Update: 2-22-11- News from Palingates explains why this book may not have been picked up by a publisher and as far as I'm concerned may never happen now. I just hope that this "move" hasn't made it impossible now for the truth to ever come out. All of this legal bull from Bailys team as well as Mother Jones/MSNBC could now stop any emails, etc. from being made known to the public which is disturbing to say the least. Now I'm having to change my whole assessment of this as well. Doesn't look like anyone has done those of us who want to know the truth any favors and I can see this being the plug that stops the emails from being released as well in May as planned. I hope this does not bring a halt to everything and Sarah Palin walks free one more time!
I just walked away for a few minutes and I have to ask myself now, could the move on Mother Jones and MSNBC actually be a good thing? If in fact a previous employee cannot release emails, etc. then the book/emails should belong to the public considering they were suppose to be released along time ago from the state of Alaska.. My point would be that the letter to Cease & Desist should no longer apply to anyone as it is public material. Am I wrong about this?-Mem
Finally someone has emerged from Alaska with the guts to take on Sarah Palin. (I hope these two writers have heavy security...just saying!) Apparently information has been leaked in a new book coming out by Frank Bailey. I will post the minute I find out when and where it can be pre-ordered.-Mem
Once Palin'sfriend, Bailey is now among those criticizing her.
"Since leaving the Governor's office, Frank has been forced to reconsider his actions on Palin's behalf in terms of his deep Christian faith and his allegiance to her as the standard-bearer for the conservative causes he still champions," Mann wrote in her e-mail.
Mann also describes the manuscript as "the story of one man's slow drift from his most cherished beliefs and his ultimate redemption."
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 3:09 PM
Bailey writes that Todd Palin recruited him to go after trooper Wooten, saying ‘it’s time to get s—t, done, and it’s us, Frank. You and me.”
Todd Palin kept feeding him information on Wooten, Bailey writes, which he passed on to troopers and the state risk management division.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 2:22 PM
From Kyle Hopkins in Anchorage --In the fall of 2006, Sarah Palin had just trounced former Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary and was fighting a three-way battle in the general election for governor.
Palin’s campaign was rooted in her image as anti-establishment Republican funded by a grassroots campaign.
So when the D.C.-based Republican Governors Association began running ads attacking Democratic candidate Tony Knowles and praising Palin, opponents cried foul, accusing her of being a hypocrite for leaning on outside money.
Critics wondered about one scene in the ad in particular: Palin striding from the Hotel Captain Cook. How did the RGA get that footage, they wondered, if the soft-money group is forbidden from coordinating its campaign with Palin? The Alaska Democratic Party accused Palin of illegally coordinating with the RGA.
In his book, Bailey now says the allegation was true.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 12:23 PM
Bailey writes that he first heard the name Wooten in October of 2006, suggesting bias in favor of Wooten was the reason the troopers union didn’t endorse her in the governor’s race.
He said Wooten than came up again just days after Palin was elected, when she and Todd met with the head of her trooper security detail. Palin told the department of public safety official that Wooten had tasered his stepson, drove drunk in a patrol car, illegally shot a moose, called her daughter, Bristol, an obscene name, and threatened to kill her father.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 11:30 AM
Bailey was a central figure in the “Troopergate” matter, in which the Legislature investigated whether Palin abused her power and pressed for the firing of state trooper Mike Wooten, her former brother-in-law. In August of 2008, after the Legislature had started its investigation, Palin held a press conference in which she said Bailey had acted out of bounds.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 11:18 AM
Copies of the Bailey manuscript, almost 600 pages long, are being forwarded all around Alaska political circles today. The Daily News first got a copy last night from author Joe McGinniss, who is working on his own Palin book.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - 10:30 AM
From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage –
The unpublished manuscript of a book by Sarah Palin’s former close aide, Frank Bailey, has been leaked to the press along with an e-mail from a book agent touting dirt Bailey says he has on Palin.
Here’s part of the leaked pitch for the book made by Carol Mann of the Mann Agency in New York:
I feel like Gilbert Grape! There are rumors going around about who sent this manuscript out to different bloggers and why that person might do that but the question is, who sent it to this person?
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't Sarah Palin been going crazy about this? From what I have read and heard from other bloggers, it is Todd who really looks bad in this book by Baily. AND seriously I have not seen anything that most people don't already know or suspect about Sarah. I have not seen anything that would cause Sarah to have criminal charges pressed against her. (Not that it would matter. Alaska loves to give Sarah a break along with the rest of the Country) So she said she hates her Damn Job! Do you really think the palinbots are going to turn on her because of that?
I can't help but wonder how much Sarah herself had to do with getting this out there! She's mad a Todd, probably separated from Todd and why not let the world know who he is. Takes the heat off of her and plays into her being a victim of everyone else, including her husband...
I'm just throwing thoughts out there right now but this whole book thing, her silence, so many people receiving the whole manuscript in email...doesn't make any sense to me...just sayin'
I feel like Gilbert Grape! There are rumors going around about who sent this manuscript out to different bloggers and why that person might do that but the question is, who sent it to this person?
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't Sarah Palin been going crazy about this? From what I have read and heard from other bloggers, it is Todd who really looks bad in this book by Baily. AND seriously I have not seen anything that most people don't already know or suspect about Sarah. I have not seen anything that would cause Sarah to have criminal charges pressed against her. (Not that it would matter. Alaska loves to give Sarah a break along with the rest of the Country) So she said she hates her Damn Job! Do you really think the palinbots are going to turn on her because of that?
I can't help but wonder how much Sarah herself had to do with getting this out there! She's mad a Todd, probably separated from Todd and why not let the world know who he is. Takes the heat off of her and plays into her being a victim of everyone else, including her husband...
I'm just throwing thoughts out there right now but this whole book thing, her silence, so many people receiving the whole manuscript in email...doesn't make any sense to me...just sayin'
I feel like Gilbert Grape! There are rumors going around about who sent this manuscript out to different bloggers and why that person might do that but the question is, who sent it to this person?
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't Sarah Palin been going crazy about this? From what I have read and heard from other bloggers, it is Todd who really looks bad in this book by Baily. AND seriously I have not seen anything that most people don't already know or suspect about Sarah. I have not seen anything that would cause Sarah to have criminal charges pressed against her. (Not that it would matter. Alaska loves to give Sarah a break along with the rest of the Country) So she said she hates her Damn Job! Do you really think the palinbots are going to turn on her because of that?
I can't help but wonder how much Sarah herself had to do with getting this out there! She's mad a Todd, probably separated from Todd and why not let the world know who he is. Takes the heat off of her and plays into her being a victim of everyone else, including her husband...
I'm just throwing thoughts out there right now but this whole book thing, her silence, so many people receiving the whole manuscript in email...doesn't make any sense to me...just sayin'