maybe she wants to cash in on tv show/book about 5 minutes before alaska's economy collpases? Oil prices were thru the floor all year. When August comes and we get all this bad data on alaska's situation... she can point at the new guy and blame him.
In 2012, Obama won't be able to say "you crashed your own state's economy"...
Instead, it'll be "you quit 5 minutes before the economy went down."