The details are
included in more than 17,000 records released Thursday by state
officials — nearly 3 1/2 years after citizens and news organizations,
including The Associated Press, first requested Palin's emails. The
emails, most from Palin's final 10 months in office, illustrate what
Palin has said all along:
The intense scrutiny of her family and work
was a financial and emotional drain that forced her to step down as
governor.
In a March 19, 2009,
email to spokeswoman Sharon Leighow and aide Kris Perry, she complained
that more than 150 freedom of information requests had cost the state
more than $1 million, adding: "and who knows what all the bogus ethics
charges have cost the state."
She
expressed anger at having to pay for her own defense, with a bill that
at that point totaled more than $500,000, saying her husband had to go
back to work on the North Slope because of it. (Continues)
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