.

 

[jade_lee]

I figure some holy television network will be the higher calling Palin speaks of. She might not be the new Bill Graham but powerless window dressing astute at raising cash goes far in America.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Something's rotten in the state of Alaska.

sour gas.

 

[kEiThZ]

Future career as Fox News anchor?

 

[Long Island Mike]

A Sarah Palin lookalike doing adult films...

Everyone: Google search this:
"Who's Nailin' Palin? starring Lisa Ann" (a Palin lookalike that does porn films) and see what comes up...Scandalous I presume? LI MIKE

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

Future career as Fox News anchor?

she's got news milf worthiness.

Everyone: Google search this:
"Who's Nailin' Palin? starring Lisa Ann" (a Palin lookalike that does porn films) and see what comes up...Scandalous I presume? LI MIKE

was a great film and the aftermath was just as humorous: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic7s8Qy9FhE listen around 5min!

 

[jade_lee]

The media appears to be playing Levi Johnson like a fiddle. Some interesting perspective about Palin coming directly from his mouth.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

This whole Palin thing is a joke, she's become more of a sideshow than a serious political candidate at this point. Aside from her first two weeks with McCain before the campaign began to crumble, she went on to become one of the most divisive major political figures in recent memory.

 

[Brian69]

The media appears to be playing Levi Johnson like a fiddle. Some interesting perspective about Palin coming directly from his mouth.

For all his other faults Levi Johnson was smart not to marry into the money and become the whipping boy for the Palin family. But yes, he's definitely out of his league speaking out the way he is and inciting the wrath of Palin. He's going to have even more of a hard time now.