Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says

[Dos Equis]

Incredible. 

Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says
Posted: 01:50 PM ET

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

(CNN) – The two new ethics complaints filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the past week should be ‘a wake-up call,’ the former Republican vice presidential candidate says.

In a statement released late Friday night, Palin’s office announced that two more ethics complaints had been filed against the governor in the week since she made her surprise announcement that she plans to step down later this month -including one complaint filed on Friday.

“Although the governor would not have thought it possible, the latest complaint rises to a new level of absurdity in alleging that she has been paid for interviews that she has given to the news media,” Palin’s chief of staff Mike Nizich said in a release announcing the filing of the recent complaints.

“It is amazing to me that anyone could think that, let alone put their name behind it and once again seek to distract state officials and needlessly increase their work load. The state is losing the value of some of its expenditures when public servants are pulled away from important assignments to deal with far-fetched and mean-spirited allegations,” added Nizich.

For her own part Palin used the leveling of two more ethics complaints against her in a week’s time to call for a more productive political discourse in her state.

“The only saving grace in this recent episode is that it proves beyond any doubt the significance of the problem Alaska faces in the ‘new normal’ of political discourse,” Palin also said in Friday’s statement announcing the complaints. “I hope this will be a wake-up call – to legislators, to commentators and to citizens generally – that we need a much more civil and respectful dialogue that focuses on the best interests of the state, rather than the petty resentments of a few.”

Of the total of 19 ethics complaints that have been filed against Palin or her staff, “15 have been resolved without any finding of wrongdoing, and four are now pending,” Friday’s statement from Palin’s office also said.

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[240 is Back]

she said she was quitting to save the state legal fees...

turns out that team of lawyers gets paid the same whether there's 0 complaints, or 100 complaints.

She just wanted to cash out, can't blame her... lectures, book, tv show maybe...

but don't lie about it, tell us it's to save taxpayer dollars, when they're allocated already.

[Straw Man]

Didn't she file an ethics complaint against herself?

If she really resigned over ethics complaints (which we all know is almost certainly not true) then she's just showing she doesn't have the stones to deal with the blood sport that is politics.