1. Palin’s office approved a state job for a friend and campaign aide with whom she shared a land investment, financial records and interviews over the past two weeks show.
  2. She hired a former lobbyist for a pipeline company to help oversee a multibillion-dollar deal with that same company.
  3. She named a police chief accused of harassment to head the state police.
  4. She sent campaign e-mails on her city hall account while serving as mayor of Wasilla — conduct for which she later turned in an oil commissioner on ethics charges.
  5. She suggested that she opposed the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” but when she campaigned for governor, she said she was in favor of the bridge.
  6. She hired lobbyists to get more than $27mm in federal earmarks for local projects in Wasilla – among the highest per-capita in the nation

[these issues] raise some serious questions about her judgment and serious questions about her standards of ethics in public service. [it] may be acceptable in Alaska; it would not be acceptable in Washington, D.C., a place whose norms she wants to change.

James Thurber, director of American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

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