Big AP Investigation Skewers Palin-the-“Reformer”

It wasn't until after McCain picked her, and someone might notice, that she went back and edited her expense reports:

After Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain chose Palin his running mate and reporters asked for the records, Palin ordered changes to previously filed expense reports for her daughters' travel.

In the amended reports, Palin added phrases such as "First Family attending" and "First Family invited" to explain the girls' attendance. [...]

In October 2007, Palin brought daughter Bristol along on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel, which overlooks Central Park. [...]

In July, the governor charged the state $2,741.26 to take Bristol and Piper to Philadelphia for a meeting of the National Governors Association. The girls had their own room for five nights at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel for $215.46 a night, expense records show. [...]

Expense forms describe the girls' official purpose as "NGA Governor's Youth Programs and family activities." But those programs were activities designed to keep children busy, a service provided by the NGA to accommodate governors and their families, NGA spokeswoman Jodi Omear said. [...]

In February 2007, the three girls flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Alaska Airlines. Palin charged the state for the $519.30 round-trip ticket for each girl, and noted on the expense form that the daughters accompanied her to "open the start of the Iron Dog race."

The children and their mother then watched as Todd Palin and other racers started the competition, which Todd won that year. Palin later had the relevant expense forms changed to describe the girls' business as "First Family official starter for the start of the Iron Dog race."

Reminds me of Melton and his bodyguards on "official business" in the Bahamas.

Funny: All those trips haven't brought any studios to Farish Street, yet, have they?

You do get the feeling that the Palins think all this governance stuff is a game, don't you?

Why isn't derailin' Palin being investigated and tried for great moral turpitude or great crimes against Alaska and mankind? She's very much a republican - who says one thing and does another because about half of the public is so dumb, racist and corrupt that integrity is not even expected of republicans.