{"id":194552,"date":"2008-09-14T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/sorry-if-it-seems-all-palin-all-the-time\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:22:00","slug":"sorry-if-it-seems-all-palin-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/sorry-if-it-seems-all-palin-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry if it Seems All Palin, All the Time&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But each time someone turns over a rock, we see more evidence of corruption, self-dealing, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/08\/AR2008090803088.html?hpid=topnews\">Sarah Palin collected per diem payments for times when she was at home<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official &#8220;duty station&#8221; is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done per Diem deductions, and if I did it that way, the IRS would take my house and throw me in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But each time someone turns over a rock, we see more evidence of corruption, self-dealing, etc. It appears that Sarah Palin collected per diem payments for times when she was at home: Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official &#8220;duty station&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}