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product-wide switch to "fire-safe" cigarettes
Urges other tobacco companies to follow
October 25, 2007 -Today's announcement by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Conapany that it will manufacture
all of its cigarette brands using "fire-safe" technology is a victory for all of tiiose interested in public
safety, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the group it coordinates, the
Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes
"Nearly two years ago, we began urging major tobacco companies to switch to this life-saving
technology," said James M. Shannon, NFPA's president. "While it could have been done sooner, I
applaud their action and urge every other tobacco company to do the same. There is no reason everyone
in the country shouldn't have the same protection."
Cigarette-ignited fires are the leading cause of residential fire deaths. Each year in tiiis country, 700 to
900 people die in cigarette-ignited fires. One quarter of those people killed - often including children
and the elderly - are not the smoker. So called "fire-safe" cigarettes are designed to self-extiaguish if
dropped or left unattended. They are less likely to ignite clothing, bedding, or other material.
Absent action by tobacco companies, NFPA and the Coalition coordinated a state-by-state campaign to
encourage passage of fire-safe cigarette mandates. To date, 22 states have passed fire-safe cigarette
mandates. In 2007 alone, 16 governors firom all across the country signed legislation into law. Even
states in flie heart of tobacco country, such as Kentucky and Nordi Carolina, have passed "fire-safe"
cigarette laws. Legislators in many more states are poised to introduce similar bills in the next legislative
session.
"That state-by-state movement has been incredibly successful so far and has resulted ia the tipping point
for this effort" continued Shannon. "I believe the legislative mandates are an important factor in R. J.
Reynolds' decision to manufacture and sell only fire-safe cigarettes nationwide."
"If cigarette manufacturers had begun producing only fire-safe cigarettes 20 years ago," said Shannon,
"an estimated 15,000 lives could have been saved by now. While we can not save those who have
perished in tragic cigarette fires, this action will save others."
The Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes will keep workmg until aU cigarettes are manufactured to self-
extinguish. The Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes was officially launched by NFPA in March 2006. The
Coalition, which includes fire service members; medical and public health practitioners; advocates for
consumers, tide elderly, and people with disabilities; and others, is committed to saving lives and
preventing injuries by reducing the threat of cigarette-ignited fires. For more information, please visit
the Coalition's Web site .
Please click here if you wish to unsubscribe: nipaheadlines@.nQ)a.org .
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8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/O=S0A/0U=FiRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL11
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:00 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: President of Mongolia's visit
Your office and the international host team of Patricia and Shelley did a great job pulling together the events
surrounding the visit of the President and First Lady of Mongolia. Craig Campbell received a friendship medal
tonight from the president for his efforts in promoting that relationship between Alaska and Mongolia, and his wife,
AnneMarie, hosted the first lady during the day. Sandy and I hosted the dinner tonight.
The "merging" of our staffs is almost complete :)
Your media crew has been extremely helpful while Kate has been out on leave— And, Kelly from my office stayed
late last night working with Patricia and Shelley to finish the last minute details for tonighf s dinner for the
President. I think Kelly may have a career in the international office. She is a linguist by background, good with
protocol and details. She and Jay staffed the dinner tonight (with Kris Perry).
Govemor Hickel said to tell you "God bless you" and he's cheering fi5r you.
Sandy and I will be at the AFN dinner tomorrow night in Fairbanks for you-we'll be seated with Ken Johns. That" s
it for now.
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007112
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Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KYPERRY1
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11 : 1 8 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin"; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Subject: Approval Rating
I heard this on news radio this morning: in a survey conducted Oct 19th-21st by Ivan Moore Research,
500 Alaskan voters gave their opinion of the governor: 83% positive.
Breakdown:
Veiy positive: 50.7%
Somewhat positive: 32.3%
Neutral: 5.7%
Somewhat negative: 8.7%
Very negative: 2%
The complete poll can be found at:
http://alaskanabroad.typepad.com/an_alaskan_abroad/2Q07/10/moore-poll-on-p.html
Kris
8/31/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10.00 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: President of Mongolia's visit
Your office and the international host team of Patricia and Shelley did a great job pulling together the events
sun-ounding the visit of the President and First Lady of Mongolia. Craig Campbell received a friendship medal
tonight from the president for his efforts in promoting that relationship between Alaska and Mongolia, and his wife,
AnneMarie, hosted the first lady during the day. Sandy and I hosted the dinner tonight
The "merging" of our staffs is almost complete :)
Your media crew has been extremely helpful while Kate has been out on leave— And, Kelly from my office stayed
late last night worthing with Patricia and Shelley to finish the last minute details for tonight's dinner for the
President. I think Kelly may have a career in the international office. She is a linguist by background, good with
protocol and details. She and Jay staffed the dinner tonight (with Kris Perry).
Governor Hickel said to tell you "God bless you" and he's cheering for you.
Sandy and I will be at the AFN dinner tomorrow night in Fairbanks foryou-we'll be seated with Ken Johns. That's
it for now.
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007114
Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [kris.perry@alaska.gov]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 4:53 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: RE: burt lent
No, I haven't and I haven't seen anything in obits. I'll see what I can find out and will
let you know.
George's service was nice. One of the pictures they had on display was of you & George at
the swearing in. A great picture, beaming smiles. His daughter talked about me so I felt
compelled to speak. Tough. The first time I met him was at a fundraiser for you at the
Regan bldg. He was the first to arrive and one of the last to leave. I gave them a letter
from you, plus sent flowers.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/27/2007 4:18 PM
Subject: Fw: burt lent
Have u heard anything from merlyn on burt's wife's service? How was George's?
Original Message
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thu Oct 25 13:57:24 2007
Sub j ect : FW : burt lent
Governor - FYI . Janice
Original Message
From: Governor Sareih Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:49 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Fabrello, Michelle A (GOV)
Subject: FW: burt lent
PRA GSP01 0007115
Original Message
From: merlyn matheson [mailto:sunflower@nitaonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: burt lent
Dear Sarah.
I thought you would want to know, since you've had a good working
relationship for many years (and he adores you) with burt, that his
wife passed away yesterday Oct 24.
He is taking her death very hard. Celia is being cremated. There
will be a Memorial Service at St Davids, but date is not yet
established.
Take care, keep up the good work - we all root for you! Merlyn
Matheson
PRA GSP01 0007116
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:26 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: "prom dress"
You're awesome Ivy. Thanks for hanging!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:23:18
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: "prom dress"
From a reporter friend of mine... "To me this bill is like a lady w/out a prom dress. In
this case the progressivity and tax rate are the prom dress... I'm just not sure what we've
accomplished here mr. Chairman." -sen. Wagoner said to sen huggins. I love it!
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Hey, thanks for letting me hang out-always good to see the palin family.
PRA GSP01 0007117
Unknown
From: Frye. Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:23 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: "prom dress"
From a reporter friend of mine... "To me this bill is like a lady w/out a prom dress. In
this case the progressivity and tax rate are the prom dress... I'm just not sure what we've
accomplished here mr. Chairman." -sen. Wagoner said to sen huggins. I love it!
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Hey, thanks for letting me hang out-always good to see the palin family.
PRA GSP01 0007118
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, October 27. 2007 1 1 :48 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re:
Of course. Come inl
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 11:46:16
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Re:
Can I come get my bag- I left it back there . : )
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarahOyahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Oct 27 10:10:40 2007
Subject: Re:
I'm locked outside in garage. Help
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:08:08
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Sub j ect : Re :
PRA GSP01 0007119
I'm in the s resources mtg. Where do I meet u?
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Oct 27 10:06:59 2007
Sub j ect : Re :
i
I Meet me in capitol. I'm handing out bagels
Original Message
From: Ivy Prye
To: Governor Sarah Pal in
Sent: Oct 27, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject:
I can't believe they're trying to justify their changes. They cut your bill in half! I
just heard someone say in the hall "this is a slap in the face to the governor." Dang
right it is !
I'm going to get coffee! Do you want some?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007120
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturelay, October 27, 2007 9: 1 7 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: CS In resources
Wagoner is wise re: progressivity and tax rate
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To : ' gov . sarah®yahoo . com ' <gov . sarahoyahoo . cotn>
Sent: Sat Oct 27 09:12:03 2007
Subject: CS in resources
I'm watching live. . .
Before huggins gets to the cs I bet the cs is stripped and they start taking amendments in
jud and fin.
PRA GSP01 0007121
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9: 1 2 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: CS in resources
I'm watching live...
Before huggins gets to the cs I bet the cs is stripped and they start taking amendments in
jud and fin.
PRA GSP01 0007122
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1 0:40 AM
To: bobkrisktn@kpunetnet
Subject: RE: Fish_and_Game
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
luiable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto;WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 10:11 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subj ect : Fish_and_Game
i Web mail from: Mr. Robert Jahnke
i address: P.O. Box 991 Ward Cove AK 99928
247-8207
MESSAGE :
Dear Governor Palin:
In the waning days of the last State Administration an amended
proposal was passed by the Game Board (11/06) by a margin of one vote to make it mandatory
for all trappers in imits 1-5 to mark their traps with tags or signs. This amendment to
proposal #1 was recommended to the board by, then southeast Director Doug Larson and Dave
Lorring of ADF&G Protection. I am asking that the "powers to be" put this trap tagging
reg. on hold until the public can better provide input on the problems it can and will
create. These problem issues were not publicly addressed and to compare trap sets to crab
pot bouys by the Dept. is ludicrous. I am sure that if the Dept. would have originally
proposed this reg. the comments from the trapping community statewide would have been
many. I feel that this was not an ethical approach by the Dept. at the 11/06 meeting and I
ask that the reg. be put on hold xintil the next B.O.G. meeting for Southeast.
Respectfully Yours Robert Jahnke
PRA GSP01 0007123
bobkrisktnOkpunet . net
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
PRA GSP01 0007124
Unknown
From: Tibbies. Michael A (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=MATIBBLES]
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 1 :1 1 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Co: Sarah Palin; Nizich; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: Kivalina disaster declaration heads up
Lt . Governor,
I will have Mike Nizich work with DMVA Monday morning to make sure everything is in order
regarding the disaster declaration. If approved, I think it is a good idea for you to
deliver the news in person. How about if I ask Mike Nizich to contact Jay as soon as a
final decision is made?
Mike Tibbies
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.parnell@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:47:04
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com.
Subject: Kivalina disaster declaration heads up
Governor,
I received a briefing on Kivalina and the NW Arctic Borough' s request for a state disaster
declaration because I travel to Kivalina from Kotzebue on Tuesday. Apparently, the
appiropriate disaster cabinet folks have met and approved recommending you issue a disaster
declaration with some modification of the Borough's request. I understand they are putting
together a letter for General Campbell to sign and to forward the recononendation to you.
I'm told you likely wont see that until Monday.
I had been invited out there through Al Adams and the Borough about a month ago when
Kivalina residents came to town so the trip was pre-planned. I see an opportunity for me
to personally deliver the news in Kivalina for you on Tuesday (while you' re sending out
the press release from you and your office and making other appropriate notifications on
Tuesday) if you want your office to coordinate with mine on such a thing. I filled Sharon
in on the opportunity earlier today. If you want me to do something like this let me know
who I can have my office coordinate with. Thanks much!
PRA GSP01 0007125
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007126
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:46 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Place to land in Anch
I'll be at airport waiting for departure
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PAENELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr .parnell®alaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:43:42
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Re: Place to land in Anch
We're headed to Kulis around 8 pra. Will you make that send off?
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.cora <gov. sarah@yahoo.com?
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 18:08:17 2007
Subj ect : Re : Place to land in Anch
Thanks Sean, We went to zoo, then headed to wasilla to see willow and bristol- now found
out the fit ' s two hours late tonight .
I appreciate the offer! These are long travel days, as you know- and I can't remember
when the last time I had an on-time flight. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.parnell@alaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:35:01
PRA GSP01 0007127
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Subj ect : Place to land in Anch
You, Todd and Piper are welcome to come to our place to warm up, hang out, or whatever
you need til plane time tonight. It's close to the airport (directions below).
We have a dinner to be at at 5:30. We can visit ahead of that and you are welcome to
stay thereafter at our place til plane time. (Literally a five minute drive to the
airport) . Just call me if you start to head our way. We'd love to see all of you in a
relaxed setting (Rachel too) but no pressure whatsoever.
Sean
From Zoo-directions
Follow O'Malley west/downhill and stay on it as Minnesota to ChangePoint exit (Raspberry
Road) . Left on Raspberry. Take Raspberry to Jewel Lake Rd. Right on Jewel Lake. Take first
left on Lakeway Dr. Go into Lakewood townhomes and turn left. 6624 Lakeway Dr.
PRA GSP01 0007128
Unknown
i
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:44 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Place to land in Anch
We're headed to Kulis around 8 pm. Will you make that send off?
Original Message
From: gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov, sarah@yahoo.coiii>
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 18:08:17 2007
Sub j ect : Re : Place to land in Anch
Thanks Sean. We went to zoo, then headed to wasilla to see willow and bristol- now found
out the fit ' s two hours late tonight .
I appreciate the offer! These are long travel days, as you know- and I can't remember
when the last time I had an on-time flight. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.pamell®alaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:35:01
To : gov . sarahayahoo . com
Subject: Place to leuad in Anch
You, Todd and Piper are welcome to come to our place to warm up, hang out, or whatever you
need til plane time tonight. It's close to the airport (directions below).
We have a dinner to be at at 5:30. We can visit ahead of that and you are welcome to stay
thereafter at our place til plane time. (Literally a five minute drive to the airport) .
Just call me if you start to head our way. We'd love to see all of yoii in a relaxed
setting (Rachel too) but no pressure whatsoever.
PRA GSP01 0007129
Sean
From Zoo-directions
Follow O'Malley west /downhill and stay on it as Minnesota to ChangePoint exit (Raspberry
Road). Left on Raspberry. Take Raspberry to Jewel Lake Rd. Right on Jewel Lake. Take first
left on Lakeway Dr. Go into Lakewood townhomes and turn left. 6624 Lakeway Dr.
PRA GSP01 0007130
Unknown
i
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:29 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: burt lent
J- fyi tonight's fit is pushed way back- should get to Juneau after 11pm
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 13:14:54 2007
Svibject: Re: burt lent
Thanks Kris.
Also, Janice would u note we're leaving deployment exercise then will go to the ak zoo for
the goodbye party for maggie - then it'll almost be time to catch Juneau return fit.
Original Message
From; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 12:01:54 2007
Subject: RE: burt lent
I heard back from Merlyn. No date as of yet, but will let me know when there is.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" «:govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/27/2007 3:18 PM
Subject: Fw: burt lent
Have u heard anything from merlyn on burt's wife's service? How was George's?
Original Message
PRA GSP01 0007131
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thu Oct 25 13:57:24 2007
Subject: FW: burt lent
Governor - FYI. Janice
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:49 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Fabrello, Michelle A (GOV)
Sxibject: FW: burt lent
Original Message
From: merlyn matheson [Tnailto:sunf lower®mtaonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: burt lent
Dear Sarah.
I thought you would want to ]aiow, since you've had a good working
relationship for many years (and he adores you) with biirt, that his
wife passed away yesterday Oct 24 .
He is taking her death very hard. Celia is being cremated. There
will be a Memorial Service at St Davids, but date is not yet
established.
Take care, keep up the good work - we all root for you! Merlyn
Matheson
PRA GSP01 0007132
Unknown
!
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:38 PM
To: Ruaro; Randall P (GOV)
Subject: Re: 1 1 :00 am meeting with 4 mayors re: operating budget for ferry system
Thanks Randy - this is helpful. Tonight's return fit to Juneau is delayed by a couple of
hours at least. Hopefully it makes it in tonight, if not I'll try an early fit tomorrow -
so know that if I'm delayed it's because of the flight after our deployment exercise today
in Anchorage . Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message — --
From: "Ruaro, Randall p (GOV)" <randall . niaro®alaska . gov>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:01
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: 11:00 am meeting with 4 mayors re: operating budget for ferry system
Governor :
Sorry to bother you on a Sunday. I just wanted to give you a quick brief background that
may be helpful for the meeting tomorrow at 11:00 am. The four mayors are Cottle (Valdez) ;
Joyce (Cordova) ; Lunceford (Whittier) ; and Shields (Haines) .
There are two issues the mayors are likely to bring up:
(1) Reduced ferry service this year for Prince William Sound. For a number of
reasons, budget savings (Kennecott) and vessels being out of service for months due to
major repairs (Aurora) or only being available for limited service due to safety and
maintenance concerns (Fast- ferry Chenega) There has been significantly reduced service in
Prince William Sound. DOT has worked with the mayors and the communities to try and come
up with the best possible schedule under the circumstances using the Tustemena.
(2) Urging you to support and include a significant increase in funding (I am not sure
exactly what dollar number they have in mind) for the ferry system in your proposed FY
2009 operating budget. (The mayors believe if they can get you to support increased
funding for the ferry system in your proposed budget, it will be easier for them to
convince legislators to approve the funding increase, and it will protect the fiinding
increase from being reduced by a governors' veto after the budget passes).
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007133
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Right now, I believe Mike, Commissioner Von Scheben, Deputy Commissioner Hardy, and
Captain Falvey are also planning on attending the meeting.
Please let me know if you would like to see additional budget information, etc.
Thanks
Randy
PRA GSP01 0007134
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:08 PM
To: PARNELUS (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Place to land in Anch
Thanks Sean. We went to zoo, then headed to wasilla to see willow and bristol- now found
out the fit's two hours late tonight.
I appreciate the offer! These are long travel days, as you know- and I can't remember
when the last time I had an on-time flight. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S {GOV sponsored)" <sr .parnell®alaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:35:01
To : gov , sarahSyahoo . com
Subject: Place to land in Anch
You, Todd and Piper are welcome to come to our place to warm up, hang out, or whatever you
need til plane time tonight. It's close to the airport (directions below).
We have a dinner to be at at 5:30. We can visit ahead of that and you are welcome to stay
thereafter at our place til plane time. (Literally a five minute drive to the airport).
Just call me if you start to head our way. We'd love to see all of you in a relaxed
setting (Rachel too) but no pressure whatsoever.
Sean
From Zoo-directions
Follow O'Malley west/downhill and stay on it as Minnesota to ChangePoint exit (Raspberry
Road). Left on Raspberry. Take Raspberry to Jewel Lake Rd. Right on Jewel Lake. Take first
left on Lakeway Dr. Go into Lakewood townhomes and turn left. 6624 Lakeway Dr.
PRA GSP01 0007135
Unknown
I
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 1 : 1 5 PM
To: Pen^; Kristina Y (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: burt lent
Thanks Kris.
Also, Janice would u note we're leaving deployment exercise then will go to the ak zoo for
the goodbye party for maggie - then it ' 11 almost be time to catch Juneau return fit .
Original Message
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 12:01:54 2007
Subject: RE: burt lent
I heard back from Merlyn. No date as of yet, but will let me know when there is.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/27/2007 3:18 PM
Subject: Fw: burt lent
Have u heard anything from merlyn on burt's wife's service? How was George's?
Original Message
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thu Oct 25 13:57:24 2007
Subject: FW: burt lent
Governor - FYI . Janice
-Original Message-
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:49 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Fabrello, Michelle A (GOV)
Subject: FW: burt lent
Original Message
From: raerlyn matheson [mailto; simflower@mtaonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sxibj ect : burt lent
Dear Sarah.
I thought you would want to know, since you've had a good working
relationship for many years (and he adores you) with burt, that his
wife passed away yesterday Oct 24 .
He is taking her death very hard. Celia is being cremated. There
will be a Memorial Service at St Davids, but date is not yet
established.
Take care, keep up the good work - we all root for you! Merlyn
Matheson
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From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [kris.perry@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:02 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: RE: burt lent
I heard back from Merlyn. No date as of yet, but will let me know when there is.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <;govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/27/2007 3 : 18 PM
Subject: Fw: burt lent
Have u heard anything from merlyn on burt ' s wife's service? How was George's?
Original Message
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thu Oct 25 13:57:24 2007
Subj ect : FW : burt lent
Governor - FYI. Janice
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:49 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Fabrello, Michelle A (GOV)
Siibject: FW: burt lent
-Original Message-
From: merlyn matheson [mailto:sunflower@mtaonline.net]
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:45 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: burt lent
Dear Sarah.
I thought you would want to know, since you've had a good working
relationship for many years (and he adores you) with burt, that his
wife passed away yesterday Oct 24.
He is taking her death very hard. Celia is being cremated. There
will be a Memorial Service at St Davids, but date is not yet
established.
Take care, keep up the good work - we all root for you! Merlyn
Matheson
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:51 AM
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Hat
We took the two hats and pins in the box on your counter. We'll give them out in Anchorage
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent:
Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:02 AM
To:
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc:
Perry; KristinaY (GOV)
Subject:
More photos
Pis cram all the pageant girl photos together that are scheduled in Anchorage this week
one right after the other. ThanKs
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:47 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: please consider
Governor,
Here Is the follow-up email. I am ready to re-join your team and be a contributing member.
I will not let you down.
Ivy
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 24 19:43:41 2007
Subject: Re: please consider
Mike,
Thanks for the follow up. I am willing to serve Governor Palin in any capacity.
Specifically, if you move one of your special assistants to the legislative office I would
happily fill the void as special assistant-at my current range. I wouldn't ask you for a
raise because I know you and Governor Palin have tasked agencies with finding areas to
reduce their budgets and the Governor's office must lead by example. Also, working for
Governor Palin is not about making a certain salary for me; I stand ready to serve her
because I believe in her.
Also, if you thought I were up to the task I would serve Russ as the deputy legislative
director. I won't repeat what I already mentioned in my previous email except to say I
have a positive relationship with lyda and am familiar with legislative protocol. I have
served in technical support positions throughout my professional career and would catch on
quickly to assisting Russ. I think spreadsheets, following bills, aiid talking to agencies
and legislators stays the same in every job, but there is a natural transition period of
delegating tasks and getting to know your co-workers that changes from position to
position. Further, I have the time to commit to a position with demanding hours and job
duties.
Every time I write you I am reminded of a story you told me during the campaign. You knew
you could be the legislative director and you flew down to Juneau on your own dime to
prove to the former cos that you were up to the challenge. You probably regret telling me
that story, but for better or worse, it inspires me.
Thank you.
Ivy
Original Message
From: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
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To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wed Oct 24 19:06:43 2007
Subject: RE: please consider
Thank Ivy. What specifically did you have in mind?
Mike
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:20 PM
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: please consider
10/23/07
Mike,
Seeing you and Governor Palin yesterday was wonderful . My visit reaffirmed for me my
eagerness to return working directly for Governor Palin. I enjoy Annette; however, I know
I won't be content until I'm fulfilling my purpose which is working for Governor Palin. I
will serve you both enthusiastically and resolutely. I am loyal and I work hard and I
personally know and care for the Governor and her family. Through our conversations, I
know you don't doubt my unwavering commitment to Governor Palin; however, 1 know you have
questions regarding my professional experience.
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Let tne assure you, 1 understand the Legislature and have a positive relationship with
their members, and I understand legislation as I was an aide for the HESS and LB&A
committees for three years, as well as assisted Ginger Blaisdell with 60 districts worth
of capital project requests. More important, I have a positive relationship with Senator
Green, my former boss and current Senate President, in spite of philosophical differences.
I believe my relationship with Senator Green speaks volumes of my respect, professional
demeanor, and diplomacy in dealing with our State Legislature. I understand the way
agencies operate and I have a positive and professional relationship with other special
assistants and commissioners — I'm willing to reach out and ask questions and address
issues. I also know protocol and procedure in requesting or s\ibmitting information to the
Legislature or State agencies (for instance, I can draft up a fiscal note in no time at
all) , My college background and professional experience centered on public policy —
collectively, this is 8 years of experience, which is comparable to others serving in
Juneau .
How can you be sure a policy position would be the right fit for me? I have a working
knowledge of the Legislature and State agencies,- I have a respectful and positive
relationship with elected and appointed officials, and community leaders; I enjoy finding
resolution for constituents; I can communicate verbally and in writing; I will put in any
amount of time you need— 7 days a week; I will not add to your workload, and in fact I
know I can assist you, the legislative office, and other staff; I am steadfastly loyal to
and fiercely protective of Governor Palin, which does not mean to say I won't go through
the proper chains of command to relay information to her (you, Mike Nizich, Kris Perry) .
I believe my passion and understanding for the job, knowing the high standard you expect
from your staff, and being familiar and well acquainted with you and Governor Palin
uniquely qualify me for a position on Governor Palin' s staff.
I respectfully ask for your favorable consideration as you're filling positions on
Governor Palin' s staff. I would be happy to articulate this and anything else in person—
I'm prepared to answer any specific questions you have. Please seriously consider my
request. I'd be happy to come over this week.
Thank you,
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Ivy
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=iJFRYE]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:43 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: please consider
Governor ,
Forwarded is an email I sent to Mike earlier this week to which he responded (that email
is to follow) .
I would like to rejoin your team. I joined your campaign because I believe in you and the
good work you're doing. Admin is not the right fit for me, by no fault of Annette' s- she' s
wonderful. I hope you read favorably my email to Mike. I also sent it to Kris Perry.
Sincerely,
Ivy
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Tue Oct 23 12:20:21 2007
Subject: please consider
10/23/07
Mike,
Seeing you and Governor Palin yesterday was wonderful. My visit reaffirmed for me my
eagerness to return working directly for Governor Palin. I enjoy Annette; however, I know
I won't be content until I'm fulfilling my purpose which is working for Governor Palin. I
will serve you both enthusiastically and resolutely. I am loyal and I work hard and I
personally know and care for the Governor and her family. Through our conversations, I
know you don't doubt my unwavering commitment to Governor Palin; however, I know you have
questions regarding my professional experience.
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Let me assure you, I iinderstand the Legislature and have a positive relationship with
their members, and I understand legislation as I was an aide for the HESS and LBScA
committees for three years, as well as assisted Ginger Blaisdell with 60 districts worth
of capital project requests. More important, I have a positive relationship with Senator
Green, my former boss and current Senate President, in spite of philosophical differences.
I believe my relationship with Senator Green speaks volumes of my respect, professional
demeanor, and diplomacy in dealing with our State Legislature. I understand the way
agencies operate and I have a positive and professional relationship with other special
assistants and commissioners — I'm willing to reach out and ask. questions and address
issues . I also know protocol and procedure in requesting or submitting information to the
Legislature or State agencies (for instance, I can draft up a fiscal note in no time at
all) . My college background and professional experience centered on public policy —
collectively, this is 8 years of experience, which is comparable to others serving in
Juneau .
How can you be sure a policy position would be the right fit for me? I have a working
knowledge of the Legislature and. State agencies; I have a respectful and positive
relationship with elected and appointed officials, and community leaders; I enjoy finding
resolution for constituents; I can communicate verbally and in writing; I will put in any
amount of time you need — 7 days a week; I will not add to your workload, and in fact I
know I can assist you, the legislative office, and other staff; I am steadfastly loyal to
and fiercely protective of Governor Palin, which does not mean to say I won't go through
the proper chains of command to relay information to her (you, Mike Nizich, Kris Perry) .
I believe my passion and understanding for the job, knowing the high standard you expect
from your staff, and being familiar and well acquainted with you and Governor Palin
uniquely q[ualify me for a position on Governor Palin' s staff.
I respectfully ask for your favorable consideration as you're filling positions on
Governor Palin' s staff. I would be happy to articulate this and anything else in person-
I'm prepared to answer any specific questions you have. Please seriously consider my
request. I'd be happy to come over this week.
Thank you.
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Ivy
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL11
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:03 PM
To; Sarah Palin
Subject: The week ahead
The men and women taking off with the Air Guard to A^hanistan tonight are C130 pilots and maintenance crew.
They fly the C130s in the mountains of Afghanistan and drop supplies in the valleys to the Army guys on the
ground looking for Bin Laden. Most have done this 1 or 2 times, about 60 day rotations. Good group of about 20.
Next, after the Chamber talk tomorrow I head to Kotzebue at around 6 p.m. with Jay P. I'm looking for a thumbs
up from you tomon-ow (or not) on the Kivalina disaster declaration-if you approve, I think I'll be at a place where I
can inform KivalinaTuesday that you will approve the disaster declaration for them, slightly modified from the
Borough's request but that help is on the way. Mike T. and I have been in touch over the last two or three days so
he should put that on your radar tomorow. We'll ovemight in Kotzebue Monday before going out to Noatak and
Kivalina on Tuesday.
Hope they close your hatch soon and get you off the ground! It was good seeing Todd and Piper with you today
tool!
Sean
8/24/2009
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:38 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: NWBC Engage! October 2007 Issue
From: Nattonal Women's Business Council [mailto:lnfb@nwbc.gov]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:37 AM
To; Governor Sarah Palln (GOV sponsored)
Subject: NWBC Engage! October 2007 Issue
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p5 On October 4, 2007, SBA Administrator Steven C. Preston testified before
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2001 congressionally-mandated procurement program for women-owned small
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:30 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re:
Good for you ivy- doesn't Harris ever give Bitney anything productive to do? It's sick-
he ' s got too much time on his hands
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gqv>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:52:07
To: John Bitney <john_bitney®legis. state. ak.us>
Suij j ect : RE :
No, John. I'm not doing OK. I'm absolutely sick of the whisper campaign re: me, Frank,
Mike, the governor, et al and wherever it's coming from. Seriously, I sent Chris a
response 5 minutes ago and he's already sent it to you, and you've already responded.
Prom : John Bitney [mailto : John_Bitney®legis . state . ak . us]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:41 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject:
I'm hearing some strange reports.
Are you doing OK?
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Bitney
Crap ivy - this is exactly what I've assumed. Bitney continues to bad mouth this admin,
and ever since he's been gone the b.s. rhetoric that ends up in the 'ear, or on blogs,
increased 10-fold. Many others tell me it's Bit and Clark who stirstuff up any chance they
get. I passed on this latest to two who can sure sympathize - and will agree that Bit's
and Clark's comments are ridiculous and only meant to hurt- and to create division between
you and me and others in admin.
Thanks for letting me know of this. I'm sorry you had to hear any snide garbage sentiments
aimed at you from these guys .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:44:24
To : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Siibject: Bitney
I think all rumors come back to John Bitney 1 It's a shame. I just wanted you to see the
stuff that is regurgitated out there. He has no right to say anything about Mike, Frank,
me or any others.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:41 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Photo
Earlier?
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Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:59:23
To: "Janice Mason" cjanice.mason®alaska.gov>
Sub j ect : Photo
Pis move Juneau photo op with pageant girl to before my 2pm Gov's House function. Thanks
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:33 AM
To: tlingitJummi_m83@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Homeland_Security
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:22 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Homeland_Security
Web mail from: Ms. Rosemary Nease
address: 6041 Gull Way Juneau AK 99801
9077803620
MESSAGE:
I wanted to thank you for doing a great job, and for greeting our returning troops from
Iraq, Aaron McCluskey, Bailey Johnson and Morris Jack, Jr. are all from my hometown of
Angoon and I am proud of them for their service to our country, no matter what, I will
aways stand by those who serve to keep our country safe and I am proud to be from Alaska
and I also am proud that a women is governor of Alaska. I just wanted to send my
encouragements to you on the job that you have taken on to be one of our leaders in
Alaska. THANK YOU
tlingit_lummi_rn83@hotmail . com
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
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From: <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> Igov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 8:49 AM
To; Talis Colberg; John Katz; Craig TiHery
Co: Marty Rutherford; Tom Irwin; Larry Persily; Joseph Balash; Michael Tibbies; Sharon Leighow
Subject: Re: Exxon/US Supreme Court
Very sad. Very sad for the innocent who had their livelihoods washed away.
And it is "justice delayed is justice denied" considering the passing of thousands of
litigants... while Exxon plugs along with its masterful litigation.
Thanks for letting us know.
Sharon- we'll no doubt be asked about this today, so send the reporters my way. Thank you
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz@AljASKADC.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:23
TO: "Talis Colberg" <tal is. colberg®alaska.gov>, "Craig Tillery"
<Craig_Tillery@law. state. ak. us >
Cc: "Marty Rutherford" <marty.rutherford@alaska.gov>, "Tom Irwin"
<tom.irwin@alas]ca.gov>, "Larry Persily" <lpersily@MiASKADC.org>, "Joseph Balash"
<joe_balash®gov. state. ak.us>, "Michael Tibbies" <raichael_tibbles®gov, state. ak.us>, "Sharon
Leighow" <sharon_leighow@gov, state. ak.us>, "Governor Sarah Palin" <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Subject: Exxon/US Supreme Court
I just heard that the US Supreme Court has accepted Exxon's appeal of some, but not all,
of the issues raised in the cert petition filed by Exxon.
The three questions are:
J * Can a ship owner be held liable for damages in the circumstances Of this case, where
j much has been done to prevent the type of behavior which caused the accident?
I
* Can the courts create a judge-made remedy of punitive damages in the Clean Water Act
when the statute does not specifically provide for such damages?
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* Does the damage award fit within the limits of maritime law? The court is refusing to
hear the question of whether the damage award amounted to a denial of due process, per
other recent cases.
So, the saga continues. The first two questions seem to raise issues of statutory
j construction, but the third might also involve the factual question of how much is allowed
i under the maritime laws. In these circumstances, it is not hard to visualize litigation
! that will continue for quite some time.
I read somewhere that over 25% of the original plaintiffs have died. Therefore, this may
truly be an instance of justice delayed is justice denied.
I think that Exxon is better at this kind of litigation than almost any litigant I've
seen.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org? jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 8:34 AM
To: pbeneke@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Fish_and_Game
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail®gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 8:38 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Fish_and_Game
Web mail from : Ms . paula Beneke
address: 2101 W. 29th Ave., #11 Anchorage AK 99517
MESSAGE:
I am appalled and disgusted that you have decided to ACT AGAINST THE WILL OP THE PEOPLE
AND ALLOW AERIAL HUNTING OF WOLVES - THE PEOPLE OF ALASKA HAVE VOTED TWICE AGAINST IT. IN
ADDITION, THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE LOWER 48 - THOSE WHO ARE OUR TOURISTS - ARE JUST
AS DISGUSTED AND APPALLED AT THIS PRACTICE. WHY DON'T YOU ACT ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF
THIS STATE WHO ELECTED YOU.
pbeneke®gmail . com
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 7:50 AM
To: Katz; John W (GOV); Colberg; Tafis J (LAW); Tillery; Craig J (LAW)
Cc: Rutherford; Marty K (DNR); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Persiiy; Larry A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R
(GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: Exxon/US Supreme Court
Very sad. Very sad for the innocent who had their livelihoods washed away.
And it is "justice delayed is justice denied" considering the passing of thousands of
litigants... while Exxon plugs along with its masterful litigation.
Thanks for letting us know.
Sharon- we'll no doubt be asked about this today, so send the reporters my way. Thank you
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkat2®ALASKADC.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:23
To: "Talis Colberg" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>, "Craig Tillery"
<Craig_Tillery®law . state . ak . us>
Cc: "Marty Rutherford" <marty.rutherford@alaska.gov>, "Tom Irwin"
<tom.irwin®alaska.gov>, "Larry Persiiy" <lpersily®AIASKADC.org>, "Joseph Balash"
<joe_balash@gov. state. ak.us>, "Michael Tibbies" <raichael_tibbles@gov. state. ak.us>, "Sharon
Leighow" <sharon_leighow@gov , state . ak . us> , "Governor Sarah Palin" <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
Subject: Exxon/US Supreme Court
I just heard that the US Supreme Court has accepted Exxon's appeal of some, but not all,
of the issues raised in the cert petition filed by Exxon.
The three questions are:
* Can a ship owner be held liable for damages in the circumstances of this case, where
much has been done to prevent the type of behavior which caused the accident?
* Can the courts create a judge-made remedy of punitive damages in the Clean Water Act
when the statute does not specifically provide for such damages?
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* Does the damage award fit within the limits of maritime law? The court is refusing to
hear the question of whether the damage award amounted to a denial of due process, per
other recent cases.
So, the saga continues. The first two questions seem to raise issues of statutory-
construction, but the third might also involve the factual question of how much is allowed
under the maritime laws. In these circumstances, it is not hard to visualize litigation
that will continue for quite some time.
I read somewhere that over 25% of the original plaintiffs have died. Therefore, this may
truly be an instance of justice delayed is justice denied.
I think that Exxon is better at this kind of litigation than almost any litigant I've
seen.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/O=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1 :26 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: 07WATR appeal
fyi
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:25 PM
To: Hooley, Jason M (GOV)
Cc: Pulllns, Jay D (GOV); Showalter, Kristine D (GOV); Clark, Scott M (GOV); Clifton, Kelly L (GOV); Morgan,
Katryn L (GOV)
Subject: RE: 07WATR appeal
Fyi, I announced at the Anchorage Chamber luncheon today that i was appealing the first
water/mining initiative decision— where the lower court said the AG and I were were wrong
about the initiative being an appropriation from one group to another. Sean
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:44 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.corn
Subject: Bitney
I think all rumors conne back to John Bitney! If s a shame. I just wanted you to see the stuff that is regurgitated
out there. He has no right to say anything about Mike, Frank, me or any others.
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:19 PM
To: Sarah Paiin
Cc: Peny; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: FW: Burt Lent
Governor - Just got notice of the memorial for Burt Lent. You will not be available on this date. Janice
From: merlyn matheson [mailto:sunfIower@mtaonline.net3
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:10 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: Burt Lent
Dear Janice.
The Memorial service is scheduled for Simday, Nov 11 at 3 pm to be held at St Davids Episcopal
Church, Fishhook Rd, Wasilla Thank you for your concern. Merlyn Matheson
On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Mason, Janice L (GOV) wrote:
I have fonwarded the message on to the Govemor concerning the passing of Burt Lent Do you l<now when and
where the memorial service will be held? Thank you,
Janice Mason
Scheduler/Executive Secretary
Office of Govemor Sarah Palin
(907) 465-3986
(907) 465-3889 (fax)
janice.mason@alaska.qov
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:33 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: Ear
1yi
From: John Bitney [mailto:John_Bitney@legis.state.ak.us]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:52 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: RE: Ear
He's considered in the Inner Circle now, and he's "giving orders" to lots of people.. .and I'm only conveying the
rumor I'm hearing. ..w/hether its true or not
I've tried to help the 3"* Floor a couple times.. .and it backfired badly. So I stay away.. .and keep my mouth shut.
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [maito:tvy .frye@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:28 PM
To: John Bitney
Subject: Re: Ear
I don't even know sheila toomey . And what does frank have to do w anything?
Original Message
From: John Bitney <John_Bitney@legis.state.ak.iis>
To: Ftye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sun Oct 28 15:24:44 2007
Subject RE: Ear
You know more than I do. I stay away these days - no good deeds go unpunished whenever I try to help.
This is Frank' s opportunity to be chief of staff. . .1 wish him well.
I From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [ mailto:ivy.frye(gialaska.gov ]
j Sent- Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:09 AM
1 To: John Bitaey
Subject Ear
Trouble in saradise? Curious, John Bitney!
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: ECS Launches One-of-a-kind, Nationwide High School Databases
From; Education Commission of the States [mailto;ecs@ecs.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:04 Pl^
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: ECS Launches One-of-a-kind, Nationwide High School Databases
Edncaitiikn Cwmnissloii
6f the States
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Contact: Mary Ann Strombitskj, APR, Director of Communications
e-Mail: mstrombitski(g),ecs.org
ECS Web site: www.ecs.org
ECS Launches One-of-a-kind, Nationwide High School
Databases to Boost Efforts by State Policymakers
DENVER, CO ~ Today the Education Commission of the States (ECS) goes live with three high
school databases to assist state policymakere with questions about International Baccalaureate,
student accountability, and student support and remediation. ECS also launches an updated
database on promising local reform initiatives at the state and district level frdm around the
country.
"These databases address emerging or peaking issues for state policymakers," ECS High School
Policy Center Project Manager Jennifer Dounay said. "For instance, many states are concerned
with dropout prevention and how to help young people drop back into the system after they've
dropped out. The student support and remediation database helps policymakers assess what work
is being done across the states to tackle this issue, along with a host of related topics."
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While Advanced Placement has been on policymakers' radar for some time, Dounay noted that many
states have only recently begun to consider establishing similar supporting policies for International
Baccalaureate (IB), a program growing in demand in the U.S.
The IB database (www.ecs.org/hsdb-ib') is the only national database of its kind. It describes a
framework of model supports for the program including where states provide additional funding to
support IB course costs, teacher training, accountability incentives, test-fee subsidies and more.
A second database provides a unique view of how each state, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
holds students accountable (www.ecs.org/hsdb-sal It updates policymakers on the upper compulsory
school age for students along with policies that take advantage of students' desire to drive (no pass/no
drive) and participate in sports as a "carrot" for attendance and school performance (no pass/no play).
The third database shows how state policies across the nation support early identification of students
who have fallen behind in core academic areas (www.ecs.org/hsdb-ss") . It features state policies that
proactively support tiiose at risk of dropping out as well as policies that support students who desire to
drop back into a high school diploma program. This database also identifies states that require individual
learning plans for students in need.
The local high school reform initiatives database (www.ecs.org/hsdb-li) highlights promising state- and
district-level reforms that are producing outstanding results, most in place for at least three years.
According to Dounay, these reforms are bold, innovative and can be replicated by other districts and
states,
###
About ECS
The Education Commission of the States (www.ecs.org) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit interstate compact
created by the states and the U.S. Congress that helps governors, legislators, state education officials,
business leaders and others identify, develop and implement public policies to improve student learning
at all levels. ECS is the only nationwide interstate compact devoted to education. It was formed in 1965
and is located in Denver, Colorado.
Equipping Education Leaders, Advancing Ideas
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Weekly: Big Labor's Agenda Is Bad News for the Economy
From: membership@uschamber.com [mailtoimembershi p@uschamber.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:20 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palln (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Weekly: Big Labor's Agenda Is Bad News for the Economy
uschamber.com Weekly Is being sent to govenior@gov.state.ak.us as-a member benefit on behalf of the AlasKa State Chamber of
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Big Labor's Agenda Is Bad for Workers and the Economy
By Tom Donohue
For several months now I have been focusing this column on major
challenges to America's competitiveness, from securing a clean and
affordable supply of energy to rebuilding our infltistructure to enacting a
rational immigration policy. One important competitive challenge that is often
overlooked is the radical agenda of today's big labor movement.
Despite plunging membership numbers, unions are riding a wave of
momentum from what they view as a tremendous victory in the 2006
elections. They are pursuing a political and policy agenda that would turn
back the clock to the 1950s, damaging U.S. competitiveness and hurting
American workers.
Join the conversation.
Capital Roundup
California Wildfires Spur Chamber Action
The U.S. Chamber has dispatched a team of staff experts to fire-ravaged
southern California to help assess damage, coordinate relief efforts, and
begin mobilizing the Chamber community fbr recovery efforts. The Chamber
team is also facilitating joint efforts among local chambers and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration.
In just one example of how the Chamber's team has been able to help, BCLC
staff members have helped connect impacted chambers in Southern
California with chambers who have experienced similar devastating events-
including chambers in Manhattan, Mississippi, and Louisiana-allowing them
to offer advice and assistance based on their experiences with 9/1 1 and
Hurricane Katrina.
Thanks to the generosity of the business community and BCLC's efforts, over
60 companies have donated over $23 million in cash and in-kind
contributions to the relief and recovery effort.
If you know of any chambers or companies that need assistance or want to
offer assistance, please go to BCLC's Web site for contact Information .
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ILR Releases AG Code of Conduct Study at Summit
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) is
encouraging state attomeys general to voluntarily adopt an ethical code of
conduct in response to improper practices by some officials. The proposed
code of conduct-unveiled at ILR's 8* Annual Legal Refonm Summit on
October 24~outlines recommended "best practices" for Initiating and
conducting investigations and litigation, Including guidelines for employing
outside attomeys, communicating to the public about an ongoing lawsuit, and
handling any settlement or award.
An ILR study found that most AGs do not have set standards governing
whether to launch an investigation, and that more than half of the
respondents have hired outside counsel on a contingency basis.
View the code of conduct and study results at lnstltuteForLeaalReform.com .
Is there an outdated regulation
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Is
working with the SBA on their
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their voices heard. On November 6,
the Honorable Tom Sullivan, chief
council of the SBA's Office of
Advocacy, will be at the Chamber to
discuss the r3 Initiative.
Watch it live on our Webcast.
Infrastructure Hearing Focuses on Funding
Citing chronic underinvestment, misuse of funding, and poor planning, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce Director of Transportation and Infrastructure Policy
Janet Kavlnol^ made the case before Congress on the pressing need for
improvements to transportation infrastructure and the fiinding required to
meet those needs.
During testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Budget
on October 25, Kavinoky detailed the role of transportation in the U.S.
economy, what is at stal<e for businesses should nothing be done to improve
infrastructure In America, what can be done in the short tenn, and the
Chamber's recommendations for addressing long-term issues.
Read the testimonv .
Senate Passes 7-Year Internet Tax Moratorium
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauded the Senate for passing a tax
moratorium on Internet purchases and access for seven years before the
cun'ent moratorium expired on November 1 . The House will now consider the
Senate legislation, which goes further than the recently approved House bill
to extend the moratorium for four years. The Chamber supports a permanent
ban on Internet taxes.
Read the Chamber's latest letter .
Also In This Issue
• Regional News: Corruption. Maternity Leave Rules. Wildfires
• Small Business: Hiring 'How To.' Part 2: The Interview and Beyond
• Economy: New Home Sales. Prices Increase
• Protect Your Supply Chain
• Investing in the Future
• Online Social Networks-Expand Your Web of Business Contacts
• Structure Holiday Wori< Schedules
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From: Governor Sarah Paiin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent; Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1 0:06 AM
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Subject: FW: Update on Trade is Transportation Seminar
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Jesse VanderZanden, Manager - Fairbanks International Airport
Aves Thompson, Executive Director - Alaska Trucking Association
Steve Silverstein, Vice President, l^larket, Sales and Service - Alaska Railroad Corporation
Dale Shaw, Senior l»^anager - FedEx Express
Peter Nieuwiand, International Manager, Alaska Division - United Parcel Service
Steve Carlisle, Director Cargo, Alaska Region - Alaska Airlines
Oliver Hedgepeth, Associate Professor, Logistics - University of Alaska Anchorage
Steve Ribuffo, Deputy Director - Port of Anchorage
Steve Denton, Vice President, Usibelli Coal Mine - Seward Coal Terminal
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Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:00 AM
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9: 1 6 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Capital Notes October 29, 2007
From: Wayne Stevens [mailto:wstevens@alaslachamber.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:07 PM
To; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Capital Notes October 29, 2007
Alaska State Chamber of Commerce
Capital Notes
www.alaskachamber.com October 29, 2007
Legislators Need to Hear from THEIR Constituents!
The Legislative Special Session on Oil Taxes Continues. With only 19 days left, legislators are
saying tiiey have not heard from very many constituents. We encourage you to help uschange
that.There are two opportunities for public testimony this week:
The House Resources Committee will be taking public testimony Tuesday, Oct. 30 al 6:30 PM
The Senate Judiciary Committee will be taking public testimony Thursday, Nov. 1 at 6:00 PM
You can testify by going to your local Legislative Information Offices (LIO) and signing up to
offer testimony on the House and Senate bills HB2001 and SB2001 .
You can find the location of all LIO's in the State, online at the State Legislature's web site
http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/niisc/lios.php
A copy of both bills is available online at the State Legislature's web site.
httD://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/25/Bills/SB2001B.PDF
httD://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/25/Bills/HB2001B.PDF
The Alaska State Chamber web site has a copy of a letter we sent to the Governor and talking
points available for your use at http://www.alaskachamber.com/artman/publish/article 149.shtml
The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce is urging the Governor and Legislature to proceed with
caution as they begin their review and deliberations on the Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT) and the
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bill introduced by the Governor, Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share. The concern is that while the
Legislature works to restore public faith, outcomes based more on emotion than economics will further
chill the oil investment climate. A second concern is the stated goal of generating more revenue for the
treasury. The chamber does not agree with that goal, and we fear that Alaskans will confuse the outcome
of higher tax revenue with the goal of fair share.
We believe the tax debate creates unwelcome risk and stalls investment planning and decisions. Taxes
are a key consideration in all business investment decisions, so any time tax law is debated, investments
can be delayed. The wrong tax rate can end all consideration of investment. Certainly working to induce
investment such that the pipe is full of oil at $80+/bbl would generate more revenue at the current tax
rate than would a dwindling quantity of oil at a higher tax rate.
Given today's oil prices, the Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) legislation proposes to collect
siuplus revenue for a fiscal system that results in increased spending but lacks a strategic business plan
for the state. This policy outcome does not warrant worsening the investment environment.
The Alaska State Chamber strongly urges you to get out and offer your opinion on the proposed changes
to the Petroleum Profits Tax. This is your chance to be heard on this important debate on die future of
Alaska's economy.
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:06 AM
To: mightyjades@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Other
Dear Mr. Dickens:
Thank you for your email !
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [raailto:WebMail@gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:06 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Other
Web mail from: John Dickens
address: PC Box 89 Emmonak AK 99581
907-529-7756
MESSAGE :
Dear Governor:
Thank you for doing such an awesome job I Stick to your beliefs!
You know what needs to be done, and now you are doing it!
We are so proud of youl
Godspeed
and godbless
PS
EMS symposium in ANC 11/9-10
Hope you can come by
John Dickens
Emmonak City Council
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:21 PM
To: Leschper; Beth (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Co: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: AFN 2007-Remarks
Yup- he's running for something!
Original Message
From: Leschper, Beth (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon VJ (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
sent: Tue Oct 30 16:09:57 2007
Subject: Fw: AFN 2007- -Remarks
See the letter below that Begich sent out yesterday.
Original Message
From: Jollie, Tara L (CED)
To: Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 16:01:20 2007
Subject: AFN 2007- -Remarks
fyi
Tara Jollie, Director
Division of Community and Regional Affairs
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Department of Commerce,
Community, and Economic Development
tara . j ollie@alaska . gov
907-269-7959
From: Valerie Boyd
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:32 AM
To: Denali Staff
Subject: FW: AFN 2 007 --Remarks
October 29, 2007
Dear Friends,
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I had the great honor of speaking at the recent AFN convention in Fairbanks. As always,
it was a wonderful gathering of old and new friends. I appreciated the opportunity to
speak at the convention say a few words aisout the future of Alaska and about the
opportunities we have to improve our future.
We have new opportunities to work on some old problems— education in rural Alaska, public
safety and the inadequate support for VPSO's .and the continuing problems of substance
abuse and suicide .
We have the opportunity to provide resources and leadership. Alaska is at an historic
moment of change and the time is now to look to a new generation of leaders who will fight
for a healthy Alaska. A new generation with new ideas will bring about new opportunities.
We have one of the best opportunities in a generation with oil prices so high and the
projections for even greater wealth. We have money in the bank and the need to use it
wisely to pay for needed services today and to plan for our future.
We need to invest in education and fix all of our schools — urban and rural. We need to
invest in programs that save families.
I want to work with you on these issues now and in the future. I'm attaching a copy of
the speech I gave in Fairbanks and invite you to contact me if you have any questions or
comments .
PRA GSP01 0007181
We are already preparing here in Anchorage for AFN 2008. We can't wait to host the
convention in our new center— the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center.
Thank you for your involvement in your commtonity and our state.
Sincerely,
Mark Begich
Mayor
PRA GSP01 0007182
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Fagerstrom. Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:35 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Ak Club
Perfect ! ! !
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV); Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Sent: Tue Oct 30 17:32:32 2007
Subject: Re: Ak Club
Thanks - Todd will be thrilled. ; )
And I'll leave a check on your desk so you'll have it for whenever it is the Club says
yey.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika. fagerstrom@alaska.gov?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:29:57
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: RE: Ak Club
Sounds great!! Yes, we'll pick it up- no problem just let me know when.
Erika Fagerstrom
Executive Residence Manager
Governor ' s House
State of Alaska, Office of the Governor
PRA GSP01 0007183
I
716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-465-3500; Pax: 907-465-2031
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarahOyahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:27 PM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV); Todd
Subject: FW: Ak Club
Hi Hrika- look what 1 found: and I've been looking for one. Todd is
permitting me :) to forward to you. Can we get our guys to pick it up,
if I call them back and say I do want to buy the one with the new bulbs?
Sent from my BlaokBerry (r) device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:22:35
To : "Todd" <f ek9wnr@yahoo . com>
Subject; Ak Club
The Juneau Ak Club has a $300 sunbed for sale - with new bulbs! ! !
Please? J For the Juneau house? 1 They're standing by to hear back from
me - our guys could pick it up! Gall ® 789-2181 x 305. She met us at
Inaugural Ball. They have three of them for sale, but one has the new
bulbs .
If "yes", we pay for it ourselves and could you forward to Erika so she
could help hook us up? !
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007184
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:29 PM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: LB&A and Mat-Maid Audit/ also request letter to Rep. Samuels
ftraen.
And I don't know what Lyda's up to but she made this sound like a "gotcha" when she
presented it to me. I don't want to think the worst, but where was she when her
constituents were asking for help on this months ago?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Irwin, Tom E (DNR)" <tom. irwin®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:22:43
To:gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)" <marty. rutherford@alaska.gov>, "Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)"
<mike . tibbles®alaska . gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV)"
<karen.rehfeld®alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg®alaska.gov>
Subject: FW: LBSA and Mat-Maid Audit/ also request letter to Rep. Samuels
I wanted to remind everyone that Kristan asked DNR to help ask for an audit from LB&A.
Attached is the letter sent on September 4, 2007. Tom
From: Bosela, Tina M (DNR)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:52 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR)
Subject: FW: LBScA and Mat -Maid Audit request letter to Rep. Samuels
PRA GSP01 0007185
Unknown
From: Leschper, Beth (GOV) [beth.leschper@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4: 1 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: AFN 2007-Remarks
See the letter below that Begich sent out yesterday.
Original Message
From: Jollie, Tara L (CED)
TO: Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 16:01:20 2007
Subject: AFN 2 00 7 --Remarks
fyi
Tara Jollie, Director
Division of Commvmity and Regional Affairs
Department of Commerce,
Community, and Economic Development
tara . j ollie@alaska . gov
907-2S9-7959
PRA GSP01 0007186
From: Valerie Boyd
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:32 AM
To: Denali Staff
Subject: FW: AFN 2007- -Remarks
October 29, 2007
Dear Friends,
I had the great honor of speaking at the recent AFN convention in Fairbanks. As always,
it was a wonderful gathering of old and new friends. I appreciated the opportunity to
speak at the convention say a few words about the future of Alaska and about the
opportunities we have to improve our future.
PRA GSP01 0007187
We have new opportunities to work on some old problems — education in rural Alaska, public
safety and the inadequate support for VPSO's and the continuing problems of siibstance
abuse and suicide.
We have the opportunity to provide resources and leadership. Alaska is at an historic
moment of change and the time is now to look to a new generation of leaders who will fight
for a healthy Alaska. A new generation with new ideas will bring about new opportunities.
We have one of the best opportunities in a generation with oil prices so high and the
projections for even greater wealth. We have money in the bank and the need to use it
wisely to pay for needed services today and to plan for our future.
We need to invest in education and fix all of our schools — urban and rural. We need to
invest in programs that save families.
I want to work with you on these issues now and in the future. I'm attaching a copy of
the speech I gave in Fairbanks suid invite you to contact me if you have any questions or
comments.
We are already preparing here in Anchorage for AFN 2008. We can't wait to host the
convention in our new center — the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center.
Thank you for your involvement in your community and our state.
PRA GSP01 0007188
sincerely.
Mark Begich
Mayor
PRA GSP01 0007189
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Dorothy Anderson Idorothyann1936@hotmail.com]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:46 PM
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); Notti; Emil R (CED)
Edgmon; Bryce E (LAA); Hoffman; Lyman F (LAA); Robin Samuelsen; Ralph Andersen; H E
Oslon; APICDA EV; weaver@doyon.com; wilIiamso@doyon.com
Lower Taxes on Gas on Bristol Bay
October 30, 2007 Governor Sarah Palin State of Alaska Juneau, Alaska 99811 Re: Lower Tax
Rate on Bristol Bay Gas Dear Governor Palin: I note in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that
there is an effort to include Interior gas in the Nenana area for a lower tax rate. I'
fully support making sure that Nenana gas and other gas such as may be found in Bristol
Bay, be given special provisions for lower taxes the same as natural gas produced in Cook
Inlet. If gas is found by and oil and gas company on lands in the Bristol Bay area, we
should be given the same low cost gas consideration as Cook Inlet. Thank you, Nels
Anderson, Jr. Box 234 Dillingham, Alaska 99576 907-952-7039 cc: Robin Samuelsen-BBEDC,
Ralph Andersen-BBNA, Sen. Hoffman, Rep. Edgmon, Rep. Samuels, Mr. Orie Williaras-Doyon,
Everette Anderson
Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for Youl
http : //www. reallivemoras . com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us
PRA GSP01 0007190
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBA1LEY1
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: MatMald
Include you in that ! ! How many late nights and weekends have you spent on this as well?
Original Message
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 15:26:20 2007
Subject: FW: MatMaid
Original Message
Prom: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:25 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K
(DNR) ; Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Subject: RE: MatMaid
Today I met w/Kristan, Dick, Joe Austerman, and Tina Otto on progress to date and possible
solutions for transition. Commissioner Schmidt also joined us and had some good ideas on
how Corrections can be part of the transition/ solution for farmers. It was in that
meeting that I learned of Lyda's request. As you know, Kristan had requested (through Div
of Ag) a legislative audit. The request was sent to Samuel's office on August 31st. After
Kristan' s persistence, we were told on September 19th that LBSA would not do an audit due
to pending litigation. We also tried through 0MB. However, due to logistics and
involvement, Karen recommended that we seek an outside firm. The CPA firm, Mikunda
Cottrell, started the audit yesterday.
FYI, I also learned in our meeting today that Lyda's office has called Tina Otto in Law
inquiring on the appraisal and how the proceeds from the sale will be used.
Word is getting out that Lyda has requested an "emergency audit". I've started receiving
phone calls this afternoon. Considering her unwillingness to work with us, I hope that
her actions do not undo much of the work that has been done thus far... trying to find the
balance between selling the assets and positive transition for the producers.
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There are meetings over the next couple of days regarding transition (w/Northem Lights
Dairy and other producers) . We are all regrouping on Friday to firm up the transition
plan. The meeting is at 2pm.
In closing, never have I seen a more dedicated, selfless, hard working group than those
serving on BAC.
Kris
Original Message
From : gov . sarahSyahoo . com [mailto : gov . 8arah@yahoo . coml
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Irwin, Torn E (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K (DNR) ; Tibbies,
Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Subj ect ; MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she said she's
received a lot of information concerning improprieties and "problems at MatMaid" ,
including "conflicts of interest with people serving". I told her "no kidding there's been
problems, that's why we have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on
what went wrong and then how to right MatMaid". I also asked her if she's seeking to get
information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we caused MatMaid 's problems? She
said, "it's both" .
Vfhat's frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for assistance to get our
own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do it themselves, and now it sounds like a
legislator who doesn't necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own
intense audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is \anderstandably quite
frustrating for BAC members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid and have wanted and
needed information on MatMaid operations since Day One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on
this together, if truly now she wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not
our goals - as we're not blaming this admin nor this BAC for the problems at MatMaid.
PRA GSP01 0007192
So , head ' s up .
And I still want Kristan's reqpaest to be granted re: an audit if that's what Kristan
needs .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007193
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: MatMaid
I'll listen now on GtG
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:02:55
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: RE: MatMaid
It went fairly well. Lots of head nodding.
Original Message
Prom : gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto : gov . sarah®yahoo . com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sub j ect : Fw : MatMaid
How'd the consultants do in House?
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:44:53
TO: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: MatMaid
PRA GSP01 0007194
So true.
Sent from my BlackBerry(r) device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:42:02
To : ExternalEraailgsp <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>, "Irwin, Tom E (DNR) "
<tom.irwin®alaska.gov>, "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)"
<marty.rutherford®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)"
<mike . tibbles@alaska . gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Rehfeld, Karen J
(GOV)" <karen.rehfeld®alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)"
<talis . colbergOalaska . gov>
Subject: RE: MatMaid
Don't forget that she has recently filed to run for re-election. That
could explain the difference between her willingness to get involved in
the issue now versus her stubbornness last summer,
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo .com [mai 1 to : gov . sarah@yahoo . com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR); Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K
(DNR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J
(LAW)
Svib j ect : MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she
said she's received a lot of information concerning improprieties and
2
PRA GSP01 0007195
"problems at MatMaid" , including "conflicts of interest with people
serving". I told her "no kidding there's been problems, that's why we
have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on what
went wrong and then how to right MatMaid". I also asked her if she's
seeking to get information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we
caused MatMaid' s problems? She said, "it's both".
What's frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for
assistance to get our own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do
it themselves, and now it sounds like a legislator who doesn't
necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own intense
audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably
quite frustrating for BAC members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid
and have wanted and needed information on MatMaid operations since Day
One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on this together, if truly now she
wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not our goals - as
we're not blaming this admin nor this BAC for the problems at MatMaid.
So, head's up.
And I still want Kristan' s request to be granted re: an audit if that's
what Kristan needs.
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007196
Unknown
!
I
^
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:35 PWI
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Nizich; Michael A (GOV); Tibbies; IWichael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Checking In
Awesorael!! Thanks Kris! :)
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:02:26
To: "Nizich, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.nizich®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)"
<mike . tibblesoalaska . gov>
Cc: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
Svibject: FW: Checking In
FYI, communication with Rhonda.
Original Message
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:01 PM
To : ' Rhonda McBride '
Subject: RE: Checking In
Hi Rhonda,
Thanks for checking in. I know you've been busy.
As expected, the Governor's announcement was received very well and we
continue to receive congratulatory comments.
Any time you'd like to start "moving in", just let me know and I can
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PRA GSP01 0007197
have things ready for you here . you ' 11 have parking in the Atwood
parking garage, and I'll get the paperwork completed and a pass for you.
I'll also get a blackberry ordered for your arrival. There's quite a
bit of employment paperwork that will need to be completed; a packet
should arrive within a week or so. Also, any personnel related
questions you have - in general - or related to the paperwork can be
directed to Mary Etheridge at 465-3897 or
mary . Stewart . ether idge@alaska . gov
Also, for reference:
Mike Nizich, Deputy Chief of Staff -- mike.nizich@alaska.gov
Mike Tibbies, C3iief of Staff -- mike.tibbles@alaska.gov
Both can be reached at 465-3500.
Looking forward to December 10th!
Thanks ,
Kris
Original Message
From: Rhonda McBride [raailto:rhonda9hats®mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:56 AM
To: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Checking In
Hi, Kris...
Sorry if I've been incommunicado. I've been working a graveyard shift
11:00pm to 8:30am... filling in for Sheila Balistreri. She had a
death in her family ajad is down in the Lower 48. Appreciate you and
your staff giving me some space.
PRA GSP01 0007198
I've had all kinds of e-mails and phone calls from people offering me
their good wishes. All of them seem so excited about this opportunity
to work with the Paliln administration.
I didn't get to hear Governor Palin's speech announcing that she was
bringing me on board, but folks said it was so gracious, that she
really did a nice job of introducing me. Please convey my heartfelt
thanks .
In my current state of sleep deprivation, I sometimes wonder if it's a
dream.... and I'll wake up and John Tracy will be assigning me stories
through January.
I have had a few calls from folks in the administration, thinking I
was going to start right away. I hope they'll be patient.
Just to confirm, I plan on coming to work on Monday, December 10th.
Perhaps the week before, I might be able to bring some boxes of stuff
in... and get semi -organ! zed.
I hear you carry a heavy load, when it comes to shouldering the work.
I don't want to add to your burden... but at this point, who should I
direct my questions to about all the details . . . like where do you park?
cell phone use?
Thanks ,
Rhonda
RHONDA MCBRIDE'S CONTACT INFO:
E-mail: Privileged or Personal Mat
PRA GSP01 0007199
Privileged or Personal Materia
PRA GSP01 0007200
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Fw: MatMaid
How'd the consultants do in House?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From ; gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:44:53
To: "Joe Balash" < joe. balash@ala3ka.gov>
Subj ect : Re : MatMaid
So true.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:42:02
To:ExternalEmailgsp <gov. sarah@yahoo.com?, "Irwin, Tom E (DNR) "
<tom.irwin@alaska,gov», "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)" «marty.rutherford®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies,
Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV)"
<karen.rehfeld®alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg®alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: MatMaid
Don't forget that she has recently filed to run for re-election. That
could explain the difference between her willingness to get involved in
the issue now versus her stubbornness last summer.
PRA GSP01 0007201
Original Message
From: gov.sarah®yahoo.cora [mailto:gov.sarah®yahoo.coni]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K
(DNR) ; Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J
(LAW)
Subject: MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she
said she's received a lot of information concerning Improprieties and
"problems at MatMaid", including "conflicts of interest with people
serving". I told her "no kidding there's been problems, that's why we
have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on what
went wrong and then how to right MatMaid". I also asked her if she's
seeking to get information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we
caused MatMaid's problems? She said, "it's both".
What's frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for
assistance to get our own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do
it themselves, and now it sounds like a legislator who doesn't
necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own intense
audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably
quite frustrating for BAC members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid
and have wanted and needed information on MatMaid operations since Day
One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on this together, if truly now she
wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not our goals ^ as
we're not blaming this admin nor this BAC for the problems at MatMaid.
So , head ' s up .
And I still want Kristan 's request to be granted re: an- audit if that's
what Kristan needs.
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
2
PRA GSP01 0007202
Unknown
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:44 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: MatMaid
Dear governor palin. I understand from a phone call just now with our atty tina Otto that
she just within the last hour meeting in your anchorage office with Chris Perry and others
on this. There is apparently an audit under way through mikinds cottrel at Kristin Tanner
and the board request. Tuna did also say that sen greens office has recently called for
information on appraisals of property and asked about a memo about sale proceeds
specifically would they go to the ag revolving loan fund and can they have a copy of the
memo when it is done. They were told we don't yet know who will be entitled to the memo
when it is done. Talis.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K (DKR) ; Tibbies,
Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 14:28:12 2007
Subject: MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she said she's
received a lot of information concerning improprieties and "problems at MatMaid" ,
including "conflicts of interest with people serving". I told her "no kidding there's been
problems, that's why we have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on
what went wrong and then how to right MatMaid". I also asked her if she's seeking to get
information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we caused MatMaid' s problfems? She
said, "it's both".
What's frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for assistance to get our
own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do it themselves, and now it sounds like a
legislator who doesn't necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own
intense audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably quite
fjrustrating for BAG members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid and have wanted and
needed information on MatMaid operations since Day One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on
this together, if truly now she wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not
our goals - as we're not blaming this admin nor this BAG for the. problems at MatMaid.
So, head's up.
And I still want Kristan' s request to be granted re: an audit if that's what Kristan
needs .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
1
PRA GSP01 0007203
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:45 PWl
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re; MatMaid
So true.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:42:02
To:ExtemalEmailgsp <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>, "Irwin, Tom E (DNR) "
<tom.irwin®alaska.gov>, "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)" <marty.rutherford@alaska.gov>, "Tibbie
Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV)"
<karen.reh£eld@alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg®alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: MatMaid
Don't forget that she has recently filed to run for re-election. That
could explain the difference between her willingness to get involved iri
the issue now versus her stubbornness last summer.
Original Message-
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com [mailto : gov . sarah®yahoo . com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR); Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford, Marty K
(DNR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV); Colberg, Talis J
(LAW)
Subject: MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she
said she ' s received a lot of information concerning improprieties and
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"problems at MatMaid", including "conflicts of interest with people
serving". I told her "no kidding there's been problems, that's why we
have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on what
went wrong and then how to right MatMaid" . I also asked her if she ' s
seeking to get information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we
caused MatMaid's problems? She said, "it's both".
,What ' s frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for
assistance to get our own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do
it themselves, and now it sounds like a legislator who doesn't
necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own intense
audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably
quite frustrating for BAG members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid
and have wanted and needed information on MatMaid operations since Day
One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on this together, if truly now she
wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not our goals - as
we're not blaming this admin nor this BAC for the problems at MatMaid.
So, head's up.
And I still want Kristan 's request to be granted re: an audit if that's
what Kristan needs.
Sent from my BlackBerry(r) device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007205
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:30 PM
To: Perry; Krislina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: MatMaid
Pis send to kristan and franci- and did joey do an audit? Lyda questioned the "acting
director of Ag- some guy you put in there from Commerce"? She has incorrect information
on that, but wouldn't tell me where she got any of her info.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From ; gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:28:12
To:"Tom Irwin" <tom. irwin@alaska.gov>, "Joe Balash" <joe.balash®alask.a. govs, "Marty
Rutherford" <marty.rutherford@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>
Cc:"K Perry" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Karen Sehf eld" <karen.rehfeld®alaska.gov>, "Talis
Colberg" <talis. colberg®alaska.gov>
Subject: MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she said she's
received a lot of information concerning improprieties and "problems at MatMaid",
including "conflicts of interest with people serving". I told her "no kidding there's been
problems, that's why we have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on
what went wrong and then how to right MatMaid". I also asked her if she's seeking to get
information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we caused MatMaid' s problems? She
said, "it's both".
What ' s frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for assistance to get our
own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do it themselves, and now it sounds like a
legislator who doesn't necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own
intense audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably quite
frustrating for BAG members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid and have wanted and
needed information on MatMaid operations since Day One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on
this together, if truly now she wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not
our goals - as we're not blaming this admin nor this BAG for the problems at MatMaid.
So, head's up.
And I still want Kristan' s request to be granted re: an audit if that's what Kristan
needs .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:28 PM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR); Tibbies; Michael A
(GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeid; Karen J (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW)
Subject: MatMaid
Lyda just told me she's called for an extensive audit of MatMaid be she said she's
received a lot of information concerning improprieties and "problems at MatMaid" ,
including "conflicts of interest with people serving". I told her "no kidding there's been
problems , that ' s why we have a dedicated team of volunteers trying to get information on
what went wrong and then how to right MatMaid" . I also asked her if she ' s seeking to get
information on problems we inherited, or did she feel we caused MatMaid 's problems? She
said, "it's both".
What's frustrating is Kristan and Kris and others have begged for assistance to get our
own audit of MatMaid, they've basically had to do it themselves, and now it sounds like a
legislator who doesn't necessarily want to see us succeed is moving forward on her own
intense audit. We've had push back on our own request, which is understandably quite
frustrating for BAC members who've cared sincerely about MatMaid and have wanted and
needed information on MatMaid operations since Day One. I asked Lyda why don't we work on
this together, if truly now she wants to help on MatMaid, but her goals are evidently not
our goals - as we're not blaming this admin nor this BAC for the problems at MatMaid.
So, head's up.
And I still want Kristan' s request to be granted re: an audit if that's what Kristan
needs.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject-
Bruce Cain [bruce@nveyak.org]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:28 PM
Palin; Sarah H (GOV); Von Scheben; Leo (DOT)
auntienancy@hotmail.com; Clark; Kimberly L (LAA); Schroeder Notch; Kaci K (LAA); Barnes;
Nancy (LAA); randy_ruaro@gov.state.ak.us
Re: FW: Notice of Public Meeting
I think it is a nice thought to hold piiblic hearings in communities
affected by changes in the Ferry service. This should be consistently
applied especially in Prince William Sound Communities. I don't recall
any public hearings on our ferry service reduction. We wrote hundreds of
letters directly to the Governor and Commissioner even without hearings.
I haven't seen a response to any of them. A public process where all the
letters are received and discussed would be a good idea. A lot of PWS
residents are still pretty upset with the reduction in our ferry service
and don't feel like we have been heard.
Bruce
Nancy Barnes <Nancy_Barnes®legis. state. ak.us> on Tuesday, October 30, 2007
at 12:17 PM -0900 wrote:
>Hello -we just received this from DOT. Please note the teleconference
>number listed below for a public comment period This Friday. Nancy
>Bames, Senator Albert Kookesh's Office
>From: Ivey, Cyndi (DOT) [mailto; cyndi.ivey@alaska.gov]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:39 AM
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>Subject: Notice of Public Meeting
>NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES IN FERRY SCHEDULING AFFECTING SKAGWAY,
>HAINES,
>JXJNEAU, SITKA, AND PETERSBURG
>The Department of Transportation and P\iblic Facilities, Alaska Marine
>Highway System has received recommendations from the Marine
>Transportation Advisory Board (MTAB) that would affect service in the
>communities of SKAGWAY, HAINES, JUNEAU, SITKA, AND PETERSBURG, and
>would
>raise the fare rates between JUNEAU and SITKA by 30%. These proposed
j >changes are related to a change in the schedule that would provide, on
■5 >alternating weeks, a weekend ferry service from Sitka to Juneau on a
>Friday and a return trip to Sitka from Juneau on a Sunday. The vessels
j > involved are the F/V Fairweather and the F/V Chenega.
>
>A pxiblic meeting to take comments will be held in Sitka:
>Friday, November 2, 2007 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pra
>Westmark Sitka Hotel (Council Room) , 33 Seward Street, Sitka
>
>To participate by teleconference the number is 1-888-319-7550.
Bruce
Bruce Cain
Executive Director
Native Village of Eyak
PO Box 1388
PRA GSP01 0007209
Cordova, AK. 99574
Ph (907) 424-7738
Fax (907) 424-7739
PRA GSP01 0007210
Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTR0M]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1 1 ;06 AM
To: 'govparm@alaska.gov'
Subject: Re: Humicilfier
Great-we'll pick one upi
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 11:03:54 2007
Subject: Re: Humidifier
Yeah- the humidifier. Thanks!
-- — Original Message
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tue Oct 30 10:54:42 2007
Subject: RE; Humidifier
No problem. Just to make sure you mean a humidifier to add moisture to the air, not an
air purifier. They're heading to Costco right now, so they can pick something up there.
:)
Erika Fagerstrom
1
I Executive Residence Manager
j
Governor ' s House
, State of Alaska, Office of the Governor
I 716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
I Phone: 907-465-3500; Fax: 907-465-2031
PRA GSP01 0007211
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:53 AM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Subject: Humidifier
Any way we could get a humidifier upstairs - my bedroom - just a small one would be fine.
PRA GSP01 0007212
Unknown
From: Cayce, Sunny C (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SCCAYCE]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palln (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Provost Kathryn T (GOV)
Subject: RE: Military_and_Veterans_Affairs
I'm forwarding this to Katie since Randy handles veteran's issues.
Sunny
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:17 AM
To: julethetool2001@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Military and Veterans Affairs
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:45 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Military_and_Veterans_Af fairs
Web mail from: Mr. Jule westcott
address: 57807 kiowa rd. montrose CO 81401
9702494824
MESSAGE :
Hi Gov. I met you when you were in the campaign anch. office I was a cab driver picking up
signs and I told you I hope you help AK. vets, any way I had to leave AK. the state I love
so much to get better health care at another VA. I went today to the VA here an what I
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accomplished in one day it takes 8 mos. in anchorage. I moved from willow to co. temp,
till I get fixed. I have written and called the AK. congrssional delagation till I was
blue in the face in over 2 yrs. And don, lisa,and ted did nothing for the vets. I hope
with your popularity and clout you will make the AK. VA. a better sys. so I can move back
to the state I love so much. Also I am not the only vet. that is moving to the lower 48 to
get better healthcare, AK is losing it's vets. Just thought you should know, thankyou,
Jule Westcott
julethetool2001@yahoo.com
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
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Unknown
From: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TEIRWINI
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:23 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Rutherford; Marty K (DNR); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A
(GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Rehfeld; l^ren J (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW)
Subject: FW: LB&A and Mat-Maid Audit/ also request tetter to Rep. Samuels
1 wanted to remind everyone that Kristan asked DNR to help ask for an audit from LB&A. Attached is the letter
sent on September 4, 2007. Tom
From: Bosela, Tina M (DNR)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:52 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR)
Subject: FW: LB&A and Mat-Maid Audit request letter to Rep. Samuels
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007215
Unknown
From: Cayce. Sunny C (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SCCAYCE]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:57 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Kim; Anna C (GOV)
Subject: RE: Legai_andjawsuits
Not exactly sure who should get this, but I don't think it's me! Anna??
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:57 AM
To: psych_angel@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Legal_and_lawsuits
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment .
-■ Original Message
From; WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:44 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Siobject: Legal_and_lawsuits
Web mail from: Ms. Ami Wrightsman
address: 1793 Caribou Way Fairbanks AK 99709
9073880122
j MESSAGE:
i
Gov. Palin:
I was browsing through the Alaska state law section of the Human Rights Campaign home
page, and I was not able to find anything that stated how the Alaska government identified
the gender of a transgender individual. I would appreciate it if you would either send me
the information or the resources so that I may find this information myself. I was also
curious how a transgender person fit into the ban on same-sex marriages. Again, a resource
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would be most helpful .
Thank you for your time,
— Ami Marie Wrightsman
psych_angel@hotmail . com.
PRA GSP01 0007217
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:10 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: AVTEC November e-newsletter
From: Linda Carpenter [mailto:llnda.carpentjer@avtec.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:03 W
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: AVTEC November e-newsletter
View This Message In Your Browser
A\i
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November 2007 e-Newsletter
AVTEC Information Links
- AVTEC Web site
- Contact Info & FAQs
- Admissions & Financial Aid
- Training Programs & Courses
- Training Costs & Dates
- Trades Math Online
■ AVTEC Nevis and Events
■ Student News and Events
• DonaHons to AVTEC
■ Job Oooortunities at AVTEC
■ Advisory Board News
• AVTEC Faculty
• AVTgC Pr^?$ptgtiPn (PDF)
Visit the AVTEC Web site for the
latest news, events and updates.
www.3vtec.edu
Sarah Paiin
Governor of Alaska
Jobs are Alaska's Future
AVTEC Awarded $2 Million EDA Grant for
Maritime Safety Training Facility
The Alaska Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC) has been
awarded a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of
Commerce's Economic Development Administration, to de
construct the AVTEC Maritime Safety Training Facility. Thi;
facility will be part of the Alaska Maritime Training Center.
"We're excited about the new training opportunities that tl
4,800 sq. ft. AVTEC Maritime Safety Training Facility will q
for all Alaskans," said Labor Commissioner Click Bishop.
Ctick here to read the fuH storv
Click Bisliop
Commissioner
11/9/2009
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Fred Esposito
AVTEC Director
Meet AVTEC's Director.
Fred EsDosito</A< bodv>
Send Mr. Esposito an e-mail,
fred.esoosito@avtec.edij
Know someone who would be
interested in receiving this
information? Click here to tell them
about it.
AVTEC Partners with Lithia Motors to Meet
the Need for Trained Automotive Techs in Alaslca
AVTEC and Lithia i^otors are working togetiier to meet the need
for trained automotive technicians. As a result of this partnership,
four of AVTEC's 2007 Automotive Technology graduates are
worlcing at four of the Lithia dealerships in Anchorage including:
Lithia Dodge of South Anchorage, Chevrolet of South Anchorage,
Lithia Chrysler Jeep of Anchorage, and Lithia Hyundai of
Anchorage.
Click here to read the full story
AVTEC Statewide Advisory Board & AGIA
Steering Committee Meet
On Friday, Sept. 28, an all day combined meeting of the Alaska
Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) Steering Committee and Alaska
Vocational Technical Center (AVTEC) Statewide Advisory Board
took place at AVTEC in Seward.
Click here to read the full story
11/9/2009
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Another Successful Seafood Processing Class!
The Alaska Vocational Technical Center's (AVTEC) i^larltlme
Training Center hosts three seafood processor training classes a
year for Norton Sound Economic Council (NSEDC). The most
recent class was held on Oct. 14-24.
Ctick here to read the full story
e-Newsletter Comments & Feedback
The AVTEC monthly e-Newsletter is published by the Alaska Vocational Technical Center
(AVTEC) to Iceep friends and alumni in touch with the news and events of
AVTEC. Comments or feedbacic regarding this newsletter can be sent to Unda
Carpenter. iinda.caroenterOavtec.edu . </F0NT< body>
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www.avtec.edu
P.O. Box 889 ~ 809 2nd Avenue ~ Seward, Alasira 99664
Admissions (907) 224-3322 i (800) 478-5389 I Fax (907) 224-4143
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Unknown
From: Craft, Kathryn L (HSS) [kathryn.craft@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 3:01 PM
To: Palin; Sarah H (GOV)
Cc: Ellis; Johnny {lji\A); Kim; Anna C (GOV); Elton; Kim S (I.AA); Casto; L (HSS); Joule; Reggie (LAA);
Caress; Bonnie J (HSS); Noelie Hardt; Stan Tucker; Mandee Collins; Stone; Melissa W (HSS);
Jackson; Karleen K (HSS); Brenda IVIoore; Hogan; William H (HSS); William Martin; Craft; Kathryn L
(HSS); Hogan; William H (HSS); Craft; Kathryn L (HSS); Charles Jones; Salmon; Woodie W (LAA);
mgatto@northstar.k12.ak.us; Gayhart; Renee A (HSS)
Subject: Statewide Suicide Prevention Council Letter to Gov. Palin
Dear Governor Palin, on behalf of the Statewide Suicide Prevention Council (SSPC) I am sending this
electronic copy of the letter sent to you via regular mail by Mario Gatto, SSPC Chair. If you have any
questions for the Council, piease do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Kathy Craft
SSPC Staff
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007221
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:53 PM
Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Baiash; Joseph R (GOV)
Leighovi/; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Re: aces oped.doc
Got it. Thanks
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored); Baiash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 21:51:44 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
On re-read and in light of the progress we've made tonight, I think we should ["""'^''^gsg Or Per
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
-Pat
--Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:42 PM
To: Baiash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Subject: Re; aces oped.doc
I'm looking at a couple other suggested comments
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Let me keep looking and comparing
And thank you guys for the great job putting this together.
Original Message
From: Baiash, Joseph R (GOV)
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
a
PRA GSP01 0007222
Sent: Wed Oct 31 18:44:03 2007
Subject: Re: aces oped. doc
Ok boss, Pat and I are getting nervous that you haven't responded or provided any
feedback. If you don't like our approach, we can go back to the drawing board tonight.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, though, and we want to get it in for Friday.
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 16:24:11 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
--Original Message-
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin®alaska . gov>
To: "Qalvin, Patrick S (DOR)" <:patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
Bruce 's suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RB: aces oped. doc
PRA GSP01 0007223
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending ray thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface vmtil tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce P (DNR) ; Leschper,
Beth (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
something like this.. . and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
retaining the tone... [Privileged or Personal Material Redacted I ^eth and
Sharon - pis keep me in the loop as this xs being tweaked, ana pis coordinate tne effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007225
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007226
Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:42 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Co: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
I'm looking at a couple other suggested comments |Privilegecl Of Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted |. Let me keep looking and comparing
ana iiicorporaciiig . . .
And thank you guys for the great job putting this together.
Original Message
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 18:44:03 2007
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
Ok boss, Pat and I are getting nervous that you haven't responded or provided any
feedback. If you don't like our approach, we can go back to the drawing board tonight.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, though, and we want to get it in for Friday.
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 16:24:11 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) " <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
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Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
Bruce ' s suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce P (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
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something like this . . an^^ T Irnnw ih 'a harsh anH hard - hut t^wf-ak it nip.ass whilp
retaining the tone . . . |Privileged Or Personal Material Redacted | Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in tne ioop as tti3.s~ia being cweaKea, ana pis cooramate tne effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
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From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 6:44 PM
To: Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); 'govpalin@alaska.gov'
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
Ok boss, Pat and I are getting nervous that you haven't responded or provided any
feedback. If you don't like our approach, we can go back to the drawing board tonight.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, though, and we want to get it in for Friday.
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 16:24:11 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) " <patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Fw: aces oped.doc
Bruce 's suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
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Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so .
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce P (DNR) ; Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ,- Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sub j ect : aces oped . doc
something like this . . . and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
retaining the tone... Privileged or Personal Material Redacted | Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in the iOop as this is Being tweakea, ana pis cooraanace cne effort
so we ' re not all stepping on each other through the process .
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 3 1 , 2007 5: 1 6 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Leschpen Beth (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: Vivre
Thanks- janice has reported the same thing about emails
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From; "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" «kris .perry®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:14:01
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, Beth Leschper <beth.leschperiaalaska.gov>,K Perry
<kris . perry@alaska . gov>
Subject: RE: Vivre
I'm sorry, but I don't see it. That's at least two emails now - that I know of - that I've
not rec'd. I'll follow-up w/IT.
Original Message
From: "gov, sarah@yahoo.com" <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: "Beth Leschper" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>; »K Perry" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Vivre
No, I sent the email to you and Kris the other day, asking that the bag ($25?) Be
declared, in addition to the $100 gift card to the catalog company Vivre.
Original Message
From: Beth Leschper
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Oct 31, 2007 4:15 PM
Subject: RE: Vivre
If it's the gift card in the envelope with the catalog that caine in the
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Newsweek canvas bag -- I just opened it yesterday and haven't had time
to call and ask if I need to report it.
Who did you receive the email from?
Beth
Original Message
Prom: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:54 PM
To: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Subject: Vivre
Did either of u get email re: ethics disclosure on vivre gift card at
newsweek event?
Sent from my Blac'kBerry(r) device from Cellular One
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) [patrick.galvin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, OctotJer 31 , 2007 4:24 PM
To: Paiin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Co: Baiash; Josepli R (GOV)
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)" «:patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subj ect : Fw : aces oped . doc
Bruce ' s suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works, So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
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Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR) ; Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject; aces oped. doc
something like this . . . and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
retaining the tone
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in cne loop as cms is oeing Lweajteu, anu pxa couzuxiidLe i-nh effort
so we ' re not all stepping on each other through the process .
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Attachments:
Palin, Sarah {GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:33 PM
Leschpen Beth (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Fw: aces oped.doc
Palin Op Ed - BA edits.docx
Palin Op Ed - BA
edits.docx (2...
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
TO! Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are ray
thoughts, for what they are worth, baaed upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
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To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR) ; Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
and I know it ' s harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
something like this .
retaining the tone . . . [Privile ged Of Personal Material Redacted ^ Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in cne ioop as cms is oemg cweaKea, ana pis cooramate the effort
so we ' re not all stepping on each other through the process .
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From: Sarah Palin [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 8:40 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); bruceanders888@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Fw: aces oped.doc
kris- can you open and cut/paste _ i can't open this on home pc, nor blackberry thanks
"Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) " <^ovpalin@alaska.gov> wrote:
— Original Message —
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Peny, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 3 1 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
ia€™ve heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the works. So I am
apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I donaerwt know if something with my name on it
will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster - big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so this was a major rush
job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my thoughts, for what they are worth, based
upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper, Beth
(GOV); Leighow, §haron W (GOV); Irwin, Tom E (DNR); ExtemalEmailgsp; RuAerford, Marty K
(DNR); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Peny, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped.doc
something like this... and I know if s harsh and hard - but tweak it please while retaining the tone...
Privilec
Privileged or Personal Material Redactedl Beth and Sharon - pis keep me in the loop as this is
being tweaked, and pis coordinate the ettbrt so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 1 1 :46 AM
To: Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR); Kelly; Russell T
(GOV)
Subject: Beth and Harry
Just spoke with both of them. They are very angry, hurt, disappointed and distrustful of
our process now. They were led to believe their criteria was our criteria in crunching
numbers that led to their "solution" (that even I got excited about again) that was based
on gross, that they rolled out for us the other day. They feel very deceived.
I apologized profusely - and I PROMISED we'd grant their request that their scenerios
WOULD BE run through all the same tests we used. I promised them this.
Beth also still has heartburn over deduction language- I told her Joe would work with her
on any specific concerns there and we'd help plug in a better solution if there is one.
Please grant their request Pat. Have your folks run their numbers, work with Beth on this
she wants to trust us and I want to work with her. Pis let me know how that goes...
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) Igovpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Anders; Bruce F (DNR); Leschper; Beth (GOV);
Leighow; Sharon W(GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford; Marty K (DNR);
Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
somet hing like this... and I know it's harsh and ha rd - but tweak it please while retaining the
tone... iPrivileged or Personal Material Redacted I - Beth and Sharon - pis keep
me in the loop as this is being tweaked, and pis coordinate the effort so we're not all stepping on
each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
11/9/2009
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality
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From: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) [sharon.leighow@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:12 AM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Galvin; Patrick 8 (DOR); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Anders; Bruce F
(DNR); Leschper; Beth (GOV); invin; Tom E (DNR); ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford; Marty K (DNR);
Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV)
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
Governor-
Joe Balash Is working on the Initial draft. Matt Zencey says a Thursday publication is
unlikely given his deadline but can guarantee a Friday slot.
Sharon
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper, Beth (GOV);
Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Inwin, Tom E (DNR); ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford, Marty K (DNR); Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)
Cc Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped.doc
somet hing like this
tone.
and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while retaining the
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Beth and Sharon - pis keep
me in the loop as this is being tweaked, and pis coordinatelhe effort so we're not all stepping on
each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
11/9/2009
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:08 AM
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Re: Christmas open house
Yes, thanks for forwarding this to me! Funny thing is I've been leaving msgs. and trying
to contact her.
Thanks- Erika
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 09:05:30 2007
Svibject: FVI-. Christmas open house
Erika,
Is this something that you would take care of???
Donna Collins
From: Tom & Lorraine Marshall [mailto:tlmarshl®ptialaska,net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:59 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Christmas open house
Hello. I would like to know who to contact to, see if I can get my singing group on the
list of musicians for the Christmas open house at the mansion. If you could forward this
email, I would appreciate it. Sincerely, Lorraine Marshall, 789-0329
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 8:43 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Dessert banquet invite
J pis find details and respond to Cyndi after we get details.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: Cyndi Saunders <cyndi@tecpro.cora>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:13:12
Subject: Dessert banquet invite
Hello,
Please join Wes and I at the fundraiser for Crisis Pregnancy Center.
Sorry for the late invite. { we will be in town now as we have had schedule changes) so we
wanted to host a table to support C . P . C .
Please see below for the information.
Reggie is an amazing man. I think you will be blessed.
Please call or email with your regrets or RSVP so I can plan.
Thank you in advance.
Cyndi Saunders
ChangePoint Ambassador to Crisis Pregnancy Center
www.cpcanchorage.com <http://www.cpcanchorage.com>
www. changepointalaska . com <http : //www . changepointalaska . cora>
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He has a good plan for your life Romans. 8:28
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Pagel ofl
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From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 . 2007 1 0:48 AM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: Telephone Message
Governor- You just received a call from Dino Rossi - Washington State. He would like to speak with you in
regards to you possibly coming down to the State to support him. Dino can be reached on cell @: 425-555-
3466. Thanks, Janice
8/24/2009
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From: Bailey. Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 1 :43 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Nizich; Michael A (GOV); kris.per;y@alaska.gov
Subject: Rural Advisor - Rural CAP
Governor,
A few weeks back there was discussion about having ttie Governor's Representative on Rural CAP be filled by
the Rural Advisor/ Coordinator position. Annette Kreitzer is currently filling the position and agreed that this
would be the best fit.
Now that we have Rhonda named, are you good with us moving forward to have her appointed as the Governor's
Rep starting the beginning of the year?
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
8/24/2009
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:28 PM
Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Palln; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Leschpen Beth (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
RE: aces oped.doc
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:24 PM
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalinealaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patricks (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
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Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
Bruce 's suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works . So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don' t know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster — big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
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something like this . . ■ and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
retaining the tone . . . [Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
^ „__^ Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in the'ioop as this is fieing tweaked, and pis coordinate the effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject
Balash, Joseph R (GOV) t/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:28 PM
Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Leschpen Beth (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
RE: aces oped.doc
Privilegecl or Personal Material Redacted
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Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:24 PM
To: Palin, Sarah {GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
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I
Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
Bruce 's suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
worlcs. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster — big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
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something like this,
retaining the tone..
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
and hard - but tweak it please while
Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in the loop as cms is oemg tweakea, ana pis coorcunate tne effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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J
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=PSGALVIN1]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 9:52 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Co: Leighow; Shanjn W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
On re-read and in light of the progress we've made tonight, I think we should '^'"'^''^96" °l" P^l
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
-Pat
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:42 PM
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Galvin, Patrick 8 (DOR)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
I'm looking at a couple other suggested comments
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted i Let me keep looking and comparing
djiu iucuj-puiaLiug. . .
And thank you guys for the great job putting this together.
Original Message
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 18:44:03 2007
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
Ok boss, Pat and I are getting nervous that you haven't responded or provided any
feedback. If you don't like our approach, we can go back to the drawing board tonight.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, though, and we want to get it in for Friday.
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
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To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 16:24:11 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patricks (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
Bruce 's suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster — big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
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Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Irwin, Tom E (DNR); ExternalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
something like this.. . and I know it's harsh and hard - but tweak it please while
retaining the tone . . . rpriyiieged Or Personal Material Redacted . ' . . 1 - Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me fn the loop as this is being tweaked, and pis coordinate the effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 8:29 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Penv; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Pis forward to anthony scott
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: postraaster@state.ak.us
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:25:39
To : gov. sarahSyahoo . com
Siabject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
anthony.scott@alaska.gov
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31 , 2007 1 1 :39 AM
To: govpalin@alaska.gov
Subject: FW: Elections
FYI - Janice
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:36 AM
To: roguegrizzly@sbcglobal.net
Subject: RE: Elections
Dear Mr. Bettis:
Thank you for your kind email .
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:31 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Elections
Web mail from: Mr. Jim Bettis
address: 20606 Lorain Rd., Apt. D-14 Fairview Park OH 44126
440-356-6347
MESSAGE:
Dearest Sarah,
Imagine my suprise when I found out that you had been elected to be the Governor of
Alaska! Wow! It really is true that you've come a long way, baby. I hope you don't still
hold a grudge for my editorial cartoons in the Frontiersman. Had I known you were running
for Governor, believe it or not, I would' ve certainly offered my artistic services in your
favor. You might think that I was more of an adversary but in reality, I was very pleased
with you as the Mayor of Wasilla. The last Governor I knew personally, was Jay Hammond.
If anyone were to ask me if I felt YOD were qualified to be Alaslca's Governor, I
would have answered with a resounding yes. I just wanted to write you and tell you that I
am delighted to hear of your successful bid for Governor and I hope you will remain as
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such for a very long time.
My most sincere wishes for your successful tenure.
Sincerely,
Jim Bettis
roguegrizziyQsbcglobal.net
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4: 1 6 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: FW: Pipeline pix
Governor - TFiese are great Tiiey have been forwarded to our video guys too. We can print them out if you
would like. Janice
From: Weimer, Rebbecca E (DDL)
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:00 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Mills, Andy J (GOV)
Subject: FW: Pipeline pix
Commissioner Bishop wanted to make sure your office received tiiese.
Thanks,
Becky
Becky Weimer
Regulations Specialist/ Commissioner's Scheduler
Department of Labor and Workforce Development
Commissioner's Office
(907) 465-2709 phone
(907) 465-2784 fax
From: Darlene Bishop [mailto:bish@alaska.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:26 AM
To: Labor, Commissioner (DOL sponsored)
Subject: Pipeline pix
a
a
8/26/2009
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i
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:26 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Juneau
I just returned again, to wasilla - so I, too, will try this again tomorrowl
Original Message
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 1, 2007 7:58 PM
Subj ect : Juneau
So my flight from Juneau got cancelled tonight and I am scheduled out tomorrow on the
12:45 flight. Looks like there's a reason for me to be here tonight or tomorrow. :)
Did you get held in ANC today?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 7:59 PM
To; . 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Juneau
So my flight from Juneau got cancelled tonight and I am scheduled out tomorrow on the
12:45 flight. Looks like there's a reason for me to be here tonight or tomorrow. :)
Did you get held in ANC today?
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Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=ReCIPlENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROIVl]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:27 PM
To; 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Vic
That's crazy! 3 dovm. . .
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 14:20:24 2007
Siibject: Vic
Guilty on three of four federal counts. Yikes... that's prison.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 5:06 PM
To: Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re; Letter with ADN column
Great !
Original Message
From: Leschper, Beth (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 17:05:16 2007
Siobject: Letter with ADN column
The letter was hand-delivered to leg offices this afternoon.
Beth Leschper
Deputy Communications Director
Office of the Governor
State of Alaska
907-465-3443
907-723-1321
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 4:55 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Sure thing I can look into the Lands arena as well .
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 16:30:47 2007
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Maybe something with lands?
My dad says he loves your letter about the farmer used to smelling the smell... Mora loves
it too!
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Frora: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:15:43
To : ExternalEraailgsp <gov . sarahSyahoo . com>
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Privileged
Oh yes ■ . . . .Kerm mentioned him as well. . .and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the
|PrivileaedH ^°^^^ that we have not been able to fill.
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues.
-Original Message-
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto : gov . sarah®yahoo . com]
1
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Before I forget- ray former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry** device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:01:37
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Privileged or Personal IVIaterial Redacted
Here is the rundown on these Boards:
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Phew. ..this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let me know any questions or concerns
you may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots, Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Ptiblic Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Commission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
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Unknown
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 4:54 PM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR)
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Amen brother.
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Irwin, Tom E (DNR)" <tom.irwin@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:47:46
To : ExternalEraailgsp <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: RE: Op ed on the web
I hope he wasn't sarcastic. We must have Bruce 's assistance: he is extremely
knowledgeable, his writing is excellent, he is always doing what is best and equally
important he is loyal to you.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:43 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Thanks- I thought he surely was being sarcastic and I told Tibbies that folks had better
quit • bad- mouthing Bruce, as I'm the one requesting Bruce 's assistance on ACES messaging.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Irwin, Tom E (DNR)" <tom.irwin®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:33:09
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To : ExternalEmailgsp <;gov . sarahSyahoo . com>
Cc: "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR) " <marty.rutherford®alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: Op ed on the web
I guess not, although most of us did not know Russ either. We will make sure he meets DNR
people when they go to Juneau and I will ask Russ to stop by when he is in Anchorage and
we will take him around and introduce him.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:27 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
Subject: Fw: Op ed on the web
Does Russ really not know Bruce Anders?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:18:21
To: "Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Joe
Balash" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "K Perry" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Beth Leschper"
<beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, "Pat Galvin" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>
Subj ect : Re : Op ed on the web
Pis format it or I can do it myself .
And who's Bruce Anders? He works for DNR, I asked him to look at the op-ed for me to add
anything important, and he did so. Did you really not know who he was?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
-Original Message-
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
2
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1
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:03:04
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>, "Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)" < joe. balash@alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)"
<kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth. leschper®alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patrick
S (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <inike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Sub j ect : Re : Op ed on the web
Too late to do any good at this point, but I will mention it in my travels and let them
know it ' s up .
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) ; Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 13:01:04 2007
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Does Russ want to format this into letter from me to leggies? And run it through
signature machine to hand out asap, before they read on line.
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:18:46
To:gov.sarah@yahoo.cora, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina
Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)"
<beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patricks (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Anders, Bruce F (DNR)"
<bruce . anderssalaska . gov>
Subject: FW: Op ed on the web
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Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
From: Zencey, Matt [mailto:MZencey@adn.com <mailto:MZencey@adn.com> ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Op ed on the web
Sharon,
FYI, we're posting the governor's compass on the web right away. It's on the Inside
Opinion blog, http://comraunity.adn.com/adn/node/H2712
<http://coramunity.adn.com/adn/node/112712> .
Matt
Original Message-
From: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) [mailto:sharon.leighow@alaska.gov
<mailto : Sharon. leighow®alaska . gov> 1
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Zencey, Matt
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Subject: op ed
Matt-
I have attached the Friday op ed piece and the release form.
Thanks !
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 4:43 PM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Thanks- I thought he surely was being sarcastic sind I told Tibbies that folks had better
quit bad- mouthing Bruce, as I'm the one requesting Bruce 's assistance on ACES messaging.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Irwin, Tom E (DNR)" <tom. irwin(8alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:33:09
To : ExtemalEmallgsp <gov . sarah@yahoo . cora>
Cc: "Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)" <marty . rutherf ord®alaska . gov>
Subject: RE: Op ed on the web
I guess not, although most of us did not know Russ either. We will make sure he meets DNR
people when they go to Juneau and I will ask Russ to stop by when he is in Anchorage and
we will take him around and introduce him.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah@yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:27 PM
To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR); Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
Subject: Fw: Op ed on the web
Does Russ really not know Bruce Anders?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:18:21
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To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon. leighow®alaska,gov>, "Joe
Balash" <joe.balaah@alaska.gov>, "K Perry" ^kris .perry®alaska.gov>, "Beth Leschper"
<beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, "Pat Galvin" <patrick.galviii@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Pis format it or I can do it myself.
And who's Bruce Anders? He works for DNR, I asked him to look at the op-ed for me to add
anything important, and he did so. Did you really not know who he was?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:03:04
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" < Sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>, "Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)"
<kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patrick
S (DOR)" <patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Too late to do any good at this point, but I will mention it in my travels and let them
know it ' s up .
Original Message
From : gov , sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) ; Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce P (DNR)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 13:01:04 2007
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Does Russ want to format this into letter from me to leggies? And run it through
signature machine to hand out asap, before they read on line.
2
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Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon. leigbow®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:18:46
To:gov.sarah®yahoo.com, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina
y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)"
<beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)" <patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Anders, Bruce F (DNR) "
<bruce . anders@alaska . gov>
Subject: FW: Op ed on the web
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
From: Zencey, Matt [mailto:MZencey@adn.com <mailto:MZencey@adn.com> ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Sub j ect : Op ed on the web
PRA GSP01 0007290
Sharon ,
FYI, we're posting the governor's compass on the web right away. It's on the Inside
Opinion blog, http://community.adn.cora/adn/node/112712
<http://community.adn.com/adn/node/ll2712> .
Matt
Original Message-
From: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) [mailto;sharon. leighow@alaska.gov
<mailto : Sharon . leighow®alaska . gov> ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Zencey, Matt
Si;bject: op ed
Matt-
1 have attached the Friday op ed piece and the release form.
Thanks !
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
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Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpaiin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 1 :24 PM
To: 'ftb907@yahoo.com'; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); ExtemalEmailgsp
Subject: Fw: aces oped.doc
This isn't slamming anyone...
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Co: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce P (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Irwin, Tom E (DNR); ExtemalEmailgsp; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped.doc
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something like this .
retaining the tone.
and I know it's harsh and hard - b\it tweak it please while
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Beth and
Sharon - pis keep me in tne loop as cnxs is being cweaKea, ana pis coorainate tnie effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:18 PM
Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Perry; Kristina
Y (GOV); Leschper Beth (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV);
Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Re: Op ed on the web
Pis format it or I can do it myself.
And who's Bruce Anders? He works for DNR, I asked him to look at the op-ed for me to add
anything important, and he did so. Did you really not know who he was?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:03:04
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)"
<kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patrick
S (DOR)" <patrick.galvinaalaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike . tibbles®alaska . gov>
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Too late to do any good at this point, but I will mention it in my travels and let them
know it ' s up .
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leschper,
Beth (GOV) ; Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) ; Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 13:01:04 2007
Subject: Re: Op ed on the web
Does Russ want to format this into letter from me to leggies? And run it through
1
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signature machine to hand out asap, before they read on line.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:18:46
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <:joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina
Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)"
<beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Anders, Bruce P (DNE) "
<bruce . anders®alaska . gov>
Subject: FW: Op ed on the web
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
2 69-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
From: Zencey, Matt [mailto:MZencey@adn.com <raailto:MZencey®adn.com> ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Op ed on the web
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Sharon,
FYI, we're posting the governor's compass on the web right away. It's on the Inside
Opinion blog, http://community.adn.com/adn/node/112712
<http://community.adn.com/adn/node/112712> .
Matt
Original Message-
From: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) [mailto: sharon.leighow@alaska.gov
<mailto : Sharon. leighow®alaska . gov> ]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Zencey, Matt
Subject: op ed
Matt-
I have attached the Friday op ed piece and the release form.
s
I Thanks !
i
i
i Sharon Leighow
I
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 1 1:57 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: 'Trifecta of Absurdity"
Enough! Right on. But it'll be fun to see what jay comes up with next :)
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" < ivy. f ry e@alaska.gov >
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:19:11
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)"
<f rank . bailey@alaska . gov> , gov . sarahayahoo . com, f ek9wnr®yahoo . com
Subject; "Trifecta of Absurdity"
Amen! This guy has hit the nail on the head! Of course, I am only sharing MY personal
opinion .
Enough !
Ramras hits a trifecta
In the Legislature's debate about fixing Alaska's corruption- tainted oil tax, Fairbanks
Republican Rep. Jay Ramras is providing xmintentional comic relief. From his perch on the
House Oil and Gas Committee, he has committed a trifecta of absurdity.
First, he suggested that Gov. Sarah Palin was the second coming of Joe McCarthy, the anti-
Communist witch hunter of the 1950s. Ramras seemed to be saying that with mean ol ' Sarah
pushing so hard for a new oil production tax, legislators like him who dared resist the
change faced McCarthy- style political persecution.
Next, Ramras compared himself to the famous unknown protester in China who stopped a line
of tanks in Tiananmen Square during a brief uprising in the late 1980s. If necessary,
Ramras said, he'd do the same -- meaning, presumably, he'd stand up to the oppressive
power of the state Legislature and governor and defend the poor, powerless oil companies
of Alaska.
Finally, Ramras complained about how hard it is to be an oil company in Alaska.. Those poor
companies, he said -- the masses of Alaskans just don't understand how hard it is to scour
the world looking for oil and try to keep making more money so your shareholders will be
happy .
Memo to Rep. Ramras: Oil company shareholders aren't the ones you're paid to worry about.
Check your Alaska Constitution. You're paid to worry about Alaskans, who are shareholders
in Alaska's oil wealth. Your job is, as the Alaska Constitution says, to get Alaskans the
maximum benefit from the development of those publicly owned resources.
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There's plenty of room to disagree about what "maximum benefit" means when a legislator is
making oil tax decisions. In that debate, Alaska's oil companies and supporters have no
trouble making their voices heard, without the rhetorical excesses of Jay Ramras.
BOTTOM LINE: Some legislators don't know when they are hurting their own cause.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:54 AM
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Sched
Today: talis colberg ratg 12:30.
KTUU interview 12:00.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 1 1:32 AM
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Sched
Wed nov 14. Spin kid's appt before I hop on rtn fit to Juneau.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo,com
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 1 0:44 AM
To: Fagerstrom; Erika (GOV)
Subject: Re: Cancellation of 1 0:00 a.m. deployment todayl
Listen for an ellipitcal thingy if you can. That's easier on my knees than treadmill. And
any old weights. Thanks!
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Original Message
From: "Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika. fagerstrom@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:50:54
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov . sarahoyahoo . com>
Subject: RE: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Hello, bummer about the deployment cancellation!! We'll take care of the Tbed & the
fruit! I think you'll like it up there and if not- the spot in your office where that big
armoire used to be might be good. I'll keep my ears & eyes open for a treadmill.
Erika Fagerstrom
Executive Residence Manager
Governor ' s House
State of Alaska, Office of the Governor
716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-465-3500; Fax: 907-465-2031
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:19 AM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd
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Siibject: Fw: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Hi E- could someone pick up fresh fruit for the she, and ythe girls say the sunbed should
go un the cedar closet if u can squeeze it up there . Thanks !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2 007 17:08:33
To: "Janice Mason" <janice.mason@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow"
<sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Beth Leschper" <beth,leschper@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "M Nizich" <mike.nizich®alaska.gov> Cc:"K Perry"
<kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Todd" <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Hmmm- not good. This is the reason I flew to Anchorage, missing more of the special
session, and it's what I told reporters yest. I'll turn around from my trip into kulis and
head for the Anchorage office instead.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Mason, Janice L (GOV)" <j anice.mason@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:43:21
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sareih®yahoo.com>
Cc:"5erry, Kristina Y (C30V) " <kris .perryQalaska . gov>
Subject: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Governor - I just spoke with McHugh Pierre. The deployment that we had on your schedule
for 10:00 a.m. today happened yesterday morning. There was no ceremony - it was just a
handful that deployed for 45 days. Apparently it was continuation of group that went out
Sunday evening (Lt. Gov) attended that one. Sorry for any inconvenience. Janice
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Cc;
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gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:04 AM
Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Re: ACES op ed - final
Good to go with those tiny tweaks I just gave Sharon. Thanks alll
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon. leighpw®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:24:36
To: "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: ACES op ed - final
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary-
Deputy Communications Director
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455-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1I
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 10:08 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment todayl
RATS--thougbt I was going to see you in JNU. Have a good day--there's a reason you are
there ! : )
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarahoyahoo . com>
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thu Nov 01 09:11:17 2007
Subject: Fw: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:08:33
To: "Janice Mason" <janice.mason®alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow"
<sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>, "Beth Leschper" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "M Nizich" <mike.nizich@alaska.gov>
Cc:"K Perry" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Todd" <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Hmmm- not good. This is the reason I flew to Anchorage, missing more of the special
session, and it's what I told reporters yest. I'll turn around from my trip into kulis and
1 head for the Anchorage office instead.
i
Sent from my BlackBerry"' device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Mason, Janice L (GOV)" <janice.mason@alaska.gov>
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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:43:21
To: Sarah Palin <gov. sarah®yahoo.com>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Governor - I just spoke with McHugh Pierre. The deployment that we had on your schedule
for 10:00 a.m. today happened yesterday morning. There was no ceremony - it was just a
handful that deployed for 45 days. Apparently it was continuation of group that went out
Sunday evening (Lt. Gov) attended that one. Sorry for any inconvenience. Janice
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Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:09 AM
Mason; Janice L (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Tibbies; Michael
A (GOV); Nizlch; Michael A (GOV)
Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV); Todd
Re: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Hmram- not good. This is the reason I flew to Anchorage, missing more of the special
session, and it's what I told reporters yest. I'll turn around from my trip into kulis and
head for the Anchorage office instead.
Sent from my BlaclcBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Mason, Janice L (GOV)" <janice.mason®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:43:21
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Subject: Cancellation of 10:00 a.m. deployment today!
Governor - I just spoke with McHugh Pierre. The deployment that we had on your schedule
for 10:00 a.m. today happened yesterday morning. There was no ceremony - it was just a
handful that deployed for 45 days, ^parently it was continuation of group that went out
Sunday evening (Lt. Gov) attended that one. Sorry for any inconvenience. Janice
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 8:09 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: DOJ
FYI-i am meeting with a lawyer from Dept of Justice today in Ji«ieau re Elections issues. I
am working to comply with their desire to have six different Native tongues available on
the touch screen voting machines. We already provide language assistance in certain
precincts, but we don't have audio recordings available on the touchscreens in the Native
dialects. Justice threatened to sue over it before picking up the phone to tell us they
thought we had a problem. Seems like a suit happy time of year for folks.
Sean
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 6:04 AM
To: Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Subject: Re: aces oped.doc
I'm still tweaking it- then have to run to kulis for deployment...
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 21:52:44 2007
Subject; Re: aces oped.doc
Got it. Thanks
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 21:51:44 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped.doc
On re-read and in light of the progress we've made tonight, I think we should
Privileged or Pei
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
-Pat
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:42 PM
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Leschper, Beth (GOV)
1
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Subject: Re: aces oped. doc
I ' m looking at a couple other suggested comments
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P rivileged or Personal Material Redact ed iLet me keep looking and comparing
ana incorporating. . .
And thank you guys for the great job putting this together.
Original Message
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 18:44:03 2007
Subject: Re: aces oped. doc
Ok boss, Pat and I are getting nervous that you haven't responded or provided any
feedback. If you don't like our approach, we can go back to the drawing board tonight.
Tomorrow will be a busy day, though, and we want to get it in for Friday.
Original Message
From: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 16:24:11 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
Joe and I are done with a draft and will send it in 5 minutes.
-Pat
PS: Beth will be fine and ready to work with us beginning tomorrow. Thank you for calling
her, it went a long way.
-- — Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)" <patrick . galvinsalaska . gov>
Sent: 10/31/2007 3:13 PM
Subject: Fw: aces oped. doc
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Bruce ' s suggestions
Original Message
From: Anders, Bruce P (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Wed Oct 31 15:09:53 2007
Subject: RE: aces oped. doc
I've heard nothing from Joe or the writing team, and have no idea if drafts are in the
works. So I am apologetically sending my thoughts to you directly, as I don't know if
something with my name on it will see the light of day otherwise.
Unfortunately, today is a disaster -- big things exploding in my oil and gas world, so
this was a major rush job. And I will not breach surface until tonight. But here are my
thoughts, for what they are worth, based upon your original draft.
Bruce
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:06 AM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Anders, Bruce F (DNR); Leschper,
Beth (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Irwin, Tom E (DNR); ExternalEmailgsp ; Rutherford,
Marty K (DNR) ; Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: aces oped. doc
something like this . . . and I know it's harsh and hard - hut tweak it pleafle whil
retaining the tone . . . Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Beth and
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Sharon - pis keep me in the loop as this is being tweaked, and pis coordinate the effort
so we're not all stepping on each other through the process.
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Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 1 :05 PM
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECiPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 2:33 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Kohring guilty
Kohring found guilty on most counts
Vic Kohring tahs to the media Wednesday at the Anchorage federal courthouse. A jury convicted him on three of four charges today.
Fonner state Rep. Vic Kohring was convicted this afternoon of thtee of fmir counts of corruption for selling influence to Veco Corp. executives. A
federsd jury found him guilty of conspiracy, attempted extortion and bribery. He was found not guilty of extortion 2:19 p.m. AKST
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From: Nizich, Michael A (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=MANIZICH]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 8:09 AM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: Wolf Tests Positive for Rabies
The Wolf carcass was tested last night and came back positive. F&G is working with health officials in the YK
area. This advisory release went out last night from F&G.
Mike N
From: Clarke, Ronald G (DFG)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:48 AM
To: Nizich, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Wolf Tests Positive for Rabies
Hi Mike,
Just wanted to be sure you heard about this and passed the word to the appropriate folks at the OOG. People
get a little jumpy when they hear the word "rabies," and rightly so. Holler if you have any questions (cell: 321-
4528). We're steering inquiries to a couple of level-headed PIOs, Cathie Harms (ADF&G) and Greg Wilkinson
(DHSS), and State Veterinarian Bob Geriach (DEC) is prepared to talk to callers if need be. I'd like to to hear
about it if anyone contacts your office about this.
rgc
Ronald G. Clarke
Assistant Director
Division of Wildlife Conservation
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
1255 West 8th Street
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, AK 99811-5526
(907)465-4114
fax: (907) 465-6142
8/26/2009
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Bailey, Frank! (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Thursday, November 01. 2007 5:20 PM
kris.perry@alaska.gov; gov.sarah@yahoo.com; fek9wnr@yahoo.com;
sharon.leighow@alaska.gov
FW; Rural CAP
Pictures of Rhonda's 13yr old dressed up as a Moose Nugget.
Original Message
From: Rhonda McBride [mailto:rhonda9hats@mac.coni]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:51 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Rural CAP
Frank,
Hope you had a fun night with the "Bailey munchkins." My son is 13. It's hard to believe
he was once a munchin. Am attaching some pix of his costume. Of all things... he
decided he wanted to be a "moose nugget." I guess he's a real Alaska boy.
As for your questions about Rural CAP I'm familiar with the agency, but not with the
Governor's appointment. With my graveyard schedule, I've not been so good about reading
the newspaper thoroughly. So I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Is an appointment about to be made?
Thanks,
Rhonda
RHONDA MCBRIDE 'S CONTACT INFO:
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On Wednesday, October 31, 2007, at 04:41PM, "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)"
<frank.bailey@alaska.gov> wrote:
>Hi Rhonda,
>
>
>
>I understand from Kris that you're working grave shift right now so I
>don't want to take the chance of waking you with a "middle of your
>night" phone call. Can you give me a quick shout when, you get a chance
>regarding the Governor's appointment to Rural CAP?
>
>
>
>269-7459's the desk and it'll ring to my cell this evening ... although I
>may be out trick or treating with the Bailey munchkins.
>
>
>
>Thanx !
>
>
>
>F
>
>
>
>Director, Boards and Commissions
>
>Office of Governor Sarah Palin
>
>907-269-7450
>
PRA GSP01 0007322
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From: Frye, ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=iJFRYEI
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:58 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey; Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Don testliying at 6:00 In (S) JUD
New and Improved Testimony. . . if s still all about the love for SP and ACES
8/28/2009
PRA GSP01 0007323
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From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 9:51 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Kreitzer; Annette E (DOA)
Subject: email
Dear Governor Palin,
Commissioner Kreitzer and I have a proposed fbmi for you regarding email. If you have time today let me
know when and I will bring it over and conference call Comm. Kreitzer (she is in Juneau) from your office to
explain the form. Talis
8/28/2009
PRA GSP01 0007324
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From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Thursday, November 01 , 2007 8:43 AM
To: Sarah Palln
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Cancellation of 1 0:00 a.m. deployment today!
Governor - I just spoke with McHugh Pierre. The deployment that we had on your schedule
for 10:00 a.m. today happened yesterday morning. There was no ceremony - it was just a
handful that deployed for 45 days. Apparently it was continuation of group that went out
Sunday evening (Lt. Gov) attended that one. Sorry for any inconvenience. Janice
PRA GSP01 0007325
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=FTBA1LEY]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:03 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Mason; Janice L (GOV); Peny; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Board Slots
Govemor,
I'd like to grab 20min with you to cover some Board spots that we've been working to fill or re-up. There are two
that Cora has set up for us, two task-forces that I want to finalize, and two other slots.
20min will be sufficient. Any fime your sked allows.
Thanks much.
F
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Govemor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007326
Wall Street Project Economic Summit Page 1 of 2
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From: Govemor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:21 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Invitation to Attend 1 1th Annual Wad Street Project Economic Summit
From: PubiicReiations@wallstreetproject.org [mailto:PublicRelations@walistreetproject.org]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:57 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Invitation to Attend 11th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit
Rainbow PUSH Action Center
Dear Friend an d Colle ague:
* I want to personally invite you to join America's most influential
corporate, government, faith, labor and world leadership at the 11
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,at 53'''' Street, New York, NY 10019. Our conference theme is "New
I Congress, New America, New Opportunities: Expanding the
I Economic Agenda." Please visit the Wall Street Project website at
www.wallstreetproject.org for complete and up-to-date conference
schedules, registration forms, hotel information and travel information.
What is the 11th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit?
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Each year, the Wall Street Project Conference convenes a truly historic gathering of America's
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If you are involved in the process of establishing, expanding or managing a business or
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1 1th Annual Wall Street Project Conference.
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007327
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Why We Do the Conference:
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:05 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Top Forty Under 40 Reception
From: Gina Romero [mailto:communications@anchoragechamber.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:40 PM
To: Gina Romero
Subject: Top Forty Under 40 Reception
Alaska Lawmakers Invited!
2007 Inaugural Top Forty Under 40 Reception
hosted by:
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
Alaska Journal of Commerce
WHAT: As a member of the Alaska Legislature, you and a guest are invited
to a hosted reception to meet the 2007 Top Forty Under 40 Recipients after
the awards luncheon on Monday, November 5. This is an opportunity for
you to network with the recipients, and the Anchorage Chamber Board of
Directors..
WHERE: Josephines, located on the top floor of the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel
WHEN: Monday, November 5, 4-7 p.m.
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007329
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Friday, November 02, 2007 1 1:18 AM
'gov.sarah@yalioo.com'
Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Perfect.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah@yahoo. com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 02 11:15:38 2007
Subject: Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Use tracks example. And we've all heard example of girl can't get ears pierced without
consent ...
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Prank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:10:40
To:ExtemalEmailgsp <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>, "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)"
<sr.parnell®alaska . gov>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <raike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW) "
<talig.colberg@alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kria.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leighow,
Sharon W (GOV)" < Sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
We're on it. Talis and Sean have both given some excellent points to key off of.
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto : gov . sarah@yahoo . com]
1
PRA GSP01 0007330
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:00 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV); PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow,
Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Yes. There must be a response. Work with Sean on it too. This is Outrageous.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®a_laska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:38:26
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, talis. colberg®alaska. gov, "Perry,
Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)"
< Sharon. leighow@alaska,gov> I
Subject: FW: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Governor ,
State Supreme Court decision 3-2 holds the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional.
There are 40 states that currently have parental involvement laws
There are 26 states that currently have parental consent laws
There are 3 states that have ruled them unconstitutional:
California
Florida
and now Alaska
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
More info including the actual ruling are coming, but shall we have Talis work with Mike
and Sharon on an appropriate response?
PRA GSP01 0007331
From: frank bailey [mailto:ftb907@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Fwd: Parental Consent Decision
Kevin Clarkson <kclarkson@brenalaw.com> wrote:
From: "Kevin Clarkson" <kclarkson®brenalaw,com>
To: "'frank bailey'" <ftb907®yahoo.com>
Svibject: Parental Consent Decision
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0800
Frank,
The Governor should be told that this morning the Alaska Supreme Court issued
a decision in the Parental Consent case. The Court by a 3-2 majority, in an opinion
written by Justice Dana Fabe, held the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional. I am
the attorney for the State of Alaska in this case and I will be happy to brief anyone on
this ruling.
Kevin
Solutions for Every Legal Challenge
Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
Kevin G. Clarkson
PRA GSP01 0007332
<mailto : kclarksonobrenalaw. com> kclarkson®brenalaw. com
810 N. St., Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
tel: 907-258-2000
fax: 907-258-2001
Also. . .Talis forwarded this
From: Grace, Joanne M (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW); Gordon, Nancy R (LAW); DeYoung, Jan H
(LAW) ; Jenicek, Monica (LAW)
Subject: Planned Parenthood v. State Case
The Supreme Court has issued a decision today in the parental consent for abortion case.
The state lost, 3-2, with a long dissent. Kevin Clarkson is going to email me the
decision and a summary. The decision is embargoed until 12:30 today.
Joanne Grace
PRA GSP01 0007333
Please note that my email has changed. My new email address is joanne.grace@alaska.gov
<mailto : j oanne . grace®alaska . gov>
PRA GSP01 0007334
KTUU Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:00 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: RE: KTUU
got it
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Fri 11/2/2007 4:59 PM
To: Frank Bailey; Perry, Kristfna Y (GOV); PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored); Sally Heath; Molly; Heather;
Chuck; Todd
Subject: KTUU
On ktuu.com vote on their on-line poll re: disagreeing with today's Ak Supreme Court parental consent opinion.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007335
Unknown
I
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 02 , 2007 1 1 : 1 3 AM
To: Colberg; Talis J (LAW); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Frank Bailey; PARNELL; S (GOV
sponsored)
Subject: Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:05:47
To:ExternalEmailgsp <gQv. sarah®yahoo. com>
Subject: RE: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Dear Governor Palin,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
j Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.cora]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:00 AM
1 To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) ; PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow,
; Sharon W (GOV)
Sxibject: Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
PRA GSP01 0007336
Yes. There must be a response. Woek with Sean on it too. This is Outrageous.
Sent from my BlacJtBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:38:26
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, talis. colberg@alaska.gov, "Perry,
Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)"
< Sharon. leighow®alaska .gov>
Subject: FW: Parental consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pra today
Governor,
State Supreme Court decision 3-2 holds the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional.
There are 40 states that currently have parental involvement laws
There are 25 states that currently have parental consent laws
There are 3 states that have ruled them unconstitutional:
California
Florida
and now Alaska
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
More info including the actual ruling are coming, but shall we have Talis work with Mike
and Sharon on an appropriate response?
PRA GSP01 0007337
From: frank bailey [inailto:ftb907®yahoo.cora]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject; Fwd: Parental Consent Decision
Kevin Clarkson <kclarkson®brenalaw.com> wrote:
From: "Kevin Clarkson" <kclarkson@brenalaw.com>
To: " 'frank bailey'" < ftb9 07 ©yahoo. com>
Subject: Parental Consent Decision
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0800
Frank,
The Governor should be told that this morning the Alaska Supreme Court issued
a decision in the Parental Consent case. The Court by a 3-2 majority, in an opinion
written by Justice Dana Fabe, held the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional. I am
the attorney for the State of Alaska in this case and I will be happy to brief anyone on
this ruling.
Kevin
Solutions for Every Legal Challenge
j
I Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
Kevin G. Clarkson
^ <mailto:kclarkson@brenalaw.com> kclarksonsbrenalaw . com
i
I 810 N. St. , Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
tel: 907-258-2000
fax: 907-258-2001
PRA GSP01 0007338
Also. . .Talis forwarded this
From: Grace, Joanne M (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW); Gordon, Nancy R (LAW); DeYoung, Jan H
(LAW) ; Jenicek, Monica (LAW)
Subject: Planned Parenthood v. State Case
The Supreme Court has issued a decision today in the parental consent for abortion case.
The state lost, 3-2, with a long dissent. Kevin Clarkson is going to email me the
decision and a summary. The decision is embargoed until 12:30 today.
Joanne Grace
Please note that my email has changed. My new email address is joanne.grace@alaska.gov
<raailto : j oanne . grace@alaska . gov>
PRA GSP01 0007339
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Importance:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com . .
Friday, November 02, 2007 1 1 : 1 1 AM
Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Frank Bailey; PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Fw: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
High
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov , sarahOyahoo . com
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:00:29
To: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>, "Sean Parnell"
<SR_Parnell®gov, state. ak.us>
Cc:"Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Talis Colberg" <talis.colberg®alaska.gov>, "K
Perry" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Yes. There must be a response. Woek with Sean on it too. This is Outrageous.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Prank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:38:26
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, talis. colberg@alaska.gov, "Perry,
Kristina Y (GOV) " <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)"
< Sharon . leighow@alaska . gov>
Subject: FW: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pra today
PRA GSP01 0007340
Governor,
State Supreme Court decision 3-2 holds the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional.
There are 40 states that currently have parental involvement laws
There are 25 states that currently have parental consent laws
There are 3 states that have ruled them unconstitutional :
California
Florida
and now Alaska
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
More info including the actual ruling are coming, but shall we have Talis work with Mike
and Sharon on an appropriate response?
From: frank bailey [mailto:ftb907@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Stibject: Fwd: Parental Consent Decision
Kevin Clarkson <kclarkson@brenalaw.com> wrote:
From: "Kevin Clarkson" <kclarkson@brenalaw.coma
To: "'frank bailey'" <ftb907®yahoo.com>
2
PRA GSP01 0007341
I
Subject: Parental Consent Decision
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0800
Frank,
The Governor should be told that this morning the Alaska Supreme Court issued
a decision in the Parental Consent case. The Court by a 3-2 majority, in an opinion
written by Justice Dana Fabe, held the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional. I am
the attorney for the State of Alaska in this case and I will be happy to brief anyone on
this ruling.
Kevin
Solutions for Every Legal Challenge
Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
Kevin G. Clarkson
<mailto : kclarksonObrenalaw. com> kclarkson®brenalaw. com
810 N. St. , Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
tel: 907-258-2000
fax: 907-258-2001
Also... Talis forwarded this
PRA GSP01 0007342
5
From: Grace, Joanne M (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW); Gordon, Nancy R (LAW); DeYoung, Jan H
(LAW) ; Jenicek, Monica (LAW)
Subject: Planned Parenthood v. State Case
The Supreme Court has issued a decision today in the parental consent for abortion case.
The state lost, 3-2, with a long dissent. Kevin Clarkson is going to email me the
decision and a summary. The decision is embargoed until 12:30 today.
Joanne Grace
Please note that my email has changed. My new email address is joanne.grace@alaska.gov
<mailto : j oanne . grace@alaska , gov>
PRA GSP01 0007343
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Friday, November 02, 2007 11:00AM
Bailey; Frank T (GOV); PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow; Sharon
W (GOV)
Re: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Yes. There must be a response. Woek with Sean on it too. This is Outrageous.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <f rank.bailey®aiaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:38:26
To : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, talis. colberg@alaska.gov, "Perry,
Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)"
< Sharon . leighowaalaska . gov>
Subject: FW: Parental Consent Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Governor ,
State Supreme Court decision 3-2 holds the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional.
There are 40 states that currently have parental involvement laws
There are 26 states that currently have parental consent laws
There are 3 states that have ruled them unconstitutional:
California
Florida
and now Alaska
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
More info including the actual ruling are coming, but shall we have Talis work with Mike
and Sharon on an appropriate response?
1
PRA GSP01 0007344
Prom: frank bailey [mailto:ftb907(ayahoo.com]
sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Fwd: Parental Consent Decision
Kevin Clarkson <kclarkson@brenalaw.com> wrote:
From: "Kevin Clarkson" <kclarkson®brenalaw. corns
To: "'frank bailey'" <ftb907@yahoo.com>
Subject: Parental Consent Decision
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0800
Frank,
The Governor should be told that this morning the Alaska Supreme Court issued
a decision in the Parental Consent case. The Court by a 3-2 majority, in an opinion
written by Justice Dana Fabe, held the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional. I am
the attorney for the State of Alaska in this case and I will be happy to brief anyone on
this ruling.
Kevin
Solutions for Every Legal Challenge
Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
PRA GSP01 0007345
Kevin G. Clarkson
<mailto : kclarkson@brenalaw. com> kolarkson®breiialaw. com
810 N, St. , Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
tel: 907-258-2000
fax: 907-258-2001
Also... Talis forwarded this
From: Grace, Joanne M (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW); Gordon, Nancy R (LAW); DeYoung, Jan H
(LAW) ; Jenicek, Monica (LAW)
Subject: Planned Parenthood v. State Case
The Supreme Court has issued a decision today in the parental consent for abortion case.
The state lost, 3-2, with a long dissent. Kevin Clarkson is going to email me the
decision and a summary. The decision is embargoed until 12:30 today.
PRA GSP01 0007346
Joanne Grace
Please note that ray email has changed. My new email address is joanne.grace@alaska.gov
<mailto : j oanne . grace@alaska . gov>
PRA GSP01 0007347
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:58 AM
To: mrkdstudio@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Legal_andjawsults
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From : WebMail®gov . state . ak . us [mailto : WebMailSgov . state . ak . us]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:45 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Legal_and_lawsuits
Web mail from: Mr. Clifton Chandler
address: 2419 E 86th Court Anchorage AK 99507
907-980-0307
MESSAGE :
Governor Palin,
My name is Clif Chandler. You may not remember me (I'm 27 now), but I practically grew up
sitting at the back of all those Republican meetings, Wasilla City Council hearings,
Political debates, countless fundraisers, and picnics. I designed the 2O00 Republican
State Convention logo. I went to your Mom's church. I walked in hundreds of parades
including most of yours when you were running for our local offices. On my birthday at
eighteen, I was at one of those limcheons at the Matsu Resort and signed on the dotted
line to be a registered voter. I have grown up watching the grassroots movement surge and
subside like the ocean tides. I have watched many a politician say one thing and do
another and promise to do better the next time. I've watched as our Republican party has
been rocked by scandal and misrepresentation, torn apart and pieced together with a mire
full of half truths and compromises. (Don't get me started on the Democrats or the
dedicated pot- smoking Independents.)
Even with all that, I have respected you. You seemed to have a certain poise about you.
You spoke your mind and you got things done. I wore a Palin for Governor pin and voted
for you in the elections. I defended you in front of critics on all sides of the
political quandary. I couldn't wait to see how you would change the status quo as you had
promised because I believed in you. I believed you. I even challenged those including my
parents that you were not one of THOSE politicians. That you were different. Was I
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wrong?
Given your resent comments regarding Vic Kohring, the trials, and a list of other
politically correct mantras, I have to wonder if you are the same strong individual who
stood up to school boards, entrenched liberals, nay-sayers, and government bureaucrats I
remember from my youth. You SEEM to have given in to the political posturing you swore to
despise, the split-tongued language of the power hungry, the wishy-washy Clinton-ese of
elevated public service, and the stomach churning politically correct bile that has become
our political system's favorite communication style. Have you lost the very backbone that
made you the Sarah Palin the common PEOPLE used to love? The Sarah Palin that supposedly
won the Governor's seat, becoming the First Woman to hold that office in Alaska, by her
intelligence, her savvy, quick wit and moral integrity, not because she looks good in a
business skirt or because she can play hard ball with the Big Boys. Have you really
changed that much?
I don't understand. Are you just listening to the media's misrepresentation of the facts
or are you just finding the most advantageous position to further your career?
Specifically, Vic Kohring has been a beacon of integrity since before I could legally
drive. His sign "HARDWORKING - CONSERVATIVE" doesn't even come close to describing his
character. He has been a rock in a shifting mire of political garbage. Has he made
mistakes? I'm sure of it. BUT he has been the first to admit it when it's been brought
to his attention. On countless issues and elections, I know no other politician, besides
Vic, who refused to join in when the mudslinging started, I remember he got your back
when you were under suspicion in your own oil and gas scandal. And yet, you don't feel
the least bit ashamed when you stab hira in the back as you look for a few more pats on the
head from the same stuffy- shirted snakes who said you'd never make it this far? The least
you could have done was hold your tongue and show that a true leader should be cautious
and level headed when passing judgement, especially when someone's life hangs in the
balance .
I really don't understand. If for some reason I am grossly misjudging the facts, I would
greatly appreciate some new insight. However, it is really hard to have any hope in a
political system that rewards the underhanded while crushing it's few true heroes.
Disappointed but respectfully,
Clifton Chandler
mrkdstudio@yahoo . com
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:56 AM
To: hope.butler@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Other
Thank you for writing to Alaslca Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, arid/ or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
Prom: WebMail®gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 6:56 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Other
Web mail from: Ms. Hope Butler
address: 130 Winkler\'s Meadow Boone NO 29607
MKSSAGE :
Governor Palin,
A friend mentioned recently that you had the highest rating in the country and that she
really admired you. She said I should look you up online, and wow -- I'm really impressed
by your record and the stances you have taken.
I can't deny that part of my enthusiasm stems from the fact that you're a resourceful,
competent woman with conservative principles. I think women would be open to the ideas of
conservatism if there were more women in office like you. With the upcoming presidential
election especially, I think some women are siding with Hillary not because they
especially agree with her ideology but because they want politics to cease to be a "man's
world."
Speaking of which, would you ever consider running as vice president if you were asked?
From a personal standpoint, I'm rooting for Ron Paul. I think he's a true conservative,
and even though I may disagree with him on some points, he's definitely the most sincere
and honest of any of the candidates on the stage. Anyway, keep up the good work! Thank
you for taking the time to read this, I know you must be busy!
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Hope
hope .butler®gmail . com
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:49 AM
To: bbjaaa@aol.com
Subject: RE: Elections
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
Prom: WebMailogov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:12 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Elections
Web mail from: Ms. Brigitte Johnson
address: 495 Beavercreek Lane Fallbrook CA 92 028
MESSAGE:
Dear Gov Palin:
We have been watching your career and have been extremely impressed. As a mother of
daughters, your rise to the top has been inspirational and I point to you as a role
model .
I am also a supporter of Gov. Mitt Romney. I think I gravitate towards excellence. Both
you and Gov. Romney exude excellence and success. You are both incredibly smart,
articulate and effective.
You are both great examples of living your life through conservative principles as well.
While you have worked hard and earned everything you have achieved, it doesn't hurt that
you are blessed with good looks and charisma as well (just like Mitt) .
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I truly cannot think of a better combination for the 08 election than you and Gov Romney
running together. There are many women -- who are not involved in politics -- who just
want to vote for a woman. Having you --a successful Republican woman on our ticket --
would certainly sway some of those women and independent voters our way ( and away from
Hillary who they don't really like to begin with) .
A ticket with you and Gov. Romney is unstoppable in my opinion. Knowing what I know about
you, 1 am sure that you are wise enough to see that Gov Romney is the ONLY candidate who
offers conservatives ALL three branches of Reagan conservatism fiscal conservatism,
national security conservatism and social conservatism. It is a three-legged stool.
Others offer only one or two of those legs and, as we know, those stools won't stand.
Additionally, he is running the most organized and well-funded campaign. We will need
those skills and "strategery" -- and money (his and ours) to beat the Clinton machine.
We Mitt fans encourage you to check out this web page http://www.freerepublic.com/
-unmarkedpackage/ that has been put together to inform others about Gov Romney 's
record {which has been unfairly distorted) . He governed extremely conservatively for a
true blue place like Massachusetts. If he can do those things there, I think it bodes well
for what he can accomplish in Washington.
Please consider endorsing Mitt Romney and joining his campaign of excellence, optimism
and progress for the future. It would be the best thing that ever happened to our country
in a long time if the two of you would join forces for change in Washington.
Thank youl
Brigitte Johnson
soccer mom in San Diego ( I sent the first email through an Alaska zip code to be sure
you ' d read it ! )
bb j aaa@aol . com
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:58 AM
To: 'ejaneisaac@yahoo.com'
Subject: RE; Other
Dear Ms. Isaac;
Thank you for your email.
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 6:21 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subj ect : other
Web mail from: Ms. Jane Isaac
address: 1710 W Beach Drive Panama City FL 32401
MESSAGE:
I read with great interest the Newsweek piece on Women and leadership (October IS 2007) .
All very positive and encouraging for women. Except the terrible picture of you walking
across a road reading your text messages, with your daughter trailing along behind you,
out of your view. Your phone is clearly more important than your daughter. Hope the Red
Bull made you feel more energetic. What an awful image of mothering.
e j aneisaacsyahoo . com
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i
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:49 AM
To: lAQ Services
Subject: RE: Budget Question
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor SaraJi Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
Prom: lAQ Services [mailto:gjbiazzoOcomcast.net]
Sent; Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:21 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Budget Question
I am doing some research on state budgets. Please answer a single question
for me. What percentage of your total state budget is spent on
education+higher education?
Please reply via email .
Thank You.
Gary Biazzo
PO Box 146
Oregon City, OR 97045
503-656-2523
gjbiazzo@comcast.net
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Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:27 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: Tbed & PImbg.
I had the wrong address . . .
Original Message
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
To: 'gov.palinOyahoo.com' <gov.palin®yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri Nov 02 19:43:29 2007
Subject: Tbed & Plmbg.
Hello,
Sorry the beds not ready to go 1 !
Here ' s an update :
-AK Club will install a timer since the remote system used by the club doesn't work for
home use-per Gail.
-Rewiring bid for 220 outlet will be Mon. 11/5 to include Todd's office as first choice.
With the ceilings/walls opened up it makes it much easier.
-The bed is up in the cedar closet, sorry I didn't realize it took a 220 outlet. As soon
as we get a spot, we'll put it together and clean it up.
The plumbing contractors re-worked the schedule to get the 2nd floor finished ASAP, I'll
send you and Todd the new schedule on Monday.
I turned the heat up-please let me know if the temp, needs to go up any more. The 1st fl.
thermostats are in the 1st fl. hall closet.
We love the Great Harvest bread! ! B had wanted to go to that bakery every time we went to
ANC, but never had enough time. Thank you also for the bamboo dif.. Ban. Republic lotion,
cute basket and pinecones- 1 love them! !
Email or call if you need anything from the grocery store or anything else! I
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Thanks ,
Erika
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Unknown
J
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 7:43 PM
To: 'gov.paiin@yahoo.com'
Subject: Tbed & PImbg.
Hello,
Sorry the beds not ready to go ! !
Here's an update:
-AK Club will install a timer since the remote system used by the club doesn't work for
home use-per Gail.
-Rewiring bid for 220 outlet will be Mon. 11/5 to include Todd's office as first choice.
With the ceilings /walls opened up it makes it much easier,
-The bed is up in the cedar closet, sorry I didn't realize it took a 220 outlet. As soon
as we get a spot, we'll put it together and clean it up.
The plumbing contractors re-worked the schedule to get the 2nd floor finished ASAP, I'll
send you and Todd the new schedule on Monday.
I turned the heat up-please let me know if the temp, needs to go up any more. The 1st fl.
thermostats are in the 1st fl. hall closet.
We love the Great Harvest bread!! B had wanted to go to that bakery every time we went to
ANC, but never had enough time. Thank you also for the bamboo dif.. Ban. Republic lotion,
cute basket and pinecones- I love them! !
Email or call if you need anything from the grocery store or anything else!!
Thanks ,
Erika
PRA GSP01 0007358
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:49 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.conn'
Subject: Re; Board Spots
Will do. Thanks.
Original Message
From: gov . sarahSyahoo. com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri Nov 02 17:46:24 2007
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Ask fred dyson or wes keller for names on this. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV) " <f rank.baileyiaalaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:42:51
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor ,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval.
Thanks!
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Privileged or F
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh yes. . . . .Kerm mentioned him as well. . .and be MIGHT be a good candidate for the
IPrivileQecT^ o^J^d that we have not been able to fill.
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues .
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Siibject: Re: Board Spots
Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina V (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject; Board Spots
Governor ,
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
i Here is the riuidown on these Boards:
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Phew. ..this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let ine know any questions or concerns
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you may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots, Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, Alberta -Alaska Bilateral Commission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
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Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:25 PM
To: Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Cc: irwin; Tom E (DNR)
Subject: Re: Over the top
I agree - they'd tick off the public even more. Pocorro says they're skipping oiur
process, going right to the Feds... maybe there are some new rumors on this. Again, he
says he'll get his "legit" source to give us more info if there is anything.
Original Message
From: Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Co: Irwin, Tom E (DNR)
Sent: Pri Nov 02 17:21:59 2007
Subject: RE: Over the top
Governor ,
This is consistent with the message Exxon has given us for many years, albeit quietly,
that they intend to go "over the top." When this came up during the SGDA' negotiations I
would occasionally ask them how they intended to deal with the federal act and state law
preclusions from going over the top. Their response was always, when the time comes we'll
"change the laws."
What is interesting is that this issue is arising at this time, particularly since there
was a rumor earlier this week that Exxon, and perhaps Enbridge, was going to make some big
announcement on Thursday. So far no annotmcement has emerged, but perhaps there is some
relationship. I have heard nothing about this issue recently from Exxon, nor from any of
the other Producer companies .
If Exxon were to go public with their desire/intention to go "over the top" with the
gasline project, Ibelieve it will' be poorly received by the public. It could be another
of their misjudgments.
Marty
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:26 PM
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To: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
Subject: Over the top
Mike Pocarro tells me a reliable source is insisting the oilies are planning an "over the
top" route w/ nat gas. He's asking his source if verified info can be revealed so we can
follow up. I told him I hadn't heard this...
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:14 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Todd; Frank Bailey
Subject: Re: mm
Excellent news! ! ! Thanks for prepping them you guysl 1 !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris .perry@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:50:39
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>, Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo. com >, Frank Bailey <ftb907
@yahoo . com>
Subj ect : RE ; mm
I'm so happy! It went well. Kristan & Torn owned it. The majority of
callers were positive. Andrew called at the end and sounded so worked
up. We thought he was crying at one point. It was so awesome. I think
it's safe to say you would have been proud.
We need to take this on the road.
Prior to the show, we - Kristan, Tom, Dick, Joe A., Joe S., and Tina -
all met and prepped. We have a good plan, and we're sticking to it.
Board meeting is tomorrow. I'll report on anything new after that.
On another note, I met w/Sherri Buretta today regarding Statehood.
During the meeting she said that she is so impressed with you. You are
not afraid to speak the truth and it is so refreshing. It is time for
the positive change you're bringing about.
-Original Message-
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From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:16 PM
To: Todd; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; Frank Bailey
Subj ect : Re : mm
Let me know how it goes.
Original Message
From : Todd
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 2, 2007 4 : 13 PM
Siibj ect : ram
Kristan and Tom are doing a great job on Fagans
show. For Tom to change his flight schedule to
participate on the show is just another example of his
character, unlike others who pick and chose which
issues they want to be involved in.
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
Sent from my BlackBer3ry(r) device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:04 PM
To: Frank Bailey; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored); Sally Heath; Molly;
Heather; Chuck; Todd
Subject: Re: KTUU
aksuperstation.com also has a poll
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:59:21
To: "Frank Bailey" <ftb907®yahoo. com>, "K Perry" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, "Sean Parnell"
<SR_Parnell@gov . state . ak . us> , "Sally Heath" <salheath@mtaonline . net> , "Molly"
<paymckhea@yahoo.com>, "Heather" <khbruce®gci.net>, "Chuck" <chckheath®yahoo.com>, "Todd"
<f ek9wnr®yahoo . com>
Subject: KTUU
On ktuu.com vote on their on-line poll re: disagreeing with today's Ak Supreme Court
parental consent opinion.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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\
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:23 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: great compass piece today re: ACES
Thanks Ivy!
After weather delays I should finally make it in this aft. I look forward to seeing the
content of the CS that should be offered soon.
I didn't get to hear Don's testimony yest- maybe GtG will replay.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frYe@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:43:39
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Subject: great compass piece today re: ACES
I thought it was awesome — very concise and simple for us all to understand. I sent it on
to your biggest fan, the one and only, Mr. Don Benson.
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Unknown
From: MacKinnon, John S (DOT) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JSMACKINN0N1]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:25 PM
To: govpalin@alaska.gov
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Ruaro; Randall P (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Subject: leaving DOT
Governor
I am writing you to officially tender my resignation as Deputy Commissioner for the Alaska Department of
Transportation and Public Facilities. I plan to stay through December to help finalize our '09 budget and tie-up a
few loose ends.
Working for the people of Alaska for the past five years has been a very satisfying experience. I have especially
appreciated being able to continue my employment as a member of your administration. Between the
professionals here at DOT/PF and your office's incredibly helpful public servants, most notably Mike Tibbies,
Randy and Russ, I could not have asked for a more professional, talented or dedicated group of colleagues.
While I will miss this job and my friends at DOT, I feel that it is time for a new challenge and experience and thus
will be accepting a position in the private sector. If there is anything I can do to be of assistance during my
replacement's transition, please know that I will be available to assist in any way possible.
I also want you to know if there is anything I can do to assist you personally as Governor, I am also avaiiable.
John MacKinnon
Deputy Commissioner of Highways
Department of Transportation &
Public Facilities
State of Alaska
465-6973
321-2047
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYEl
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1 1 :44 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: great compass piece today re: ACES
I thought it was awesome— very concise and simple for us all to understand. I sent it on to your biggest fan, the
one and only, Mr. Don Benson.
8/26/2009
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Unknown
i
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:43 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval.
Thanks !
Privileged o
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh yes Kerm mentioned him as well... and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the
iPrivileaed? ^" ^^'^ that we have not been able to fill.
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
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Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message-
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov. sarah@yahoo . com
Cc:"Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Here is the rundown on these Boards :
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Phew...this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let me know any questions or concerns you
may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots. Supreme
Court, Hiraianities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Commission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
PRA GSP01 0007375
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:43 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval.
Thanks !
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh yes Kerm mentioned him as well... and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the Privlieged
|Pri\/ilp.na rl poard that we have not been able to fill.
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah0yahoo.com [inailto:gov. sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
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Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina V (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Hers is the rundown on these Boards:
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
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Phew...this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let me know any questions or concerns you
may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots. Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, .Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Commission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-259-7450
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBA1LEY]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:38 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); talis_colberg@iaw.state.ak.us; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow;
Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: FW; Parental Conserit Decision - embargoed til 12:30pm today
Importance: High
Govemor,
State Supreme Court decision 3-2 holds the Alaska Parental Consent Act unconstitutional.
There are 40 states that currently have parental involvement laws
There are 26 states that currently have parental consent laws
There are 3 states that have ruled them unconstitutional:
California
Florida
and now Alaska
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
More info including the actual ruling are coming, but shall we have Talis woric with Mike and Sharon on an
appropriate response?
From: frank bailey [mailto:ftb907@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Fwd: Parental Consent Decisfon
Kevin Clarkson <kclarks0it@brenalaw.com> wrote:
From: "Kevin Clarkson" <kclarkson@brenalaw.com>
To: '"frank bailey'" <ftb907@yahoo.com>
Subject: Parental Consent Decision
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0800
Frank,
The Govemor should be told that this morning the Alaska Supreme Court issued a decision in the Parental
Consent case. The Court by a 3-2 majority, in an opinion written by Justice Dana Fabe, held the Alaska Parental
Consent Act unconstitutional. I am the attomey for the State of Alaska in this case and I will be happy to brief
anyone on this ruling.
Kevin
Solutions for Every Legal Challenge
Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
Kevin G. Clarkson
kclark5on@brenalavv.com
8/26/2009
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810 N. St., Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99501
tel: 907-258-2000
fax: 907-258-2001
Also.. .Talis forwarded this
From: Grace, Joanne M (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (U\W); Tillery, Craig 3 (LAW);
Gordon, Nancy R (U\W); DeYoung, Jan H (LAW);
Jenicek, l^onica (LAW)
Subject: Planned Parenthood v. State Case
The Supreme Court has issued a decision today in
the parental consent for abortion case. The state lost,
3-2, with a long dissent Kevin Clarkson is going to
email me the decision and a summary. The decision
is embargoed until 12:30 today.
Joanne Grace
Please note that my email has changed. My new
email address Is ioanneg rac6@a laska.gov
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBA1LEY]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:16 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.cQtn; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: FW: McKie in the blogs
...Interesting. As you Icnow Harris appointed IVIcKie to CACFA.
From: Saddler, Daniel R (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:55 AM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: McKie in the blogs
Looks like someone's followng McKis's career, and communicating on tf\e ADN biog.
November 1, 2007 - 1 1 :48pm | akwiffis
The other IrarfgMlv h Ihut this trad^^edy will rqiiat IfMlf--
WHERE ARE HARRIS AND GREEN TODAY? When will we be able to read the lessons they have
learned from these convictions? When will they explain how they plan to drain the ethical cesspool they
watched enlarge until the FBI brought some relief. When will the "scripting" of the fate of legislation
end? That term has even been applied to the special session by the Senate Minority Leader.
The legislature will be back in regular session in January. In the light of tiie convictions since last
January what are Harris and Green going to change?
losia or register to port comneKti | dig thb w
November 2, 2007 - 12:05am I edgefinder
He's trying to get our old pal miner-in- chai^e-of-keeping-fisheiies-sustainafole Mclde Campbell in
the revolving door.
Heck he's even got a college degree in poUtics so he must be the man for the (some) job.
Hopeftilly he gets his head in the door and not the rest of him to cause his final political decapitation,
ker plunk!
- Oan Saddler
Deputy Director, Boards and Commissions
269-7447 W; 269-7463 F
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Byers, Gail Y (LAW)
From: Dan Winkelman [Dan_Winkelman@ykhc.org]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:27 PIW
To: Palin; Sarah H (GOV)
Cc: Jackson; Karleen K (HSS); Streun William J (HSS); Fuller; Jerry (HSS); Kelly; Russell T (GOV);
Kim; Anna C (GOV); Hoffman; Lyman F (LAA); Olson; Donny (LAA); Nelson; Mary (LAA)
Subject: YKHC's Capital Requests
Governor Sarah Palin:
Please find attached the Yul^on-Kuskokwim Health Corporation's capital requests.
Thank you,
Dan Winkelman, VP for Administration & General Counsel
Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation
P.O. Box 528
Bethel, Alaska 99559
(907) 543-6032 (direct line)
(907) 543-6919 (facsimile)
(907) 351-0057 (travel cellular)
Leah Woolard, Legal Assistant (907) 543-6915
Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential and privileged
information protected by Attorney-Client Privilege and/or it may contain Attorney-
Client Work Product. If you received this message in error, please notify us by reply
e-mail or by collect telephone call at the above numbers and immediately delete all
and any attachments.
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YUKON-KUSKOKWIM HEALTH CORPORATION
Working Together to Achieve Excellent Health"
November 2, 2007
The Honorable Sarah Palin
Governor of Alaska
Post Office Box 110001
Juneau, Alaska 99811-0001
RE: Fiscal Year 2008 Capital Project Proposals
Dear Governor Palin:
On behalf of the people served by the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC), we are
pleased to provide you with our Legislative Priorities that will further inqirove the health status of this
region. As you know, YKHC provides health care under the authority of 58 federally-recognized Tribes
and pursuant to a Title V Compact with the federal government under the Indian Self-Determination Act.
YKHC provides health care services to over 50 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska,
an area the size of the State of Oregon, with virtually no roads.
Access to medical care is a significant problem for Alaska Natives, namely it is due to a lack of
necessary health care infrastructure. When infrastructure exists, access occurs primarily by boat in the
summers, by snow machine in winters, and by airplane year-round. Access to care is further limited by
the distances between villages, the cost of transportation, and the time associated with travel. During flie
harsh winter months, patient access to health care is often delayed by hours and days, until the weather
clears and planes are able to fly. Patient care has been compromised, and lives have been lost due to these
daily transportation challenges faced by patients in this region.
With your support of last session's Senate Bill 61, the Medicaid Implementation Study that is
underway, limiting general fund growth in the Medicaid program has the potential to become reality. The
Report to: State of Alaska, Senate Finance Committee, Medicaid Program Review Jan. 2007 (hereinafter
Medicaid Report), prepared by the Pacific Health Policy Group, emphasized that "it is in the state's
interest to build stronga: relationships with tribal providers . . ." but there were specific challaiges related
to Medicaid funding, mcluding the ". . . [l]ack of funding to build infrastructure." Report at 86.
YKHC recognizes the limitatioh of fimds available and in an effort to do our part to streamline
state programs, YKHC has chosen this year to prioritize our top legislative requests as follows:
1) Prematemal Home Construcdon Funds;
2) Assisted Living Home Construction Funds; and
3) Technology Equipment Funds.
We respectfijlly request your favorable consideration and support of these projects in your capital
budget request for consideration by the next Legislature.
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1. Prematernal Home Construction Funds
The first priority is for $9.7 million to fimd the construction of a new facility for the Bethel
Prematernal Home. Women of the villages are asked to come to Bethel to await the delivery of their child
up to one month prior to their delivery date. The facility is presently 36 years old and in dire need of
replacement due to age, wear and tear of everyday occupation, and demand due to census increases.
A larger facility will support the staff and equipment needed to operate as well as enable the health
education component of the program to develop. Most importantly, a new fecility will improve and offer
a safe living environment for expectant mothers and unborn children, accommodating our service needs.
Three years ago, the Alaska State Legislature provided $150,000 for planning and design of a
replacement facility. ' In 2006, the Legislature provided the initial $2 million to begin construction of the
Prematernal Home. Nevratheless, YKHC is maintaimng an aggressive capital campaign to finish the
Prematernal Home replacement project by looking at all available funders. Potential private fimders
include, but are not limited to the Kellog Foimdation (which specializes in capital challenge grants) and
the Paul Allen Foundation in Seattle.
YKHC requests S9.7 million fiiom the Legislature to finish capital development of this piece of
vital regional infirastructure.
2. Assisted Living Home Construction Funds
Our second priority for FY08 is $600,000 for Phase One to construct an Assisted Living Home
under the Green House model for the residents of the YukoQ-Kuskokwim Delta. We have secured 36%
percent matching fimds for this project from the Denali Commission. The total project cost is estimated
at $1 1 million. We are seeking $7 million from all potential fimding sources to fund the remaining 64
percent in project costs.
Several years ago, YKHC developed a business plan to construct a traditional Assisted Living
Home. However, a recent study performed by Manillaq, the tribal health organization for the Kotzebue
region, proved that a traditional Assisted Living Home would not be as sustainable as a Green House
model. Therefore, YKHC is transitioning its current plans for a traditional Assisted Living Home to a
community-based Green House model. The total cost estimates for dther model are expected to be
relatively the same, and initial estimates will be confirmed with the completion of a new business plan
and architectural and engineering drawings.
Accordingly, YKHC requests a total appropriation of $600,000 for Phase One to determine
YKHC's final cost estimates for an Assisted Uvrng Home under the Green House model. Individually,
these costs are: $150,000 for the business plan, and $450,000 for architectural and engineering drawings.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has a vital need for long-term care. YKHC has designed and is
prepared to build and operate an 18-bed Assisted Living Home facility in Bethel, Alaska to serve the
growing population of seniors and adults with disabilities that meet the nursing level of care in the
Yukon-Kudcokwim Delta region.
' Legislative Municipal Grant to flie City of Bethel.
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The people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and statewide representatives have long recognized
flie need for assisted living in our region — ^it is the only region in the State of Alaska without long-term
care options. All long-term care cliaits are sent out of region to Anchorage and other areas of the State
for services with documented estimates of 45 to 50 individuals, at any one time, from the YKHC area.
This means a significant amount of Indian Health Service beneficiaries, who are odierwise eligible for
100 percent federal Medicaid funding, are receiving long-term care services from non-tribal providers
resulting in substantial costs to the State of Alaska's general fund monies. Indeed, the Medicaid Report
stated:
And because tribal providers receive 100 percent federal Medicaid funding, Alaska
would realize state savings if Medicaid services currently delivered at non-tribal sites
were instead provided by 638 providers. For example, the Alaska Medicaid program
spends approximately $ 1 9 million for non-tribal musing facility services provided to
AI/ANs, of which approximately $8 million is state matching funds. If Alaska were to
provide financial support for development of tribal health long-term capacity, the
potential state savings could be significant
Id. at 89 (emphasis added).
Long-term care has been identified as a priority during the last 10 of YKHC's Tribal Gatherings.
This initiative also has strong community commitment and support of Tribes, resulting in resolution of
support from various Tribes region-wide. It is also a component of the City of Bethel Strategic Economic
Development Plan.
In the Executive Summary of the ANTHC August 2005 report. Long Term Care Needs for Alaska
Native Elders, the Bethel Assisted Living Home was refacnced as its top priority. In 2004, the State of
Alaska and the Robert Wood Johnson Coming Home Program considered this region a top priority and
recommended Bethel as the first priority for assisted hving development in rural Alaska. Recently, as
determined by the Medicaid Report, "It would be in the state's interest, fix)in both a financial and quality
of service perspective, to actively participate in establishing greater capacity among tribal providers to
fiimish long-term care — both institutional and community-based." Id. at 88. In partnership with the State
of Alaska, YKHC is willing to lead in this role.
3. Technology Equipment Upgrades
Our third priority is $572,000 for technology equipment upgrades. Many of our technology
equipment systems are now beyond their useful lives and are in need of replacement. Much of the
technology equipment supporting YKHC's various healthcare systems is outdated and no longer
supported by vaidors or manufacturers. YKHC is currently experiencing delays, extended down time,
security vulnerability, compliance issues and a risk of data loss if these systems upgrades are not
performed soon. For these upgrades, the Indian Health Service's budget is wholly insufficient
YKHC's systems upgrades will allow for increased data access for treatment of patients, a
reduction in equipment failures and increased efficiencies in staff utilization. These systems are relied
upon heavily for patient data access, espedally in clinical, financial and village operations.
We respectfully request $572,000 for Technology Equipment Upgrades.
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Other Funding Opportunities
Of course, if the opportunity is available to do more this legislative session, please understand that
there are still unmet needs in the region. Given the tWrd world conditions in which many of our residents
live, the list of needs in nearly .unlimited. We realize the resources are not unlimited. We have identified
the highest construction and operation^ priorities and opportunities. We have proven that we can be
enormously self-reliant, but we do need flie basic tools. We hope each one will receive serious attention.
Please contact Dan Winkehnan, VP for Admin. & General Counsel, at 907-543-6915 (travel cell 907-351-
0057) if any additional back-up material is needed or if you would like to discuss any of these proposals
in more detail.
Finally, for all of your efforts, we say a very heartfelt, "quyanaq-vaa" (thank you very much) for
your efforts on behalf of our entire population. Your contributions to nnal Alaska, including our region,
have made a real difference in the lives of our people;
Sincerely,
.|S?_GenePeltola
President & CEO (907-543-6020)
cc: Senator Lyman Hoffinan
Rq)resentative Mary Nelson
Senator Donny Olson
Commissioner DHSS, Karleen Jackson
Mr. Bill Streur, DHSS
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska,gov]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:12 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: November 02, 2007 State Chamber E-News
From: Wayne Stevens [mailto:wstevens@alaskachamber.com]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:18 Pl^
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: November 02, 2007 State Chamber E-News
Alaska State Chamber of
Commerce
November 02, 2007 E-News
Deadline to Submit Positions for Legislative Tie-in -
November 15
The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce Legislative Tie-in is set for November 29 and 30 at the
Hilton Anchorage Hotel. All State Chamber members are encouraged to attend and participate in
this important opportunity to help set Legislative Priorities for the upcoming 2008 Legislative
Session.
The State Chamber will use this event to establish our priority positions supported by concise
action items needed to achieve each position. Positions must have statevride impact and be
consistent with the State Chamber's mission. You can read it online by clicking here .
Each position submitted must have a representative available at the Tie-in to make a live
presentation of the position and explain the reasoning and support for the position. Each position
must have close adherence to the format suggestions, especially fmancial impact; and strict
adherence to the submittal deadline.
All priorities and positions adopted by the State Chamber and now posted on our web site here ,
will be set aside, and must be resubmitted for consideration. If there is a position or priority that
the State Chamber currently has on its 2007 list that you believe needs to be on the list for 2008,
you must resubmit it in the format requested and be prepared to speak to the position at the event
on November 29.
The deadline for submission of proposed positions is the close of business on November 15,
2007, preferably in PDF format. Position statements submitted after November 15 must receive a
two-thirds vote of those present on November 29 to be considered for action.
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Ground rules as established for the meeting and the format required for submissions is on-line at our
web site. To read the rules and see the format required click here .
E-mail your proposed positions to wstevens@alaskachamber.com by November 15, 2007.
The proposals approved by the legislativie committee will be posted on the State Chamber website at
www.alaskachamber. com
Hard copies of the packet will be available and distributed to the membership prior to the start of the
Legislative Tie-in meeting.
"Creating Opportunity, Removing Barriers"
Register On-line To Attend 2007 Legislative Tie-In
Don't miss the most important Alaska State Chamber meeting of the year!
The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce's 2007 Legislative Tie-In, "Creatmg Opportunity, Removing
Barriers", is set for November 29 and 30 at the Hilton Anchorage Hotel. All State Chamber members are
encouraged to attend and participate in this important opportunity to help set Legislative Priorities for
the upcoming 2008 Legislative Session.
Attend the legislative position disciossions with the luncheon and networking reception included for $75.
The luncheon only is $35 and the networking reception only is $25. Both the Luncheon and the
reception may be reserved separately. AH events are at the Hilton Anchorage Hotel. Seating is limited.
Click here to register for the event on-line.
The Hilton Anchorage Hotel is offering a discounted room rate of $92.00 to Tie-in participants. To
reserve call (907) 272-741 1 or 1-800-HILTONS and mention the Legislative Tie-Code code: ASC.
The 2007 Legislative Tie-in Luncheon vnll feature Dr. James A. Caillier, Executive Director of the
Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Dr. Caillier will present on the merits of Tlie Taylor Plan. The Taylor Plan
lays the groundwork for high school students to achieve their goals by motivating them to earn a state-
funded, merit-based opportunity to further their education and realize their ambitions. For more
information visit www.tavlorplan.com
A Networking Reception will follow the legislative priorities vote from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. Register to
meet and mingle witti the State Chamber board of directors, statewide business members and attending
legislators. Discuss the implications of the legislative priorities and position on the upcoming session
while enjoying scenic views of Anchorage in the Hilton Anchorage Chart Room on tiie 10th floor.
State Chamber Committees Looking for Members to Participate
The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce Communications Committee and the Membership Committee
are looking for volunteers interested in helping to grow our membership and implement our
Communications Plan. Committees tj^pically meet every couple of weeks via teleconference for less
than an hour.
The Communications Committee, Chaired by Heidi Franklin of Pebble Limited Partaership, is next
meeting on Monday November 5. The committee is working on the development of plans to help
publicize our Legislative Tie-in and the priorities we adopt for the upcoming Legislative Session.
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The Communications Committee's purpose is to develop plans, programs and policies that clearly and
consistently carry the various messages of the State Chamber, through a variety of communication
vehicles, to its constituents, members, employees, collaborators, the business community, policy makers
and the public. Inform members and other organizations, as appropriate, about State Chamber events
and activities.
Tasks
• Develop a strategic commimication plan.
• Enstire the ASCC strategic communication plan is implemented and updated.
• Plan the annual committee work plan.
• Assist in planning editorial content for ASCC publications.
• Assist in providing content for the website.
• Assist other committees in communicating with members.
• Provide the media with information about ASCC issues.
The Membership Committee Co-Chaired by Caroline Higgins of TOTE and Mary Ann Pease of MAP
Consulting are looking to grow membership and need volunteers to help plan strategy and
implementation of concerted efforts to accomplish this goal.
The Membership Committee's purpose is to assist in the development of a membership strategy that
continually increases new members and retains existing members. Look for opportunities to provide
added value for our members.
Tasks
• Develop an annual membership campaign to attract new members.
• Develop strategies to retain current members.
• Assist in the development of membership materials.
• Recommend added-value membership programs.
• Periodically review membership structure and dues.
If you have an interest in helping out on any committee of the State Chamber or have questions, please
contact Wayne Stevens at 907-586-2010 or via e-mail at wstevensfgtalaskachamber.com
Your participation and input is welcomed and appreciated.
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:48 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Fw: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 07-217
Governor Palin Pleased with^^nate Committee's Work
November 3, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today expressed her
appreciation for the work of Senate Judiciary in moving ACES from committee.
"I am pleased to see the Senate Judiciary Committee work together in a cooperative
manner to produce a solution that is reasonable and consistent with the principals we
incorporated into ACES," Governor Palin said. "I hope all Alaskans will join me In
applauding the efforts of these legislators. I am particularly happy that the Senate
Committee included the 25 percent tax rate to ensure Alaska gets an equitable share of our
resources. I am also pleased they added language to reflect their commitment to save our
surplus for the future."
The ACES bill is now headed to the Senate Finance Committee.
###
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From: Thompson, Barbara A (EED) [barbara.thompson@alaska.gov]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9.1 5 AM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Drop outs
Eric Fry has the names of the schools. We have written a letter to the editor response to
circulate to newspapers. The study was very flawed. Eric Fry and I called Mat Su and
Fairbanks superintendents personally to talk about how flawed and unfair the report was.
additionally, EED was misquoted. This article was unfair to districts that are struggling
to fix the dropout problem. Bat
Original Message
From; Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Thompson, Barbara A (EED); Smith, Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 07:55:55 2007
Subject: Drop outs
Lynne: pis get me the names of schools John Hopkins released (cruelly) re: "drop out
factories",., what a slam. I've already spoken to one of the principals but want to write
to each school to encourage them and offer something 1 think I can do personally to help
encourage their kids to stay in school.
The study cited seemed so bogus to be able to conclude these were drop out factories.
I ' d like to contact them and help .
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:26 AM
To: kccole@mtaonline.net; In/vin; Tom E (DNR)
Co: Kristan Cole; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Frank Bailey; Todd
Subject: Re: Dan Fagan Show
I love you guys !
You're doing an amazing job. Todd, Kris and Frank were keeping me up to speed as to how
the show progressed. Thanks for kicking butt and being bold and just laying it on the line
for the public to understand we didn't cause MatMaid problems, we're here to solve them so
it can land in the private sector's hands.
Great job. Thank you.
Original Message
From: Kristan Cole
To: Tom Irwin
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Cc: Kristan Cole
ReplyTo: kccole@mtaonline.net
Sent: Nov 3, 2007 5:35 AM
Subject: RE: Dan Fagan Show
Governor, Tom is way too modest, the truth is that he made us ALL look good
yesterday. We will continue working hard to solve these very difficult
issues. Kristan
Original Message
From: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) [mailto:tom.irwinSalaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:30 PM
To: Palin Sarah'
Cc: Cole Kristan
Subject: Dan Fagan Show
Governor, I wanted you to know how much I appreciate the work Kristan is
doing for this state. She did great on Dan's show and it was a privilege to
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be with her. God bless Tom
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:42 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Jason koiiler
The ktuu camera guy... his dad is jim kohler the director of the almr project. You and I
were discussing jason last wk and trying to figure out what state job his dad hasj
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/O=S0A/0U=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:40 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: I just waved
I was walking in the rain w quinn towards the capitol : )
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov . sarah®yahoo . coin>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 18:39:48 2007
Subject: Re: I just waved
Quit texting and driving at the same tome... like I always do!
Original Message
From: Ivy Frye
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 3, 2007 6:37 PM
Subject: I just waved
To you. . .i
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:36 PM
Yocom; Lauren J (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Re: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
Thanks, all!
Original Message
From: Yocom, Lauren J (GOV) <lauren.yocora@alaska.gov>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Cc: Yocom, Lauren J (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 18:35:05 2007
Subject: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 07-217
Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
November 3, 2 007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today expressed her appreciation
for the work of Senate Judiciary in moving ACES from committee.
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"I am pleased to see the Senate Judiciary Committee work together in a cooperative manner
to produce a solution that is reasonable and consistent with the principals we
incorporated into ACES," Governor Palin said. "I hope all Alaskans will join me in
applauding the efforts of these legislators. I am particularly happy that the Senate
Committee included the 25 percent tax rate to ensure Alaska gets an equitable share of our
resources . I am also pleased they added language to reflect their commitment to save our
surplus for the future."
The ACES bill is now headed to the Senate Finance Committee.
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:48 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Quinn
Awesome! I'm confident your good work w leg. will progress a good bill. You probably need
something stronger than coffee after yovir day : )
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Prye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:44:20 2007
Sub j ect : Re : Quinn
Thanks !
And I didn't get to get coffee today be I've been visiting w leggies throughout the day.
We're progressing well with some Senators, still trying to figure out what some Reps are
thinking ...
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:40:58
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Re: Quinn
Squinn®ap . org
Privileged or Personal M<
Original Message
From : gov . sarahsyahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . cora>
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TO: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:33:24 2007
Subject: Quinn
Do have Steve's email addy?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007400
Unknown
FiX)m:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Satunlay, November 03, 2007 1:24 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Bitney
It's the one comment that is stuck in Lyda's mind too. She mentioned it when I was in her
office. I'll find out where people are hearing it-but again I'm w russ- everything comes
back to bitney.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.cora <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 12:21:33 2007
Subject: Bitney
Russ says in walking the halls the universal msg he receives re: why legislators have
chips on their shoulders, mad at us (even republicans who like us) is based on one msg
they heard me say through the budget process when I made my cuts: "We need an adult in
the house . " .
Ironically, when Russ asks, he's told it's Bitney perpetuating that msg, rubbing it in and
reminding legislators I said it. The irony is it was Bitney who gave me that line, and it
was in either an email or a budget roll-out speech that he wrote that in.
If anyone recalls that or has that, pis let me know, as it would help turn down Bitney' s
volume on that "gotcha" issue he's capitalizing on and screwing working relationships
over .
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007401
From:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent:
Saturday, November 03, 2007 1:16 PM
To:
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc:
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject:
Army mtg
J- An array recruiter will be in Juneau on Tuesday and wants to meet with me re; western
region recruitung efforts. I told one of the captains that I'd love to if I'm here at the
same time they're here... but I am scheduled to leave sometime Tuesday.
Sgt. Nagel is one who contacted me: iPrivilegedl is his cell - I told him a scheduler would
call to coordinate this mtg if it's possible. When you get a chance could you touch base
with him to see if it would work? Maybe I'd see him at the airport even if our fits cross.
Thanks !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007402
Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.govl
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:49 PM
To: Thompson; Barbara A (EED); Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; iVIichael A (GOV); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Drop outs
Thanks Lynne! A letter from our office will be great. . .
Original Message
From: Thompson, Barbara A (EED)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) ; Smith, Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 09:15:22 2007
Subject: Re: Drop outs
Eric Fry has the names of the schools. We have written a letter to the editor response to
circulate to newspapers. The study was very flawed. Eric Fry and I called Mat Su and
Fairbanks superintendents personally to talk about how flawed and unfair the report was.
additionally, EED was misquoted. This article was unfair to districts that are struggling
to fix the dropout problem. Bat
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Thompson, Barbara A (EED); Smith, Lynne M iGOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 07:55:55 2007
Si;±)ject: Drop outs
Lynne; pis get me the names of schools John Hopkins released (cruelly) re: "drop out
factories"... what a slam. I've already spoken to one of the principals but want to write
to each school to encourage them and offer something I think I can do personally to help
encourage their kids to stay in school .
The study cited seemed so bogus to be able to conclude these were drop out factories . .
I'd like to contact them and help.
PRA GSP01 0007403
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday; November 03, 2007 12:22 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Bitney
Russ says in walking the halls the universal msg he receives re: why legislators have
chips on their shoulders, mad at us (even republicans who like us) is based on one msg
they heard me say through the budget process when I made my cuts: "We need an adult in
the house . " .
Ironically, when Russ asks, he's told it's Bitney perpetuating that msg, rubbing it in and
reminding legislators I said it. The irony is it was Bitney who gave me that line, and it
was in either an email or a budget roll-out speech that he wrote that in.
If anyone recalls that or has that, pis let me know, as it would help turn down Bitney' s
volume on that "gotcha" issue he's capitalizing on and screwing working relationships
over.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007404
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:32 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Coffee?
Went on a run AND now getting coffee if u want me to drop some off.
.04 prog added back in sen jud-that's good news. Now what about the gross floor?!?
Heard carl wants to go w your original bill instead of a cs- -awesome.
PRA GSP01 0007405
Unknown
From: Paiin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9: 1 7 AM
To: Thompson; Barbara A (EED); Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re; Drop outs
Thanks Barb.
Lynne; would you get those names from Eric, or send his email addy and I'll ask him.
Thanks
Original Message
Prom: Thompson, Barbara A (EED)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored); Smith, Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 09:15:22 2007
Subject: Re: Drop outs
Eric Fry has the names of the schools. We have written a letter to the editor response to
circulate to newspapers. The study was very flawed. Eric Fry and I called Mat Su and
Fairbanks superintendents personally to talk about how flawed and unfair the report was.
additionally, EED was misquoted. This article was tmfair to districts that are struggling
to fix the dropout problem. Bat
^^- Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Thompson, Barbara A (EED); Smith, Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 07:55:55 2007
Siibject: Drop outs
Lynne: pis get me the names of schools John Hopkins released (cruelly) re: "drop out
factories"... what a slam. I've already spoken to one of the principals but want to write
to each school to encourage them and offer something I think I can do personally to help
encourage their kids to stay in school.
The study cited seemed so bogus to be able to conclude these were drop out factories.,
I'd like to contact them and help.
PRA GSP01 0007406
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:47 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: I just waved
Oh baby! ! !
Tell him I sent out an atta' boy statement for senate committee
I Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:39:35
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Re: I just waved
I was walking in the rain w quinn towards the capitol : )
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah@yahoo. com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 18:39:48 2007
Sijbject: Re: I just waved
Quit texting and driving at the same tome... like I always do!
Original Message
From: Ivy Frye
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: NOV 3, 2007 6:37 PM
Sxibject: I just waved
To you . . . i
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Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007408
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE1
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:45 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: My apologies
Thanks for your nice words . I ' d do anything for ya .
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 19:12:25 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
Dear Lord- I hate that he (them?) Does this to you. he and Bit both were so secretive,
still are evidently. Pis don't let any of the strange comments get to ya. All will be
well ...
Truly, it will be well.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:23:14
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: FW: My apologies
FYI . . ,
It goes on and on with Chris Clark. I will get to the bottom of where he's getting his
info! If small things like Mindy's hire is getting out, what else is Chris finding out
and WHO'S telling him?
PRA GSP01 0007409
From: Frye, ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat 11/3/2007 5:50 PM
To: 'cgcalaska@yahoo.com'
Siibject: Re: My apologies
Man, Chris. You just wrote on and on about how you want to help the governor succeed, yet
you don't want to tell me who's sharing confidential info from the 3rd floor.
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:27:34 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
Can't tell you.
I must protect my sources.
That's the rules of the game. A reporter is only as good as his sources.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To : cgcalaska®yahoo . com
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:20:05 PM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Chria, you ALWAYS know the beat in the capitol. Who said it?
Original Message
PRA GSP01 0007410
I
i
From; Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:16:48 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
That , I don ' t know .
When I con prised that I knew.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo . coni>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:10:34 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Perhaps I should be more specific. How would anyone know the hiring decision of the third
floor? Who would give out that information?
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com <rmailto : cgcalaskaOyahoo . com> ]
Sent: Sat 11/3/2007 5:06 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
A friend who works in House Finstnce.
Original Message ----
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy . frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo.com>
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PRA GSP01 0007411
1
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:03:38 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Well, who told you that Mindy was hired?
mailto : cgcalaska@yahoo . com]
Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 5:36 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
Amen to that -- all of that.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo. com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:19:15 PM
Subject: RS: My apologies
There are too many rumors out there that aren't conducive to what Governor Palin and her
Administration are trying to accomplish.
There are too many comments about what is going wrong or right; who's working for her and
who's not; who's a good employee and who's not; and it goes on and on. I'm absolutely
sick of it. I've said this a million times, but what do any of these comments have to do
with good public policy? I'm sure neither of us (me or you) know who is goin ss you've
had a conversation with Mike or the governor, I wouldn' t believe it AND if they did talk
to you, I sure as heck wouldn't be repeating it. If you do have access to this type of
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PRA GSP01 0007412
information or any other 3rd floor information, I'd be confronting the person or letting
Mike know — I promise you that .
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com <mailto:cgcalaaka®yahoo.com> ]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:09 AM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Siobject; Re: My apologies
One more thing .
After I had the brainstorm in which I thought you could do the job as deputy legislative
director, I ran it by John -- thinking he would tell me if I were nuts or not.
He thought you would be better off at Administration, but he didn't seem to think my idea
was far-fetched. We both could be assured, at the least, that there would be someone in
that office who rociously loyal to the governor.
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo . com>
To: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" eivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:01:50 AM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Nobody told me that you were interested in being deputy legislative director.
It was only an idea I had one night, at home. At the time, it seemed like a Eureka !
moment. It may have been fueled, in part, by the warm cup of sake that I was drinking, I
confess.
Given your familiarity with the legislature, I thought and think you could do it. You know
the players, the quirks, the personalities. You know how legislation moves through
committee. You know the lay of the land. You understand the process and how difficult it
can be.
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I want the governor to succeed. So I was brainstorming on who could take the job to help
meet that goal. Your face popped into my mind.
On a different note .
I'm now clary discuss the pluses and minuses of the gross tax versus the net tax. It's
going well. Pat's doing a good job. Of all the committees that are hearing the governor's
bill, this one is and will be the kindest and most supportive of her.
Be that as it may, the real fight -- or, at least, the biggest and moat important battles
-- will occur on the House and Senate floors.
I ' ra of the opinion - - and several reporters agree with me - - that the governor is in a
win-win position. A nice place to be. More on that, later.
Original Message
From: " Prye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, Octobel: 31, 2007 9:28:43 AM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Again, I still haven't heard that Mindy or anyone else was hired. It hasn't been
confirmed, that I know. You never encouraged me to apply for the deputy director
position. I never have come up to you one on the phone and said, 'I want to be the deputy
legislative director." Understandably, I'm very curious who would tell you something like
that. That's the only information that's relevant to this entire conversation. '
Please don't offer me knowledge or confidence if it's based on rumor — it doesn't help
anybody.
Thanks ,
PRA GSP01 0007414
Ivy
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgoalaska@yahoo.com <mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:12 PM
] To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
i Sixbject: My apologies
My apologies.
I never meant to offend or hurt you. On the contrary, I intended to offer you
encouragement and support. I clearly missed the mark. And for that, I am sorry.
I just want to see you flourish and succeed. Hence, my clumsy attempts in offering you
encouragement and the latest rumbl idence and knowledge -- that's all I was trying to
offer.
To be clear, 1 want our governor to do well and continue to shine. She's a welcomed balm
to this malignant, diseased political system. I want Alaskans' current love affair with
her to last the arc and span of her political career. It's good for people to have faith
in their leaders and their government. Refreshing, too.
Let me tell you what I tell others unabashedly, including my friends in the press corps:
in spite of what happened to me, in spite of ray losing a job in the governor's office, I
want the governor to succeed. I want her to remain popular and strong. I want her to stay
popular and strong so she may negotiate from a position of strength when dealing with the
oil industry. You and I both know all too well what it's like for the state to have a
weakened, unpopular, and lame-duck governor. I don't want to see that happen again.
Especially to her. I adored her while I worked for her. And I still do. As J she's a
breath of fresh air.
Let me remind you that I voted for Sarah Palin in last year's primary and general
elections for two reasons: her strong stand on the gas pipeline and her embodiment of an
ethical public life. Sarah Palin doesn't just talk about ethics. She lives it. She
embodies it. She has made sacrifices to uphold it. That's why I like her.
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Just so you know, I did not forward your e-mail to John or anybody. And I am not sending
this one to anyone via blind copy or any other means.
I am disheartened that you have lost your faith and trust in me, if, indeed, you ever had
it. This is a personal loss for me.
Perhaps this is the price I must pay when trying to balance my friendship with John with
my desire to see the governor succeed.
For what it's worth, I plan to tease him today ... mercilessly ... over John Harris's live
shot yesterday during KTUU's 5:00 newscast. Did you see it? Oh, my God. Let me put it this
way: John Harris is NO Sar vel at how she handles herself --so easily and adroitly --in
front of the cameras. She makes it look easy and effortless --a true sign of a master, as
we learn in aikido. It seems she requires so little preparation and then, bam! Nails the
press conference. Nails the interview, I don't why, but it leaves me in stitches every
time. I've worked for seven legislators. Not one holds a candle to the governor in this
regard. She's remarkable. Or, as Bill McAllister once told me, amazing.
As for my previous e-mails. to you ...
I just had a brainstorm one evening that you would be good in the legislative office. And
I just wanted you to know that. I still do, by the way, for what that's worth.
When I learned that Mindy got the job, I felt like an idiot having tried to encourage you
to pursue a position that had already been filled. I wrongly assumed -- largely because I
believed you are far better connected than I -- that you already knew about that hire. My
apologies, .
I do wish you well and I want you to continue to shine.
Chris
Original Message
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®ala3ka.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaskaayahoo . com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:32:15 PM
Subject: RE: You could, have done it
I hadn't heard they appointed a deputy director. I'm sure it's not pubic information yet.
And how would you know if I was interested anyway?
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I don't appreciate you stating the first line as if I had been inquiring with you or
anyone else about who the new deputy would be, and I don't appreciate that you infer that
you and I have been discussing my interest in the deputy director position. Your email
was cleverly written and although I can't prove it I will assume you blind copied others.
Your comments about Tibbies can only come from John Bitney — feel free to share that with
him too. And, if Mike was your friend and you believed in the Administration you wouldn't
be passing on rumors you hear. I don't want to hear the rumors because I don't believe
them .
I've also asked you politely before not to send me emails regarding the governor. I would
appreciate if you would honor my request.
I'm not, as you say, trying to get "closer to the governor." I don't need to try. She
knows I'd do anything for her.
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com <mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com> ]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:36. PM
To: Prye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: You could have done it
PRA GSP01 0007417
Yes, I heard about the new deputy legislative director.
Good for Mindy. And condolences to her as well.
This is interesting because it proves that Tibbies still has some sway up there. That he'
not qu y perceive him to be.
It's also interesting because the decision was made during the special session instead of
afterwards as expected.
There are several good things about Mindy: she knows the legislature, understands the
personalities, she HAS a good personality, she knows Tibbies well, and she knows the
importance of fiscal notes. She's competent, experienced, dedicated, and used to putting
in long hours . And she wasn ' t happy with recent developments in Senate Finance .
For what it ' s worth
I think you could have done the job. It would not have been easy. It would have strained
the outer limits of diplomacy. But it would have gotten you closer to the governor.
I'm disappointed that you weren't given the chance --if that was even an option. On the
Other hand, I would have been mortified if I had encouraged you to take the job, you got
it, and it turned out to be a disaster for you -- thus setting you way back rather than
moving you way forward, eved that you're still where you're at.
You are well off there. Annette and Kevin have much to teach.
My recommendation: get a regular session under your belt there. Just like Frank did. And
learn, learn, learn. Have you become more familiar with Excel yet? Here's your chance.
Hang in there, mon amie.
Fondly,
Chris
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 7: 1 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Jason kohler
Got it
sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:47:10
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Svibject: Re: Jason kohler
Admin but they work jointly w dmva
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com <gov . sarahoyahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 18:47:22 2007
Subject: Re: Jason kohler
What dept is almr in?
Original Message --
From: Ivy Frye
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 3, 2007 6:41 PM
Sxibject: Jason kohler
The ktuu camera guy. . .his dad is jim kohler the director of the almr project. You and I
were discussing jason last wk and trying to figure out what state job his dad hasj
PRA GSP01 0007419
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007420
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:10 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
Araen!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:51:37
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Siibject: Re: Press Release : Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
That is awesome!
Quinn jMst said lyda said in the hallway today "don't get used to it," meaning the good
changes that were made to sb20001 today. Perhaps quinn should bring to light that members
of the senate want to bring a good product forward w the exception of their sen pres ! ! !
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: sat Nov 03 13:47:39 2007
Subject: Pw; Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
IMMEDIATE
RBLEASB
NO. 07-217
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Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
November 3, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today expressed her appreciation
for the work of Senate Judiciary in moving ACES from committee.
"I am pleased to see the Senate Judiciary Committee, work together in a cooperative manner
to produce a solution that is reasonable and consistent with the principals we
incorporated into ACES," Governor Palin said. "I hope all Alaskans will join rae in
applauding the efforts of these legislators. I am particularly happy that the Senate
Committee included the 25 percent tax rate to ensure Alaska gets an equitable share of our
resources. I am also pleased they added language to reflect their commitment to save our
surplus for the future . "
The ACES bill is now headed to the Senate Finance Committee.
###
PRA GSP01 0007422
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:52 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
That is awesome!
Quinn just said lyda said in the hallway today "don't get used to it," meaning the good
changes that were made to sb20001 today. Perhaps quinn should bring to light that members
of the senate want to bring a good product forward w the exception of their sen pres ! ! !
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 18:47:39 2007
Svibject: Fw: Press Release: Governor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NO. 07-217
Govearnor Palin Pleased with Senate Committee's Work
November 3, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today expressed her appreciation
for the work of Senate Judiciary in moving ACES from committee.
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"I am pleased to see the Senate Judiciary Committee work together in a cooperative manner
to produce a solution that is reasonable and consistent with the principals we
incorporated into ACES," Governor Palin said. 'I hope all Alaskans will join me in
applauding the efforts of these legislators. I am particularly happy that the Senate
Committee included the 25 percent tax rate to ensure Alaska gets an equitable share of our
resources . I am also pleased they added language to reflect their commitment to save our
surplus for the future . "
The ACES bill is now headed to the Senate Finance Committee.
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 6:23 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: FW: My apologies
FYI...
It goes on and on with Chris Clark. I will get to the bottom of where he's getting his info! If small things like
Mindy's hire is getting out, what else is Chris finding out and WHO'S telling him?
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat 11/3/2007 5:50 PM
To; 'cgcalaska@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: My apologies
Man, Chris. You just wote on and on about how you want to help the governor succeed, yet you don't want to tell me who's
sharing confidential info from the 3rd floor.
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:27:34 2007
Subject: Re; My apologies
Cant tell you.
I must protect my sources.
Tliat's the rules of the game. A reporter is only as good as his sources.
Original Message —
From: Trye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To: cgealaska(^ahoo.«Mn
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:20:05 PM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Chris, you ALWAYS Imow the beat in flie capitol. Who said it?
— Original Message —
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.cwn>
To: Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:16:48 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
'niat,Idontknow.
When I contacted Mindy, she was surprised that I knew.
Original Message —
8/26/2009
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From: Trye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:10:34 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Perhaps I should be more specific. How would anyone know the hfaing decision of the fliird floor? Who would give out t
iufonnation?
From: Christopher Clark rmailto:cgcalaska@.yahoo.com]
Sent: Sat 11/3^007 5:06 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
A fiiend who works in House Finance.
Original Message —
From: 'Tiye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:03:38 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Well, who told you that Mindy was hired?
From: Christopher Clark [ mailto:cgcalaska(giyahoo.com]
Sent Wed 10/3 1/2007 5:36 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
Amen to that — aU of that
Original Message —
Frffln: "Frye, Ivy J pOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:19:15 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
There are too many rumors out there that aren't conducive to what Governor Palin and her Adininistration are trying to
accomplish.
There are too many conunents about what is going wrong or right; who's working for her and who's not; who's a good
employee and who's not; and it goes on and on. Tm absolutely sick of it. I've said this a million times, but what do any of
these comments have to do with good public policy? I'm sure neither ofus (me or you) know who is going to be hired.
Unless you've had a conversation with Mike or the governor, I wouldn't believe it AND if they did talk to you, I sure as heck
wouldn't be repeating it If you do have access to this type of information or any other 3rd floor information, I'd be
confronting the person or letting Mike know— I promise you that
8/26/2009
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From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska(Siyahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:09 AM
To:Frye,IvyJ(DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
One more thing ...
After I had the brainstorm in which I thought you could do the job as depu^ legislative director, I ran it by John - flunking
he would tell me if I were nuts or not.
He thought you would be better off at Administration, but he didnt seem to fliink my idea was far-fetched. We both could be
assured, at flie least, that there would be someone in that office who would work hard and be ferociously loyal to Ihe
governor.
— Original Message —
From: Christopher Claric <cgcaiaska@yahoo.com>'
To: " Frye, Ivy J POA)" <ivy.fiye@aIaska.gov>
Sent Wednesday, OctoberSl, 2007 10:01:50 AM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Nobody told me that you were interested in being deputy legislative director.
It was only an idea I had one night, at home. At the time, it seemed like a Eureka ! moment. It may have been fueled, in part,
by the warm cup of sake that I was drinking, I confess.
Given your femiliarity with the legislature, I thought and think you could do it. You know the players, the quirks, the
personalities. You know how legislation moves through committee. You know the lay of the land. You understand the
process and how di£5cult it can be.
I want the governor to succeed. So I was hramstorming on who could take the job to help meet that goal. Your face popped
into my mind.
On a different note ...
I'm now listening to Senate Judiciary discuss the pluses and minuses of the ^ss tax versus the net tax. Its going well. Pat's
doing a good job. Of all the committees that are hearing the govranor's bill, this one is and will be the kindest and most
supportive of her.
Be that as it may, the real fight - or, at least, the bluest and most important battles - will occur on the House and Senate
floors.
I'm of the opinion — and several reporters agree with me — that flie governor is in a win-win position. A nice place to be.
More on that, later.
— Original Message — '
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.&ye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:28:43 AM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Again, I still haven't heard that Mindy or anyone else was hired. It hasn't been confirmed, that I know. You never
encouraged me to ^ply for tiie deputy director position. I never have come up to you once in person, in writing, on the
phone and said, 'I want to be the deputy legislative director." Understandably, I'm v«y curious who would tell you
something like that That's the only information that's relevant to this entire conversation.
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007427
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Please don't offer me knowledge or confidence if it's based on rumor — ^it doesn't help anybody.
Thanks,
Ivy
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaskafgtyahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1 : 12 PM
To: Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: My apologies
My apologies.
I never meant to offend or hurt you. On the contrary, I intended to offer you encouragement and support. I clearly missed the
made. And for that, I am Sony.
I just want to see you flourish and succeed. Hence, my chmisy attempts in offering you encouragement and the latest
rumblings in the c^itol. Confidence and knowledge - that's all I was trying to offer.
To be clear, I want our governor to do well and continue to shine. She's a welcomed bahn to this malignant, diseased political
system. I want Alaskans' current love a^ir with her to last the arc and span of her political career. It's good for people to
have faith in their leaders and their government. Refiieshing, too.
Let me tell you what I tell otiiers unabashedly, including my friends in the press corps: in spite of what happened to me, in
spite of my losing a job in the governor's office, I want the governor to succeed. I want her to remain popular and strong. I
want her to stay popular and strong so she may negotiate from a position of strength when dealing with the oil industry. You
and I both know all too well what if s like for the state to have a weakened, unpopular, and lame-duck governor. I don't want
to see that happen again. Especially to her. I adored her while I worked for her. And I still do. As John Tracy said last year,
she's a breath of fresh air.
Let me remind you that I voted for Sarah Palin in last year's primary and general elections for two reasons: her strong stand
on the gas pipeline and her embodiment of an ethical public life. Sarah Palin doesn't just talk about ethics. She lives it. She
embodies it. She has made sacrifices to uphold it. That's why I like her.
Just so you know, I did not forward your e-mail to John or anybody. And I am not sending this one to anyone via blind copy
or any other means.
I am disheartened that you have lost your faith and trust in mis, if, indeed, you ever had it. This is a personal loss for me.
Perhaps fliis is the price I must pay whem trying to balance my fiiendship with John with my desire to see the governor
succeed.
For what it's worth, I plan to tease him today ... mercilessly ... ovct John Hairis's live shot yesterday during KTUlTs 5:00
newscast. Did you see it? Oh, my God. Let me put it this way: John Harris is NO Sarah Palin. Ha! I still marvel at how she
handles herself- so easily and adroitly — m front of the cameras. She makes it look easy and effwtless ~ a true sign of a
master, as we learn in aikido. It seems she requires so little preparation and then, bam! Nails the press conference. Nails the
interview. I don't why, but it leaves me in stitches every time. Tve worked for seven legislators. Not one holds a candle to the
governor in this regard. She's remarkable. Or, as Bill McAllister once told me, amazing.
As for my previous e-mails to you ...
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007428
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I just had a brainstonn one evening that you would be good in liie legislative office. And I just wanted you to know that I
still do, by the way, for what that's worth.
When I learned that Mindy got the job, I felt like an idiot having tried to encourage you to pursue a position that had ahready
been filled. I wrongly assumed - largely because I believed you are far better connected than I - that you already knew
about that hire. My apologies, again, for being a moron.
I do wish you well and I want you to continue to shine.
Chris
Original Messs^e —
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Claik <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday. October 29, 2007 2:32:15 PM
Subject: RE: You could have done it
I hadn't heard they appointed a depu^ director. I'm sure it's not pubic information yet. And how would you know if I was
interested anyway?
I don't appreciate you stating the first line as if I had been inquiring with you or anyone else about who the new deputy
would be, and I don't appreciate that you infer that you and I have been discussing my interest in the deputy director
position. Your email was cleverly written and allhough I can't prove it I will assume you blind copied others.
Your comments about Tibbies can only come torn John Bitney — ^feel flee to share that with him too. And, if Mike was your
friend and you believed in the Administration you wouldn't be passing on rumors you hear. I don't want to hear the rumors
because I don't believe them.
I've also asked you politely before not to send me emaib regarding the governor. I would appreciate if you would honor my
request
I'm not, as you say, trying to get "closer to the governor." I don't need to try. She knows I'd do anything for her.
From: Christopher Clark fmailto:cgcalaska(Siyahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:36 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject You could have done it
Yes, I heard about the new deputy legislative director.
Good for Mindy. And condolences to her as well.
This is interesting because it proves that Tibbies still has some sway up there. That he's not quite the lame duck some may
perceive him to be.
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007429
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It's also interestiag because the decision was made during the special session instead of afterwards as expected.
There are several good tfainp about Mindy: she knows the legislature, understands the personalities, she HAS a good
personality, she knows Tibbies well, and she knows the importance of fiscal notes. She's competent, experienced, dedicated,
and used to putting in long hours. And she wasnt happy with recent developments in Senate Finance.
For what if s worth...
I think you could have done the job. It would not have been easy. It would have strained the outer limits of diplomacy. But it
would have gotten you closer to the governor.
I'm disappointed Uiat you weren't given the chance ~ if that was even an option. On the other hand, I would have been
mortified if I had encouraged you to take the job, you got it, and it turned out to be a disaster for you — thus setting you way
back rather than moving you way forward. In that regard, I am relieved that you're still where you're at
You are well off there. Annette and Kevin have much to teach.
My recommendation: get a regular session undw your belt there. Just like Frank did. And learn, learn, learn. Have you
become more femiliar with Excel yet? Here's your chance.
Hang in there, mon amie.
Fondly,
Chris
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 1 1 :26 AM
To; Sarah Palin
Subject: AML Fairbanks
Please let me know if there is anything you want me to communicate at AML next week in Fairbanks, given that is
another familiar crowd to you. Sean
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007431
Byers. Gail Y (LAW)
From: Jon Boiling Obolling@aptalaska.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:31 PM
To: Joliie; Tara L (CED)
Cc: Palin; Sarah H (GOV); Kookesh; Albert (LAA); Thomas; Bill (LAA); Smith; Lynne M (GOV);
Commission; Boundary (CED sponsored); Notti; Emil R (CED); Vandor; Maijorie L (LAW);
Bockmon; Julia B (LAW)
Subject: Attached Letter
Dear Ms. Joliie,
Please see attached letter regarding KGB Annexation Petition.
Jon Boiling
Craig City Administrator
PRA GSP01 0007432
November 3, 2007
Via Fax, e-mail, US Mail
Ms. Tara JoUie
State of Alaska
Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development
550W.7*Ave,Sutel770
Anchorage, AK 99501-3510
Dear Director JoHie:
Thank you for your letter dated October 31, 2007. While we appreciate your prompt reply we
are disappointed by the tone of your letter and your unwillingness to take all steps necessary to
insure that the Local Boundary Commission process is fair to all and comports with the
constitutional principles of due process. We are most concerned that your letter raises more
questions than answers. The purpose of this letter is to reply to the points raised in your letter, in
the order In which they appear.
As a starting point, your letter maccurately states that we submitted a "conflict of interest claim"
against Mr. Bockhorst. You are mistaken. Our letter provided a factual background
demonstrating "an apparent conflict of interest" We requested a "full investigation" into the
"appearance of a direct and serious conflict of interest." Our language was purposefiil in
avoiding a conflict of interest accusation because we do not know if such a conflict exists;
mstead we pomted out that one is apparent and merits both recognition by the State of Alaska
and an appropriate response. Your response does not acknowledge the appearance, nor provide
an appropriate response. Further, we did not accuse Mr. Bockhorst of unethical conduct under
the State Ethics Act. The "appearance of improprietary" is a fundamental notion in a democratic
society. The citizens of this democracy have a fundamental right to decisions by its courts and
quasi-judicial agencies, such as the LBC, that are free from the appearance of impropriety.
We requested a "fiill, open, and thorough" investigation into "an apparent conflict of interest" in
this matter. Your letter does not comprise a "full" investigation; it surely does not demonstrate
an "open" investigation; and we would describe it as minimal, rather than thorough. We are
saddened that this Administration has so little concern for the sixteen communities and twelve
school districts who will lose $1,200,000 per year in school funding if the KGB Petition is
approved that all it provides in response to our concern is your letter of October 31, 2007. If
your letter means the Governor is unwilling to conduct an full, open, and thorough investigation
of the circumstances surroundmg the complete reversal of DCCED/DCRA's position on the
KGB Petition fix)m its position in 1998, reflected in the 1 17 page Preluninary Report authored by
(907)826-3275 • Fax (907)826-3278 • www.craigak.com • PO Box 725, Craig, Alaska 99921
PRA GSP01 0007433
Response Letter to Tara JolUe
November 3, 2007
Mr. Bockhorst, the now Borough Manger for KGB, the people of Prince of Wales have the
resolve not to be steamrolled by DCCED and the LBC We will, if necessary, request the court to
intervene and insure a fair process consistent with the constitutional principles of due process.
Because your letter attempts to place unsubstantiated information into the LBC record by
copying your letter to the LBC, we will address the points in your letter and will similarly copy
the LBC with our response. Further, as you were well aware, our letter to the Governor was not
copied to the LBC. It is not clear whether you provided the LBC with a copy of our October 19,
2007 letter to the Governor, along with your response. Accordingly we are attaching a copy of
our original letter and your response to become part of the official record.
Your letter states that: "I carefully reviewed DCRA records to compare the actions on record
with the allegations made in your letter in order to provide you with at thoughtful reply." Please
identify what DCRA "records" you reviewed and provide us with a copy of those records. We
assume you would agree that if your investigation is supposed to be the "full, open, and
thorough" investigation we requested, you will not hesitate to provide us with tiie records you
relied upon in writing your letter.
In our letter of October 19, 2007 we summarized for the Governor, DCCED's recommendation
against the KGB petition authored by Mr. Bockhorst in 1998. The recommendation against the
Petition does not provide any "disclaimer" that it does not reflect Mr. Bockhorst's personal
views. We have seen nothing in the record related to the 1998 Petition and the Preliminary and
Final reports indicating that Mr. Bockhorst disagreed with the "DCRA policymakers." Please
provide us with copies of anything in the record related to the 1998 Petition that demonstrates
that Mr. Bockhorst was m favor of the 1998 Petition, but was directed to write the Preliminary
Report recommending against the Petition by "DCRA policymakers."
We disagree with your statement that "Mr. Bockhorst does not make policy." When the
petition to form the Skagway Borough was pending, then-Governor Murkowski held a press
conference in Skagway and stated his full support for the Skagway Borough Petition, and stated
the admmistration would help support that Petition through the LBC process. Mr. Bockhorst
wrote at least tiiree reports for two different LBC hearings recommending against the formation
of the Skagway Borough. He wrote those reports and fought the formation of the Skagway
Borough, using the budget and other resources of fee DCCED, despite the public policy
statement of the Governor. Mr. Bocldiorst apparently did not follow the "policymakers," but
apparently rafeer his own personal views, m fighting the people in Skagway. Fortunately, for the
people in Skagway, and for the State as a whole, the LBC ultimately approved fee formation of
fee Skagway Borough.
The history of staff reports to fee LBC demonstrate feat feose reports have consistently opposed
any formation of a borough feat would include an "enclave." Wife regard to fee KGB's 1998
Annexation Petition, fee LBC staffs Preliminary Report similarly recommends against fee KGB
Petition because it would create fee enclave of Hyder. The Preliminary Report on fee current
Petition reverses feat historic DCCED opposition to the formation of enclaves. This supports our
concern feat feere is fee appearance of a conflict. It also raises fee question as to who changed
DCCED's policy regardmg enclaves. As a matter of due process, to whom can fee residents of
PRA GSP01 0007434
Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
our communities talk to determine who changed the policy and how that change of policy was
communicated to LBC staff for the preparation of the preliminary report? How was the public
provided an opportunity to comment on this dramatic change regarding the treatment of enclaves
prior to the implementation of the new policy reflected in the preliminary report of June 30,
2007? We take no comfort in such an after the feet effort to re-interpret what is clearly a matter
of public record in all the prior reports.
We are surprised that you cite to a footnote in Uie Preliminary Report to attempt to distance Mr.
Bockhorst from the recommendation in the 1998 report. The idea that "prior administration's
policy is noted clearly" in the Preliminary Report by a footnote at page 96 is remarkable. In
1998, the DCCED/DCRA, through a report written by Mr. Bockhorst, recommended against the
approval of the KGB Petition because the Petition failed to meet the constitutional principles in
Article X, Section 1 of the Alaska Constitution because Hyder was excluded. It is also a fact that
the Preliminary Report of the DCCED/DCRA on the pending Petition, also authored by Mr.
Bockhorst, recommends that the KGB Petition be approved because it satisfies Article X,
Section 1 of the Alaska Constitution, even though Hyder is excluded. There is no way to mince
words about it— that can only be called a complete reversal of the recommendation.
The Constitution is not a matter of "policy" that can be changed by administrations. If Governor
Palin directed Mr. Bockhorst to change the constitutional policy reflected in the 1998 Report,
then such a dramatic shift of constitutional "policy" would not be buried in a footnote on page
96. It would have been fiilly addressed in the Preliminary and the Final Reports. Please provide
us with all documents demonstrating that Governor Palin' s administration has directed
DCCED/DCRA to change the policy of any prior administration as to the interpretation of
Article X, Section 1 of the AlE^a Constitution, and directed LBC staff to recommend approval
of this Petition based on that change of constitutional interpretation.
We are also not comforted by your reliance on a footnote at page 96 of the Report; because, m
the way that you rely upon it, the footnote appears to be an after the fact effort by its autiior to
distance himself from the 1 998 recommendation. Why would that be unportant for Mr.
Bockhorst to do if he has no personal interest in the KGB Petition? Simply put, the footnote at
page 96, and your reliance on it, has no place at all in this process, except because of the
appearance of the conflict of interest of Mr. Bockhorst.
We have reviewed die Preliminary Report from 1998. There is no language indicating that
"DCRA policy makers in the Knowles Administration" "as contrasted [sic] the LBC Staff
Componenf ' opposed the 1998 Petition. Why did Mr. Bockhorst find it necessary to insert "as
contrasted [sic] the LBC Staff Component" in the footnote on page 96 of tiie 2007 report?
According to you, the staff does not make policy, so it should not matter — ^now or then— whether
Mr. Bockhorst agreed with the policy. As we noted above, he did not make any alleged
"disagreement" known in any way in the 1998 Report What is again unportant here is the fact
that the two recommendations are duBCtly contradictory, and only after the Borough Manager
position in KGB became publicly known to be open, did Mr. Bockhorst write the footnote at
page 96, which you are now apparently usmg to tell us Mr. Bockhorst was only doing the
bidding of the "policymakers" in recommending against the Petition in 1998. If the 1998
Preliminary Report was the work of the DCRA "policymakers," and not Mr. Bockhorst, who are
PRA GSP01 0007435
Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
the "policymakers" responsible for the 2007 Preliminary Report and Final Report? Why aren't
those "policymakers" acknowledged in the 2007 Reports? Has the LBC been advised of the
"policymakers" who allegedly directed the 2007 Reports?
Your letter states that we "insinuated" that the "pendmg KGB annexation proposal differences
are attributable to the personal motives of Mr. Bockhorst." Please identify in our letter where we
made such an "insinuation." We did not "insinuate" anything. Again, we provided you wilh
simple fects. The decision by the LBC to deny the KGB petition in 1999 was squarely based on
its interpretation of the Constitution. If Mr. Bockhorst does not "make policy," as you state, he
surely does not make Constitutional law. If it were true that Mr. Bockhorst does not "make
policy," he had an obligation to recommend against this Petition because flie LBC is requked to
adhere to its own interpretation and application of the Alaska Constitution, as a quasi judicial
body. What were his "personal motives," using your words, for recommending that the LBC
reverse its previous interpretation of the Alaska Constitution?
Your letter characterizes the differences between the 1998 Petition and the pendmg Petition as
"substantial." You then cite as your reasons for that statement:
1) the inclusion of Myers Chuck; and
2) the extensively different boundaries for tiie proposed Hyder enclave.
1. The mclusion of Mvers Chuck
We are ctmfident that the LBC m 1999 would have denied the KGB Petition if it had included
Myers Chucks but not Hyder. There is no other way to logically read that 1999 decision and the
LBC's interpretation of the applicable constitutional provisions. Similarly, there is no way to
read the Preliminary Report in 1998 such that it would have reconunended the approval of the
Petition ifMyers Chuck had been included. What part of the Consthution has changed since
1998 that allows DCCED to now recommend that tiie LBC approve this petition, using Myers
Chuck as the justification, witii an area of 3.5 square miles, 14 residents, and essentially no State-
provided fecilities or services?
2. Extensivelv different boundaries for the proposed enclave of Hvder.
The technical and minor boundary change in the current KGB petition does not address flie
fiuidamental constitutional basis for the LBC's 1999 decision. The 1999 decision specifically
states that the exclusion of Hyder violated the Alaska Constitution. The technical boundary
change in this petition does not "satisfy" the constitution, rather it ensures a permanent and
unresolveable Hyder enclave— the precise Constitutional reason the LBC denied the 1999
petition. The result is the State of Alaska v«ll never be relieved of the responsibilify for
providmg all necessary services to the proposed Hyder enclave. Such a result means that the
Petition can not satisfy the statutory best interest of the State standard.
We provided a lengthy discussion of these two issues in our conmients to the LBC in response to
the Preliminary Report. The Final Report prepared by LBC stajBF failed to address anv of the
comments submitted by the Cify of Craig. Why did DCRA choose not to address any of our
comments? The purpose of the Final Report is to address the public comments generated by the
PRA GSP01 0007436
Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
Preliminary Report. Were our comments not worthy of response? Did DCRA decide not to
provide any guidance to the LBC ui its Final Report? Why doesn't DCRA and the LBC
postpone the hearing and direct LBC staff to provide a complete and independent Final Report
that addresses the comments and concern of the City of Craig and the Myers Chuck Community
Association? Why is it important to DCRA and the LBC to approve this Petition quickly,
without a full and fair opportunity to consider the constitutional interpretation issues and due
process issues? In light of Mr. Bockhorst now being the KGB Manager, these are fair questions,
and remain imanswered by your letter.
Your letter attempts to construct a "timeline," which we assume was included to convince us that
there is no appearance of a conflict of interest. The continued advocacy by DCRA in support of
the KGB Petition continues to taint the process. Are you telling us that the LBC staff assigned
to the final report conducted an independent analysis of the KGB Petition, and came to the same
recommendations as Mr. Bockhorst, for all the same reasons, and that in doing this independent
analysis, the comments from the City of Craig and Myers Chuck Association were not even
worthy of response? Do you not see the appearance of the conflict with staff who are
subordinate to Mr. Bockhorst doing the Final Report while he is actively seeking the Borough
Manager job? Isn't it an appearance of a conflict of interest that DCRA and its employees did
not have the independence to be able to make a recommendation contrary to Mr. Bockhorst' s
preliminary report, because to do so could jeopardize his chance of being named the Borough
Manager?
We wrote in our comments to the LBC m response to the Preliminary Report:
"The LBC has two choices. It can reject the recommendation of the LBC staff, and deny
the Petition because that would be tiie factually and legally correct decision. The denial of
the Petition would be consistent with the Constitutional principles the LBC is obligated to
uphold and apply. The denial of the Petition will be consistent with the 1999 Decision.
The second choice is for the LBC to remove the Preliminary Report from the record and to
retain an independent consultant to prepare a report not tainted with the appearance of bias
and conflict of interest enveloping tiiis Preliminary Report." (Comments on Behalf of tiie
City of Craig and the Prince of Wales Community Advisory Council, p. 17)
Why were these two choices not addressed at all in staff's Final Report? Please explain to us
who made the decision not to have an independent person do the Final Report? Why are you
continuing to refiise to have an independent person, untamted by the appearance of a conflict of
interest, do a Final Report for the LBC? Your timeline offers no explanation for the continued
involvement of Mr. Bockhorst's subordinates in the preparation of the Fuial Report.
Going through your timeline, you mdicate that Mr. Bockhorst spoke with the "former DCRA
Director" about "policy" on March 26, 2007. Please tell us who that was, and provide us a copy
of any memorandum, report, or notes related to that "discussion."
Your timeline, then, does not include any reference to relevant events until June 28, 2007. We
take this as your acknowledgment that the KGB Manager position was publicly reported to be
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
open before June 30, 2007, consistent with our letter to the Governor and our comments to the
LBC. What is also missing is mention of any communications between Mr. Bockhorst and the
KGB, specifically the former manager. Were there any? Did you review those communications?
Did you review the e-mails between Mr. Bockhorst and KGB personnel or representatives? If
you did not, why not? We request copies of all correspondence and e-mails between Mr.
Bockhorst and any KGB employee, Borough Assembly member or olher Borough representative
for the period between March 26, 2007 and November 7, 2007.
At the beginning of your letter, you note that your letter is a "thoughtful reply." We assume then
that you were being "thoughtful" when you carefully chose the words that Mr. Bockhorst "first
became aware of the recruitment for the position on July 3 1 ." When he became aware the
position was open and when the Borough published a recruitment bulletin arc different events.
Whether there is an appearance of a conflict is imrelated to when Mr. Bockhorst "became aware
of the recruitment." What were the communications, including e-mails, between LBC staff and
KGB representatives, from June, when the Borough Assembly publicly accepted the borough
manager's resignation, until August 1, 2007? Did you review those communications? Mr.
Bockhoret told the Ketchikan Daily News that he was aware of the vacant manager position
during the weekend of July 28, 2007. Why the discrepancy between your "timelme" and the
newsp^jer account?
Your timelme refers to a memorandum from Mr. Bockhorst to "the Department Ethics
Supervisor" on August 1, 2007. In the interest of fairness and "transparent" government, which
Governor Palin has repeatedly sixessed in her administration, please provide us a copy of that
memorandum and any response from the ethics supervisor.
Your timeline feils to note a lengthy conversation Mr. Bockhorst had on July 31, 2007 with a
representative of the Myers Chuck Community Association regarding the KGB Petition. Mr.
Bockhorst advised the representative that Myers Chuck should make the case that it has at least
as good a case as Hyder for being an enclave. By taking this approach, Myers Chuck would not
support inclusion in the Wrangell Borough, as originally expressed by Myers Chuck and
reflected in the Wrangell Petition. Did he recuse himself before or after this call? Did you
review the records of this call? Mr. Bockhorst told the representative that he had a clock on his
desk and that he had just given her 34 minutes of technical assistance. Myers Chuck accepted
Mr. Bockhorst's "technical assistance" as reflected in its the association's comments to the LBC.
Myers Chuck even obtained the agreement of tiie KGB for that position. As you know, the Final
Report prepared by Ms. McPherson dismissed the proposal of Myers Chuck to be an enclave like
Hyder as "clearly unsupported by the facts." The absence of any effort at analysis in the Final
Report, after this call with Mr. Bockhorst, raises the appearance of a conflict.
In your concluding paragraph you state there are "discrepancies between the assertions in . . .
[our] letter and the facts on record." We have not seen the "record" of which you speak. In an
often used cliche, tiie 1998 Preliminary Report, the 1999 Decision, tiie 2007 Preliminary Report,
and the 2007 Final Report "speak for tiiemselves." The irrefiitable fects are tiiat the 2007
Preliminary Report advocates for the LBC to interpret the Alaska constitution in a manner
diametrically opposite what was advocated by DCCED in the 1998 Preliminary Report, and
completely contrary to the decision of the LBC in 1999 on the KGB Petition. It is also a fact that
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
during this process Mr. Bockhorst applied for and eventually became the KGB Borough
Manager. We did not make "assertions." We began by asking the LBC to retain an
independent consultant to complete the Final Report. When that was not done, and the Final
Report ignored the comments of Crdg, and ignored Ihe apparent conflict of interest, we appealed
to the Governor because she has expressed a commitment to open government.
In addition to your letter, we received a letter from Ms. Bockmon in the Department of Law,
stating in essence, that, based on your letter, Mr. Bockhorst did not violate the Ethics Act. We
did not "assert" or "insinuate" or "complain" of any Ethical Act violation, so we are not clear
why we received this letter from Ms. Bockmon. Why was Ms. Bockmon directed to treat our
letter as an Ethics Act complaint?
However, since you or someone in the Administration referred our letter to the Department of
Law under the Ethics Act, it may be instructive to review the purpose of the Ethics Act in light of
your letter.
A.S. 39.52.010 states as the policy of the Act:
a) It is declared that
(1) high moral and eAical standards among public officers in the executive
branch are essential to assure the trust, respect, and confidence of the
people of this state;
(2) a code of ethics for the guidance of public officers will
(A) discourage those officers from acting upon personal or financial
interests in the performance of their public responsibilities;
(B) improve standards of public service; and
(C) promote and strengthen the faith and confidence of the people of this
state in theu" public officers;
(3) holding public office or employment is a public trust and that as one
safeguard of that trust, the people require public officers to adhere to a
code of ethics;
(4) a fair and open government requires that executive branch public
officers conduct the public's business m a manner that preserves the
integrity of the governmental process and avoids conflicts of interest. . .
Do you mean to tell us by your letter that the people of this State should'have a high degree of
"trust, respect, and confidence" in DCCED that it has acted fairly, openly, and in the best
interests of the people of fliis State witii regard to the KGB Petition? Do you mean to tell us that
LBC staffs actions, and the refiisal of DCRA to retain an independent consultant, and your letter
refusing to conduct an investigation of the appearance of a conflict of interest "promotes and
strengthens the friith and confidence of the people of this state in their public officers?" Do you
mean to tell us that LBC staff conduct, and that of DCRA, is evidence of a "friir and open
government?" Do you mean to tell us that Mr. Bockhorst and DCRA have approached the KGB
Petition in a manner that "preserves the integrity of the governmental process and avoid conflict
of interest?" If so, we would agree and urge the Department and the LBC to review the current
KGB Annexation Petition process to date in that light
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
We will continue our pursuit of what is right. In a democracy, an open and fair process is
fundamental to the trust and confidence of the people. There is no place for even the appearance
of a conflict of interest. When an appearance of a conflict of interest arises, the government has
an obligation to restore the trust and confidence of the people by taking steps to avoid the
appearance of a conflict of interest.
If the LBC adopts Mr. Bockhorst's recommendation, and no independent report is prepared for
the LBC, which addresses the comments of Craig, Myers Chuck, and the many others who
submitted comments to the Preliminary Report, the people in the unorganized borough in
Southeast Alaska will have been denied due process.
In light of the significance to the affected communities and school districts in the unorganized
borough, and given the fact that you provided a copy of your October 3 1 , 2007, letter to the
LBC, we specifically request the following information, pursuant to AS 40.25. 110:
1. AlldraftsofyourOctoberSl, 2007 letter, identifying all current and former LBC
staff, who participated or reviewed any of those drafts.
2. All communications, including all e-mails between yourself and any other state
employee, with Mr. Bockhorst between October 19, 2007 and October 31, 2007.
3. All DCCED records you reviewed.
4. All records showing that LBC staff was m favor of the KGB 1998 annexation
petition.
5. All records fi-om "DCRA policymakers" directing LBC staff to write the
preliminary report in 1998 recommending that the LBC deny the KGB annexation
petition.
6. AH records firom any current "DCRA policymakers" to LBC staff regarding the
preparation of the Final Report on the current KGB annexation petition.
7. All communications, including e-mails, fi-om all current or former LBC staff
persons with Ms. McPherron or any other staff member assigned to prepare the
Final Report.
8. Any memorandum, reports, notes, and e-mails, related to the discussion on March
26, 2007 between Mr. Bockhorst and the "former DCRA director".
9. The memorandum fix)m Mr. Bockhorst to the department Ethics Supervisor of
August 1, 2007, and the department supervisor's response; and any other
communication with the department's ethics supervisor.
10. Any notes, reports, memoranda, and e-mail by Mr. Bockhorst related to his July
31, 2007 conversation with representatives of the Meyers Chuck Community
Association.
1 1 . All communications, includmg e-mails, between any KGB employee, assembly
member, or representative between March 26, 2007 and November 7, 2007.
12. The file, including notes and all e-mails, from LBC staff members, fi-om the 1998
and 2007 KGB annexation petitions.
In addition to providing us copies the above records, we request that all the above documents be
made a part of the official record of the pending KGB aimexation petition.
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
There is still time for DCRA and the LBC to do tiie right thing and either deny the KGB Petition,
or postpone the hearing until an independent report is prepared. If not, we are prepared seek the
assistance of the Court.
Sincerely,
Jon Boiling
City Administrator
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Robert P. Blasco, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh
Prmce of Wales Community Advisory Coimcil
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October 19, 2007
CRAIG COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Governor Sarah Palin
PO Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001
Re: Conflict of Interest of Dan Bockhorst Regarding Ketchikan Gateway Borough Annexation
Petition
Dear Governor Palin:
We write you with the utmost concern for the appearance of impropriety that pervades the Local
Boundary Commission process related to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Annexation Petition.
We write you because we sincerely believe that the people of thbs State, and in particular the
small communities and school districts of Southeast Alaska, are being denied due process and
fair treatment directly resulting from an apparent conflict of interest involving Mr. Dan
Bockhorst.
Mr. Bockhorst is the senior local government specialist in your administration assigned as the
staff to the Local Boundary Commission. On June 30, 2007, Mr. Bockhorst con:q)lrted a 1 17
page Preliminary Report recommending that the LBC approve the KGB Annexation Petitioa
Shortly afler completing his report, Mr. Bodchorst sqjplied for the vacant KGB Borough
Manner position. On October 13, 2007, KGB hired \fr. Bockhorst as its new Borough Manager
under a five-year contract, effective November 1, 2007. He will start with a salary of $1 10,000,
going up to $121,000 in two years.
We have attached the response of the City of Craig to the Preliminary Report of Mr. Bockhorst.
The importance of a conflict of inters is easily demonstrated. On April 16, 1999, the Local
Boundary Commission denied the Annexation Proposal of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough
because "the proposal &ils to serve all the relevant principles established in the Constitution of
the State of Alaska." {Statement of Decision, 1999, p. 14) The reason the Petition violated the
Alaska Constitution was because the Petition sought to annex a large area of uninhabited land,
while not annexing the only community in that area — ^Hyda-. The reason fcr aimexing the
uninhabited land in 1999 was to obtain a significant increase in forest receipts fiom the federal
government. By excluding Hyder, KGB wouW obtain the forest receipts and not have to provide
any services to anyone actually living in the area being annexed.
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Mr. Bockhorst prq>ared the Preliminary Report in 1998 recommending that the LBC reject the
KGB petition because it excluded Hyder, and he specifically pointed out the un&imess of KGB
obtaining a significant increase in forest receipts without having to provide any services. The
unfairness directly impacts the City of Craig, sixteen communities, and twelve school districts in
the unorganized borough in Southeast Alaska, who stand to bse a combined $1.2 million each
year if the annexation is approved. To the extent that KGB can annex land currently in the
unorganized borough, (tie caneat forest receipts of the communities and school districts in the
unorganized borough will be reduced dramatically in proportion to the land annexed by KGB.
Mr. Bockhorst also stated in his 1998 recommendation to reject the Petition that the annexation
without Hyder would violate the Alaska Constitutioa
KGB submitted the pending Petition in 2006. As it did in 1998, this Petition excludes Hyder. If
the Petition is approved by the LBC, KGB will receive an additional $ 1 ,200,000 in forest
receipts per year.
After KGB announced the vacancy of its Borough Manager position, Mr. Bockhorst submitted
his report to the LBC con^jletely reversing his recommendation of 1 998, Although nothing had
changed, he now stated to the LBC that the Constitutional had sufficient "flexibility" to allow
KGB to annex the uninhabited land and exclude Hyder. Shortly after submitting that report, he
applied for the KGB Borough Manager position.
The LBC scheduled the piAlic hearing on the KGB Annexation Petition for November 6, 2007,
and scheduled the decisional meeting on that P^ion for November 7, 2007. We respectfully
request that you immediately:
1 . Direct the LBC to cancel the public hearing until the Attorney General can conduct a &I1
investigation into the apparent conflict of intact;
2. Direct the Attorney General to conduct a fiill, thorough, and open investigation of the
conflict of interest.
You have repeatedly stated that your administration is "transparent" and you have repeatedly
stated that your administration will not tolerate any appearance of impropriety or conflicts of
interest. We have to trust that you will recognize the seriousness of this situation and honor your
commitment to the people of the State. This is especially true when you consider that the final
report on the proposed annexation does not address the concerns we raised about the preliminary
repott.
We truly cannot believe that you will allow the LBC to go forward on this Petition without
conducting a fttll investigation into these circumstances. We request that you consider the
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devastating mq>act on the school children in the unorganized borough of the loss of $1,200,000
per year in school funding, which cannot be allowed constitutionally or under the unquestionable
^>pearance of a direct and serious conflict of interest.
We bok forward to your pron^jt action and response in Ught of the pending LBC hearing on
November 6, 2007.
Millii Stevens
iministrator Tribal Presideitf, Craig Community Assn.
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October 31, 2007
Mr. Jon Boiling, City Adminisirator
Ciiy of Craig
P.O. Box 725
Craig, Alaska 99921
be£u-Mr.BoN!ng:
As Director of tha Division of Community and Regional AJfeirs (DCRA) whicii provides
staff support for the Local Boundary Commission, I was asked to respond to your letter
of October 19, 2007. This letter alleges a conffict of interest on tiia part of Dan
Bockhorst, DCf^ lead state staff to tiie Local Boundary Commission. Your letter claims
Mr, Bockliorsf s role in ttis pending Ketdilkan Gateway Borough (KGB) annexation
proceedings, past and present and his recent appointment as KGB Manager ottered to
him October 1 3, 2007, substantiate your confltot of interest claim against him.
Your letter also asks that the Governor dinect the Attorney General to investigate tiiis
conflict of Interest dalm, as wen as direct the Local Boundary Commission to cancel ite
November 6, 2007, public hearing on the Ketchikan annexat'on proposal until tiie
Attorney General's investJgaton is complete;
I carefully reviewed DCRA records to compare Qie actions on record wlfii auctions
made in your leHer in order to provide you wifii a thoughtful reply- i also wanted to
determine if DCRA had anytfiing in our records that supports the statements in ycxjr
letter and/or supports your request ibr an ofRdai investigation and cancellation of the
Ketchikan annexatfon proposal puWic hearings scheduled for November 8, 2007.
Your letter asserts that (1) after KGB announced the va<»uicy of its Borough Manager
position, Mr. Bockhorst submitted his report to the LBC completely reversing his
recommendation of 1998. You also dalm that {2) although nothing had changed, Mr.
Bockhorst now stated to ttie LBC that the Cortsfa'tuticvi had sufiident flejdbiiity to altow
KGB to annex the uninhabited land and exclude Hyder. You furfter claim that (3)
shorfly after submi^g Itiat report, he aji^lied tor ttie KGB Borough Manager position.
These statements are not bas^ on lacts. DCRA records dearly show the following;
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Regarding assertions (1) and (2) which discuss a recommendation in tiie 1998 proposal
that is different in the current proposal, and your assertion that Mr. Boci?horst
completely reversed his 1998 recommendation to the LBC. These asserflons are not
true. It Is bnportant to note that the 1998 recommendation reflected the policy direction
of a prior administration. Staff, induding Mr. Boclthorst, does not set policy.
The prior administration's policy is noted clearly in the DCCED Preliminary Report to the
Local Boundary Commission Regarding tte PaW(m forAnnexaSon ofApfxaximatBly
4.701 Square Miles to fte Ket(^ikan Gateway Borougt), June 30, 2007, p. 96, n. 67.
"DCFIA polity maimers in the Knowlas Administration (I.e., the Office of the
Commissioner and the Director, as contrasted to the LBC Staff
Component, opposed the prior KGB annexation proposal. Reflecting the
views of the [X^I^ poficy maker's, DCRA's preliminary report stated the
Ibllowing with respect to the standard at issue hens;
In the view of DORA policy maimers, significant adverse flnandal
impacts on communities in the unorganized borough are a more
important consideration than the constitutional principles In this
particular instance."
FurthenDore, contrary to your insinualion that the pending KGB annexation proposal
differences are attributalJie to fte p«:sonal mofives of Mr. Bockhorst, the pending
proposal is signiflcantly different fifom the 1998 annexation proposal for substantial
reasons including the following:
Among the important differences is the inclusion of Meyer's Chuck and extensively
diHerent boundaries for the proposed Hyder enclave. TTtose dilTerent boundaries for the
Hyder enclave address particular concerns expressed by the Local Boundary
Commission In te 1 999 decision. Further, Exhibit K of the current Petition provides a
thorough discussion by the Petitioner of Justification for pos^nlng the annexation of
Hyder and the future circumstances which may lead to Its Indusion in the KetcNkai
Borough.
Regarding assertion (3) that shortly after completing ^e preliminary 2007 report, Mr.
Bockhorst appii^ for the KGB Borough Manager position, our records dearly shows
this timeline of evente:
lUarch 26, 2007: Mr. Bockhorst began his analysis of the Ketchikan annexation
proposal at which point he discussed policy aspects of the proposal with the fonner
DCRA Diredor.
June 28, 20O7: Mr. Bockhorsfs wori( on the 2007 preliminary report was complete and
fbnvanded to the DCRA publications technician for fomiatting and publication.
July 29, 2007: just over one month after Mr. Bockhorst completed his wori< on Sie
annexation proposal for the Osparimenf s 2007 preliminary report, the Ketohikan
Gateway Borough first announced that it was recmltlng for a Borough Manager.
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August 1, 2007: in accordance with the Execufive Branch Ethics Act, IWr. Bockhoret
wrote a memorandum to ttie Departmenfs Ethics Supervisor tfisclosing that ha had an
interest in appij^ng for the i<etchii«in Borough Manager position. Mr. Bod<horst stated
in this memorandum that he first became aware of the recruitment for the posifon on
July 31 . in that memorandum, he recused himself with respect to any and all futire
dealings regarding the Ketchikan ann^afion proposal. Mr. Bockhorsf s work regarding
tf»e Kstehikan annexation proceeding was immediately reassigned to Ms. Jeanne
McPherren.
October 15, 2007: Ms. McPherren. not Mr. Bocldiorst. independently prepared the
2007 final report regarding the Ketchikan annexation proposal.
To conclude, given the discrepancies between the assertions in your letter and the ^cts
on record, I find no basis to support or recommend that the Locai Boundaiy
Commission cancel or postpone its upcoming hearing. Furthermore, I find no reason to
support your request for an oflldal Investigation into a conflict of interest daim against
Mr. Dan Bockhorst
If you have any questions regarding this letter, I can be reached directly at 807-269-
7959,
Sincerely,
Tare Jollie, Director
cc Governor Sarah Palin
Lynne Smith, Special Assistant to Governor Palin
Local Boundary Comntisston
Emii Notti, Commissioner, OCCED
Maik I3avis, Ethics Supervisor, OCCED
Matjorle Vendor, Assistant Attorney General, Alaska Department of Law
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Re: AML Fairbanks Page 1 of 1
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 1 0:40 AM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: RE: AML Fairbanks
Thank you! Will do.
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sun 11/4/2007 7:35 AM
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: AML Fairbanks
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Original Message
From: PAIUMELL, S (GOV sponsored)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 3, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: AML Fairbanks
Please let me know if there is anything you want me to communicate at AML next week in Fairbanks, given (hat is
another familiar crowd to you. Sean
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) lkris.perry@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:06 AM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
Okay.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/4/2007 8:02 AM
SiAbject: Re: Road Replacement
Strange that a commissioner isn't on- call at all times. He's tough to reach. I'll give in
one more day.
Original Message
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) ; Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 04 08:01:32 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
I can call and alert him to the email and ask that he call your cell today. Not sure he'll
check emails before tomorrow (?)
-Original Message-
] From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin@alaska.gov>
To: "Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)" <leo.vonscheben®ala3ka.gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/4/2007 7:35 AM
Svibject: Fw: Road Replacement
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Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKiimon's
replacement asap . Thanks !
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh
Privileged went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it : remember |gr[vilen6d nr Personal--l\/laleriai]
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
iPrivileaed or Personal Mai ^^^^^ reputation within dot and the public.
Talk to you soon.
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:02 AM
To: Perry; KristinaY (GOV)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
strange that a commissioner isn't on-call at all times. He's tough to reach. I'll give in
one more day.
Original Message
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) ; Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 04 08:01:32 2007
Sub j ect : RE : Road Replacement
I can call and alert him to the email and ask that he call your cell today. Not sure he'll
check emails before tomorrow (?)
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)" <govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)" <;leo.vonsoheben@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/4/2007 7:35 AM
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap . Thanks !
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
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Subj ect : Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged C went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember rPrlvilianpH nr Pprgnnal miatflrial IJ
privileged or Personal Material Redacted '
Privileqed or Personal Mai Great reputation within dot and the public .
Talk to you soon.
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From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [kris.perry@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 8:02 AM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored); Von Scheben; Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
j I can call and alert him to the email and ask that he call your cell today. Not sure he'll
1 check emails before tomorrow (?)
Original Message
From; "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) " <govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)" <leo.vonscheben@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Perry, Kristina y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/4/2007 7:35 AM
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give tne a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To; Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subj ect : Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh
Privileged C went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it : remember iPrivileaed or Pflrsnnal l\/laterial R
[Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal M^ Great reputation within dot and the public .
Talk to you soon.
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:45 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: My apologies
Here's the latest. Don't worry, I won't be forwarding anymore emails from chris unless
there's some substantial revelation.
The thing that bothers me the most is he likes to perpetuate instability on the 3r<i floor,
and that it has only gotten worse since he and bit left. Who does he think he is?
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark «:cgcalaska@yahoo. com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:33:17 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
In regards to who's leaking information from the Third Floor, that I don't know. And
that's the truth.
As a common understanding, courtesy, or condition when getting something that may be
sensitive, I don't press my sources on where they get their information -- unless I really
need something on the record. However, insisting that my sources reveal their sources is
usually met by a grin, a wag of the finger, or an "Oh, Chris, you know better than to ask
that." If I press, then I risk losing an opportunity in the future for more information.
That's just the way things work in the capitol and on the street. That's why it takes
years to build up trust. (And only a second to destroy it.)
When I worked for the governor, I was stunned several times when certain people with
offices on the ground, 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th floors knew more about what was going on in
the governor's office or, a source of perpetual frustration, knew more about the
governor's schedule than did I. Heather, for example, seemed to know EVERYTHING that was
happening on the Third Floor long before she was considered a candidate for the governor's
legislative office. It was remarkable, if not troubling.
Here's a whopper for, you: in August, I learned from sources in the legislature -- NOT John
-- who was going to be the new co-directors in the legislative office a day or two before
Mike broke the news to me. I was grateful. That way, I didn't look like a deer in the
headlights when Mike told me that my services were no longer needed.
As Ben Franklin once said, three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
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Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To : cgcalaskaOyaboo . com
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:50:31 PM
Subj ect : Re : My apologies
Man, Chris. You just wrote on and on about how you want to help the governor succeed, yet
you don't want to tell me who's sharing confidential info from the 3rd floor.
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:27:34 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
Can't tell you.
I must protect my sources.
That's the rules of the game. A reporter is only as good as his sources.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: cgcalaska®yahoo . com
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:20:05 PM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Chris, you ALWAYS know the beat in the capitol. Who said it?
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Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 17:16:48 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
That , I don ' t know .
When I contacted Mindy, she was surprised that I knew.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo . com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:10:34 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Perhaps I should be more specific. How would anyone know the hiring decision of the third
floor? Who would give out that information?
Prom: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com]
sent: Sat 11/3/2007 5:06 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
A friend who works in House Finance.
Original Message
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From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo . com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:03:38 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Well, who told you that Mindy was hired?
From: Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska®yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 5:36 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sub j ect : Re : My apologies
Amen to that -- all of that.
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 3:19:15 PM
Subject: RK: My apologies
There are too many rumors out there that aren't conducive to what Governor Palin and her
Administration are trying to accomplish.
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There are too many commenes about what is going wrong or right; who's working for her and
who's not; who's a good employee and who's not; and it goes on and on. I'm absolutely
sick of it. I've said this a million times, but what do any of these comments have to do
with good public policy? I'm sure neither of us (me or you) know who is going to be
hired. Unless you've had a conversation with Mike or the governor, I wouldn't believe it
AND if they did talk to you, I sure as heck wouldn't be repeating it. If you do have
access to this type of information or any other 3rd floor information, I'd be confronting
the person or letting Mike know— I promise you that.
Prom: Christopher Clark [mailto:cg.calaska@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:09 AM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
One more thing . . .
J After I had the brainstorm in which I thought you could do the job as deputy legislative
director, I ran it by John -- thinking he would tell me if I were nuts or not.
He thought you would be better off at Administration, but he didn't seem to think my idea
was far-fetched. We both could be assured, at the least, that there would be someone in
that office who would work hard and be ferociously loyal to the governor.
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo . corns
To: " Prye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:01:50 AM
Subject: Re; My apologies
Nobody told me that you were interested in being deputy legislative director.
It was only an idea I had one night, at home. At the time, it seemed like a Eureka !
moment. It may have been fueled, in part, by the warm cup of sake that I was drinking, I
confess.
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Given your familiarity with the legislature, I thought and think you could do it. You know
the players, the quirks, the personalities. You know how legislation moves through
committee. You know the lay of the land. You understand the process and. how difficult it
can be .
I want the governor to succeed. So I was brainstorming on who could take the job to help
meet that goal. Your face popped into my mind.
On a different note
I'm now listening to Senate Judiciary discuss the pluses and minuses of the gross tax
versus the net tax. It's going well. Pat's doing a good job. Of all the committees that
are hearing the governor's bill, this one is and will be the kindest and most supportive
of her .
Be that as it may, the real fight -- or, at least, the biggest and most important battles
-- will occur on the House and Senate floors.
I'm of the opinion -- and several reporters agree with me -- that the governor is in a
win-win position. A nice place to be. More on that, later.
Original Message
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:28:43 AM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Again, I still haven't heard that Mindy or anyone else was hired. It hasn't been
confirmed, that I know. You never encouraged me to apply for the deputy director
position. I never have come up to you once in person, in writing, on the phone and said,
'I want to be the deputy legislative director." Understandably, I'm very curious who
would tell you something like that. That's the only information that's relevant to this
entire conversation.
Please don't offer me knowledge or confidence if it's based on rumor — it doesn't help
anybody.
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Thanks ,
Ivy
From; Christopher Clark [mailto:cgcalaska@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:12 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: My apologies
My apologies.
I never meant to offend or hurt you. On the contrary, I intended to offer you
encouragement and support. I clearly missed the mark. And for that, I am sorry.
I just want to see you flourish and succeed. Hence, my clumsy attempts in offering you
encouragement and the latest rumblings in the capitol. Confidence and knowledge -- that's
all I was trying to offer.
To be clear, I want our governor to do well and continue to shine. She's a welcomed balm
to this malignant, diseased political system. I want Alaskans' current love affair with
her to last the arc and span of her political career. It's good for people to have faith
in their leaders and their government. Refreshing, too.
Let me tell you what I tell others unabashedly, including ray friends in the press corps:
in spite of what happened to me, in spite of my losing a job in the governor's office, I
want the governor to succeed. I want her to remain popular and strong. I want her to stay
popular and strong so she may negotiate from a position of strength when dealing with the
oil industry. You and I both know all too well what it's like for the state to have a
weakened, unpopular, and lame-duck governor. I don't want to see that happen again.
Especially to her. I adored her while I worked for her. And I still do. As John Tracy said
last year, she's a breath of fresh air.
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Let me remind you that I voted for Sarah Palin in last year's primary and general
elections for two reasons: her strong stand on the gas pipeline and her embodiment of an
ethical public life. Sarah Palin doesn't just talk about ethics. She lives it. She
embodies it. She has made sacrifices to uphold it. That's why I like her.
Just so you know, I did not forward your e-mail to John or anybody. And I am not sending
this one to anyone via blind copy or any other means.
I am disheartened that you have lost your faith and trust in me, if, indeed, you ever had
it. This is a personal loss for me.
Perhaps this is the price I must pay when trying to balance my friendship with John with
ray desire to see the governor succeed.
For what it's worth, I plan to tease him today ... mercilessly ... over John Harris's live
shot yesterday during KTUU's 5:00 newscast. Did you see it? Oh, my God. Let me put it this
way: John Harris is NO Sarah Palin. Ha! I still marvel at how she handles herself --so
easily and adroitly --in front of the cameras. She makes it look easy and effortless --a
true sign of a master, as we learn in aikido. It seems she requires so little preparation
and then, bam! Nails the press conference. Nails the interview. I don't why, but it leaves
me in stitches every time. I've worked for seven legislators. Not one holds a candle to
the governor in this regard. She's remarkable. Or, as Bill McAllister once told me, •
amazing.
As for my previous e-mails to you . .
I just had a brainstorm one evening that you would be good in the legislative office. And
I just wanted you to know that. I still do, by the way, for what that's worth.
When I learned that Mindy got the job, I felt like an idiot having tried to encourage you
to pursue a position that had already been filled. I wrongly assumed -- largely because I
believed you are far better connected than I -- that you already knew about that hire. My
apologies, again, for being a moron.
I do wish you well and I want you to continue to shine.
Chris
Original Message
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska®yahoo. com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:32:15 PM
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Siibject: RE: You could have done it
I hadn't heard they appointed a deputy director. I'm sure it's not pubic information yet,
And how would you know if I was interested anyway?
I don't appreciate you stating the first line as if I had been inquiring with you or
anyone else about who the new deputy would be, and I don't appreciate that you infer that
you and I have been discussing my interest in the deputy director position. Your email
was cleverly written and although I can't prove it I will assume you blind copied others.
Your comments about Tibbies can only come from John Bitney — feel free to share that with
him too. And, if Mike was your friend and you believed in the Administration you wouldn't
be passing on rumors you hear. I don't want to hear the rumors because I don't believe
them .
I've also asked you politely before not to send me emails regarding the governor. I would
appreciate if you would honor my request.
I'm not, as you say, trying to get "closer to the governor." I don't need to try. She
knows I'd do anything for her.
From: Christop,her Clark [mailto:cgcalaska®yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:36 PM
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To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Siobject: You could have done it
Yes, I heard about the new deputy legislative director.
Good for Mindy. And condolences to her as well.
This is interesting because it proves that Tibbies still has some sway up there. That he'
not c[uite the lame duck some may perceive him. to be.
It's also interesting because the decision was made during the special session instead of
afterwards as expected.
There are several good things about Mindy: she knows the legislature, understands the
personalities, she HAS a good personality, she knows Tibbies well, and she knows the
importance of fiscal notes. She's competent, experienced, dedicated, and used to putting
in long hours. And she wasn't happy with recent developments in Senate Finance.
For what it's worth
I think you could have done the job. It would not have been easy. It would have strained
the outer limits of diplomacy. But it would have gotten you closer to the governor.
I'm disappointed that you weren't given the chance --if that was even an option. On the
other hand, I would have been mortified if I had encouraged you to take the job, you got
it, and it turned out to be a disaster for you -- thus setting you way back rather than
moving you way forward. In that regard, I am relieved that you're still where you're at.
You are well off there. Annette and Kevin have much to teach.
My recommendation: get a regular session under your belt there. Just like Frank did. And
learn, learn, learn. Have you become more familiar with Excel yet? Here's your chance.
Hang in there, raon amie.
Fondly,
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Chris
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday. November 04, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben; Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks 1
Original Message
Prom: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Co: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (1 got an email yes t saying he ' s resigning . )
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember|privi|efiftd f^r Pftrsnnal Material Rl
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Md ^^^^^ reputation within dot and the public ■
Talk to you soon.
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:36 AM
PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Re: AML Fairbanl<s
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Original Message
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 3, 2007 11:26 Mi
Subject; AML Fairbanks
Please let me Icnow if there is anything you want me to communicate at AML next week in
Fairbanks, given that is another familiar crowd to you. Sean
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From:
Myma Brown (mbrown@cctlirta.org]
Sent:
IVIonday, November 05, 2007 9:59 AM
To:
Ruaro; Randall P (GOV)
Cc:
Palin; Sarah H (GOV)
Subject:
Request
Importance: High
Good Morning Randy,
The meeting with the Attorney General Talis Colberg and Assistant Attorney General
Stacy Steinberg occurred October 19, 2007 with Eddie Brakes, Child Support Manager,
Jessie Archibald, CS Tribal Attorney, Alfred McKinley, Sr., Judiciary Member and Debra
O'Gara, Magistrate. We appreciated meeting with both Mr. Colberg and Ms. Steinberg
for that meeting.
The introductions, relationships and interests were well established in the meeting. The
position of the CCTHITA delegation appeared to be (1) a request for the State to honor
the [presumptive agreement and its] terms of the "transfer process" for TCSU cases
previously discussed and agreed upon by CSSD and detailed in the March 29, 2007
letter which provided for two possible procedures for transfer. The CCTHITA
delegation's negotiating position also included (2) its request the CSSD keep
transferred cases open for the purpose of assisting the CCTHITA with IRS and PFD
intercepts, and (3) for the Bureau of Vital Statistics (BVS) to provide access for TSCU to
copies of birth certificates and (4) to make necessary changes to existing birth
certificates in accordance with a Tribal Court Paternity Order.
Alfred McKinley's talk about the primary goal of providing for the needs of children and
custodial parents served by Title IV-D, and the prospect for cooperation between the
CCTHITA and the State was important, and a reprise of the common goal of serving
needy children is indeed our focus. Indian Child Welfare Act facts concerning
jurisdiction of tribal courts to which Title IV-D legislation and regulation may refer and be
addressed for discussion.
As we spoke on the phone I left the option open to meet with Governor Palin open and
would like to move fonward as soon as possible in your assistance in setting up another
meeting with President William E. Martin, Eddie Brakes, Alfred McKinley, Sr., Jessie
Archibald and Debra O'Gara. Please let me know at your earliest convenience. We feel
that this would be of utmost importance for Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian
Tribes of Alaska.
Thank you.
11/9/2009
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From: Sarah Palin [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 1 :26 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Fw: My apologies
it's gotten a LOT worse since they left - lots more rumor mongering going on... you hit the nail
on the head!
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <iyy.frye@alaska.gov> wrote:
Here's the latest. Don't worry, I won't be forwarding anymore emails from chris unless there's some
substantial revelation.
The thing that bothers me the most is he likes to perpetuate instability on the 3rd floor, and that it has only
gotten worse since he and bit left. Who does he think he is?
Original Message
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo,com>
To: Ftye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: SatNov03 17:33:172007
Subject: Re: My apologies
In regards to who's leaking information from the Third Floor, that I don't know. And that" s the truth.
As a common understanding, courtesy, or condition when getting something that may be sensitive, I don't
press my sources on where they get fteir information ~ unless I really need something on the record.
However, insisting that my sources reveal their sources is usually met by a grin, a wag of the finger, or an
"Oh, Chris, you know better than to ask that." If I press, then I risk losing an opportunity in the future for
more mformation. That's just the way things work in the c^itol and on the street. That" s why it takes years
to build up trust. (And only a second to destroy it.)
When I worked for the governor, I was stunned several times when certain people witii offices on the
ground, 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th floors knew more about what was going on in the governor's office or, a
source of perpetual frustration, knew more about the governor's schedule than did I. Heather, for example,
seemed to know EVERYTHING that was happening on the Third Floor long before she was considered a
candidate for the governor's legislative office. It was remarkable, if not troubling.
Here's a whopper for you: in August, I learned fix)m sources in the legislature ~ NOT John - who was
going to be the new co-directors in the legislative office a day or two before Mike broke the news to me. I
was grateful. That way, I didn't look like a deer in the headlights when Mike told me that my services were
no longer needed.
As Ben Franklin once said, three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Original Message —
From: "Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: cgcalaska@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:50:31 PM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Man, Chris. You just wrote on and on about how you want to help the governor succeed, yet you dont
want to tell me who's sharing confidential info from the 3rd floor.
- Original Message ■
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From; Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.coni>
To: Frye, Ivy I (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 1 7:27:34 2007
Subject: Re: My apologies
Can't tell you.
1 must protect my sources.
That's the rules of tiie game. A reporter is only as good as his sources.
Original Message —
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@aIaska.gov>
To: cgcalaska@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:20:05 PM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Chris, you ALWAYS know the beat in flie capitol. Who said it?
— Original Message —
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 1 7: 1 6:48 2007
Subject: Re; My apologies
That, I don't know.
When I contacted Mindy, she was surprised that I knew.
Origmal Message —
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To. Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:10:34 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Perhaps I should be more specific. How would anyone know the hiring decision of the third floor? Who would
give out that information?
From: Christopher Clark rmailto:cgcalaska(Sivahoo.coml
Sent: Sat 1 1/3/2007 5:06 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
A fiiend who works in House Finance.
Original Message —
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 5:03:38 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
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Well, who told you that Mindy was hired?
From: Christopher Clark fmailto:cgcalaska(a,vahoo.conil
Sent: Wed 10/31/2007 5:36 PM
To: Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My eulogies
Amen to that - all of that.
Original Message —
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October31, 2007 3:19:15 PM
Subject: RE: My apologies
There are too many rumors out there fliat arena€™t conducive to what Governor Palin and her Administration are
trying to accomplish.
TTiere are too many comments about what is going wrong or right; whoa€™s working for her and whoi€™s not;
whoae^Ms a good employee and whote™s not; and it goes on and on. ia€™m absolutely sick of it. ia€™ve said
this a million times, but what do any of these comments have to do with good public policy? ISS^^^m sure neither of
us (me or you) know who is going to be hired. Unless youSe^^ve had a conversation with Mike or the governor, I
wouldnae^Mt believe it AND if they did talk to you, I sure as heck wouldnSerwibe repeating it. If you do have
access to this type of information or any other 3rd floor information, ia€™d be confronting the person or letting
Mike knowa€"I promise you that.
From: Christopher Clark rmailto:cgcalaska(3lvahoo.com1
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:09 AM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: My apologies
One more thing ...
After I had the brainstorm in which I thought you could do the job as deputy legislative director, I ran it by John -
thinking be would tell me if I were nuts or not.
He thought you would be better off at Administration, but he didnt seem to flunk my idea was far-fetched. We both
could be assured, at the least, that there would be someone in that office who would work hard and be ferociously
loyal to the governor.
Original Message —
From: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
To: " Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.fiye@alaska.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, October31, 2007 10:01:50 AM
Subject: Re: My apologies
Nobody told me that you were interested in being deputy legislative director.
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It was only an idea I had one night, at home. At the time, it seemed like a Eurelca ! moment. It may have been
fueled, in part, by the warm cup of sake that I was drinking, I confess.
Given your femillarity with the legislature, I fliought and think you could do it. You know the players, the quirks,
the personalities. You know how legislation moves through committee. You know the lay of the land. You
understand the process and how difficult it can be.
I want the governor to succeed. So I was brainstorming on who could take the job to help meet that goal. Your face
popped into my mind.
On a different note ...
I'm now listening to Senate Judiciary discuss the pluses and minuses of the gross tax versus the net tax. It's going
well. Paf s doing a good job. Of all the committees that are hearing the governor's bill, this one is and will be the
kindest and most supportive of her.
Be that as it may, the real fight ~ or, at least, the biggest and most important battles - will occur on flie House and
Senate floors.
Pm of the opinion — and several reporters agree with me -- that the governor is in a win-win position. A nice place
to be. More on that, later.
Original Message —
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Claric <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 3 1 , 2007 9:28:43 AM
Subject: RE: My apologies
Again, I still havena€™t heard that Mindy or anyone else was hffed. It hasnSC"'"! been confirmed, that I know.
You never encouraged me to apply for the deputy director position. I never have come up to you once in person, in
writing, on the phone and said, 8€1 want to be the deputy legislative director.a€Q Understandably, ia€T"m very
curious who would tell you something like that. Thati€™s the only information thatfie™s relevant to tiiis entire
conversation.
Please dona€™t offer me knowledge or confidence If ita€TMs based on rumora€"it doesna€™t help anybody.
Thanks,
Ivy
From: Christopher Claik rmailto:cgca]aska(S!vahoo.com1
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1 : 12 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: My apologies
My apologies.
I never meant to offend or hurt you. On the contrary, I intended to offer you encouragement and support. I clearly
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missed the mark. And for that, I am sorry.
I just want to see you flourish and succeed. Hence, my clumsy attempts in offering you encouragement and the
latest rumblings in the capitol. Confidence and knowledge - that's all I was trying to offer.
To be clear, I want our governor to do well and continue to shine. She's a welcomed bahn to this mali^ant,
diseased political system. 1 want Alaskans' current love affair wifli her to last the arc and span of her political career.
It's good for people to have faith in their leaders and their government. Refreshing, too.
Let me tell you what I tell others unabashedly, including my friends in the press corps: in spite of what happened to
me, in spite of my losing a job in the governor's office, I want the governor to succeed. I want her to remain popular
and strong. I want her to stay popular and strong so she may negotiate from a position of strength when dealing with
the oil industry. You and I both know all too well what if s like for the state to have a weakened, unpopular, and
lame-duck governor. I don't want to see that happen again. Especially to her. 1 adored her while 1 worked for her.
And I still do. As John Tracy said last year, she's a breath of ffesh air.
Let me remind you that I voted for Sarah Palin in last year's primary and general elections for two reasons; her
strong stand on the gas pipeline and her embodiment of an ethical public life. Sarah Palin doesn't just talk about
ethics. She lives it. She embodies it She has made sacrifices to uphold it. That's why I like her.
Just so you know, I did not forward your e-mail to John or anybody. And I am not sending this one to anyone via
blind copy or any other means.
I am disheartened that you have lost your faith and trust in me, if, indeed, you ever had it. This is a personal loss for
me.
Perhaps this is the price I must pay when trying to balance my friendship with John with my desire to see the
governor succeed.
For what it's worth, I plan to tease him today ... mercilessly ... over John Harris's live shot yesterday during KTUU's
5;00 newscast. Did you see it? Oh, my God. Let me put it this way: John Harris is NO Sarah Palin. Ha! I still marvel
at how she handles herself— so easily and adroitly — in front of the cameras. She makes it look easy and effortless -
- a true sign of a master, as we learn in aikido. It seems she requires so little preparation and then, bam! Nails the
press conference. Nails the interview. I don't why, but it leaves me in stitches every time. I've worked for seven
legislators. Not one holds a candle to the governor in this regard. She's remaricable. Or, as Bill McAllister once told
me, amazing.
As for my previous e-mails to you ...
I just had a brainstorm one evening that you would be good in the legislative office. And I just wanted you to know
that. I still do, by the way, for what tiiat's worth.
When I learned that Mindy got the job, I felt like an idiot having tried to encourage you to pursue a position that had
ah-eady been filled. I wrongly assumed - largely because I believed you are far better connected than I ~ that you
ah-eady knew about that hire. My apologies, again, for being a moron.
I do wish you well and I want you to continue to shme.
Chris
Origmal Message —
From: " Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
To: Christopher Clark <cgcalaska@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:32: 15 PM
Subject: RE: Vou could have done it
I hadna€™«t heard they appointed a deputy director. ia€™ra sure itSerMs not pubic mformation yet. And how
would you know if I was interested anyway?
11/9/2009
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I doni€™t appreciate you stating the first line as if I had been incpiiring with you or anyone else about who the new
deputy would be, and I donl€™t appreciate that you infer that you and I have been discussing my interest in the
deputy dh-ector position. Your email was cleverly written and although I canae^**! prove it I will assume you blind
copied others.
Your comments about Tibbies can only come from John Bitneya€"feel free to share that with him too. And, if Mike
was your friend and you believed in the Administration you wouldnaer^t be passing on rumors you hear. I
donae^Mt want to hear the rumors because I dona£™t believe them.
lagT'^ve also asked you politely before not to send me emails regarding the governor. I would appreciate if you
would honor my request
iae''"m not, as you say, trying to get a€oecloser to the govemor.afiD I doni€''"t need to try. She knovre lacrwd do
anything for her.
From: Christopher Clark fmailto:c2calaska(Sivahoo.com1
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1 :36 PM
To: Fiye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: You could have done it
Yes, I heard about the new deputy legislative director.
Good for Mindy. And condolences to her as well.
This is interesting because it proves that Tibbies still has some sway up there. TTiat he's not quite the lame duck
some may perceive him to be.
It's also interesting because the decision was made during the special session instead of afterwards as expected.
There are several good things about Mindy; she knows the legislature, understands tfie personalities, she HAS a
good personality, she knows Tibbies well, and she knows the importance of fiscal notes. She's competent,
experienced, dedicated, and used to putting in long hours. And she wasnt happy with recent developments in Senate
Finance.
For what it's worth . . .
I think you could have done the job. It would not have been easy. It would have strained die outer limits of
diplomacy. But it would have gotten you closer to the governor.
I'm disappointed that you weren't given the chance - if that was even an option. On the other hand, I would have
been mortified if I had encouraged you to take the job, you got it, and it turned out to be a disaster for you - thus
setting you way back rather flian moving you way forward. In that regard, I am relieved that you're still where
you're at.
You are well off ttiere. Annette and Kevin have much to teach.
My recommendation: get a regular session under your belt there. Just like Frank did. And learn, learn, learn. Have
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you become more familiar with Excel yet? Here's your chance.
Hang in there, mon amie.
Fondly,
Chris
11/9/2009
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/O=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBA1LEY]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 1 :22 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: RCA Task Force Member-Dlanne Kiesel
Ahhh thanks so much.
Working on NPFMC, more Supreme Court, and then onto the other 50+ spots to fill.
Woo-hoo!
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . cotB>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 11:15:52 2007
Subject: Re: RCA Task Force Member -Dianne Kiesel
Sounds good on all three.
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Pr om : go v . s a rahSyahoo . c om
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:12:16
To: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
This just arrived- two-three hours later!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Original Message
i From: "Bailey, Prank T (GOV)" <:frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
\ Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:56:43
1
j To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Fw: RCA Task Force Mejnber-Dianne Kiesel
Governor,
1
Is Anna Kim ok to go forward with the 3 members of the HCK.8 - RCA task force to evaluate
RCA Commissioner salaries and job descriptions.
The 3 folks put forward are
Law - Craig Tillery
DCCED - Ted Leonard
Personnel - Dianne Kiessel/Dep Dir Personnel
Thanks much.
Original Message
From: Kim, Anna C (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 08:44:25 2007
Subject: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Good Morning,
I am just following up about the latest on the decision to appoint Dianne Kiesel to the
RCA taskforce. As you recall, she is the last member to make the administration's
2
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appointments complete.
Anna
Anna Kim
Special Staf£ Assistant
Office of the Governor
PRA GSP01 0007477
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 1:14 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: RCA Task Force Member-Dlanne Kiesel
Bizarre.
Original Message
From: gov . sarahSyahoo . com <gov.saraUi@yahoo.cotn>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 11:12:16 2007
Subject: Re: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
This just arrived- two-three hours later!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Mon, OS Nov 2007 08:56:43
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Fw: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Governor,
Is Anna Kim ok to go forward with the 3 members of the HCR8 - RCA task force to evaliiate
RCA Commissioner salaries and job descriptions.
The 3 folks put forward are
Law - Craig Tillery
DCCED - Ted Leonard
Personnel - Dianne Kiessel/Dep Dir Personnel
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Thanks much.
Original Message
From: Kim, Anna C (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Co: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov OS 08:44:25 2007
Subject: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel.
Good Morning,
I am just following up about the latest on the decision to appoint Dianne Kiesel to the
RCA taskforce. As you recall, she is the last member to make the administration's
appointments complete.
Anna
Anna Kiui
Special Staff Assistant
Office of the Governor
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Unknown
i
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, November 05. 2007 10.47 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: GtG
They're pretty flippin amazing. The tenacity and patience shown by Pat blows me away. 1.5
wks to go!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy .frye@alaska.goy>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:41:08
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: GtG
I watched your team all day yesterday— I thought Galvin did a great job fielding questions
for over 12 hours. Will be interesting to watch the FIN Committees. Keep up the good
work these last 10 days — you guys are doing great!
PRA GSP01 0007480
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:39 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Savland; Monica L (GOV)
Subject: FW: Legal_andjawsuits
Original Message
Prom: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto-.WebMailOgov. state. ak.ua]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:23 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Legal_and_lawsuits
Web mail from: Mr. Loren Leman
address: 2699 Nathaniel Ct Anchorage AK 99517
243-2000 or 351-8683
MESSAGE :
Governor Palin,
Thank you for your response to the Alaska Supreme Court's outrageous decision regarding
Alaska's parental consent law and the judicial bypass provided in SB24 in 1997. I know a
little bit about this- -as I was the prime sponsor of this legislation. I concur with your
direction to Attorney General Colberg to file a petition for rehearing. I have ' thoughts
on the timing of this that I would be happy to discuss with you.
As you know, enforcing Alaska's parental involvement statute is vitally important;
Loren Leman
loren@lorenleman. com
PRA GSP01 0007481
Unknown
From; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) Igovemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:1 1 AM
To: barbaraseyboln@msn.com
Subject: RE: Other
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unahle to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailOgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:59 AM
TO: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sub j ect : Other
Web mail from: Ms. barbara seybold
address: p.o box 521584 big lake AK 99552
907-892-7902
MESSAGE:
I just want to encourage and bless you Gov. Palin. I am so pleased ■with your decisions thus
far. SINCERELY an ALASKAN.
barbaraseyboln@msn . com
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
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Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:1 5 AM
To: Von Scheben; Leo (DOT)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 09:14:06 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
As discussed, I will track Murph down and ask his status. LEO
Original Message
From; Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2 007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged c went well. I like her. She'd be good.
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I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we g e t to talk about it: remember Iprjyjieqed or Personal Matfiriaf
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Pers ori al Msl G^^eat reputation within DOT and the public.
Talk to you soon.
PRA GSP01 0007484
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:57 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Governor ,
Is Anna Kim ok to go forward with the 3 members of the HCR8 - RCA task force to evaluate
RCA Commissioner salaries and job descriptions.
The 3 folks put forward are
Law - Craig Tillery
DCCED - Ted Leonard
Personnel - Dianne Kiessel/Dep Dir Personnel
Thanks much.
Original Message
Prom: Kim, Anna C (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 08:44:25 2007
Subject: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Good Morning,
I am just following up about the latest on the decision to appoint Dianne Kiesel to the
RCA taskforce. As you recall, she is the last member to make the administration's
appointments complete.
PRA GSP01 0007485
Anna
Anna Kim
Special Staff Assistant
Office of the Governor
PRA GSP01 0007486
Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FtRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 7:58 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: 'fek9wnr@yalnoo.com'
Subject: Re: Bed
Hello Governor,
Yes, I received it and we'll get it taken care of with the least amount of fuss
When this phase of the plumbing project is over I had requested to have the portable W/D
moved to the 3rd floor linen closet, so it shouldn't be an issue. I apologize for
involving Linda in these kinds of matters. My understanding is that she was not opposed to
taking care of this; she wanted to work it so it wouldn't appear like something out of the
norm-i.e. using areas that were closest to existing 220 outlets and running the conduit
from there. I think that we're fine if we include it with the w/d on the 3rd floor.
It's good/helpful to know how you want things handled, so I appreciate your feedback!
On a day like today- I wish the bed was ready to go for you to use right away! !
Thanks,
Erika
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Sent: Hon Nov 05 05:34:41 2007
Siibject: Fw: Bed
Hi erika. Did you get this email?
Sent from my BlackBerry«> device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:31:25
To:"Erika Fagerstrom" <erika . f agerstrom@alaska . gov>
Siib j ect : Bed
Thanks Erika.
1 misunderstood and didn't realize the bed was already in the cedar closet. Yes, see what
it would take to get the power extension there... it shouldn't take much and should be
compared to a situation such as during this renovation had we had a need for a dryer to be
placed upstairs instead of in this guest bathroom- what would that extension take? I just
don't want Linda making a big deal out of this- and don't want family requests to be made
public in any way as they had through Stephanie. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007488
Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [kris.peny@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:45 AM
To: Paiin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
will do.
Original Message
From: "Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) " <govpalin®alaska.gov>
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/5/2007 5:34 AM
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Pis tell him to look at his weekend emails today and to call me
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 04 07:35:12 2007
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged went well. I like her. She'd be good.
1
PRA GSP01 0007489
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember Iprivllfinftd or Psrsonal MatarialF
Privileged or Personal Maj G^eat reputation within dot and the pviblic .
Talk to you soon.
PRA GSP01 0007490
Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) I/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2007 6:44 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Juneau Empire
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
On way to Fairbanks to speak to the group of municipal clerks gathered ahead of AML.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo. cora>
To: csalvin, Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Kelly,
Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Irwin, Tom E (DNR) ; Rutherford, Marty K (DNR) ; PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 05:42:35 2007
Subject: Fw; Juneau Empire
Your patience and tenacity WILL lead to the right thing being done here for Alaska, you
guys. Thanks for your amazingly great efforts in front of the committee, Pat... and all
efforts all the way around on this.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From; Todd Palin <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:35:10
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Subject: Juneau Empire
Resources Committee approves higher surtax
By R.A. Dillon
For the News-Miner
PRA GSP01 0007491
Published November 5, 2007
JUNEAU — The House Resources Committee approved a new
version of Gov. Sarah Palin' s oil tax bill Sunday
night that substantially increased the amount of
revenue producers would owe the state at today's high
oil prices.
Under an amendment proposed by Rep. Paul Seaton,
R-Homer, the state would reap about $2.4 billion at
current prices from the progressive surtax provision
alone. The change would nearly dorible the $1.3 billion
earned by the surtax in the governor' s original plan.
In exchange for the higher surtax rate, the committee
left out the 10 percent gross tax on production at the
state's legacy fields sought by the Palin
administration, Seaton said.
"That's the trade off," he said.
The surtax — often referred to as a "windfall profits
tax" or "progressivity" — is designed to capture a
greater percentage of oil company profits when prices
skyrocket. The surtax under the existing petroleum
production tax captures about $1.1 billion at current
prices.
The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil closed
Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $95.93 a
barrel .
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The panel also lifted the base tax rate to 25 percent
of a company's net profits in Alaska, up from 22.5
passed by the House Oil and Gas Committee. Taken
together, the latest version of the bill, at oil
prices of $80 a barrel, would capture about $1.4
billion more in fiscal year than the existing tax
system . *
As passed, the committee substitute would raise nearly
$4 billion when oil prices reached $80 a barrel.
The surtax proposal would add 2 percentage points to
the base tax rate once the net price of producing a
barrel of North Slope crude topped $30 — about $53 a
barrel on the West Coast market. The escalator would
increase a percentage point for every $10 the net
price of oil climbed above $30 a barrel.
The surtax would top out once the state ' s combined tax
rate reached SO percent, which Seaton estimates would
be at oil prices of $11S a barrel.
While the trigger for the surtax would be based on the
net price of oil, the surtax itself would be
calculated based on the gross value of production at
the wellhead. The switch means producers could not
deduct the cost of production from the surtax portion
of their tax bills.
The committee substitute that Resources passed out
late Sunday night after a two-day marathon mark-up
reversed several additional changes to the original
legislation made by the previous House panel.
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Democrats on the nine-member panel were able to put
their stamp on the bill with help from Seaton and
fellow Republican, Resources' co-chair Carl Gatto of
Wasilla.
Fairbanks Democrat David Guttenberg also carried
several amendments for the administration.
Critics of the changes said lawmakers fail to grasp
the effects of many of the changes they're making to
the original bill. The industry has warned that
altering the tax system for the second time in as many
years could harm investment on the North Slope at
times of declining oil production.
An attempt by Resources' co-chair Craig Johnson,
R-Anchorage, on Saturday to gut the fiscal provisions
of the bill was defeated.
"If we're open to business, then our sign isn't
plugged in," Johnson said. "It's my personal belief
that we've already stepped over the line."
The legislation now moves to the Finance Committe,
where many of the gains won by Democrats over the past
two days are likely to be reversed.
Finance Committee co-chairs Mike Chenault, R-Kenai,
sind Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, could simply set aside
Resources' version and pick up the bill as passed by
the Oil and Gas Committee. No decision has yet been
made on how to proceed, Chenault said Sunday night.
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J
"It may take a week just to find out what all the
changes they made in Resources do," he said.
Chenault expects the final bill will include some sort
of tax hike. However, he said he'd prefer to see an
increase to the surtax rather than the base tax rate.
Among the changes to the bill approved by Resources :
An amendment allowing the state to determine the cost
of sending oil down the trans -Alaska pipeline for the
purpose of calculating a company's eligible deduction.
Producers can currently deduct the full pipeline
tariff rate filed with federal regulators, an amount
the state claims is inflated. The administration says
the change is worth an estimated $160 million a year.
Added language limiting eligible deductions to
investments made in Alaska only.
A provision that would allow the Alaska Retirement
Management board to purchase tax credits from
companies for 92 cents on the dollar. The credits
could then be sold to the state for 10 Q percent of
their value with the profit being applied to the state
employees' retirement fund deficit.
Reinstated disclosure requirements and penalties asked
for in the administration's original bill.
Increased the exploration credit for new wells to 30
percent and 40 percent based on the distance from
existing wells and infrastructure.
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1
1
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday. November 05, 2007 5:43 AM
To: Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Kelly; Russell T
(GOV)
Co: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR); PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Fw: Juneau Empire
Your patience ajid tenacity WILL lead to the right thing being done here for Alaska, you
guys. Thanks for your amazingly great efforts in front of the committee, Pat... and all
efforts all the way around on this.
Sent from my BlaokBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: Todd Palin <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:36:10
To: Sarah Palin <gov . sarah@yahoo . oom>
Subject: Juneau Empire
Resources Committee approves higher surtax
By R.A. Dillon
For the News-Miner
Published November 5, 2007
JUNEAU — The House Resources Committee approved a new
version of Gov. Sarah Palin' s oil tax bill Sxinday
night that substantially increased the amount of
revenue producers would owe the state at today's high
oil prices.
Under an amendment proposed by Rep. Paul Seaton,
R-Homer, the state would reap about $2.4 billion at
current prices from the progressive surtax provision
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alone. The change would nearly double the $1.3 billion
earned by the surtax in the governor's original plan.
In exchange for the higher surtax rate, the committee
left out the 10 percent gross tax on production at the
state's legacy fields sought by the Palin
administration, Seaton said.
"That's the trade off," he said.
The surtax — often referred to as a "windfall profits
tax" or "progressivity" — is designed to capture a
greater percentage of oil company profits when prices
skyrocket. The surtax under the existing petroleum
production tax captures about $1.1 billion at current
prices.
The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil closed
Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $95.93 a
barrel .
The panel also lifted the base tax rate to 25 percent
of a company's net profits in Alaska, up from 22.5
passed by the House Oil and Gas Committee. Taken
together, the latest version of the bill, at oil
prices of $80 a barrel, would capture about $1.4
billion more in fiscal year than the existing tax
system.
As passed, the committee substitute would raise nearly
$4 billion when oil prices reached $80 a barrel.
The surtax proposal would add 2 percentage points to
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the base tax rate once the net price of producing a
barrel of North Slope crude topped $30 — about $53 a
barrel on the West Coast market. The eiscalator would
increase a percentage point for every $10 the net
price of oil climbed above $30 a barrel.
The surtax would top out once the state ' s combined toix
rate reached 60 percent, which Seaton estimates would
be at oil prices of $116 a barrel.
While the trigger for the surtax would be based on the
net price of oil, the surtax itself would be
calculated based on the gross value of production at
the wellhead. The switch means producers could not
deduct the cost of production from the surtax portion
of their t&x bills.
The committee substitute that Resources passed out
late Sunday night after a two- day marathon mark-up
reversed several additional changes to the original
legislation made by the previous House panel.
Democrats on the nine-member panel were able to put
their stamp on the bill with help from Seaton and
fellow Republican, Resources' co-chair Carl Gatto of
Wasilla.
Fairbanks Democrat David Guttenberg also carried
several amendments for the administration.
Critics of the changes said lawmakers fail to grasp
the effects of many of the changes they're making to
the original bill. The industry has warned that
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altering the tax system for the second time in as many
years could harm investment on the North Slope at
times of declining oil production.
An attempt by Resources' co-chair Craig Johnson,
R- Anchorage, on Saturday to gut the fiscal provisions
of the bill was defeated.
"If we're open to business, then our sign isn't
plugged in," Johnson said, "It's my personal belief
that we've already stepped over the line."
The legislation now moves to the Finance Committe,
where many of the gains won by Democrats over the past
two days are likely to be reversed.
Finance Committee co-chairs Mike Chenault, R-Kenai,
and Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, could simply set aside
Resources' version and pick up the bill as passed by
the Oil and Gas Committee. No decision has yet been
made on how to proceed, Chenault said Sunday night.
"It may take a week just to find out what all the
changes they made in Resources do," he said.
Chenault expects the final bill will include some sort
of tax hike. However, he said he'd prefer to see an
increase to the surtax rather than the base tax rate.
Among the changes to the bill approved by Resources;
An amendment allowing the state to determine the cost
of sending oil down the trans-Alaska pipeline for the
purpose of calculating a company's eligible deduction,
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Producers can currently deduct the full pipeline
tariff rate filed with federal regulators, an amount
the state claims is inflated. The administration says
the change is worth an estimated $160 million a year.
Added language limiting eligible deductions to
investments made in Alaska only.
A provision that would allow the Alaska Retirement
Management board to purchase tax credits from,
companies for 92 cents on the dollar. The credits
could then be sold to the state for 100 percent of
their value with the profit being applied to the state
employees' retirement fund deficit.
Reinstated disclosure recpiirements and penalties asked
for in the administration's original bill.
Increased the exploration credit for new wells to 30
percent and 40 percent based on the distance from
existing wells and infrastructure.
Contact Washington correspondent R.A. Dillon at
dcnewsSnewsminer . com .
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From:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent:
Monday, November 05, 2007 5:35 AM
To:
Fagerstrom; Erika (GOV)
Co:
Todd
Subject:
Fw: Bed
Hi erika. Did you get this email?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 15:31:25
To: "Erika Fagerstrom" <erika.fagerstrom®alaska.gov>
Subject: Bed
Thanks Erika.
I misunderstood and didn't realize the bed was already in the cedar closet. Yes, see what
it would take to get the power extension there... it shouldn't take much and should be
compared to a situation such as during this renovation had we had a need for a dryer to be
placed upstairs instead of in this guest bathroom- what would that extension take? I just
don't want Linda making a big deal out of this- and don't want family requests to be made
public in any way as they had through Stephanie. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Monday, November 05, 2007 1:47 PM
Anders; Bruce F (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Leschper; Beth (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Re: Pt Thompson
Thanks !
Original Message
Prom: Bruce Anders
To: Governor Sarah Palin
To: Marty Rutherford
Cc; Beth Leschper
Cc : Sharon Leighow
Sent: Nov 5, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: Pt Thompson
Roger that, one of us will get back to him today. Beth, could you
forward me his address?
Thanks ,
Bruce
Original Message
From: gov.sarahOyahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:41 PM
To: Rutherford, Marty K (DNR) ; Anders, Bruce F (DNR)
Cc: Leschper, Beth (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Sxib j ect : Pt Thompson
Hi Marty/Bruce;
Could someone email R.A. Dillon re: any update on Pt. Thompson. I was
just interviewed by him- didn't have any answer on timing of ruling-
said you'd touch base with him. Thanks!
1
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Beth can get email addy for you- Sharon's stuck in Sitka.
Sent from my BlackBerry(r) device from Cellular One
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:41 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: GtG
I watched your team all day yesterday— I thought Galvin did a great job fielding questions for over 12 hours. Will
be interesting to watch the FIN Committees. Keep up the good work these last 10 days— you guys are doing
great!
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY1
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 0:39 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: FW: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Klesel
Governor,
For some reason this email I forwarded this morning was kicked back. . .hopefully you
receive it this time.
Thanks !
—. Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:57 iiM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Governor,
Is Anna Kim ok to go forward with the 3 members of the HCR8 - RCA task force to evaluate
RCA Commissioner salaries and job descriptions.
The 3 folks put forward are
Law - Craig Tillery
DCCED - Ted Leonard
Personnel - Dianne Kiessel/Dep Dir Personnel
Thanks much.
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t
Original Message
From: Kim, Anna C (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 08:44:25 2007
Subject: RCA Task Force Member-Dianne Kiesel
Good Morning,
I am just following up about the latest on the decision to appoint Dianne Kiesel to the
RCA taskforce. As you recall, she is the last member to make the administration's
appointments complete.
Anna
Anna Kim
Special Staff Assistant
Office of the Governor
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 1 :40 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: Mike Kelly
Did you hear his comments on GtG during the House press availability going on right now? Mike is 100% in your
comer!
8/26/2009
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Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 1 ;40 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: Mike Kelly
Did you hear his comments on GtG during the House press availability going on right now? Mike is 100% in your
comer!
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007509
Page 1 of 2
Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 2:40 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: RE: Dinner
Thank you- enjoy your pizzas!
Edka Fagersttom
Executive Residence Mana^
Governor's Mouse
State of Alaska, Office of tie Govermr
716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907^S-3S00; Fax 907-465-2031
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, IQQll-.'il PM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Subject: RE: Dinner
thanks! i'm sure it'll be great so if it's convenient an account there would be fine.
thanks erika,
SP
"Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika.fagerstroni@alaska.gov> wrote:
You'll have 4 large pi2zas from Bullwinkles today at 5:00pm.
We don't have an account there, so rather then calling Admin. Services to request a check... I
talked to Janice and she'll put it on the office card. If you like Bullwinkles, let me know and I
can look into having an account set-up or maybe they'd give me a card for things like this.
Erika Fagerstrom
Executive Residence Manager
Governor's House
State of Alaska, Office of the Governor
716 Calhoim Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-465-3500: Fax: 907-465-2031
-Original Message
8/25/2009
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Page 2 of 2
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:47 PM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Subject: Re: Diimer
Another thing- at 5pm we want to have pizza for ACES team. We were originally going to do
this at the house but they can't sneak away from the capitol during hearing... So can you order
four Large pizzas from somewhere good (I hear Bullwinkles is good but I haven't tried it) and
ask them to deliver to third floor capitol. If we don't have an account there, I have a state credit
card but don't know how we're supposed to pay for something Uke that. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:33:07
To:"Erika Fagerstrom"
Subject: Re: Dinner
Steak! Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)"
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:07:29
To:gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: Dinner
Would you like a steak, chicken or halibut for tonight? I hate to bother you; just want to make
sure you're not neglected. :) We're here to serve!!
Erika Fagerstrom
Executive Residence Manager
Governor's House
State of Alaska, OfBce of the Governor
716 Calhoun Avenue, Jxmeau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-465-3500; Fax: 907-465-2031
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: Lloyd, Denby S (DFG) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=DSLLOYD]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:23 PM
To: 'Dwight Kramer"
Cc; Wagoner; Tom (LAA); Governor Sarah Paiin (GOV sponsored); "John Hilsinger"; Swanton; Charles O
(DFG); Marcotte; Jim R (DFG)
Subject: RE: KAFC 08 UCI BOF Process Letter
Dwight:
I appreciate your comments regarding BOF process; many of your suggestions warrant consideration.
I do need to correct a misapprehension of yours however. Your letter indicates that I, and a couple division directors,
promised that "the reports [from the department to the Board of Fisheries] would be completed by Dec. 1, 2007 and at
the latest 30 days prior to the BOF meeting" and that you've now been informed that they will not be available prior to
mid-January.
Actually, my commitment to you and other interest groups in Cook Inlet was that two specific reports (on sockeye
overescapement and on sockeye genetic stock identification) and likely the Cook inlet salmon escapement goal review,
would be available by December 1 . Our intention still is to have those reports completed and available to ihe public by
December 1. As for more standard reports to the BOF, those are being prepared and distributed according to general
BOF protocols, with which I understand you have concern but which were not part of our commitments regarding the
special reports identified above. If you would have checked with staff or me prior to sending out your letter, you would
have been assured as much.
If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Take care, DL.
Denby S.Ltoyd
Commissioner
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, AK99S11-5526
907-486^719
From: Dwight Kramer [mailto:dwlmar@gci.net]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:05 PM
To: Marcotts, Jim R (DFG)
Cc: Wagoner, Tom (LAA); Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); John Hilsinger; Swanton, Charies (DFG); Lloyd,
Denby S (DFG)
Subject: KAFC 08 UQ BOF Process Letter
Dear Mr. Marcotte,
I have attached an advanced copy of a letter to BOF Chairman Morris and the Board. This letter outlines concerns
that our organization, Kenai Area Fishennan's Coalition, has regarding process matters relating to the upcoming 08 UCi
meeting. We are planning on attending the LCI meeting this month and would like to discuss and clarify these issues
with Chairman Morris, Board members, yourself and department staff at their's and your convenience.
Thank you for the opportunity to present these concerns to the Board.
Dwight Kramer
KAFC Chaimian 283-1054
8/25/2009
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Byere, Gail Y (LAW)
From: Dwight Kramer [dwimar@gci.net]
Sent: iVIonday. November 05, 2007 5:05 PM
To: IVIarcotte; Jim R (DFG)
Cc: Wagoner; Tom (LAA); Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); John Hilsinger; Swanton; Charles
(DFG); Lloyd; Denby S (DFG)
Subject: KAFC 08 UCI BOF Process Letter
Dear Mr. Marcotte,
I have attached an advanced copy of a letter to BOF Chairman Morris and the Board. This letter
outlines concerns that our organization, Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition, has regarding process matters relating
to the upcoming 08 UCI meeting. We are planning on atfending the LCI meeting this month and would like to
discuss and clarify these issues with Chaimnan Morris, Board members, yourself and department staff at their's
and your convenience.
Thank you for the opportunity to present these concerns to the Board.
Dwight Kramer
KAFC Chaimian 283-1054
6/9/2009
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KENAI AREA FISHERMAN^S COALITION
PO Box 375 Kenai, Ak. 9961 1 * (907) 283-1054 * dwimar@,gci.net
Board of Fisheries Nov. 3, 2007
ADF&G / Board Support
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, Alaska. 9981 1-5526
i Dear Chairman Morris,
!
In preparation for the upcoming 08 UCI Board of Fish (BOF) meeting, Kenai Area
Fisherman's Coalition would like to express our concerns about the BOF process and
preparation materials for that meeting. Our concerns revolve around the following; 1)
timeliness of Department reports; 2) the advisory committee process; 3) omission of data
and reports from the Department; 4) committee process and 5) deliberations and new
material submissions.
Our group is largely made up of retired fisheries scientists and our value to the BOF
and advisory boards is based on our ability to analyze data, provide feedback to the
ADF«&G and assist in clarifying reports and information. Our effectiveness in assisting
the BOF relies on adequate time for review.
In meetings with Commissioner Lloyd and Department directors we were informed
that the reports would be completed by Dec. 1 , 2007 and at tiie latest 3 days prior to the
BOF meeting. We have recentiy been advised that most ofthe reports would not be
available prior to mid- January. This as unacceptable to our group, and we assume to other
groups involved in finding solutions to Upper Cook Inlet fishery issues.
The advisory committee process is seriously compromised by this lack of data.
They will be making recommendations without factual data to base decisions on. In fact,
some ofthe advisory cormnittees are meeting right now and have no data before them.
How can the advisory committees make good recommendations when Department staff is
not in fuU agreement on the data? Discussions are on-going on the impacts of large
escapements, the status of Susitna River sockeye, the harvest of Susitna River fish in the
i commercial fisheries, the status of escapement goals, the legal ramifications of making
I windows a priority over all escapement goals, and ADF&G comments on the proposals.
; We are concerned that the reports listed by ADF&G for presentation to the BOF
are not complete. We noticed that ADF&G has no report scheduled for the status of
stocks in UCI, especially coho salmon; no report on the status of habitat degradation in
i the Kenai River from recreational use, inducting the personal use fishery (this is reqwred
i in regulation); and no report on the findings of the starvation investigation of Kenai River
i sockeye salmon juveniles.
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Chir organization is very concerned about the committee process and flow of
information to all of the BOF members. It is our experience that significant information
is presented at the committee level and yet this information is rarely transmitted to the
fiill BOF. Written reports are not complete and there is no tape record of the meetings to
validate what is in the written committee reports.
We also have observed committee members misstate what the committee said or
omit data that the committee had before it in their presentations. Therefore, we would
like the BOF to meet in full on the important UCI issues and solve them via deliberation
before the committees meet. These include: 1) proposals that deal with escapement goals
and whether they will be a priority for UCI management and 2) proposals that restrict the
flexibility of ADF&G in management of the fisheries (fixed windows and time
limitations) - these proposals would reduce the adaptive management flexibility of
ADF&G.
The last area of concern has to do with last minute proposals or compromises that
are brought before the Board during the deliberation process. This occurred in both the
2002 and 2005 meetings. It allowed for select special interest groups to get their most
precious issues passed into regulation without having to go through the
proposal/comment and committee process.
In 2002 it was the Kenai River Sport Fishuig Association's (KRSA), Kenai River
early run Chinook catch and release regulation change that was subsequentiy overtumed
because of public outcry.
In 2005 KRSA and United Cook Inlet Drift Association (specific to drift gill net
regulations and consequences only) brought a brand new proposal to tixe BOF during the
meeting that authorized a re-allocation of hundreds of thousands of sockeye sahnon,
lowered the escapement goals in the Yentna River, raised the Kenai escapement goal by
50,000 and established a presumptive 36 hour window on a segment of the commercial
set net fishermen. This was done without any advisory committee review or public
comment The proposal was brought to the BGF and passed in less than 30 mmutes.
This was an imethical action on part of the BOF and compromised the sense of any public
process for that meeting.
We realize that there will be some alterations to regulations or proposals toward
the end of the deliberation process. However, we would request that the BOF hold in
abeyance (at least 24 hours) any new regulation generated by the BOF that is
significantly different firom the published proposals. During this 24 houis period we
would request that ADF&G staff review the proposal for management concerns and the
BOF allow the public to submit comments on flie proposal via the RC process prior to
any action by the BOF.
We hope you will give these matters careful consideration. Thank you for your
consideration in these matters.
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We will be in attendance at the Lower Cook Inlet meeting if you would like to
discuss these concerns in more detail.
Dwight Kramer, KAFC Chairman
Cc: Denby Lloyd, Commissioner of ADF&G
John Hilsinger, COMFISH Director
Charles Swanton, Sport Fish Director
Jim Marcotte, Director of Board Support
Gov. Sarah Palin, OfBce of the Governor
Tom Wagoner, Alaska State Senate
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Attached Letter Page 1 of 1
Byers, Gail Y (LAW)
From: Commission, Boundary (CED sponsored) [lbc@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1 0: 1 2 AIW
To: Jon Boiling; Jollie; Tara L (CED)
Co: Palln; Sarah H (GOV); Kookesli; Albert (LAA); Thomas; Bill (LAA); Smith; Lynne M (GOV); Notti;
Emil R (CED); Vandor; Mariorie L (LAW); Bockmon; Julia B (U\W)
Subject: RE: Attached Letter
Mr. Boiling:
Your email and attachment has been received and fbrvi^arded to the Director and her assistant as 8:30 am this
moming.
From: Jon Boiling [mailto:jbolling@aptalaska.net]
Sent: Sat 11/3/2007 5:31 PM
To: Jollie, Tara L (CED)
Cc: Palin, Sarah H (GOV); Kookesh, Albert (LAA); Thomas, Bill (LAA); Smith, Lynne M (GOV); Commission,
Boundary (CED sponsored); Notti, Emil R (CED); Vandor, Marjorie L (LAW); Bockmon, Julia B (LAW)
Subject: Attached Letter
Dear Ms. Jollie,
Please see attached letter regarding KGB Annexation Petition.
Jon Boiling
Craig City Administrator
6/9/2009
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November 3, 2007
Via Fax, e-mail, US Mail
Ms. Tara Jollie
State of Alaska
Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development
550W.7*Ave,Sutel770
Anchorage, AK 99501-3510
Dear Director Jollie:
Thank you for your letter dated October 3 1 , 2007. While we appreciate your prompt reply we
are disappointed by the tone of your letter and your unwillingness to take all steps necessary to
msure that the Local Boundary Commission process is fair to all and comports with the
constitutional principles of due process. We are most concerned that your letter raises more
questions than answers. The purpose of this letter is to reply to the pomts raised m your letter, in
the order in which they appear.
As a starting pomt, your letter inaccurately states that we submitted a "conflict of interest claim"
against Mr. Bockhorst. You are mistaken. Our letter provided a factual background
demonstrating "an apparent conflict of interest." We requested a "fijU investigation" into the
"appearance of a direct and serious conflict of interest" Our language was purposeful in
avoiding a conflict of interest accusation because we do not know if such a conflict exists;
mstead we pointed out that one is apparent and merits both recognition by the State of Alaska
and an appropriate response. Your response does not acknowledge the appearance, nor provide
an appropriate response. Further, we did not accuse Mr. Bockhorst of unetiiical conduct under
the State Ethics Act. The "appearance of improprietary" is a fimdanental notion in a democratic
society. The citizens of this democracy have a fiindamental right to decisions by its courts and
quasi-judicial agencies, such as the LBC, that are free from the appearance of impropriety.
We requested a "full, open, and thorough" investigation into "an apparent conflict of interest" in
this matter. Your letter does not comprise a "full" investigation; it surely does not demonstrate
an "open" investigation; and we would describe it as mtaimal, rather than fliorougfa. We are
saddened that this Administration has so little concern for the sixteen communities and twelve
school districts who will lose $1,200,000 per year in school funding if the KGB Petition is
approved that all it provides in response to our concern is your letter of October 31, 2007. If
your letter means the Governor is unwilling to conduct ioi fiiU, open, and thorough investigation
of the circumstances surrounding the complete reversal of DCCED/DCRA's position on the
KGB Petition from its position in 1998, reflected m the 1 17 page Preliminary Report authored by
(907)826-3275 • Fax (907)826-3278 • www.craigak.coin • PO Box 725, Craig, Alaska 99921
PRA GSP01 0007518
Response heOer to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
Mr. Bockhorst, the now Borough Manger for KGB, the people of Prince of Wales have the
resolve not to be steamrolled by DCCED and the LBC We will, if necessary, request the court to
intervene and msure a fair process consistent with the constitutional principles of due process.
Because your letter attempts to place unsubstantiated information into the LBC record by
copying your letter to the LBC, we will address the points in your letter and will similarly copy
the LBC with our response. Further, as you were well aware, our letter to the Gtovemor was not
copied to the LBC. It is not clear whether you provided the LBC with a copy of our October 19,
2007 letter to the Governor, along with your response. Accordingly we are attaching a copy of
our original letter and your response to Ijecome part of the official record.
Your letter states that: "I carefully reviewed DCRA records to compare the actions on record
with the allegations made in your letter in order to provide you with at thoughtful reply." Please
identify what DCRA "records" you reviewed and provide us with a copy of those records. We
assume you would agree that if your mvestigation is supposed to be the "full, open, and
thorough" investigation we requested, you will not hesitate to provide us with the records you
relied upon in writing your letter.
Li our letter of October 19, 2007 we summarized for the Governor, DCCED's recommendation
against the KGB petition authored by Mr. Bockhorst in 1998. The recommendation against the
Petition does not provide any "disclaimer" that it does not reflect Mr. Bockhorst's personal
views. We have seen nothing in the record related to the 1 998 Petition and the Prelimmary and
Final reports indicating that Mr. Bockhorst disagreed with the "DCRA policymakers." Please
provide us with copies of anything in the record related to the 1998 Petition that demonstrates
that Mr. Bockhorst was ui favor of the 1998 Petition, but was du-ected to write the Preluninary
Report recommending against the Petition by "DCRA policymakers."
We disagree with your statement that "Mr. Bockhorst does not make policy." When liie
petition to form the Skagway Borough was pending, then-Governor Murkowski held a press
conference in Skagway and stated his fiill support for the Skagway Borough Petition, and stated
the administration would help support that Petition through the LBC process. Mr. Bockhorst
wrote at least three reports for two different LBC hearings recommending against the fonnation
of the Skagway Borough. He wrote those reports and fought the formation of the Skagway
Borough, using the budget and other resources of the DCCED, despite the public policy
statement of the Governor. Mr, Bockhorst apparently did not follow the "policymakers," but
apparently rather his own personal views, in fighting the people in Skagway. Fortunately, for the
people in Skagway, and for the State as a whole, the LBC ultimately approved the formation of
the Sfe^way Borough.
The history of staff reports to the LBC demonstrate tiiat those reports have consistently opposed
any formation of a borough tiiat would include an "enclave." Witii regard to the KGB's 1998
Annexation Petition, the LBC staffs Preliminary Report similarly recommends against the KGB
Petition because it would create die enclave of Hyder, The Preliminary Report on the current
Petition reverses that historic DCCED opposition to the fonnation of enclaves. This supports our
concern that there is the appearance of a conflict. It also raises the question as to who changed
DCCED's policy regarding enclaves. As a matter of due process, to whom can tiie residents of
PRA GSP01 0007519
Response Letter to Tara JoUie
November 3, 2007
our communities talk to determine who changed the policy and how that change of policy was
communicated to LBC staff for the preparation of the preliminary report? How was the public
provided an opportunity to comment on this dramatic change regarding the treatment of enclaves
prior to the implementation of the new policy reflected in the preliminary report of June 30,
2007? We take no comfort m such an after the fact effort to re-interpret what is clearly a matter
of public record in all the prior reports.
We are surprised that you cite to a footnote in the Preliminary Report to attempt to distance Mr.
Bockhorst from the recommendation in the 1998 report The idea that "prior administration's
policy is noted clearly" in the Preliminary Report by a footnote at page 96 is remarkable. In
1998, the DCCED/DCRA, through a report written by Mr. Bockhorst, recommended against the
approval of the KGB Petition because llie Petition failed to meet the constitutional principles in
Article X, Section 1 of the Alaska Constitution because Hyder was excluded. It is also a feet that
the Preliminary Report of the DCCED/DCRA on the pending Petition, also authored by Mr.
Bockhorst, recommends that the KGB Petition be approved because it satisfies Article X,
Section I of the Alaska Constitution, even though Hyder is excluded. There is no way to mince
words about it—that can only be called a complete reversal of the recommendation.
The Constitution is not a matter of "policy" tiiat can be changed by admmistrations. If Governor
Palin directed Mr. Bockhorst to change the constitutional policy reflected m ihe 1998 Report,
then such a dramatic shift of constitutional "policy" would not be buried in a footnote on page
96. It would have been fiilly addressed in the Preliminary and the Final Reports. Please provide
us with all documents demonstrating that Governor Palin's administi^tion has directed
DCCED/DCRA to change the policy of any prior administration as to the interpretation of
Article X, Section 1 of the Alaska Constitutj<Mi, and directed LBC staff to recommend approval
of this Petition based on that change of constitutional mterpretation.
We are also not comforted by your reliance on a footnote at page 96 of the Report; because, in
the way that you rely upon i^ die footnote appears to be an adfter the fact effort by its author to
distance himself from tiie 1 998 recommendation. Why would that be unportant for Mr.
Bockhorst to do if he has no personal mterest in the KGB Petition? Simply put, the footnote at
page 96, and your reliance on it, has no place at all in this process, except because of the
appearance of the conflict of interest of Mr. Bockhorst.
We have reviewed the Preliminary Report from 1998. There is no language indicating tiiat
"DCRA policy makers m the Knowles Administration" "as contrasted [sic] the LBC Staff
Component" opposed the 1998 Petition. Why did Mr. Bockhorst find it necessary to insert "as
contrasted [sic] the LBC Staff Component" in the footnote on page 96 of the 2007 report?
According to you, the staff does not make policy, so it should not matter — ^now or then — ^whether
Mr. Bockhorst agreed with the policy. As we noted above, he did not make any alleged
"disagreemenf ' known m any way in the 1 998 Report. What is again important here is the fact
that the two recommendations are directly contradictory, and only after the Borough Manager
position in KGB became publicly known to be open, did Mr. Bockhorst write the footnote at
page 96, which you are now apparently usmg to tell us Mr. Bockhorst was only domg the
bidding of the "policymakers" in recommending against the Petition in 1998. If the 1998
Preliminary Report was the work of the DCRA "policymakers," and not Mr. Bockhorst, who are
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November 3, 2007
the "policymakers" responsible for the 2007 Preliminary Report and Final Report? Why aren't
those "policymakers" acknowledged in the 2007 Reports? Has the LBC been advised of the
"policymakers" who allegedly directed the 2007 Reports?
Your letter states that we "insinuated" that the "pending KGB annexation proposal differences
are attributable to the personal motives of Mr. Bockhorst." Please identify in our letter where we
made such an "insinuation." We did not "insinuate" anything. Again, we provided you with
simple facts. The decision by the LBC to deny the KGB petition in 1999 was squarely based on
its interpretation of the Constitution. If Mr. Bockhorst does not "make policy," as you state, he
surely does not make Constitutional law. If it were true that Mr. Bockhorst does not "make
policy," he had an obligation to recommend against this Petition because the LBC is required to
adhere to its own interpretation and application of the Alaska Constitution, as a quasi judicial
body. What were his "personal motives," using your words, for recommending that the LBC
reverse its previous interpretation of the Alaska Constitution?
Your letter characterizes tiie differences between the 1998 Petition and the pending Petition as
"substantial." You then cite as your reasons for that statement:
1) the inclusion of Myers Chuck; and
2) the extensively different boundaries for the proposed Hyder enclave.
1. The inclusion of Mvers Chuck
We are confident that the LBC in 1999 would have denied the KGB Petition if it had included
Myers Chuck, but not Hyder. There is no other way to logically read that 1999 decision and the
LBC's interpretation of tiie applicable constitution^ provisions. Similarly, there is no way to
read the Preliminary Report in 1998 such that it would have recommended the approval of the
Petition if Myers Chuck had been mcluded. What part of the Constitution has changed since
1998 that allows DCCED to now recommend that the LBC approve this petition, using Myers
Chuck as the justification, with an area of 3.5 square miles, 14 residents, and essentially no State-
provided facilities or services?
2. Extensively different boundaries fertile proposed enclave of Hvder.
The technical and mmor boundary change in the current KGB petition does not address the
fandamental constitutional basis for tiie LBC's 1999 decision. The 1999 decision specifically
states that the exclusion of Hyder violated the Alaska Constitution. The technical boundary
change in this petition does not "satisfy" the constitution, rather it ensures a permanent and
unresolveable Hyder enclave — the precise Constitutional reason the LBC denied the 1999
petition. The result is the State of Alaska will never be relieved of the responsibility for
providing all necessary services to the proposed Hyder enclave. Such a result means that the
Petition can not satisfy the statutory best interest of the State standard.
We provided a lengthy discussion of these two issues in our comments to the LBC in response to
the Preliminary Report. The Final Report prepared by LBC staff felled to address any o f the
conunents submitted by tiie City of Craig. Why did DCRA choose not to address any of our
comments? The purpose of the Final Report is to address the public comments generated by the
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November 3, 2007
Preliminary Report. Were our comments not worthy of response? Did DCRA decide not to
provide any guidance to the LBC in its Final Report? Why doesn't DCRA and the LBC
postpone the hearing and direct LBC staff to provide a complete and independent Fmal Report
that addresses Ihe comments and concern of tiie City of Craig and the Myers Chuck Community
Association? Why is it important to DCRA and the LBC to approve this Petition quickly,
without a full aid fair opportunity to consider the constitutional interpretation issues and due
process issues? In light of Mr. Bockhorst now being the KGB Manager, these are fair questions,
and remain unanswered by your letter.
Your letter attempts to construct a "timeline," which we assume was included to convince us that
there is no appearance of a conflict of interest. The continued advocacy by DCRA in support of
the KGB Petition continues to taint the process. Are you telling us that the LBC staff assigned
to the final report conducted an independent analysis of the KGB Petition, and came to the same
recommendations as Mr. Bockhorst, for all the same reasons, and that in doing this independent
analysis, the comments from the City of Craig and Myers Chuck Association were not even
worthy of response? Do you not see the appearance of the conflict with staff who are
subordinate to Mr. Bockhorst doing the Fmal Report while he is actively seeking the Borough
Manager job? Isn't it an appearance of a conflict of interest that DCRA and its employees did
not have the independence to be able to make a recommendation contrary to Mr. Bockhorst's
preliminary report, because to do so could jeopardize his chance of being named the Borough
Manager?
We wrote in our comments to the LBC in response to the Prelimuiaiy Report:
"The LBC has two choices. It can reject the recommendation of the LBC staff, and deny
the Petition because that would be the factually and legally correct decision. The denial of
the Petition would be consistent with die Constitutional principles the LBC is obligated to
uphold and apply. The denial of the Petition will be consistent with the 1999 Decision.
The second choice is for the LBC to remove the Preliminary Report from the record and to
retain an independent consultant to prepare a report not tainted with the appearance of bias
and conflict of interest enveloping this Prelimmaxy Report." (Comments on Behalf of the
City of Craig and the Prince of Wales Community Advisory Council, p. 17)
Why were these two choices not addressed at all m staffs Final Report? Please explain to us
who made the decision not to have an independent person do the Final Report? Why are you
continuing to refuse to have an mdependent person, imtainted by the appearance of a conflict of
interest, do a Final Report for the LBC? Your timeline offers no explanation for the continued
mvolvement of Nfr. Bockhorst's subordinates in the preparation of the Final Report.
Going tiffough your timelme, you indicate that Mr. Bockhorst spoke witii the "former DCRA
Du-ector" about "policy" on March 26, 2007. Please tell us who that was, and provide us a copy
of any memorandum, report, or notes related to that "discussion."
Your timeline, then, does not include any reference to relevant events until June 28, 2007. We
take this as your acknowledgment that the KGB Manager position was publicly reported to be
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
Open before June 30, 2007, consistent with our letter to the Governor and our comments to the
LBC. What is also missing is mention of any communications between Mr. Bockhorst and the
KGB, specifically the former manager. Were there any? Did you review those communications?
Did you review tiie e-mails between Mr. Bockhorst and KGB personnel or representatives? If
you did not, why not? We request copies of all correspondence and e-mails between Mr.
Bockhorst and any KGB employee, Borough Assembly member or other Borough representative
for the period between March 26, 2007 and November 7, 2007.
At the beginning of your letter, you note that your letter is a "thoughtful reply." We assume then
that you were being "thoughtful" when you care&lly chose the words that Mr. Bockhorst "first
became aware of the recruitment for the position on July 31." When he became aware the
position was open and when the Borough published a recruitment bulletin are different events.
Whether there is an appearance of a conflict is unrelated to when Mr. Bockhorst "became aware
of the recruitment." What were the communications, including e-mails, between LBC staff and
KGB representatives, from June, when the Borough Assembly publicly accepted the borough
manager's resignation, until August 1, 2007? Did you review those communications? Mr.
Bockhorst told the Ketchikan Daily News that he was aware of the vacant manager position
durmg the weekend of July 28, 2007. Why the discrepancy between your "timeline" and the
newspaper account?
Your timeline refers to a memorandum from Mr. Bockhorst to "the Department Ethics
Supervisor" on August 1, 2007. In the interest of fauness and "transparent" government, which
Governor Palin has repeatedly stressed in her administration, please provide us a copy of that
memorandum and any response from the ethics supervisor.
Your timeline fails to note a lengfliy conversation Mr. Bockhorst had on July 3 1, 2007 with a
representative of the Myers Chuck Community Association regardmg the KGB Petition. Mr.
Bockhorst advised the representative that Myers Chuck should make the case that it has at least
as good a case as Hyder for being an enclave. By taking this approach, Myers Chuck would not
support inclusion in the Wrangell Borough, as originally expressed by Myers Chuck and
reflected in the Wrangell Petition. Did he recuse himself before or after this call? Did you
review the records of this call? Mr. Bockhorst told the representative that he had a clock on his
desk and that he had just given her 34 minutes of technical assistance. Myers Chuck accepted
Mr. Bockhorst's "technical assistance" as reflected in its the association's comments to the LBC.
Myers Chuck even obtained the agreement of the KGB for that position. As you know, the Fmal
Report prepared by Ms. McPherson dismissed the proposal of Myers Chuck to be an enclave like
Hyder as "clearly unsupported by the fricts." The absence of any effort at analysis in the Final
Report, after this call with Mr. Bockhorst, raises the appearance of a conflict.
In your concluding paragraph you state there are "discrepancies between the assertions in . . .
[our] letter and the fects on record." We have not seen the "record" of which you speak. In an
often used cliche, the 1998 Preliminary Report, the 1999 Decision, the 2007 Preluninary Report,
and the 2007 Final Report "speak for themselves." The irrefutable facts are that the 2007
Preliminary Report advocates for the LBC to interpret the Alaska constitution in a manner
diametrically opposite what was advocated by DCCED in the 1998 Preliminary Report, and
completely contrary to the decision of the LBC in 1999 on the KGB Petition. It is also a feet that
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November 3, 2007
during this process Mr. Bockhorst applied for and eventually became the KGB Borough
Manager. We did not make "assertions." We began by asking the LBC to retain an
mdependent consultant to complete the Final Report. When that was not done, and the Final
Report ignored the comments of Craig, and ignored the apparent conflict of interest, we appealed
to tiie Governor because she has expressed a commitment to open government
In addition to your letter, we received a letter from Ms. Bockmon in the Department of Law,
stating in essence, that, based on your letter, Mr. Bockhorst did not violate the Ethics Act We
did not "assert" or "insinuate" or "complain" of any Ethical Act violation, so we are not clear
why we received this letter from Ms. Bockmon. Why was Ms. Bockmon directed to freat our
letter as an Ethics Act complaint?
However, since you or someone in the Administration referred our letter to the Department of
Law under the Ethics Act, it may be instructive to review the purpose of the Ethics Act in light of
your letter.
A.S. 39.52.010 states as the policy of the Act:
a) It is declared that
(1) high moral and ethical standards among public officers in the executive
branch are essential to assure the trust, respect, and confidence of the
people of this state;
(2) a code of ethics for the guidance of public officers will
(A) discourage those officers from acting upon personal or financial
interests ta the performance of their public responsibilities;
(B) improve standards of public service; and
(C) promote and strengtfien the faith and confidence of the people of this
state in their public officers;
(3) holding public office or employment is a public trust and that as one
safeguard of that trust, the people require public officers to adhere to a
code of ethics;
(4) a fair and open government requires that executive branch public
officers conduct the public's business in a manner that preserves the
integrity of the governmental process and avoids conflicts of interest...
Do you mean to tell us by your letter that the people of this State should have a high degree of
"trust, respect, and confidence" in DCCED that it has acted fairly, openly, and in the best
mterests of the people of this State with regard to the KGB Petition? Do you mean to tell us that
LBC staffs actions, and the refusal of DCRA to retain an mdependent consultant, and your letter
refusing to conduct an investigation of the appearance of a conJQict of interest "promotes and
strengthens the feith and confidence of the people of this state m tiieir public officers?" Do you
mean to tell us that LBC staff conduct, and that of DCRA, is evidence of a "feh* and open
government?" Do you mean to tell us that Mr. Bockhorst and DCRA have approached the KGB
Petition in a maimer that "preserves the integrity of the governmental process and avoid conflict
of interest?" If so, we would agree and urge the Department and the LBC to review the current
KGB Annexation Petition process to date in that li^t
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Response Letter to Tara Jollie
November 3, 2007
We will continue our pursuit of what is right. In a democracy, an open and feir process is
fiindaraental to the trust and confidence of the people. There is no place for even the appearance
of a conflict of interest. When an appearance of a conflict of interest arises, the government has
an obligation to restore the trust and confidence of the people by taking steps to avoid the
appearance of a conflict of interest.
If the LBC adopts Mr. Bockhorst's recomniendatioh, and no independent report is prepared for
the LBC, which addresses the comments of Craig, Myers Chuck, and the many others who
submitted comments to the Preliminary Report, the people in the unorganized borough m
Southeast Alaska will have been denied due process.
In light of the significance to the affected communities and school districts in the unorganized
borough, and given the fact that you provided a copy of your October 3 1, 2007, letter to the
LBC, we specifically request the following information, pursuant to AS 40.25.1 10:
1 . All drafts of your October 31, 2007 letter, identifying all current and former LBC
staff, who participated or reviewed any of those drafts.
2. All conmiunications, including all e-mails between yourself and any other state
employee, with Mr. Bockhorst between October 19, 2007 and October 31, 2007.
3. All DCCED records you reviewed.
4. All records showing that LBC staff was in favor of the KGB 1998 annexation
petition.
5. All records from "DCRA policymakers" du^cting LBC staff to write the
preliminary report in 1998 recommending tiiat the LBC deny the KGB annexation
petition.
6. All records from any current "DCRA policymakers" to LBC staff regarding the
preparation of the Fmal Report on the current KGB annexation petition.
7. All communications, including e-mails, from all current or former LBC staff
persons with Ms. McPfaerron or any other staff member assigned to prepare the
Final Report.
8. Any memorandum, reports, notes, and e-mails, related to the discussion on March
26, 2007 between Mr. Bockhorst and the "former DCRA director".
9. The memorandum fixam Mr. Bockhorst to the department Ethics Supervisor of
August 1, 2007, and the department supervisor's response; and any other
communication with the department's ethics supervisor.
10. Any notes, reports, memoranda, and e-mail by Mr. Bockhorst related to his My
31, 2007 conversation with representatives of the Meyers Chuck Community
Association.
11 . All communications, including e-mails, between any KGB employee, assembly
member, or representative between March 26, 2007 and November 7, 2007.
12. The file, including notes and all e-mails, fix)m LBC staff members, fi'om the 1998
and 2007 KGB annexation petitions.
In addition to providing us copies the above records, we request that all the above documents be
made a part of the oflScial record of the pending KGB annexation petition.
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There is still time for DCRA and the LBC to do the right thing and either deny the KGB Petition,
or postpone the hearing until an independent report is prepared. If not, we are prepared seek the
assistance of the Court.
Sincerely,
Jon Boiling
City Administrator
Attachments
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Lynne Smith
Local Boundary Commission
Emil Notti
Mark Davis
Marjorie Vandor
Julia Bockmon
Senator Kookesh
Representative Thomas
Carol Brown
Millie Stevens
Jim Van Altvorst, Van Altvorst & Associates
Robert P. Blasco, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh
Prince of Wales Community Advisory Council
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October 19, 2007
CRAIG COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Governor Sarah Palin
PO Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001
Re: Conflict of Interest of Dan Bodchorst Regarding Ketchikan Gateway Borough Annexation
Petition
Dear Governor Palin:
We vmte you with the utmost concern for the appearance of impropriety that pervades the Local
Boundary Commission process related to the KJetdiikan Gateway Borough Annexation Petition.
We write you because we sincerely believe that the people of thi State, and in particular the
small communities and school districts of Southeast Alaska, are being denied due |»rocess and
fiiir treatment directly resulting from an apparent confhct of interest involving Mr. Dan
Bockhorst.
Mr. Bockhorst is the soiior bcal government specialist in your administration assigned as the
staff to the Local Boimdary Commissioa On June 30, 2007, Mr. Boddiorst cottyleted a 1 1 7
page Preliminary Report recommending that the LBC approve the KGB Annexation Petition.
Shortly after completing his report, Mr. Bockhorst applied for the vacant KGB Borough
Manager position. On October 13, 2007, KGB hired Mr. Bockhorst as its new Borough Manager
under a five-year contract, effective November 1, 2007. He will start with a salary of $1 10,000,
going up to $121,000 in two years.
We have attached the response of the City of Craig to the Preliminary Report of Mr. Bockhorst.
The importance of a conflirt of interest is easily demonstrated. On April 16, 1999, the Local
Boundary Commission denied the Amiexalion Proposal of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough
because "the proposal &ils to serve all the relevant principles established in the Constitution of
the State of Alaska." (Statement of Deciston, 1 999, p. 14) The reason the Petition violated the
Alaska Constitution was because the Petition sought to annex a large area of uninhabited land,
while not annexing the only community in that area — ^Hyder. The reason for annexing the
uninhabited land in 1 999 was to obtain a significant increase in forest receipts fiom the federal
government. By excluding Hyder, KGB Would obtain the forest receipts and not have to provide
any services to anyone actually living in the area being annexed.
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Mr. Bockhorst prepared the Preliminaxy Report m 1 998 reconunending that the LBC reject the
KGB petition because it excluded Hyder, and he specifically pointed out the unfeirness of KGB
obtaining a significant increase in forest receipts without having to provide any services. The
unfeimess directly in^acts the City of Craig, sixteen conununities, and twelve school distriids in
the unorganized borough in Southeast Alaska, who stand to lose a combined $1.2 million each
year if the annexation is approved. To the extent that KGB can annex land currently in the
unorganized borough, the current &rest receipts of the communities and school districts in the
unorganized borough will be reduced dramatically in proportion to the land annexed by KGB.
Mi-. Bockhorst also stated in his 1998 recommendation to reject the Petition that the annexation
without Hyder would violate the Alaska Constitution.
KGB submitted the pending Petition in 2006. As it did in 1998, this Petition excludes Hyder. If
the Petition is approved by the LBC, KGB will receive an additional $1,200,000 in forest
receipts per year.
After KGB amiounced the vacancy of its Borough Manager position, Mr. Bockhorst submitted
his report to the LBC conq)letely reversing his recommendation of 1 998. Although nothing had
changed, he now stated to the LBC that the Constitutional had sufficient "flexibility" to allow
KGB to annex the uninhabited land and exclude Hyder. Shortly a&er submitting that report, he
^yplied for the KGB Boiou^ Manager position.
The LBC scheduled the public hearing on the KGB Annexation Petition for November 6, 2007,
and scheduled the decfaional meeting on that Petition for November 7, 2007. We respectfiilly
request that you immediately:
1 . Direct the LBC to cancel the public hearing until the Attorney General can conduct a full
investigation into the apparent conflict of interest;
2. Direct the Attorney General to conduct a fiill, thorough, and open investigatkin of the
conflict of interest.
You have repeatedly stated that your administration is "transparent" and you have repeatedly
stated that your administration will not tolerate any appearances of impropriety or conflicts of
interest. We have to trust that you will recognize the seriousness of this situation and honor your
commitment to the people of the State. This is especially true whai you consider that the final
report on the proposed annexation does not address the concerns we raised about the preliminary
report.
We truly cannot believe that you will allow the LBC to go forward on this Petition without
conducting a foil investigation into these circumstances. We request that you consMer the
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devastating impact on the sdiool children in the unorganized borough of the loss of $ 1,200,000
per year in school fimding, which cannot be allowed constitutionally or under the unquestionable
jqjpearance of a direct and serious conflict of interest.
We look forward to your prompt action and response in light of the pending LBC hearing on
November 6, 2007.
Millie Stevens
Millie
City Administrator Tribal Presidant, Craig Conmamity Assa
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October 31, 2007
Mr. Jon Bollfng, City Administrator
City of Craig
P.O. Box 725
Craig, AiasJo 99921
Dear Mr. Boiling:
As Director of ffie CSvision of Community and R^Ional Affefrs (DCRA) which provides
staff support for the Local Boundary Commission, I was asked to respond to your letter
of October 19, 2007. This letter alleges a conflict of interest on the part of Dan
Boddiorst DCRA lead state steff to the Local Boundary Commissioa Your letter claims
Mr. Bockhorsf s rote in the pending Ketchikan Gateway Borough (KGB) annexation
proceedings, past and present, and his recent appointment as KGB Manager of^red to
him October 13, 2007, sub^nb'ate your conflict of interest dalm against him.
Your letter also asks that the Governor direct the Attorney General to investigate this
conflict of Interest dalm, as weD as direct the Local Boundary Commission to cancel its
November 6, 2007, public hearit^ on the Ketchikan annexation proposal until the
Attorney General's investigation is complete.
I carefully reviewed DCRA records to compare the actions on record wi^ allegations
made In your letter in order to provide you with a thoughtiiil reply. 1 also wanted to
determine if DCRA had anything in our records that supports the statements In your
letter and/or supports your request for an ofBdal invesfigafion and cancellation of tiie
Ketchikan annexation proposal public hearings scheduled for November 6, 2007.
Your letter asserts that (1) after KGB announced ttie vacancy of Its Borough Manager
position, Mr. Bockhorst submitted his report to tiie LBC completely nsversing his
recommendation of 1998. You also claim that (2) although nothing had changed, Mr.
Bockhorst now stated to the LBC that the Constitution had sufiictent flejobHity to aHow
KGB to annex tiie uninhabited land and exclude Hyder. You further dalm tiiat (3)
shortly after submitting that report, he applied for Vne KGB Borough Manager position.
These statements are not based on lacts. DCRA records dearly show tiie following:
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Regarding assertions (I) and (2} whh^ disojss a recommendation in the 1998 proposal
that is dilferent in the cuirent proposal, and your assertion that Mr. Bockhorst
completely reversed his 1998 recommendation to the LBC. These assertions are not
true. It is important to note Qiat tiie 1998 recommendation reflected the policy direcUon
of a prior administration. SfafT, including Mr. Bockhorst does not set policy.
The prior administration's policy is noted clearly in the DCCED Pmlbninaty Report to ^e
Ljocal Boundary Comm/ss/on Regarding tits PaWon for Annexation of Apfmximately
4. 701 Squara MBes to tte KeidiStan Gatemy Borough, June 30, 2007, p. 96, a 67.
'DCF5A policy makers in the Knowles Administration (i.e., the Office of the
Commissioner and the Director, as contrasted to the LBC Staff
Component), opposed the prior KGB annexation proposal. Reflecting the
views of the DCRA policy maker's, DCRA's preliminary report stated the
Ibliowing with respect to the standard at issue here:
In the view of DCRA policy makers, significant adverse financial
impacts on communities in the unorganized borough are a more
important consideration than the consfitutional principles in this
parfa'cufar instance."
Furthemiore, contrary to your insinuation that the pending KGB annMcation proposal
differences are attributable to the personal motives of Mr. Bockhorst the pending
proposal is signiflcantjy difiieFent from the 1998 annexation proposal for substanijal
reasons including the fbltowing:
Among the fmporlant differences is the inclusion of Meyer's Chuck and extensively
dffiierent boundaries for the proposed Hyder enclave. Tliose difl^rent boundaries for the
Hyder enclave address particular concerns expressed by the Local Boundary
Commission In its 1999 decision. Further, Exhibit K of the current Petition pro>^des a
thorough discussion by the Petitioner of Justiflcatfon for postponing &ie annexation of
Hyder and the future circumstances which may lead to Its inclusion In the Ketchilein
Borough.
Regarding assertion (3) tiiat shortly after completing the preliminary 2007 report, Mr.
Bockhorst applied for the KGB Bonsugh Manager position, our records dearly shows
this timeline of events:
Jlforch 26, 2007: Mr. Bockhorst began his analysis of the Ketchikan annsxati<m
proposal at which point he discussed polky aspects of ^e proposal with the former
IDCRA Director.
June 28, 2007: Mr. Bockhorsfs work on the 2007 preliminary report v\»s complete and
fonvarded to the DCRA publications technician forfonnatting and publication.
July 29, 2007: just over one month after Mr. Bockhorst completed hi$ work on the
annexation proposal for the Oepaitmenf s 2007 preliminary report the Kettdiikan
Getaway Borough first announced that it was recnJting for a Borough Manager.
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August i, 2007: in accordance with the Executive Branch Ethics Act, Mr. Bockhorst
wrote a memorandum to the Department's Ethics Supervisor disclosing that he had an
Interest in applying for the Ketehacan Borough IManager position. Mr. Bodchorst stated
in this memorandum that he first became aware of the recruitment for the position on
July 31. In tiiat memorandum, he recused himself with respect to any and all future
dealings regarding the Kstchilon annexation proposal. Mr. Bockhorsf s woric regarding
the Ketchikan annexation proceeding was immediately reassigned to lUls. Jeanne
IWcPhenen.
October 15, 2007: Ms. McPhenen, not Mr. Bockhorst, independently iMBpared the
2007 final report regarding the Ketchikan ahnexafion proposal.
To conclude, given tfie discrepancies b^ween the assertions in your letter and the foots
on record, I find no tiasis to support or recommend that the Local Boundary
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State
Sen. Ted Stevens built a welfare state for Eskimos that
made defense contractors rich.
By Benjamin Wallace- Wells
Many remote places claim to be the end of the earth, but the tiny Eskimo village of
Tatitlik, set in near-mythic isolation on a small beach on Alaska's Prince William
Sound, has a better case than most The village has stood for a thousand years on a
small strip of sediment that has collected at the point where the Chugadi Moimtains
soar out of the sound. There are three dirt roads in Tatitlik, which loop around the
beach and connect back to one another; you can only get in or out by boat or by
plane, and all supplies have to be flown or ferried in. Tatitlik has a population of 97,
subsistence hunters and fishermen who live in about 30 small, irregular ranches set
on wood platforms. The mountams that surround Tatitlik are, even in summer,
mostly covered in snow, and as you pull into the village, they look like shards of
broken eggshell, the village encased inside.
The people of Tatitlik have had a spectacularly unlucky history. In 1964, much of
the population was relocated from the nearby village of Qienaga, which had been
destroyed by the Great Alaska Earthquake. (Chenaga sat on what turned out to be
the epicenter of the 9.2 Richter quake, the most powerful recorded tremor in North
American histCKy.) Then, in 1989, tiie drunk captain of Ifae Exxon Valdez plowed
his tanker into Bl3^e Reef, just five miles dovra the coast from Tatitlik. The Valdez
spilled 10.8 million gallons of oil onto the seal beaches and herring runs that the
villagers relied on for food. Tatitlik tried to get Alaska to use some of the
compensation funds to build a small boat harbor for its fragile fishing fleet, but the
state instead built massive industrial docks to accommodate clean-up tankers in the
event of another spill. Those docks loom over the village's fishmg boats, which look
in comparison as if they've been imported from Lilliput.
Tatitlik has no stores and no on-village work, save for a handfril of government jobs
running its health clinic and school. The pride of the village is an old Russian
Orthodox church, one legacy of the long history of Russian colonization here. Used
oil drums are stacked at the east end of the town, a wrecked car at the western end,
and kids, on their way to hunt, sometimes lug shotguns through the streets. Until
recently, the town had five cars, but the brakes on one, a black pickup, failed a
couple of weeks ago, and the villager driving it had to smash the truck against the
crane at the end of the tanker dock in order to keep it from rolling into the sound.
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These same villagers are the
unlikely owners of a giant
multinational company: the
Chugach Alaska Corporation.
Chugach Corp.'s annual
revenues now top $700 million,
nearly all of which comes from
federal contracting. The
company does more business
with the U.S. government than
do IBM, AT&T, or Motorola.
Chugach and its partners run
military bases from Nevada to
Iraq. TTiey monitor seismic
activity from a base m Korea in
support of the Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty. And on another end of the earth, Chugach operates the Reagan Test Site, a
coral reef leased from the Marshall Islands, where engineers give ballistic missiles a
workout and may some day run tiie planned Star Wars program. The contract for
that one is worth $2.5 billion.
How do the villagers, most of whom would much rather hunt seals and stalk
caribou herds Ifaan go anywhere near a corporate boardroom, manage these
projects? The truth is, they dont. Village chief Gary Kompkoff is vice chainnan of
the corporation, but no other villagers and only a handfril of Eskimos are even
employed on these projects. The projects are managed instead by Chugaoh's
subsidiary companies-run by white contracting executives from offices in
downtown Anchorage or in the Lower 48 states-or by Chugach's corporate
partners-huge firms such as Lockheed Martin and Bechtel.
These natives are being used essentially as fronts, what the Heritage Foundation's
Ronald Utt calls "corporate shells," because of certam privileges that only Alaskan
tribal corporations enjoy. Chief among theni is the unlimited right, given to Alaskan
native-owned corporations by Congress at the behest of Alaska's senior senator, Ted
Stevens (R-Alaska), to bid for "sole-source" federal contracts (those not put up for
competitive bid). As a result, these companies and their giant corporate partners can
win federal contracts without necessarily having to offer the government the lowest
possible price.
These contracting advantages provide the natives with some modest benefits,
mostly in the form of aimual dividend checks. The villagers of Tatitlik who were
bom before 1971 get about $1,500 a year-diough to buy new outboard motors for
their boats so they can chase the migrating seal herds. Chugach is one of the most
successful native corporations; most villagers in Alaska, while connected to a native
corporation, receive even smaller annual checks.
Many of the system's benefits, though, flow to non-native people and corporations
inside the Beltway. Lobbyists get hefty fees for putting together the deals. Federal
contracting officers get to pad their minority and small business requirements and
sidestep the headaches of competitive bidding. Bush administration ofGcials get a
tool to circumvent civU service unions. And, most of alL, the Bechtels and Lockheed
Martins get business they might not otherwise have obtained, with larger profit
margins than they normally enjoy.
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The amount of business flowing through Eskimo contracting schemes has exploded
in the post- 9/1 1 contracting boom. An industry that was still tiny five years ago
now generates billions of dollars each year. And it's beginning to attract scrutiny.
Keith Ashdown of the nonpartisan watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense
calls the Eskuno loophole a "magnet for mischief." The Government Accountability
Office has launched a probe into whether federal agencies are paying far more for
contracts than they should. The Senate Energy and House Anned Services
Committees have also held hearings on whether some sole-source contracts run
through the Eskimo loophole ought to have been competitively bid. Stevens, the
author of the loophole, has been accused of making hundreds of thousands of
dollars from a real estate deal involving one of the Alaskan corporations he helped
to create.
If these investigations develop mto a fiiU-fledged scandal, it will be the third m just
a few months uivolving senior Republicans in Washington and aboriginal
__populations-and three's a pattern. A Senate committee is looking into the case of
Jack Abramoff, the conservative lobbyist and former aide to House Majority Leader
Tom DeLay who is accused of bilking millions of dollars fixjm native Americans to
help them fend off non-existent threats to their special rights to operate casinos.
Meanwhile, DeLay himself is the subject of inquiries as a result of donor-fimded
trips to the Marianas Islands, an American protectorate where textile manufacturers
operate sweatshops with imported Chinese labor outside the reach of federal wage
and workplace rules, yet have the right-thanks to DeLay's influence-to stamp
"Made in America" on their products.
That all three scandals involve the exploitation of federal regulatory loopholes
constructed to benefit native Americans is no coincidence. It is instead an
illustration of how government now works under GOP control. Once upon a time,
when Democrats ran Washington, federal tax dollars for the poor and other
constituencies flowed largely through federal j^encies and projects. The system
was often inefficient, didn't always do much for its intended beneficiaries, and over
the years became unpopular with voters. Now, a new system is arismg, one more in
tune Math tiie Zeitgeist. The new system funnels tax dollars not through wasteful
federal bureaucracies but through crony capitalist enterprises. It is as inefficient and
ineffective as the old system, maybe more so. But while the old system bolstered
Democratic control of Washington, this one supports Republican rule. Welcome,
then, to tihe new conservative welfare state.
Reservation Inc.
This convoluted, controversial system is the product of one of the most bizarre Mid
ambitious social engineering projects m recent American histoiy, a plan designed to
lift Alaskan natives out of poverty through the private sector. If s hard to imagine a
group more deserving of government help; since they first began to have significant
dealings with white Amaicans at the turn of the 20th century, Alaskan natives have
had a brutal time of it. In the 1905 Yukon gold rush, they were chased off tiieir
lands by prospecting Russians and Califomians. During the 1940s, the Bureau of
Indian Affairs (BIA) began forcing tribes to abandon their itinerant hunting and
settle in permanent locations; alcoholism became rampant, and children were sent
off to BIA-run boarding schools, horrid dens of physical and sexual abuse. In 1957,
the government physicist Edward Teller, one inspiration for Dr. Strangelove, and
the U.S. Bureau of Atomic Research even developed a strange plan to detonate a
hydrogen bomb under the native village of Point Hope.
By the time modem Alaska emerged in the raid- 1960s, native Alaskans seemed
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natural recipients for sympathy and affirmative federal action. When oil was
discovered in Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's mostly frozen and uninhabited north coast,
oil companies needed to figure out how to acquire native lands to build a pipeline
through tiie interior of the state to the ice-free port of Valdez. A small group of
government and community leaders stepped in to oversee the task. These men-
including Johnson administration officials, a handful of Senate aides, and some
native leaders-wanted to avoid the standard reservation solution, which they
believed create only dependency and stasis. The result was a break from history:
They privatized the reservation. "We believed then, and I still believe now," says
Bill Van Ness, one of the Senate aides involved in the effort, "that we were creating
a revolution."
They cut a simple deal. The natives would give up most of the land they had hoped
to win, reducing their claims from more than 300 million acres to 44 million. In
retum, the government would create special "native corporations" (more than 200 in
all), owned fully by natives— a $1,5 billion cash settlement from the federal
government was divided between them as seed money.
One of those pushing hardest for the bill was Ted Stevens, then a young,
conservative junior senator from Alaska. The deal, ideologically q)pealing for him,
would ultimately prove politically useful as well. While in the lower 48 states,
native reservations almost mvariably voted for Democrats, the involvement of
Stevens's staff in creating these corporations helped to secure the loyalty of Alaska
natives. Locally, Eskimos often vote Democratic, but for 30 years, tiiiey have
steadfastly supported Stevens and the state's Republican delegation in Congress-
largely, says Sarah Lukin of the Native American Contracting Association,
"because they've been such a great help to the natives and the ANCs [Alaskan
native Corporations]."
From the beginning, Stevens demonstrated not just a political but also a personal
stake in native advancement. Native leaders around the state still remember fondly
the senator's first wife, Ann, who during Stevens's early campaigns spent many
weeks in tiny villages and developed a real rapport with the natives there. "We'd tell
him, if you want our votes, don't come, just send Annie," a longtime Native leader
told me. (Ann Stevens died in a plane crash in 1978.) Stevens eventually inserted an
exemption in the land claims seltiement act that allowed native corporations to
ignore sole somx;e contracting limits. At the time, few noticed the provision largely
because natives weren't exactly in a position to run government contracts. "We
spent our first years learning to spell 'corporation,'" remembers Willie Hensley, an
influential early native political leader who now works in Washington as a lobbyist
for the Alyeska Pipeline Corp. Life for the natives at the time was so rudimentMy
that Hensley has called it the "twilight of the stone age."
Although well-intentioned, the plan to turn nomadic caribou hunters and fishermen
with no formal education into effective corporate managers was inherently
problematic. The natives mostly created enterprises that were inefficient and
returned little in the way of profits-zinc mines, timber logging, fish processing, etc.
"Basically," says Hensley, "they were jobs programs." By the mid-1980s, most of
the corporations were floundering, and they returned to Stevens for help. The
senator worked to obtain additional benefits for them-most notably, loopholes m
tax law-but by 1992, the corporations were still having a hard time getting their
feet on the ground.
Thaf s when Chugach, down to 12 employees and in bankruptcy, hired Mike
Brown. Brown was a native of Seward and had been a career Air Force officer,
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retiring as commander of an Alaskan base. He had dealt with contracts in the
service, and knew both that minority firms had some advantages in dealing with the
federal govermnent and that Alaskan natives didn't seem to be earning much benefit
from them. Some months earlier, he had sent a lawyer to Anchorage to investigate,
and the attorney discovered that although the BIA listed Alaskan natives as an
"economically and socially disadvantaged group," the Small Business
Administration (SEA) did not. Brown convinced the SBA to list Alaskan natives as
eligible for minority small business loans, and realized, with gathering excitement,
that they had unique access to sole-source contracts. When he interviewed for the
job of ruiming Chugach, Brown told the board, "If you hire me, it'll be to commit
completely to government contracting." They agreed.
Going native
Brown told me this story in mid-June in tiie Anchorage Sheraton's lobby restaurant
as tour organizers herded senior citizens into teams for cruises around Prince
William Sound. Brown is a little over 60 now, tall with a white mustache and still
prone to militaiy expressions like "hit the head." The state's prosperity traces the arc
of his lifetime. When he was bom in 1940, Anchorage had a population of 3,500;
today, it is home to 300,000. Brown is sometimes referred to in the press as the
"godfather" of native contracting, juad his face breaks into a wide and sudden grin
when I mention it. He has visible reasons to be proud: There are only a handful of
affluent-looking buildings in Anchorage, the kind of modem glass office structures
that signal wealth, but all of them seem to house either oil companies or native
corporations. "The ANCs," says University of Alaska economist Steven Colt, "have
become tiie state's establishment."
There's no natural reason why an out-of-ihe way place like Anchorage~a place so
far from the American mainland that Russia appears on the local TV station's
weather maps, but not Seattle-should have become a center of the government
contracting industry. Native corporations, however, were holding some valuable
cards. The combination of their sole-source contracting exemption and status as
minority-owned firms gave them an advantage over competitors, a benefit that
BroAvn leveraged. He began modestly with base management subcontracts, hiring
smart project managers he knew fix)m the contracting world to ran them. "Running
base services isn't rocket science," Brown told me.
But there were problems. Brown found that he couldn't find enough Eskimos with
management experience to run even these simple projects. By law, minority-owned
corporations and their subsidiaries are requned to actually have a minority as CEO.
Brown had an ace up his sleeve: Like CEOs of many of tiie native oi^anizations, he
had a tight relationship with Stevens and was able to get the senator on the phone.
Stevens soon got his colleagues to pass legislation exempting native companies
from the minority CEO rale. Then Chugach grew too big to qualify for programs
favoring small businesses; Stevens lobbied for and passed an amendment letting
native corporations retain their small business status regardless of how large they
become. And when Chugach began to approach the nine-year limit for a single
company's participation in the small business program, Stevens won yet another
statutory break allowing Alaskan native firms to create endless new subsidiaries so
that the parent firm could have indefinite eiccess to contracts.
Chugach and other Alaska native programs that followed its lead were growing fast
But as they set their aim for bigger contracts in the late 1990s, they realized that
they needed help navigating the complex world of Washington contracting. Again
Stevens came tiirough. As chairman and longtime member of the Senate Defense
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Appropriations Subcommittee, he had dozens of former staffers and associates
working on K Street lobbying on behalf of defense contractors. They knew which
firms might be interested in partnering wifli the native corporations, and what doors
at which agencies to knock on. Pretty soon, most of the Eskimo corporations had
these former staffers on retainer. If the lobbyists hit an obstacle, they could get
Stevens himself to call government officials to push them to send contracts to the
native corporations. "Lobbymg," says current Chugach Chair Sheri Buretta, became
"the backbone of tive system."
In the end, though, it wasn't a very hard sell. The big contractors didn't need much
convincing that sole-source deals offered significant upsides. Contracting agents
within the federal bureaucracy also saw advantages-mostly, efficiency.
Competitive bidding is a complex and time-consuming process. Even though it
often leads to lower prices, it's not something contracting agents enjoy, especially
when facing tough deadlmes.
The bureaucrats had another incentive as well: the constant pressure they face to
meet quotas for contracts to minority-owned and small businesses. Finding enough
such companies with the capacity to do the work, especially on big projects, can be
a nightmare. Eskimo-owned firms-which by then were not that small-provided an
ideal solution. "We needed to get our small business numbers up, but we can't send
a small business to run Los Alamos," Brad Bugger, a spokesman for the
Department of Energy, told me. "But because the Alaskan native firms are
exempted fix)m the size limitations, we could send them a project that would make a
significant difference in our small business numbers." So when the department
needed a new contractor to run the Idaho National Laboratory, that state's biggest
employer, it gave the job, on a sole-source basis, to an Alaskan native firm, Alutiiq.
Yet another party stood to benefit from native contracting. By 200 1 , Bush
administration officials saw in the sole- source exemption a way to privatize
government quickly. That year, a joint venture of two native corporations-Chenega
and Arctic Slope-won a no-bid, $2.2 billion deal to operate the Defense Mapping
Agency, which uses sophisticated computer modeling to map potential battlefields,
The companies didn't have any of the technical experience these contracts
demanded, but they did have something else. Unfettered by the need to provide
civil service protections to then- employees, they cut staff and streamlined
operations more aggressively than die federal government itself could have.
And then came the attacks of September 1 1 , 200 1 . Instantly, officials all over
Washmgton were looking to spend lots of money on defense and homeland security
contracts, the sooner the better. The native corporations looked like perfect
vehicles. In 2003, Nana Pacific, another subsidiary of a native corporation, won a
$70 million award fi-om the Defense Department to rebuild the Iraqi port of umm-
Qasr; it subcontracted with one of the world's leading port construction firms, SSA-
Marine, and handed off the operation of the contract, ia. another instance, currently
under investigation by the House Armed Services Committee, two large security
companies- Wackenhut and Vance International- won a series of sole-source
contracts collectively worth $180 million by partaering with Alaskan native firms.
Both companies had previously bid on simUar contracts on their own and lost.
More West Virginia than Wild West
Alaska has a well-earned reputation as a rough, bootstrapping state, with a
boisterous, counter-establishment character. It is a place beyond the American
boundary, populated by gangly moose and whales, by hippies who head for the
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curving black mountain slopes, by those on a libertarian quest to get away from
places with rules. In downtown Anchorage, wobbly old 12-seat planes fly overhead,
bound for villages that can't be reached any other way, ferrying passengers in search
of ever more remote locales.
But while the state thrives on its identity as the last frontier, it is in many ways less
like the Wild West than West Virginia. Like its poor, rugged Appalachian cousin,
Alaska's economy is overwhehningly dependent on other people's tax money; it is
by far the nation's largest per capita recipient of federal cash. And, as with West
Virginia, it is represented in Washington by an aging senator who uses his
appropriations power to keep the state's economy afloat almost single-handedly.
Stevens rivals his West Virginia counterpart. Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, in his
ability to attract federal dollars. (Through his staff, Stevens declined interview
requests for this article.) Some Alaskan economists estimate that Stevens is
responsible for 10 percent of the state's economy. Stevens and Byrd are good
friends, but in personal style, the two senators are near opposites: Byrd cultivates
the public persona of a florid Southern gentleman, using Senate speeches to deliver
elaborate appreciations of, say, the women of Congress, or the coming of Spring.
Stevens's public image is of a force-of-nature senator from a force-of-nature state;
when he brings appropriations bills to the Senate floor, the Alaskan wears a tie
featuring the Incredible Hulk ('cause he's so strong), and when he's angry, he wears
one depicting die Tasmanian Devil ('cause he might go crazy). But the more telling
difference between Stevens and Byrd is in the ways in which they use federal power
to do favors for their home states. But while Byrd has become a master of
harnessing federal largesse primarily by physically transferring as much of the
federal government as possible to his state-there is a reason, for instance, that the
FBI's crune lab is in West Virginia-Stevens has branched in a different direction.
Instead of frmneling tax dollars through federal agencies, he channels them through
federally dependent corporations.
This method is unquestionably more palatable to those who oppose the idea of
government handouts to the poor. But the iaissez-feire Stevens system has some
significant downsides. For one, it distributes benefits unevenly. Those natives with
the political sawy and organization to take advantage of the system have
sometimes done very well. Those without it have floundered and the average native
income in Alaska is still $1 1,000, while the portion of natives living in poverty
continues to increase. Ilie villagers in Tatitlik, shareholders in Chugach, love the
system: It has provided them not only with dividend checks, but a range of other
services, the kinds of things you might normally expect to come from government.
Chugach Alaska sponsors scholarships for the college-bound children of its
shareholders, and corporate internship programs after they graduate. The company
sends quarterly checks to the tribal elders to supplement social security ^d pays for
programs to preserve traditional languages and culture, which had been
dramatically fading. Perhaps most unportant to the villagers, says Tatitiik's chie^
Kompkof^ "it makes you proud to be Chugach again." Most Alaskan natives,
however, have gotten far fewer benefits, and some have received almost nothing at
all.
A more troubling downside is that some of the biggest dividends firom the system
don't flow to natives at all, but to other players m the game: die lobbyists who put
the deals together, the principals who own the contracting fums, and even the
politicians. Stevens has built a mmi-political machine using the loophole. His
loyalists run the Alaskan native corporations, delivering both votes and campaign
contributions and sending substantial fees for lobbying services to a handful of the
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senator's ex-staJffers and close associates, including Stevens's brother-in-law and his
son. He returns favors to leading native corporation officials: In the 2005 Defense
appropriation, Stevens inserted a line ordering the Air Force to spend $2.5 million
to buy a parcel of land from Jake Adams, president of Arctic Slope and a longtime
Stevens supporter. "I'm trying to help one family," the senator told ^e Anchorage
Daily News. The system has even benefited Stevens personally: A recent Los
Angeles Times investigation found that Stevens had bought into an Anchorage
office tower which was then leased to Arctic Slope for $6 million per year.
Stevens's stake, which he originally bought for $50,000, is now worth more than $1
million. Congress, whose ethics system has recently been watered down by the
Republican leadership, has not launched any investigations.
All of which raises an obvious question: Who are these loopholes for?
What really drives the issue of native contracting is not political organizing or
lobbying pressure or constituent demands but a blunt moral calculation: How do
you repay historical debts and assuage a nation's guilt? "We have given up an awfiil
lot to be part of this country," says Buretta, the Chugach Corp. chan. "It doesn't
seem unfair that we're now getting a little bit back." Buretta and others argue that
the program has helped the native corporations grow and that Chugach and others
are beginning to win competitive contracts. But these competitive deals still account
for only a slim minority of Chugach's government business. And if the overarching
goal is to provide a better life for the Eskimos, it would be far simpler and many
times cheaper for the government to simply send along a check. It is hard to argue
that sluicing the tax dollars through no-bid contracting deals somehow makes
Alaska natives any less dependent upon political aid. Instead, it simply changes Ihe
nature of what the natives are dependent on, from government welfare spending to
government loophole spendmg.
The question of whether these contracting schemes are really the best way to help
Alaskan natives deserves a serious debate. Instead, Washington seems to be shoring
up and expanding their special privileges. On the Democratic side. Sen. Daniel
Inouye (D-Hawaii) has already won certain contracting advantages for his islands'
natives that are modeled on, though not as substantial as, the Alaskan program.
Earlier this year, the Alaskan Natives joined with otiier contracting companies to
found the Native American Contracting Association, a new group whose goal is to
expand contracting opp<Mtunities and privileges to all American natives. In the
lower 48, several native contracting firms have entered the arena—a firm called
S&K Technologies, jomtly owned by the Salish and Kootenai tribes is partnermg
with Chugach on a base management contract for Iraq.
When the plugged-in Chickasaw tribe of Oklahoma lost out on a Defense
Department contract last year, they used their influence with Rep. Tom Cole (R-
Okla.) and the Bush administration to reign down holy terror on the DOiys
contracting officers. "If you'll excuse my language," one peeved DOD bureaucrat
told Indian Country Today, "the Chickasaws went ape shit." And at last month's
national Native American conference in Green Bay, the nation's tribes—many of
which have been skeptical of, or outright opposed to, special exemptions for
Alaskan native corporations-voted to support the retention of the Alaskan
privileges.
Indian tribes aren't the only ones eager to see the exemption expanded. While some
in Washington are uneasy about its costs and corrupting effects, many in the GOP
leadership view it as a model for the kmd of federal government tiiey would like to
see more of. It is a privatized system that circumvents the civil service, enriches
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politically-connected corporations, provides a trickle of money to the poor, and
secures Republican power. For some conservatives, in other words, the Eskimo
loophole is not a failed experiment in social engineering. It is the future.
Benjamin Wallace- Wells is an editor of The Washington Monthly.
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1 1 .02 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Weekly. A Legal System Run Amok
From: membership@uschamber.com [mailto:membership@uschamber.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:22 Al^
To; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Weekly: A Legal System Run Amok
November 6, 2007
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A Legal System Run Amok
By Tom Donohue
How did we get to this point? We have allowed a deeply flawed legal system
to infect and alter our democratic form of government, our civic life, and our
character as a people.
We see some courts, juries, prosecutors, attorneys general, and regulators
using the legal system not to enforce the law but to make the law. We see
troubling attacks on the due process rights guaranteed to every American by
ambitious prosecutors-including a frontal assault on the lime-honored
tradition of attorney-client privilege. And we have seen America move
towards a culture where everyone is a victim, where suing is the first and not
the last resort, and where any misfortune in life must always be someone
else's fault.
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Jackson, president and CEO of the Colorado-based medical equipment and
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View Jackson's testimony.
Committees Pass Climate Change, Tax Bills
In a tight 4-3 vote, a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee
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administration would place caps on carbon dioxide emissions from Keeping America's Workforce
businesses. Beginning in 2012, companies would get allowances to release a Healthy
certain amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and could buy
or sell the permits on a market. Nov. 15
Washington, D.C.
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bill that would delay the expansion of the alternative minimum tax for one mffiels"^ manSa'heaThv
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The Chamber opposes pnjvisions in both of these short-sighted bills and is
working with Congress to come up with alternatives that preserve U.S. jobs
and competitiveness.
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The U.S. Chamber's Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) has received
a grant from the Department of Commerce to conduct a flrst-of-its-kind study
on the effects of corporate citizenship on community and economic
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In partnership with Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy, BCLC's
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent; Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:39 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: WICHE Mental Health Report November 2007
From: Candice Tate [maiito:ctate@wiche.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: WICHE Mental Health Report November 2007
WICHE Mental Health Report
Trouble viewing this report? Go to WICHE Mental Health Newsletter November2007
WICHE Mental Health Report
November 05, 2007
Volume 1, Number 10
RECENT. ISSUES: February 2007 . March 2007 . April 2007 . Mav 2007 . June 2007 . July
2007 . August 2007 . September 2007 . October 2007
In this Issue:
• IniFocus: Workforce
• FYI
• Selected Highlights of Recent Staff Activities
• Job Opportunities
InFocus: Workforce
The April issue presented an overview of the three major barriers to effective mental health care
in rural America, Availability, Accessibility, and Acceptability. These three barriers were
described in detail in our June. August, and September issues. Here we revisit the four major
components of workforce and will describe each of them in detail in the next few issues. While
the information is initially redundant from the Availability issue, we re-present it here to orient
the reader on workforce components in order to examine them in depth.
Ideally, an adequate workforce has the right number of experienced and skilled people in the
right jobs at the right time to meet the present needs of the population. Establishing and
sustaining an effective mental health workforce involves several components; A profile of
present population and demographics; An estimation of the prevalence of mental ilbiess; An
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analysis of the professional occupations available to serve the community; A picture of the higher
education programs designed to supply well-trained professionals.
Prevalence rates are based on epidemiological studies of populations, while the number and location of
professionals is based on the interplay of education and occupation trends. Both are estimates and are
constantly shifting in response to a large number of variables. Each of these four components
interrelates, and changes to one component affect the others. For instance, large and rapid increases in
population can translate into greater numbers of people with behavioral health problems. However, it
can also mean increased numbers of people available to enter the behavioral health field as clinicians.
Thus, it is important to study previous trends to project fiiture courses. More importantly, these
projections allow decision-makers to identify potential avenues of growth, as well as barriers and means
of overcoming them.
Population
The first aspect of workforce, population, can be analyzed from a number of different perspectives.' For
example, Hawai'i has an estimated 2006 population of 1,285,498. With a land area of 6,422.62 square
miles, Hawai'i has an overall average of 188.6 persons per square mile. This average si^gests that
Hawai'i is an urban state. However, due to the imique geographical structure of the state, one island is
urban, while the remainder are classified as rural. The Hawai'i Office of Rural Health uses the Research
Service Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (HUCA) to determine the urban areas of the state, shown in
purple in the picture below. Given the geographic spread of the population, most of Hawai'i is rural.
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Geographic barriers can isolate communities in almost any state. In order to access treatment inHawaiM,
it must be available on the island of residence or else a consumer will need to fly to another island to
receive face to face services. This is an area where telehealth can prove invaluable to reduce
transportation costs and time-consuming travel. In Alaska, many villages are isolated from larger urban
areas due to lack of roads. In other states, mountams, large bodies of water, poor roads, and severe
weather can isolate communities that would otherwise be considered adjacent to urban centers.
Consequently, when examining the population density of a state, it is important to examine the
functional distance between communities to determine the accessibility of the mental health workforce.
Thus far, we have examined population as if it were a static phenomenon. It is important to examine
population trends to gauge the fiiture of both the prevalence of behavioral health disorders and to
determine the weak areas of the occupational future. The US Census publishes population projections
for the nation out to the year 2050 and for uidividual states out to 2030. This allows future determination
of potential gaps between the uimiet needs of the population and the available workforce. In the next
issue we will look at the calculation of the prevalence of behavioral health disorders based on the
present and projected population numbers.
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Selected Highlights of Recent Staff Activities
Christa Smith, Ph.D.
The WICHE Mental Health Program is pleased to welcome Christa Smith, Ph.D. as our new
postdoctoral fellow through the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center. Christsa started our
program in October and will be with us as a fellow for a full year. Christa's current projects Avith
WICHE focus primarily on integrated mental health care, mental health system improvements, and
healthcare workforce development.
Christa attended the University of Denver, Graduate School of Professional Psychology where she
studied health psychology. She has worked for the past five years in numerous medical settings
educating and collaborating with physicians and other medical staff and providmg psychotherapy for
people with a wide range of medical issues. Her focus was the integration of mentd healfli into medical
health care settings with the understanding that there is no such thing as health without mental health,
nor health without well-being. Her special interests include the study of well-being and happiness,
mindfulness meditation, and stress management. She received her doctorate in August of 2007.
Christa grew up in Miimesota and moved to Colorado with her husband for their graduate educations.
She plans to stay in Colorado for its superior weather and access to hiking. She has been an athlete all of
her life, starting with gymnastics'when she was six and moving on to diving in high school and college.
She has always loved to be the woods and loves to hike and backpack, especially m the Utah dessert.
Her other love is food, cooking, eating, reading about food, talking about food, etc., which happens to go
well with her love of exercise! Christa can be reached via email at csmith@,wiche.edu .
FYI...
Colorado - House Joint Resolution 1050:
In 2007, the Colorado Legislature passed House Resolution 07-1050 to create a Task Force for the study
of behavioral health funding and treatment The Task Force is charged with studying mental health and
substance abuse services in order to coordinate the efforts of state agencies and streamline the services
provided and to maximize federal and other fimding sources.
Representative Anne McGihon is the Chairperson and Senator Betty Boyd and Senator Bob Hagedom
are the Vice-Chairpersons of the Task Force. Task Force members include a representative of the
Governor's Office, three members of the Colorado House of Representatives and three members of the
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Senate members, and representatives fixjm key departments of state government. These departments are:
Hiunan Services; Health Care Policy and Financing; Public Healtii and Environment; Corrections;
Public Safety; Education; and Law. In addition, the Task Force has created three subcommittees to assist
it in meeting its charge. They are: Program; Budget and Funding; and Streamline and Coordinate
Services.
A final report will be presented to the Health and Human Services Committees of the Senate and House
of Representatives by January 31, 2008, regarding any fmdings and legislative recommendations. CSI
(Center for Systems Integration) in partnership with NPM Consulting has been selected as the consultant
team to assist the task force in conducting its duties including research and report preparation. CSI is
also partnering with Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) on the national
research component of the project. Speakers from across the country including several WICHE states
have agreed to present to the Task Force to share their experiences and lessons learned.
If you would like further information please go to the Task Force's website .
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Webcast: Earn Free CMEs!
This is a free training that uses internet-based distance learning technology. You can attend from
your home or office!
Bipolar Disorder: Considerations for Rural Primary Care Providers
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
12:00pm - 1 :30pm Mountain Standard Time
(11 am Pacific, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern)
fi^ Michael Allen
Dr. Michael H. AUen, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director Emergency and Consultation Psychiatry
Co-Director, Mood Disorders Program
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado
This presentation featuring a national expert on bipolar disorder will cover the identification, treatment,
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and associated pharmacological implications related to this diagnosis in the primary care setting. While
this presentation will not focus exclusively on providers in rural settings, the information will be useful
to those practicing in more isolated settings and those communities with limited access to behavioral
health resources.
Registration: No need to pre-register. Details will be provided in the December Newsletter.
Questions: Contact Mimi McFaul, Psy.D. via email <'mmcfaul@wiche.edu) or by telephone at 303-541-
0288.
You vidll be asked to complete a brief post-training survey in order to be eligible for free CME credits.
Ftinded by the Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP)/Human Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA)
Dr. Allen attended Florida State University, received his medical degree from the Medical University of
South Carolina and trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Living where he served as Chief Resident. He
went on to serve on the faculty of Cornell and later NYU. While at NYU, he developed the model
Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at Bellevue Hospital, mentioned in New York
Magazine's "Best Hospitals in New York." Currently he is director of the psychiatric emergency and
consultation services and is co-director of the Mood Disorders Program at the University of Colorado.
He is a principal investigator in the NIMH Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar
Disorder and other studies in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder; he has served as a research trainer
internationally and recently received a NARSAD Independent Investigator award. He has served as
president of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, chair of the APA Task Force on
Psychiatric Emergency Services, panelist for the Expert Consensus Guideline for Bipolar Disorder and
the Colorado Clinical Guidelines Collaborative Depression Program, lead expert for the Expert
Consensus Guideline for the Management of Behavioral Emergencies, member of the American College
of Emergency Physicians clinical policy conunittee and reviewer for the Cochrane Collaborative. He is
the author or editor of three books and associate editor of General Hospital Psychiatry. He is board
certified in psychiatry with added qualifications in addictions.
Job Opportunities
Recent Job Announcements Webpaee
On this page you will find recent job announcements pertaining to either the WICHE West or to rural
mental health areas.
WICHE MH Personnel
Dennis Mohatt, MA, Mental Health Program Director
Mimi McFaul, Psy.D., Associate Director
Chuck McGee, MA, Project Director
Scott Adams, Psy.D., Senior Research Associate
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Candice Tate, Ph.D., Research Associate
Fran Dong, Statistical Analyst
Jenny Shaw, Administrative & Project Coordinator
Tell Us How the WICHE Mental Health Program Has Impacted You
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education is seeking your comments on how our
services have affected mental health services in rural communities. Please send an e-mail telling how
WICHE has influenced you to Candice Tate ■ We would also love to hear your nominations for
promising rural practices. Feel free to also contact us with requests for state-specific rural assistance or
to just ask us a question about our experience with rural mental issues and public policy.
Subscriber Services
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the WICHE Newsletter send an e-mail to Editor Candice Tate
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Unknown
From: Dwight Kramer [dwimar@gci.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:15 PM
To: Lloyd; Denby S (DFG)
Cc: Wagoner; Tom (U\A); Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); John Hilsinger; Swanton; Charles
(DFG); Marcotte; Jim R (DFG)
Subject: Re: KAFC 08 UCI BOF Process Letter
Commissioner Lloyd,
Thank you for pointing out report timeline discrepancies, as you saw them, in our letter to the BOF.
Since we met separately in meetings with yourself and Director Hilsinger and then later with Directors
Hilsinger and Swanton there seems to be some variance in clarification of the dates mentioned. After polling
various members of our BOD that were present at those meetings our general consensus is that we heard
several of the reports would be out by Dec. 1 with the Susitna Mark Re-Capture Study possibly available
sooner, and that you would encourage your staff to have all other reports out at least a month before the BOF
meeting. We would not have been satisfied with a protocol that called for all other reports being available 2
weeks prior to the meeting.
We became alarmed when we received an e-mail firom Department staff stating that many of the reports
would be made available to the BOF 2 weeks prior to the meeting with no mention of dates for
public distribution, (see e-mail message bielow) This brought back memories of the 05 UCI BOF meeting
when we didnt see some of the reports until the first day of the meeting on the infonnation table. There was
also no mention of any Coho reports on his list
We have been expressing these concerns since this Spring in hopes of improving the availability of the
most recent data so that all groups, AC'S and individuals can assess proposals accordingly. Without timely
Infonnation assumptions in comments to the Board may be incon"ect and of little help to the process. I know
we aren't the only ones that share ttiese concerns.
I believe we share the same desire to make the process better and look fonward to working viflth you and
your staff on identifying areas of improvement as we transition through this board cycle. We support you as
Commissioner and fully understand some of the difficulties your staff faces in regards to these issues. As I
mentioned to you this summer, we appreciate your proactive style and the manner in which you directed the
fisheries management in Cook Inlet Ms past season.
Our desire is to help the Departmentand the Board, in any way we can, to provide a fair and ethical arena
for development of the regulation process. If we can be of further assistance please don't hesitate to call.
Thanks Again,
Dwight Kramer - KAFC
Ken.
Attached is the current list of wnitten reports expected at the BOF meeting. I dont ttiink this will
change. The dates are stiil up in the air except they are to be available to the BOF rouqhlv two weeks
prior to the BOF meeting. I do know the genetics and the effects of overescap ement are to be
available to the public sooner than that Hope this helps.
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Tracy Linqnau
DRAFT
Current list of BOF reports:
1 . Review of Upper Cook Inlet Commercial Salmon Fishery, 2007 (AMR): Fox, Shields
2. 2007 Recreational Fisheries Overview for Northern Kenai Peninsula: Begich
3. 2007 Recreational Fisheries Overview for Northern Cook Inlet: Rutz
4. Escapement Goals for Salmon Stocks in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska: Fair, Hasbrouck
5 . Inriver Abundance and Spawner Distribution of Susitna River Sockeye Salmon Oncorhynchus
nerka, 2006: Yanusz, et al
6. Biological and Fishery Related Aspects of Overescapement in Alaskan Sockeye Sahnon
Oncorhynchus nerka: Clark, et al
7. Post season stock composition analysis of Upper Cook Inlet
sockeye salmon harvest: Templin
— Original Message —
From: Uovd. Denbv S (DFG)
To: DwJqht Kramer
Cc: Wagoner. Tom (LAA^ ; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) ; John Hilsinaer ; Swanton. Charles
(DFG) : Marcotte. Jim R (DFG)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: RE: KAFC 08 UCI BOF Process Letter
Dwight:
I appreciate your comments regarding BOF process; many of your suggestions wan^nt consideration.
I do need to correct a misapprehension of yours however Your letter indicates that I, and a couple division
directors, promised that "the reports [from the department to the Board of Fisheries] would be completed by
Dec. 1 , 2007 and at the latest 30 days prior to the BOF meeting" and that you've now been informed that they
will not be available prior to mid-January.
Actually, my commitment to you and other interest groups in Cook Inlet was that two specific reports (on
sockeye overescapement and on sockeye genetic stock identification) and likely the Cook Inlet salmon
escapement goal review, would be available by December 1. Our Intention still is to have those reports
completed and available to the public by December 1 . As for more standard reports to the BOF, those are
being prepared and distributed according to general BOF pnjtocols, with which I understand you have concern
but which were not part of our commitments regarding the special reports identified above. If you would have
checked with staff or me prior to sending out your letter, you would have been assured as much.
If you have any other questions, please let us know.
Take care, DL.
Denby S. Lloyd
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Commissioner
Alasl(a DepartmenI of Fish and Game
PO. Box 115526
Juneau. AK 99611-5526
907-465-4719
From: Dwight Kramer [mailto:dwimar@gci.net]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:05 PM
To: Marcotte, Jim R (DI=G)
Cc: Wagoner, Tom (IM); Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); John Hilslnger; Swanton, Charles (DFG);
Lloyd, Denby S (DFG)
Subject: KAFC 08 Ud BOF Process Letter
Dear l\^r. Marcotte,
I have attached an advanced copy of a letter to BOF' Chairman Monrls and the Board. This letter
outlines concerns that our organization, Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition, has regarding process matters
relating to the upcoming 08 UCI meeting. We are planning on attending the LCI meeting this month and would
like to discuss and clarify these issues with Chairman Monis, Board members, yourself and department staff at
their's and your convenience.
Thank you for the opportunity to present these concerns to the Board.
Dwight Kramer
KAFC Chairman 283-1054
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:45 AM
crickett@uaa.alaska.edu
RE: Other
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail®gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Other
Web mail from: Ms, Crickett Watt
address: 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage AK 99508
907-786-1896
MESSAGE:
Greetings from the University of Alaska Anchorage Student Union.
We had a dress up day for some students and staff. One of our students dressed up as
Governor Palin. We thought this was a fantastic photo of look-alikes! In fact our entire
staff at the University of Alaska Anchorage Student Union was thrilled with the way the
picture turned out and we voted to send it along to you.
As our own Megan Steiner resembles Governor Palin so much, we thought you would like some
information about this incredible young college student and future star of Alaska:
Megan Steiner is a 3rd year Nursing and Spanish major at the University of Alaska
Anchorage. She is the 20 -year -old daughter of John Steiner, ASD Board member. Megan is a
life- long Alaskan. She plans to pursue her nursing career in the Anchorage area.
She has volunteered at Providence Hospital in the NICU and the Adult Critical Care Unit.
She has also volunteered at the Francis Shelter Food Pantry. At OAA she has volunteered to
help with the Concert Programs and works in the Student Union.
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In high school she was in the Chugiak swing choir and traveled
with the group to New York City in 2003, winning the national
competition. She is a 2005 graduate of Chugiak High School.
Meg has traveled abroad, enjoys the Alaskan outdoors, acting in
community theater and improving the quality o£ life for those aro\aid her.
As Megan's supervisor since August 2006, I can assure you she is an intelligent,
articulate and incredibly wonderful young woman. As the leader of the state of Alaska, I
thought you might like to know about your younger, very gifted "look alike" and feel proud
of what Alaska has to offer in this next generation.
For a picture of you and Meg side by side, please go to the site;
http://i87.photobuoket.com/albums/kl21/zacclark/PalinHalloween.jpg
Thank you for letting me share a bit about this terrific UAA student!
crickettsuaa . alaska . edu
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:22 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Nominate a Teacher Today
From: National Center for Family Literacy [mailto:ToyotaTeacher@famlit.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:33 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Nominate a Teacher Today
Tiie Natbnai Center for Family Literacy
crf.id'ns n liJeraic naifon by lever.iging iht; (kjivit «»f the iamiiy
NCFL
fat^ titeracy 'fanOy ffogreis
November 6, 2007
Nominations Sought for 2008
Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year
The National Center for Family Literacy and Toyota are accepting
applications for the 2008 Toyota Family Literacy Teacher of the Year.
For the first time, the application process is online
at w/ww.famlit.ora/TovotaTeacher .
The deadline to submit nominations is Dec. 5, 2007.
The winner will be chosen by a panel of family literacy specialists at
NCFL, who will review nominations for high- performing teachers from
across the United States.
The selected educator will receive a cash prize for His/her program and a
free trip to the 2008 National Conference on Family Literacy, where
he/she will be honored at the opening general session on March 30th,
2008, in Louisville. In addition, several finalists will be honored.
Here are the guidelines:
• The online nomination form should be completed by the program
director or coordinator
• It must include a statement of support for the nominated educator
written by a parent/adult student
• Programs may nominate up to two educators
• Programs and nominated educators do not have to be associated
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with Toyota-funded programs
• The nominated educator cannot have been a finalist in the past
three years
For award information and additional guidelines, go to
www.famlit.ora/TovotaTeacher .
Call for Proposals Deadline Extended
NCFL will accept Call for Concurrent Session Proposals through Friday,
November 9. To submit your proposal online, go to
www.famlit.orq/conference .
17th Annual National Conference on Family Literacy
Literacy Grows Families and Communities
March 30, 31 & April l, 2008
Louisville, Kentucky
Visit www.famlit.orq/conference to register now for the National
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From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1 0:09 AM
To: Von Scheben; Leo (DOT)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you. I really like him. He's a great roads guy.
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tue Nov 06 09:14:07 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
He sent me his resume.
I like the feeling I got from him. Seems like a level headed easy man to work with. I
think it is 50/50 he would be interested enough to take the job. I will let you know in a
week . LEO
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (60V sponsored)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:15 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Sub j ect : Re : Road Replacement
Thank you
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Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 09:14:06 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
As discussed, I will track Privileg down and ask his status. LEO
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged 01 went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yest saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember |prix/iionorl nr Porcnnal Matoriail
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal MatGreat reputation within dot and the public.
Talk to you soon.
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:51 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Thanks Ivy! Happy Anniversary to you!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:05:16
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Awesome! 10 days to go_.
By the way, this time last year we were getting ready to celebrate your campaign victory!
YOU ARE AWESOME.
Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
By SEAN COCKERHAM
scockerhaTO@adn.com <mailto:scockerhamaadn.com>
Published: November 6, 2007
Last Modified: November 6, 2007 at 02:59 PM
JUNEAU - The stain of corrupt state legislators, reports of big oil company profits and a
tremendously popular governor are mixing into a potent political stew that's making it
more likely legislators will raise taxes on the oil industry.
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1P1ENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:59 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Thanks .
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov. sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Tue Nov 06 20:51:47 2007
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Also, who's Barbara and Mike Curtis? Without any bios in front of me I can't remember who
most of these names are in the email links...
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:49:31
To: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Cc:"K Perry" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Board Spots
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Not sure what bds are being referred to here. Which bds match up with which people, and
what are their timelines for appts to be made? Can Kris work with you on some of these
while I'm gone- and also run by mike so there's no surprises. He can also work with russ
to make sure legislators know we're choosing folks from their districts to score pts with
them .
Sent from my BlackBerry"" device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:38:18
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor ,
Want to make sure I didn't miss a green-light email on the rest these open board spots
with recommendations below. I have made contact with Wes Keller & Dyson's office and Wes
in particular has some thoughts on the DV task force. Dan Jarrell also called
recommending Barbara or Mike Curtis for the open clergy spot on the Suicide Prevention
Coiincil which I have to research out more.
The spots below are;
North Pacific Research Board
Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery
Commission on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Suicide Prevention Council
Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee
Seismic Hazards Safety Commission
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:49 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Will do. Thanks.
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Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov . sarahoyahoo . com>
To: Bailey, Prank T (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9vmr@yahoo.cora>
Sent: Fri Nov 02 17:46:24 2007
Subject: Re; Board Spots
Ask fred dyson or wes keller for names on this. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular, One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaska,gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2 007 17:42:51
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor ,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval .
Thanks !
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
3
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To: ExternalEraailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh ves . . ■ ■ ■ Kerm mentioned him as well. . .and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the
iPrivilegedl board that we have not been able to fill.
Privileged c
Kerra feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues .
Original Message
Prom: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarahiSyahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4 : 14 PM
To: Bailey, Prank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry'® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kria.perry®alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Here is the rundown on these Boards:
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Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Phew... this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let me know any questions or concerns
you may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots, Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Commission.
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Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FrBAILEY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:51 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Eddie's 1st Day
Got a note from him asking if any way you could call in tomorrow. Told him tomorrow would
be difficult to keep the expectation low.
He has Coghill on at 430 talking Supreme Ct but said he'd love to have u on whenever you
could.
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:07 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Legislative contact
Give Tom and dick a head's up- don't know if annette or tibbles will be warning them.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:04:40
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Subject: RE: Legislative contact
Ugh, this is so unbelievable. Not a problem though since the answers are easy to provide
and DNR has them. We're meeting tomorrow at 2pm for another update meeting on where we're
at . Thanks for giving me a heads up .
Original Message
From: "gov.sarah@yahoo.com" <gov.sarah(Syahoo.com>
To: "Annette Kreitzer" <annette.kreitzer®alaska.gov>; "Mike Tibbies"
<mike . tibbles@alaska . gov>
Sent: H/6/2007 6:18 PM
STobject: Re: Legislative contact
DNR is most appropriate to answers these questions, I agree. Has Tom or Dick been cc'd on
this? If not, please make sure they're in the loop and not blindsided by Lyda's efforts.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA) " <annette.kreitzer®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:01:27
To: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, gov.sarah®yahoo.cora
1
PRA GSP01 0007571
Subject: FW: Legislative contact
FYI. I mentioned that Vern was responding to questions when I spoke to Governor Palin
today .
ak
!
From: Jones, Vern (DOA)
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Brooks, Kevin A (DOA); Beecher, Carol L (DOA); Frye, Ivy J (DOA); Petro, Rachael A
(DOA)
Subject; Legislative contact
Notification of Legislative or Press Contact
1. Name of Representative/Senator/Reporter & Publication: Ginger Blaisdell, Senator
Green' s office
2. Date of Contact: November 6, 2007
3. Subject: Mat Maid Disposal
4. Nature of Issue or Contact: Ginger had several questions regarding the Mat Maid
disposal; whether it was exempt from our normal disposal procedures, the propriety of the
appeal process, potential conflicts of interest, confusion on scoring criteria, and the
board's ability to reject bidders. She also mentioned that Legislative Audit is looking
into the matter.
5. Agency Action or Response: This disposal is exempt from the Procurement Code per AS
03.10.050(g). I stated that part of the confusion on scoring criteria is probably a
result of the form of the disposal; they're calling it an RFP and asking for proposals,
but it appears to be a bid. There are no evaluation criteria because they will be
awarding to the highest bidder who meets their minimum bid - so the only criteria is the
bid price. Ginger stated that one board member, who is also a farmer, is likely to be a
PRA GSP01 0007572
bidder. Since the board will be evaluating bids, he may be in a position to evaluate his
own bid, or to obtain information not available to other bidders. She also mentioned that
one of the potential bidders is the father-in-law of the Ag Director. I directed her to
DNE for a response to these questions, since I don't know if they have a process in place
to avoid conflicts of interest. She inquired about the appeal process (she stated that
the RFP directs bidders to address appeals to the board, not the DNR Commissioner, which
she felt would be more appropriate) . She also questioned an amendment to the RFP that
gives the board the right to reject any proposal, without listing any criteria for
rejection. I have not been involved in this project since it is exempt from our
oversight, so I directed her to DNR for a response to these questions as well. I have
left messages with DNR Lead Procurement Specialist Marlys Hagen and Administrative
Services Director Nico Bus to inform them of the inquiry.
Your Name: Vern Jones
Your Phone: 465-5684
8. Division/Department: Division of General Services, Department of Administration
PRA GSP01 0007573
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:20 PM
To: Kreitzer; Annette E (DOA); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Legislative contact
DNR is most appropriate to answers these questions, I agree. Has Tom or Dick been cc'd on
this? If not, please make sure they're in the loop and not blindsided by Lyda's efforts.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)" <annette.kr.eitzer®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:01:27
To:"Tibbles, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>, gov. sarah®yahoo.com
Stibject: FW: Legislative contact
FYI. I mentioned that Vern was responding to questions when I spoke to Governor Palin
today.
ak
From: Jones, Vern (DOA)
Sent; Tuesday, November 05, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Brooks, Kevin A (DOA); Beecher, Carol L (DOA); Frye, Ivy J (DOA); Petro, Rachael A
(DOA)
Subject: Legislative contact
Notification of Legislative or Press Contact
1. Name of Representative/Senator/Reporter & Publication: Ginger Blaisdell, Senator
Green' s office
PRA GSP01 0007574
2. Date of Contact: November 6, 2O07
3. Subject: Mat Maid Disposal
4. Nature of Issue or Contact: Ginger had several questions regarding the Mat Maid
disposal; whether it was exempt from our normal disposal procedures, the propriety of the
appeal process, potential conflicts of interest, confusion on scoring criteria, and the
board's ability to reject bidders. She also mentioned that Legislative Audit is looking
into the matter.
5. Agency Action or Response: This disposal is exempt from the Procurement Code per AS
03.10.050(g). I stated that part of the confusion on scoring criteria is probably a
result of the form of the disposal; they're calling it an RFP and asking for proposals,
but it appears to be a bid. There are no evaluation criteria because they will be
awarding to the highest bidder who meets their minimum bid - so the only criteria is the
bid price. Ginger stated that one board member, who is also a farmer, is likely to be a
bidder. Since the board will be evaluating bids, he may be in a position to evaluate his
own bid, or to obtain information not available to other bidders. She also mentioned that
one of the potential bidders is the father-in-law of the Ag Director. 1 directed her to
DNR for a response to these questions, since I don't know if they have a process in place
to avoid conflicts of interest. She inquired about the appeal process (she stated that
the RFP directs bidders to address appeals to the board, not the DNR Commissioner, which
she felt would be more appropriate) . She also questioned an amendment to the RFP that
gives the board the right to reject any proposal, without listing any criteria for
rejection. I have not been involved in this project since it is exempt from our
oversight, so I directed her to DNR for a response to these questions as well. I have
left messages with DNR Lead Procurement Specialist Marlys Hagen and Administrative
Services Director Nico Bus to inform them of the inquiry.
Your Name: Vern Jones
7. Your Phone: 465-5634
8. Division/Department: Division of General Services, Department of Administration
PRA GSP01 0007575
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:18 PM
To: Kreitzer; Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: APOC Ongoing Investigations
Thank you Annette. I just heard this on the news, also. Sounds like apoc is making it work
within DOJ's confines. I support their efforts.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)" <ann.ette.kreitzer®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:07:32
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Subject: FW: APOC Ongoing Investigations
tSovemor :
You had asked about the status of ongoing APOG investigations as a result of the DOJ
letter the State received asking the Department of Law to not interfere in any DOJ
investigation currently ongoing. In light of that, I asked Brooke Miles to let me know
what the APOC has decided to do as they received similar advice from the DOJ. Apparently,
the staff at APOC is having a difficult time reaching Mr. Welch the DOJ represeiitative who
signed the letter asking APOC to not interfere with ongoing federal investigations, and so
APOC is seeking a local contact. Here is Brooke's Nov. 2 email to me, followed by the
most recent communication. Let me know if you have any questions.
ak
Annette,
i ...(personal communication to AK)_.
Here is the latest on the APOC investigation. After our budget hearing on Wednesday last
week, the Commission voted to direct APOC staff to continue its ongoing investigations
into illegal campaign contributions arising from polls, re-payment of campaign
contributions by VECO executives, etc. as well as potential violations of the lobbying law
or the financial dislcosure laws. On Thursday, Jeff Berliner and I talked with William
Welsh and he followed up with the attached letter. I am currently in the process of
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rounding up a quorum of APOC members to determine what course of action they want staff to
follow at this point. I will be sure to keep you informed so that when you asked about
this situation, you know the most recent news.
Brooke
From; Miles, Brooke (DOA)
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Petro, Rachael A (DOA); Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: APOC Ongoing Investigations
Annette,
I want to let you know that the Commission approved staff's suggestion that we look into
establishing a liaison relationship with someone here in Anchorage who is with the
Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section assigned to work on the ongoing federal
investigations in Alaska. They approved that idea, and stand by their direction that APOC
staff continue its investigation into violations of the state's campaign disclosure,
financial disclosure, and lobbying laws. Please let me know if you have questions or
concerns . Thanks .
Brooke Miles
PRA GSP01 0007577
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Perry, Kristira Y (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=KYPERRY]
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:31 AM
Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
RE: Road Replacement
Thanks. That would be great!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:16 AM
To: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Sent: Tue Nov 06 10:08:53 2007
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you. I really like him. He's a great roads
guy.
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Tue Nov 06 09:14:07 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
Privileged or Personal IWateriai Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007578
He sent me his resume.
I like the feeling I got from him. Seems like a level headed easy man to work with. I
think it is 50/50 he would be interested enough to take the job. I will let you know in a
week. LEO
Original Message
i From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:15 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
i Sent: Mon Nov 05 09:14:06 2007
I
] Subject: RE: Road Replacement
As discussed, I will track Privileg|down and ask his status. LEO
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks 1
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Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged C went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember privileaed^ Personal Material F
Privileged or Personal M Great reputation within dot and the public.
Talk to you soon.
PRA GSP01 0007580
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Von Scheben, Leo (DOT) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LVON_SCHEBEN]
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:14 AM
Palln; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
RE: Road Replacement
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
He sent me his resume.
I like the feeling I got from him. Seems like a level headed easy man to work with. I
think it is 50/50 he would be interested enough to take the job. I will let you know in a
week. LEO
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:15 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 09:14:06 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
As discussed, I will track Privile( down and ask his status. LEO
PRA GSP01 0007581
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Sub j ect : Road Replacement
Hi Leo:
Hope your interview wirh
Privileged C went well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have an idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it: remember [prlvjltariftri or Perso nal Matftrial RI
Privileged or Personal IVlaterial Redacted
Privileged or Persona l Mj Great reputation within DOT and the public.
Talk to you soon.
PRA GSP01 0007582
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Von Scheben, Leo (DOT) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LVON_SCHEBEN]
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:14 AM
Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
RE: Road Replacement
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
He sent me his resume.
I like the feeling I got from him. Seems like a level headed easy man to work with. I
think it is 50/50 he would be interested enough to take the job. I will let you know in a
week. LEO
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:15 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Subject: Re: Road Replacement
Thank you
Original Message
From: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
To: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Mon Nov 05 09:14:06 2007
Subject: RE: Road Replacement
As discussed, I will track
Prlvllec down and ask his status. LEO
PRA GSP01 0007583
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 7:35 AM
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Road Replacement
Leo- when you get this message pis give me a call so we can discuss MacKinnon's
replacement asap. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored)
To: Von Scheben, Leo (DOT)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 03 06:52:11 2007
Subject: Road Replacement
Hi- Leo:
Hope your interview wirh Privileged 'I'ent well. I like her. She'd be good.
I have ah idea on MacKinnon's replacement. (I got an email yes t saying he's resigning.)
Confidentially for now until we get to talk about it : remember Ipriwilpnpri nr Pprsnnal Material
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal M^ Great reputation within DOT and the public.
Talk to you soon.
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=1JFRYE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:05 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Awesome! 10 days to go...
By the way, this time last year we were getting ready to celebrate your campaign victory! YOU
ARE AWESOME.
Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Bv SEAN COCKERHAM
scockeiham(3i.adn.coin
Published: November 6, 2007
Last Modified: November 6, 2007 at 02:59 PM
JUNEAU - The stain of corrupt state legislators, reports of big oil company profits and a tremendously
popular governor are mixing into a potent political stew that's making it more likely legislators will
raise taxes on the oil industry.
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:56 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: Thanks from JNU Chamber
"The Juneau Chamber of Commerce would like to extendi
a special thank you to Governor Sarah Palin, husband
Todd Palin and daughter Piper for attending our 2007
Annual Dinner."
8/24/2009
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Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=JLMAS0N]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:51 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Telephone Call
Governor - 1 just received a call from a William Schw^einitz with Skyline Church in Anchorage. They have a
prayer group that is praying for you. Apparently you were just speaking with Mayor Joe Williams (KTN) and the
Mayor was telling you about this group and that they would like to pray over you @ the office. In talking with Mr.
Schweinitz he was under the understanding that you had agreed to do this and would like to set this up therefore
the phone call. I told Mr. Schweinitz that I would le t you know oifth e call and that either you or I would be back in
touch with him. Mr. Schweinitz can be reached @: |PrivilaaedlMl (c6'0-
Thanks, Janice
8/24/2009
PRA GSP01 0007587
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:38 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
Want to make sure I didn't miss a green-light email on the rest these open board spots
with recoimnendations below. I have made contact with Wes Keller & Dyson's office and Wes
in particular has some thoughts on the DV task force. Dan Jarrell also called
recommending Barbara or Mike Curtis for the open clergy spot on the Suicide Prevention
Council which I have to research out more.
The spots below are:
North Pacific Research Board
Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery
Commission on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Suicide Prevention Council
Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee
Seismic Hazards Safety Commission
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:49 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Will do. Thanks.
Original Message
J From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
:| To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
j Cc: Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
j Sent: Fri Nov 02 17:46:24 2007
Subject: Re: Board Spots
PRA GSP01 0007588
Tisk fred dyson or wes keller for names on this. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:42:51
To : gov . sarahS yahoo . com
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval.
Thanks !
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh yes. . . . .Kerm mentioned him as well... and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the |Privileged or
|Privileaed1 ?3oard that we have not been able to fill.
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues.
PRA GSP01 0007589
Original Message
From: gov.sarahSyahoo.com [niailto: gov. sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.p6rry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Here is the rundown on these Boards:
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007590
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007591
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Phew... this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry,
you may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Let me know any questions or concerns
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots. Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer/Tattoo artist, Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Connnission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
PRA GSP01 0007592
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:38 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
Want to make sure I didn't miss a green-light email on the rest these open board spots
with recommendations below. I have made contact with Wes Keller & Dyson's office and Wes
in particular has some thoughts on the DV task force. Dan Jarrell also called
recommending Barbara or Mike Curtis for the open clergy spot on the Suicide Prevention
Council which I have to research out more.
The spots below are:
North Pacific Research Board
Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery
Commission on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault
Suicide Prevention Council
Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee
Seismic Hazards Safety Commission
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:49 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Will do. Thanks.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri Nov 02 17:46:24 2007
Subject: Re: Board Spots
1
PRA GSP01 0007593
I
Ask fred dyson or wes keller for names on this. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:42:51
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Siobject: RE: Board Spots
Governor,
On our discussion yesterday I spoke with Dorothy Larson of DLG. It just isn't going to
work out for her to catch the next DV Task Force meetings so I'm back to the well talking
with Paulette Schuerch, Tara, and others about candidates.
The rest below are still good for your approval.
Thanks !
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:16 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp
Subject: RE: Board Spots
Oh yes Kerm mentioned him as well... and he MIGHT be a good candidate for the
Privileged cj^o='^cl that we have not been able to fill.
Privileged o
Kerm feels that a Chuck Heath should be your official unpaid advisor for all statewide
game issues.
PRA GSP01 0007594
Original Message
From: gov.sarahiyahoo. com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.coniJ
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Board Spots
Before I forget- my former employee Don Moore (also former mat su boro manager) will serve
for us. He's so smart- he'd be perfect at anything tough.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:01:37
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, BCristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Board Spots
Governor,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Here is the rundown on these Boards:
Cora has put together the following and vetted the following two boards:
Privileged or Personal IVIaterial Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007595
Privileged or Personal l\/lateriai Redacted
PRA GSP01 0007596
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Phew... this hits you with a big list. I'm sorry. Let me know any questions or concerns
you may have. This will cover 20 more slots.
Next on the plate will be NPFMC, Denali Commission Rural Transportation slots, Supreme
Court, Humanities Forum, Alcoholic Beverage Board, Public Broadcasting, a Body
Piercer /Tattoo artist, Alberta-Alaska Bilateral Commission.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
PRA GSP01 0007597
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Unknown
From: Schmidt, Joseph D (DOC) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JDSCHMIDT]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:49 AM
To: 'Chris stewarf
Cc: Palin; Sarah H (GOV); Schmitz; Richard F (DOC); Edwards; Samuel E (DOC); Peepies; Dwayne B
(DOC)
Subject: RE: Arizona
Mr. Steward,
Thanl<s for the heads up. On one hand, we are glad that a Native culture banquet can take place so far away, but
we certainly don't expect family members to be held beyond the time they wish to leave. Our Deputy
Commissioner was present at the banquet and was moving in and out during the time you mentioned. I'll cc this e
mail to Richard Schmitz, our liaison and communications person so he can look into this. If you have exact times
and possibly others who were also part of this situation Richard would appreciate it Some limitation of free
movement out of a secure facility is to be expected, but we should know nvore about this.
Thank you
Joe
From: chris Stewart [mailto:chrlswls@acsalaska.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:01 AM
To: Schmidt, Joseph D (DOC)
Cc: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: arizona
Dear Commissioner Schmidt,
On October 19, 2007 1 flew 2 of my grandchildren down to Eloy to see their father and attend the Native culture
banquetFirst of all I would like to thank you very much for letting the inmates have the banquets. It means so
much to the families to have that special time together.
The main reason I am writing is that the banquet ended at 3:30 but instead of letting everyone leave the facility we
were all taken into the visiting room and were told that we could not leave until count cleared. There were
approximately 25 of us. It was 5:15 before we were allowed to leave the facility.
What 1 would like to know is, since we have nothing to do with the facility or the outcome of the prisoner
count why were we detained for so long and who authorized our detention? To me this was very wrong and
maybe even illegal. I would very much appreciate it if you would get back witfi me on this. Being detained like that
wasvery upsetting to quite a few of us. Thank you so much for your time. God Bless. Chris Stewart
chriswls(a>acsalaska. net
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007598
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/OS0A/0U=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:05 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Perry; Kristina Y (GON^
Subject: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Awesome! 10 days to go...
By the way, this time last year we were getting ready to celebrate your campaign victory! YOU
AREAWESOI^E.
Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Bv SEAN COCKERHAM
scockerhani@.adn.com
Published: November 6, 2007
Last Modified: November 6, 2007 at 02:59 PM
JUNEAU - The stain of corrupt state legislators, reports of big oil company profits and a tremendously
popular governor are mixing into a potent political stew that's making it more likely legislators will
raise taxes on the oil industry.
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007599
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Unknown
From: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FiRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=AEKREITZER]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:08 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: APOC Ongoing Investigations
Governor:
You had asked about the status of ongoing APOC investigations as a result of the DOJ letter
the State received asking the Department of Law to not interfere in any DOJ investigation
cun-entiy ongoing. In light of that, I asked Brooke Miles to let me know what the APOC has
decided to do as they received similar advice from the DOJ. Apparently, the staff at APOC is
having a difficult time reaching Mr. Welch the DOJ representative who signed the letter asking
APOC to not interfere with ongoing federal investigations, and so APOC is seeking a local
contact. Here is Brooke's Nov. 2 email to me, followed by the most recent communication. Let
me know if you have any questions,
ak
Annette,
...(personal communication to AK)...
Here is the latest on the APOC investigation. After our budget hearing on Wednesday last week, the Commission
voted to direct APOC staff to continue its ongoing investigations into illegal campaign contributions arising from
polls, re-payment of campaign contributions by VECO executives, etc. as well as potential violations of the
lobbying law or the financial dislcosure laws. On Thursday, Jeff Beriiner and 1 talked with William Welsh and he
followed up with the attached letter. I am currently in the process of rounding up a quorum of APOC members to
detennine what course of action they want staff to follow at this point I will be sure to keep you Informed so that
when you asked about this situation, you know the most recent news.
Brooke
From: Miles, Brooke (DOA)
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Petro, Rachael A (DOA); Frye, Ivy 3 (DOA)
Subject: APOC Ongoing Investigations
Annette,
I want to let you know that the Commission approved staffs suggestion that we look into establishing a liaison
relationship with someone here In Anchorage who is with the Department of Justice, Public Integrity Section
assigned to wori< on the ongoing federal investigations in Alaska. They approved that idea, and stand by their
direction that APOC staff continue its investigation into violations of the state's campaign disclosure, financial
disclosure, and lobbying laws. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. Thanks.
Brooke Miles
8/28/2009
PRA GSP01 0007600
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1 1 :06 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Calgary request
Governor,
I apologize that I cannot make the trip to Calgary as you requested. We regretted the event
two weeks ago as I was asked to commit to a leadership program run by the Aspen Institute.
I'll be in Colorado during the time of the Calgary conference.
The Calgary conference would be one for Tom, Marty, Kevin Banks, Kurt Gibson, or perhaps
Bruce Anders. These conference organizers like to see someone with a title so Tom or Marty
would be ideal, but the others could wori< too.
Sean
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007601
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Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KYPERRY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1 1 .08 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Cc: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Backbone
In follow-up to the scheduling request I spoke with David Gottstein this morning. As you know he Is very
supportive of your efforts on ACES. It doesn't sound as though a meeting is necessary with either him or
Governor Hickel. David is flying to Juneau later this week to meet w/legislators and also said that his Dad and
Lany are taking out ads - 1 believe they'll begin running tomorrow - in support.
At some point, perhaps in December, he'd like to meet with us to further discuss an Israel trip.
Kris
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007602
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Unknown
From: Schmidt Joseph D (DOC) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JDSCHMiDT]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:49 AM
To: 'chris Stewart'
Cc: Palln; Sarah H (GOV); Schmltz; Richard F (DOC); Edwards; Samuel E (DOC); Peeples; Dwayne B
(DOC)
Subject: RE: Arizona
Mr. Steward,
Thanks for the heads up. On one hand, we are glad that a Native culture banquet can take place so far away, but
we certainly don't expect family members to be held beyond the time they wish to leave. Our Deputy
Commissioner was present at the banquet and was moving in and out during the time you mentioned. I'll cc this e
mail to Richard Schmltz, our liaison and communications person so he can look into this. If you have exact times
and possibly others who were also part of this situation Richard would appreciate it. Some limitation of free
movement out of a secure facility is to be expected, but we should know more about this.
Thank you
Joe
From: chris Stewart [mailto:chriswls@acsalaska.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:01 AM
To: Schmidt, Joseph D (DOC)
Cc: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Object: arizona
Dear Commissioner Schmidt,
On October 1 9, 2007 1 flew 2 of my grandchildren down to Eloy to see their father and attend the Native culture
banquet.First of all I would like to thank you very much for letting the inmates have the banquets. It means so
much to the families to have that special time together.
The main reason I am writing is that the banquet ended at 3:30 but instead of letting everyone leave the facility we
were all faken into the visiting room and were told that we could not leave until count cleared, there were
approximately 25 of us. It was 5:15 before we were allowed to leave the facility.
What I would like to know is, since we have nothing to do with the facility or the outcome of the prisoner
count why were we detained for so long and who authorized our detention? To me this was very wrong and
maybe even illegal. I would very much appreciate it if you would get back wjth me on this. Being detained like that
was very upsetting to quite a few of us. Thank you so much for your time. God Bless. Chris Stewart
chriswls®.acsalaska.net
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007603
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=AEKREITZER]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:01 PM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: FW: Legislative contact
FYI. I mentioned that Vern was responding to questions wiien I spolce to Governor Palin today.
al<
From: Jones, Vern (DOA)
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:00 Pl^
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Brooks, Kevin A (DOA); Beecher, Carol L (DOA); Frye, Ivy J (DOA); Petro, Rachael A (DOA)
Subject: Legislative contact
Notification of Legislative or Press Contact
1 . Name of Representative/Senator/Reporter & Publication: Ginger Blaisdell, Senator Green's office
2. Date of Contact: November 6, 2007
3. Subject: Mat Maid DIsposai
4. Nature of Issue or Contact: Ginger iiad several questions regarding the Mat Maid disposal; wheflier it was
exempt from our normal disposal procedures, the propriety of the appeal process,
potential conflicts of Interest, confusion on scoring criteria, and the board's ability
to reject bidders. She also mentioned that Legislative Audit is looking into the
matter.
5. Agency Action or Response: This disposal is exempt from the Procurement Code per AS 03.10.050(g). i stated
that part of the confusion on scoring criteria is probably a result of the form of the
disposal; they're calling it an RFP and asidng for proposals, but it appears to be a
bid. There are no evaluafion criteria because they will be awarding to the highest
bidder who meets their minimum bid - so the only criteria is the bid price. Ginger
stated that one board member, who is also a farmer, is likely to be a bidder. Since
the board will be evaluating bids, he may be in a position to evaluate his own bid, or
to obtain infomiation not available to other bidders. She also mentioned that one of
the potential bidders is the fother-in-law of the Ag Director. I directed her to DNR
for a response to these questions, since I don't know if they have a process in
place to avoid conflicts of interest She inquired about the appeal process (she
stated that the RFP directs bidders to address appeals to the board, not the DNR
Commissioner, which she felt would be more appropriate). She also questioned an
amendment to the RFP that gives the board the right to reject any proposal,
without listing any criteria for rejection. I have not been invohred in this project
since it is exempt from our overeight, so I directed her to DNR for a response to
these questions as weiL I have left messages with DNR Lead Procurement
Specialist Marlys Hagen and Administrative Services Director Nico Bus to inform
them of the inquiry.
6. Your Name: Vern Jones
7. Your Phone: 465-5684
8. Division/Department: Division of General Services, Department of Administration
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 0:24 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: ceonews - November 2007
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To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: ceonews - November 2007
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:48 AM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: The Family: America's Smallest School
From: Educational Testing Service [mailto:outreach@ets.org]
Sent; Wednesday, November 07, 2007 S:13 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palln (GOV sponsored)
Subject: The Family: America's Smallest School
Dear Colleague:
Research and common sense confirm hov\/ Important family and home life are to a child's
education. Family and home are where children begin learning and where they develop
lifelong learning habits. Thaf s vi*y a new ETS Policy Information Center report, 77je Family:
America's Smallsst School, should send alarm bells pealing in every legislative body in the
country.
According to the report, families are under stress in ways that undermine children's ability to
learn, their readiness for school, and even the likelihood that they will catch up to peers who
have passed them by as early as pnmary school.
As the report shows, with regard to educational support available in the home, we remain a
nation of haves and have-nots. Too many children live in poverty; too many families suffer
food insecurity; too many homes lack educational resources essential for a child's academic
development; and too many working parents must settle for inadequate child care. Perhaps
most unsettling of all for a nation committed to equality of opportunity, race and income
continue to underlie disparities in academic achievement, witti devastating long-tenn impact
on tile health of our society and the competitiveness of our national economy.
Certainly, what goes on In the classroom matters. And many important, substantive measures
have been undertaken in recent years to improve the teaching and learning that take place In
our public schools. But as The Family: America's Smallest School makes clear, femily and
home undeniably affect children's cognitive development and, ultimately, ttieir academic
achievement
ETS is especially grateful to the National Urban League for Its support in disseminating the
Important messages In this report and to League President and CEO Marc H. Moriai, who
wrote the preface to the report. As President Moriai notes, for our nation to reach the
ambitious educational goals we have set for ourselves, "we must keep dear in our minds that
our family is our first and smallest school."
I urge you to read The Family: America's Smallest School. To download a copy, please visit
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President and CEO
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:39 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: FW:
From: Ken Peltier [mailto:kpelt(er@aoeett.org]
Sent: Wednesday, Novemijer 07, 2007 9:50 Al^
To; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject:
Hello Governor)
I wanted to tell you thank you for taking time to visit our Pipeline Training in Fairbanks, i had to leave
shortly after I saw you at the meet and greet just before the bus tour, but I understand you were there for
quite some time.
Also, I will be hanging your Executive Proclamation in my office, sighting November as Apprenticeship
Awareness Month.
Commissioner Bishop presented that to four crafts at the graduation ceremony and i ended up with it
and we are very proud of it.
Thank you for all your support.
Kenny Peltier
Operating Engineers Local 302
Apprenticeship and Training Administrator
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007610
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i
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:50 AM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: don young and you
Oh dear Lord . That ' s funny !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) " <sr.parnell®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:49:31
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Subject: FW: don young and. you
Thought you'd want to see this picture of you with your bff (best friend forever) .... He
put it on a recent mailer.
PRA GSP01 0007611
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:57 AM
Wilken; Jessica M (GOV)
Yocom; Lauren J (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV); Cayce; Sunny C (GOV)
FW: Response to Oil Company Call for Industry Members To Send "Letters" to legislators
From: Rep. Les Gara [inailto:Representative_Les_Gara®legis. state. ak. us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:17 PM
To: Galvin, Patrick S (DOR) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: FW: Response to Oil Company Call for Industry Members To Send "Letters" to
legislators
FYI
Looking forward to working together to get a good bill passed - Les
From: Rep. Les Gara
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 3:59 PM
To: 'info@alaskaalliance.com'
Subject: Response to Oil Company Call for industry Members To Send "Letters" to
legislators
PRA GSP01 0007612
Is it possible
Attachments :
Oil Company Profits 10.22 .07 .doc (2545 Bytes)
PRA GSP01 0007613
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:53 AM
vkiwbstr@aol.com
RE: Oil&Gas
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:42 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Oil&Gas
Web mail from: Ms. Victoria Webster
address: 469 N. Pine Island Rd. #B203 Plantation FL 33324
954-475-9677
MESSAGE :
I was reading about you in Fortiine magazine, and just wanted to give you an "atta girl".
Obviously, you are putting the people of Alaska above big business, a rarity in politics.
Yay, you! nil!
Victoria Webster
vkiwbstr®aol . com
PRA GSP01 0007614
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From: Smith, Lynne M (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LMSMITH1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:39 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Letter to principals
Good morning Governor,
Here is the letter to the principals. By the time it got through proofing, you had
already left. We were going to have you sign it, but rather than wait until next
week, I will just have the machine sign it, if that is all right with you.
Lynne
Text of Letter to Principals.
Dear
A recently publicized study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University falsely
labeled seven Alaska high schools, including yours, as "dropout factories."
I want you to know that neither I nor anyone in my administration believe this
inflammatory label is accurate or fair. I know that you and your staff work hard to
educate every student and to offer extra attention for any student who is at risk of
dropping out.
Anything that harms the pubic confidence in our schools only makes educators' jobs
more difficult. Therefore, we cannot allow erroneous opinions to dampen our spirits
or sabotage our collaborative efforts to meet the needs of our students. Ultimately,
the dropout problem will be alleviated by parents, community members, and educators
working together.
After examining the study, we know that it does not assess either graduation rates or
dropout rates. Those rates are not hidden. They are publicly available in school
district and state report cards to the public.
Rather than using the most relevant data, the study compares the number of seniors
with the number of freshmen from four years before. The study does not distinguish
between students who drop out and students who transfer to another school or who move
out of Alaska.
We all recognize that, like every other state in the nation, Alaska does have a
serious dropout problem. I know that Alaskans are working at the community, school
district, and state levels to address this problem. I regret that your good work has
been denigrated with false labels.
As your governor, I want you to know that my administration and I stand shoulder-to-
shoulder with you in your committed efforts to educate the youth of Alaska as you
prepare them to be successful, productive adults.
Sincerely,
Sarah Palin
Governor
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007615
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:42 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Todd
\ Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Frar\k Bailey
I Subject: Re: Harris
Nope- bow's correct!
i
i _
Sent from my BlackBerry"' device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.goy>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:59:50
To: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye®alaska.gov>, ExternalEmailgsp <gov . sarah@yahoo . com> , Todd
<f ek9wnr@yahoo . com>
Cc:"Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>, Frank Bailey <ftb907®yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Harris
I think I meant bough? I'm from a place w/ no boats and no water. You
get what I mean though : )
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:54 AM
To: ExternalEmailgsp; Todd
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Frank Bailey
Subject: RE: Harris
It was a shot over the bow. Some folks in Palmer are responding via
letter, but wanted to give you a heads up as you head into the home
stretch.
More important, happy 1 year everybody!
PRA GSP01 0007616
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto : gov . sarahSyahoo . com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:35 AM
i To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) ; Todd
i
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; Frank Bailey
Subject: Re: Harris
Ugh- you're right. Harris has been sort of pouty the last couple of
days.
You're right on about the conflict issue.
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:14:46
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Subject: Harris
Did you hear John harris on the news??? There shouldn't be a conflict w
chenault running the fin committee b/c there ' s not a conflict having
todd on the slope. HUGE difference! Todd isn't a lavraiakerl He's not
considering or voting on any legislation that will effect our entire
state.
PRA GSP01 0007617
Unknown
From:
Sent;
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:35 AM
Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Todd
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Frank Bailey
Re: Han'is
Ugh- you're right. Harris has been sort of pouty the last couple of days.
You're right on about the conflict issue.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" < ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:14:46
To : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Subject: Harris
Did you hear John harris on the news??? There shouldn't be a conflict w chenault running
the fin committee b/c there's not a conflict having todd on the slope. HUGE difference!
Todd isn't a lawmaker! He's not considering or voting on any legislation that will effect
our entire state .
PRA GSP01 0007618
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:38 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR);
Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: Harris
Ivy's right on w/her observation here. Can't believe Harris pulled that.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.goy>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:14:46
To : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Subj ect : Harris
Did you hear John harris on the news??? There shouldn't be a conflict w chenault running
the fin committee b/c there's not a conflict having todd on the slope. HUGE difference!
Todd isn't a lawmaker! He's not considering or voting on any legislation that will effect
our entire state.
PRA GSP01 0007619
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:03 AM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR) .
Subject: Fw: Legislative contact
Hopefully Mike let you know of these developments w/lyda and MatMaid.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 03:20:05
To: "Annette Kreitzer" <annette.kreitzer@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike . tibbles@alaska . gov>
Subject: Re: Legislative contact
DNR is most appropriate to answers these questions, I agree. Has Tom or Dick been cc'd on
this? If not, please make sure they're in the loop and not blindsided by Lyda's efforts.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA) " <annette.kreitzer®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:01:27
To: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: FW: Legislative contact
FYI. I mentioned that Vern was responding to questions when I spoke to Governor Palin
today .
ak
PRA GSP01 0007620
From: Jones, Vern (DOA)
Sent; Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)
Cc: Brooks, Kevin A (DOA); Beecher, Carol L (DOA); Frye, Ivy J (DOA); Petro, Rachael A
(DOA)
Siobject: Legislative contact
Notification of Legislative or Press Contact
1. Name of Representative/Senator/Reporter & Publication: Ginger Blaisdell, Senator
Green' s office
2. Date of Contact: November 6, 2007
3. Subject: Mat Maid Disposal
4. Nature of Issue or Contact: Ginger had several questions regarding the Mat Maid
disposal; whether it was exempt from our normal disposal procedures, the propriety of the
appeal process, potential conflicts of interest, confusion on scoring criteria, and the
board's ability to reject bidders. She also mentioned that Legislative Audit is loolcing
into the matter.
5 . Agency Action or Response : This disposal is exempt from the Procurement Code per AS
03.10.050(g). I stated that part of the confusion on scoring criteria is probably a
result of the form of the disposal; they're calling it an RFP and asking for proposals,
but it appears to be a bid. There are no evaluation criteria because they will be
awarding to the highest bidder who meets their minimum bid - so the only criteria is the
bid price. Ginger stated that one board member, who is also a farmer, is likely to be a
bidder. Since the board will be evaluating bids, he may be in a position to evaluate his
own bid, or to obtain information not available to other bidders. She also mentioned that
one of the potential bidders is the father-in-law of the Ag Director. I directed her to
DNR for a response to these questions, since I don't know if they have a process in place
to avoid conflicts of interest. She inquired cOoout the appeal process (she stated that
the RFP directs bidders to address appeals to the board, not the DNR Commissioner, which
she felt would be more appropriate) . She also questioned an amendment to the RFP that
gives the board the right to reject any proposal, without listing any criteria for
rejection. I have not been involved in this project since it is exempt from our
oversight, so I directed her to DNR for a response to these questions as well. I have
left messages with DNR Lead Procurement Specialist Marlys Hagen and Administrative
Services Director Nico Bus to inform them of the inquiry.
6 . Your Name : Vern Jones
PRA GSP01 0007621
7. Your Phone: 465-5684
8. Division/Department: Division of General Services, Department of Administration
PRA GSP01 0007622
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP!ENTS/CN=IJFRYE1
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6: 1 5 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Harris
Did you hear John harris on the news??? There shouldn't be a conflict w chenault running
the fin conmittee b/c there's not a conflict having todd on the slope. HUGE difference!
Todd isn't a lawmaker! He's not considering or voting on any legislation that will effect
our entire state.
PRA GSP01 0007623
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)[/0=SOA/OU=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:1 1 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
No, thank you! You're the reason we're all here. Thanks for leading our state!
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Tue Nov 05 23:50:58 2007
Siiibject: Re: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Thanks Ivy! Happy Anniversary to you!
Sent from my BlackBerry"' device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gqv>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:05:16
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
Awesome! 10 days to go..
By the way, this time last year we were getting ready to celebrate your campaign victory!
YOO ARE AWESOME.
Momentum shifts toward oil tax hike
By SEAN COCKERHAM
scockerham@adn. com <mailto : scockerhamSadn . com>
Piiblished: November 6, 2007
PRA GSP01 0007624
Last Modified: November 6, 2007 at 02:59 PM
JUNEAU - The stain of corrupt state legislators, reports of big oil company profits and a
tremendously popular governor are mixing into a potent political stew that's making it
more likely legislators will raise taxes on the oil industry.
PRA GSP01 0007625
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 0:32 AM
To: Grace Moore
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: Fairbanks open house
Thank you so much Grace! What a welcome and encouraging message 1 Thanks.
And I will pass on to our schedulers this invitation for the open house. I'll have either
Janice or Kris contact you with an answer re: whether I'm around that day or if I'm
scheduled to be out of town.
Good to hear from you!
Sarah Palin
Ps. Tell jack "hello".
Sent from my BlackBerry*' device from Cellular One
' Original Message
From: "Grace Moore" <grace®apt^k,com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 10:09:23
To : <gov . sarahSyahoo . coro>
Subject: FW: Fairbanks open house
Dear Governor Sarah Palin,
My name is Grace Moore and I attended Wasilla High School in 1998. I currently work at
Advanced Physical Therapy of Alaska in Anchorage as a Front Desk Supervisor. Also, Jack
Wade who was a wrestler at Wasilla High School is one of the Physical Therapists at our
Wasilla office. I know that you're extremely busy!!!, but Ms. Anne Krigbaura (my
significant others' mother) from Wasilla High School told me to tell you about the open
house in Wasilla for the Advanced Physical Therapy office.
I received an email from Valerie Phelps who is the owner of the practice and she told
everyone that you attended an open house in Fairbanks and so on.... I will send you a copy of
the email.
When I hear your name I feel like I ]cnow you, (I also attended Wasilla Assembly of God,
1
PRA GSP01 0007626
when I was younger) you're truly an inspiration!!
I would like to inform you about the open house in our Wasilla office on November 28th,
2007 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. Like I said I know that you are extremely busy but I would
like to extend the offer!
Our Wasilla office address is: 3051 East Palmer-Wasilla Highway, Wasilla, AK 99554.
Have a great day and I'm always watching you on the news and reading about you in the
paper. You're awesome!!!
Sincerely,
Grace Moore
Front Desk Supervisor
Advanced Physical Therapy
1917 Abbott Road Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99507
907-279-4265
From: Valerie Phelps
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:52 AM
To:_Anchorage
Subj ect : Fairbanks open house
Dear Colleagues and Coworkers!
I am sorry to have missed the communication education session, I will catch up with it, as
Fairbanks also missed it due to lack of communication. We will get better at this!
The open house in Fairbanks yesterday was awesome! Huge attendance! And of course the
governor recognized me right away and rushed over to shake my hand and ask wliat she could
do for us ( NOT J ) . But truly, it was an event that was well attended, and
apparently not just because Lance Mackey and Sarah were there, as they were gone by 4:15
and things really got rolling after that.
PRA GSP01 0007627
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PRA GSP01 0007628
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:08 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fw: Green Newsletter
Original Message
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV); Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent; Wed Nov 07 17:22:38 2007
Subject: RE: Green Newsletter
Hmmm. That's delicious!
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 5:18 PM
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Green Newsletter
Don't know if you receive this or need it, but I get it regularly.
From that 2nd paragraph she has toned down very much from her original words in the media
about no need to raise the rate. Now she's talking about where it would go.
PRA GSP01 0007629
I
I know you guys are putting in long hours down there. Great job.
Director, Boards and Commissions
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
907-269-7450
PRA GSP01 0007630
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo,com
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:06 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Fw: constitutional amendment
Eyi in case you want to add anything as the AP asks re: support for Dyson's effort.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:56:38
To: "Sharon Leighow" <sharon. leighow®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: constitutional amendment
I would support their efforts there, for those reasons we spelled out earlier: the will of
the people would be reflected in the constitutional amendment if it passed vs allowing
legislating from the bench on such an important issue. Parental consent is such a
reasonable thing - obviously it is because we require parental consent on nearly every
aspect of a child's life... it ' s a parent's right and responsibility to be involved in
their child's life.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:38:49
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: constitutional amendment
Gove r nor -
Steve Quinn would like to know if you would support a constitutional amendment regarding
the parental consent law. Cog hill and Dyson are calling for one. Of course it would
have to be placed on the ballot etc. Thoughts?
1
PRA GSP01 0007631
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
465-4031 Juneau
269-7450 Anchorage
240-7943 cell
PRA GSP01 0007632
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:05 PM
PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Re: AML
Thank you! That's the toughest part of the job- not being everywhere.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.parnell@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:42:50
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subj ect : AML
I covered the topics you suggested at AML plus some. Took a hit on you not bwing there
during Q and A. I had already expressed your regrets, etc., explained the sheer volume of
requests and explained that if you can't make it, I show, and where you can't make it we
attempt to set up a rotation so you make it next year. :)
I think you're up for 08
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007633
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:04 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Here's your 4pm reminder. 274-5279.
Original Message
Prom : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . cora;>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 07 14:37:44 2007
S-ubject; Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Great. And jPrivileoed or! sounds good for suicide prevention bd, so does iPrivi i eged or Pj - •■ And
ikm looking thru the other ones. Thanks 1
Sent from my BlackBerry'® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <f rank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:03:33
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) " <kris,perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: Eddie's 1st Day
Here is your reminder ... .a little early. I'll send one in a couple of hours as well to
make sure you get this.
KBYR's number is 274.5297 and just in case something went wrong, Eddie's cell is |Privilegec| -
He said just a quick note wishing him well would absolutely make his day.
Thanks !
PRA GSP01 0007634
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailtoigov. sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:00 PM
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Remind me to via email at around fourl
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 5, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: Eddie's 1st Day
Got a note from him asking if any way you could call in tomorrow. Told him tomorrow would
be difficult to keep the expectation low.
He has Coghill on at 430 talking Supreme Ct but said he'd love to have u on whenever you
could.
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007635
Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:43 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: AML
I covered the topics you suggested at AML plus some . Took a hit on you not bwing there
during Q and A. I had already expressed your regrets, etc., explained the sheer volume of
requests and explained that if you can't make it, I show, and where you can't make it we
attempt to set up a rotation so you make it next year. :)
I think you're up for 08
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007636
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:43 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Thank you SO much.
Kris and I started looking at others and she brought up a good question that I'm following
up on now.
Original Message
From: gov. sarah@yahoo.cora <gov. sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 07 14:37:44 2007
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Great. And IPriviJeaed or f^ sounds good for suicide prevention bd, so does Privileged Of Pe. . . And
ikm looking thru the other ones . Thanks !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" «frank.bailey®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:03:33
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Cc: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris .perry®alaska.gov>
S\abject: RE: Eddie's 1st Day
Here is your reminder a little early. I'll send one in a couple of hours as well to
make sure you get this.
KBYR's number is 274.5297 and just in case something went wrong, Eddie's cell is |Privileged| .
1
PRA GSP01 0007637
He said just a quick note wishing him well would absolutely make his day.
Thanks !
Original Message
From; gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarahiayahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:00 PM
TO: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Remind me to via email at around four!
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
To : Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 6, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: Eddie's 1st Day
Got a note from him asking if any way you could call in tomorrow. Told him tomorrow would
be difficult to keep the expectation low.
He has Coghill on at 430 talking Supreme Ct but said he'd love to have u on whenever you
could.
Sent from my BlackBerry'® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007638
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 :41 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Performance Measurement Training for City, County, State Gov: Dec 10-13, Las Vegas
-Original Message-
From : homeland-bouiices+governor»gov . state . ak . us®mail . aliconf erences . com [mailto : homeland-
bounces+governor=gov. state. ak.us@mail.aliconferen.ceg. com] On Behalf Of Lisa McClear, ALI
Conferences
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:41 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Cc: ALI Conferences Government/Homeland Security Notification List - Part 1
Subject: Perfoirmance Measurement Training for City, County, State Gov: Dec 10-13, Las Vegas
Join your colleagues for education, practical advice, best practices,
inspiration & networking at one of these upcoming training opportunities for
Government ...
CITY, COUNTY, STATE
Performance Measurement Summit WEST
************
December 10-13, 2007 - Las Vegas, NV
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* Featured Conference - more details below *
SOCIAL MEDIA for GOVERNMENT:
How To Engage Your Employees
And Citizens By Using BLOGGING,
PODCASTING And The Latest WEB 2.0
Technologies To Drive Communication Results
************
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December 3-6, 2007 - Washington, DC
http: //www.aliconferences .cora/conf/social_mecHa_govtl207 /index. htm
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* FEATURED CONFERENCE *
Join your colleagues for this practical government training now coming to
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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Summit WEST:
**************
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**************
December 10-13, 2007, The Westin Casuarina, Las Vegas, NV
Details:
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* 17 speakers sharing practical advice
* 4 hands-on workshops to choose from
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Hear practical advice from leading City, County & State government agencies
and organizations who are already measuring and monitoring their strategic
plans and programs to ensure efficient government that drives and
demonstrates results, including speakers from:
1. Oregon Department of Transportation
PRA GSP01 0007640
2. Dallas County, Texas
3 . City of Miami Beach, Florida
4 . Iowa Veterans Home
5. Stanislaus County, CA
6. City of Atlanta, GA
7. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, office of Water
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December 11-12, 2007 - General Sessions
http : / /www . aliconf erences . com/conf /pm_state_local_govtl207/index . htm
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AGENDA--DAY ONE: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
8:30 Chairperson's Welcome & Opening Remarks
RAH CONSULTING, INC.
♦Award Winner 1*
8:45 Aligning Employee Performance And Recognition
With Organizational Goals To Dramatically Improve
Performance
DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS
9:35 Speed Networking: Meet your fellow conference attendees
10:30 A Performance Measurement Paradox:
When Indicators Improve But Citizens Don't
Seem To Notice
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR,
CITY OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA
11:20 The Currents And Rising Tides Of Performance
Metrics: Building A Performance-Eased Organization
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
1:40 How To Sustain An Energized And Engaged Workforce
To Deliver Results
IOWA VETERANS HOME
2:30 How To Develop Strategic Goals And Measures
To Support Your Organizational Priorities
And Measure Your Success
STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
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♦Award Winner ! *
3:40 How To Link Accomplishment Information To
Better Align Planning, Performance
Measurement And Budgeting
OREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
4:30 How To Coordinate And Collaborate With State,
Tribal And Local Government Partners To Measure
Performance And Carry Out Your Strategic Plan
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
OFFICE OF WATER
5:20 End Of Day One & Networking Reception
AGENDA- -DAY TWO: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
8:40 A Balanced Approach To Strategy
Development And Execution
DEFENSE FINANCE AND
ACCOONTING SERVICE (DOD)
10:00 How To Access And Interpret Performance
Reporting Data With Software Dashboard
Technologies For Better Decision Making
STATE OF WASHINGTON
TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT BOARD
10:50 Measuring The Performance Of A Strategic Plan
Using The Balanced Soorecard & The
Malcolm Baldrige Criteria
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, VIRGINIA
1:10 Group Exercise & Interactive Session
PRA GSP01 0007643
1:40 Miami Beach Excellence Model:
Integrating Strategic Planning, Budgeting And
Data-Driven Management To Deliver Results
To The Community Through Rapid Deployment
And Declining Resources
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
2:50 How To Integrate Budgeting, Performance Management
And A Cost Accounting System To Better Manage Data
& Demonstrate Results
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
3:40 Using Performance Management At The Project/Initiative
Level: Managing Project Risk, Identifying Core Goals,
And Aligning Buslhess And Technical Teams
RAH CONSULTING, INC.
4:30 Chairperson's Recap And End Of General Sessions
EXPAND YOUR LEARNING ...
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Choose A or B or BOTH
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Monday, December 10, 2007
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Facilitated by: John R. Allen Management Consulting
************
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i Monday, December 10, 2007
1:30pm - 4:30pm
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Facilitated by: Enlighteneering, Inc.
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i
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
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>Prom The Inside Out"
— Facilitated by: Weidner, Inc.
************
I Afternoon POST- Conference Workshop D
i
i Thursday, December 13, 2007
12:00pm - 3:00pm
"How To Leverage Technology To Manage And Report Performance Information"
Facilitated by: SAP Labs U.S.
PRA GSP01 0007645
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Unknown
From: Inwin, Tom E (DNR) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TEIRW!N]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:37 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Lefebvre; Richard A (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Govemor, I wanted to let you know that 1 have now received an email from both Annette and Kris about Mat Maid
and the legislative contact. Kris also suggests that this can be addressed in this afternoon's meeting. Thanks
Tom
8/24/2009
PRA GSP01 0007650
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Unknown
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:44 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Mat-Su section AON
Dear Govemor Palin,
I hope you have access to the Mat-Su Section of the ADN today. The article on Pippel and his new dty
manager argues that had Alien been the city manager last year then Allen would have successfully used his
connections to prevent the vetos of Palmer projects. Talis
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007651
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Colberg. Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=TJC0LBERG]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 4:44 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Mat-Su section ADN
Dear Govemor Palin,
I hope you have access to the Mat-Su Section of the ADN today. The article on Pippel and his new city
manager argues that had Allen been the city manager last year then Allen would have successfully used his
connections to prevent the vetos of Palmer projects. Talis
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007652
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Smith, Lynne M (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LMSMITH1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 0:39 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Letter to principals
Good morning Governor,
Here is the letter to the principals . By the time it got through proofing, you had
already left. We were going to have you sign it, but rather than wait until next
week, I will just have the machine sign it, if that is all right with you.
Lynne
Text of Letter to Principals.
Dear
A recently publicized study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University falsely
labeled seven Alaska high schools, including yours, as "dropout factories."
I want you to know that neither I nor anyone in my administration believe this
inflammatory label is accurate or fair. I know that you and your staff work hard to
educate every student and to offer extra attention for any student who is at risk of
dropping out.
Anything that harms the pubic confidence in our schools only makes educators' jobs
more difficult. Therefore, we cannot allow erroneous opinions to dampen our spirits
or sabotage our collaborative efforts to meet the needs of our students. Ultimately,
the dropout problem will be alleviated by parents, community members, and educators
working together.
After examining the study, we know that it does not assess either graduation rates or
dropout rates. Those rates are not hidden. They are publicly available in school
district and state report cards to the public.
Rather than using the most relevant data, the study compares the number of seniors
with the number of freshmen from four years before. The study does not distinguish
between students who drop out and students who transfer to another school or who move
out of Alaska.
We all recognize that, like every other state in the nation, Alaska does have a
serious dropout problem. I know that Alaskans are working at the community, school
district, and state levels to address this problem. I regret that your good work has
been denigrated with false labels.
As your governor, I want you to know that my administration and I stand shoulder-to-
shoulder with you in your committed efforts' to educate the youth of Alaska as you
prepare them to be successful, productive adults.
Sincerely,
Sarah Palin
Governor
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007653
Unknown
From: <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:40 PM
To: John Katz
Cc: Beth Leschper; Mike Tibbies; Sharon Leighow
Subject: Re: ANWR/Senator Liebennan
Sheeeesh- I still can not get over this. Why create more dependency on foreign sources?!
If ever you hear of a grand idea to get these naysayers to listen, please let me know and
we'll try anything reasonable to send a pro-ANWR message nationally.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatzeAXiASKADC.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:41
To: "Governor Sarah Palin" <gov.sarah9yahoo.com>
Subject: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
After sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anything more will happen. However, I wanted
you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote some counter battery
fire.
ANWR: Lieberman renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-
limits to oil and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill today
that would designate the coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an official wilderness
area, thereby precluding any oil and gas activities.
"America's strength is not in our oil reserves but in our reserves of innovation,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national treasures but
to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable sources of energy. "
1
PRA GSP01 0007654
All 26 sponsors are Democrats, excluding Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The coastal plain is currently off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the Arctic preserve
deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources on the 1.5-million-acre
coastal plain.
Alaskan lawmakers and others seeking to boost domestic production have long sought to tap
an estimated 5.7 billion and 16 billion barrels worth of oil in the region. Republicans
came close to opening the area in the last Congress after expanding their majority in the
2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in favor of
development and moderate Republicans having sink efforts to open the reserve in the last
Congress.
Opening the area is not on the table under the Democratic leadership of Congress . At the
same time, permanent protections are also considered quite unlikely given the difficultly
associated with getting the 60 votes needed to- pass such a measure.
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) introduced House legislation in
January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness area. House and Senate legislation
to create permanent protection has also been introduced in previous sessions of Congress.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007655
Page 1 of 2
Unknown
From: John Katz [jwkatz@ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07,2007 1:19PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Subject: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
After sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anything more will happen. However,
I wanted you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote some
counter battery fire.
ANWR: Lieberman renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
off-limits to oil and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill
today that would designate the coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an official
wUdemess area, thereby precluding any oil and gas activities.
"America's strength is not in our oil reserves but in our reserves of innovation,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national
treasures but to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable
sources of energy."
All 26 sponsors axe Democrats, excluding Lieberman and Sen. Bemie Sanders (I-
Vt).
The coastal plain is currently off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the
Arctic preserve deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources
on the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain.
Alaskan lawmakers and others seeking to boost domestic production have long
sought to tap an estimated 5.7 billion and 16 billion barrels worth of oil in the
region. Republicans came close to opening the area in the last Congress after
expanding their majority in the 2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in
favor of development and moderate Republicans having sink efforts to open the
reserve in the last Congress.
Opening the area is not on the table under the Democratic leadership of
Congress. At the same time, permanent protections are also considered quite
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007656
Page 2 of 2
unlikely given the difficultly associated with getting the 60 votes needed to pass
such a measxire.
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) introduced House
legislation in January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness area. House
and Senate legislation to create permanent protection has also been introduced in
previous sessions of Congress.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
j wkat2@alaskadc. org . Thank you .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
jwkatzfgialaskadc.org . Thank you .
8/31/2009
PRA GSP01 0007657
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FiRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:04 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Perry; KristlnaY (GOV)
Subject: RE: Eddie's 1st Day
Here is your reminder .... a little early. I'll send one in a couple of hours as well to
make sure you get this.
KBYR's number is 274.5297 and just in case something went wrong, Eddie's cell is iPrlviiegedl -
He said just a quiclc note wishing him well would absolutely make his day.
Thanks !
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:00 PM-
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Re: Eddie's 1st Day
Remind me to via email at around four!
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 6, 2007 8:50 PM
Subject: Eddie's 1st Day
Got a note from him asking if any way you could call in tomorrow. Told him tomorrow would
be difficult to keep the expectation low.
He has Coghill on at 430 talking Supreme Ct but said he'd love to have u on whenever you
could.
PRA GSP01 0007658
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007659
Unknown
From: <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 2:40 PM
To: John Katz
Cc: Beth Leschper; Mike Tibbies; Shanan Leighovi^
Subject: Re: ANWR/Senator Lleberman
Sheeeesh- I still can not get over this. Why create more dependency on foreign sources?!
If ever you hear of a grand idea to get these naysayers to listen, please let me know and
we'll try anything reasonable to send a pro-ANWR message nationally.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatzeALASJCADC.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:41
To: "Governor Sarah Palin" <gov.sarah8yahoo.com>
Subject: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
After sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anything more will happen. However, I wanted
you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote some ccJunter battery
fire .
ANWR: Lieberman renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-
limits to oil and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill today
that would designate the coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an official wilderness
area, thereby precluding any oil and gas activities.
"America's strength is not in our oil reserves but in our reserves of innovation,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national treasures but
to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable sources of energy."
1
PRA GSP01 0007660
All 26 sponsors are Democrats, excluding Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The coastal plain is currently off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the Arctic preserve
deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources on the 1.5-million-acre
coastal plain.
Alaskan lawmakers and others seeking to boost domestic production have long sought to tap
an estimated 5.7 billion and 16 billion barrels worth of oil in the region. Republicans
came close to opening the area in the last Congress after expanding their majority in the
2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in favor of
development and moderate Republicans having sink efforts to open the reserve in the last
Congress.
Opening the area is not on the table under the Democratic leadership of Congress. At the
same time, permanent protections are also considered quite unlikely given the difficultly
associated with getting the 60 votes needed to pass such a measure.
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) introduced House legislation in
January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness area. House and Senate legislation
to create permanent protection has also been introduced in previous sessions of Congress. .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007661
Page 1 of 2
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:06 PWl
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Reminder of Nov 8 Conference Call
From: Ken Oplinger [mailto:ken@oplinger.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:29 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Reminder of Nov 8 Conference Call
^HBESTT
9^S J^A Business for Economic Security,
Wm mi Tourism & Trade
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Find the InterVISTAS / TIAC Economic Impact Report on WHTI HERE
BESTT Coalition Conference Call
Just a reminder that the next BESTT Coalition Conference Call will
be today, Thursday, November 8th, at 11am PT / 2pm ET. The call
should be about one hour, and we will be covering the latest
information on WHTI, EDLs, and other topics.
Call in number is (605) 772-3870, and the access code is 957740*.
Border Crossing Information Web Site
At the request of the Tourism Bureau in Whatcom County, I created the following site for
information on border crossings by land, sea and air.
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2:19 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: Alaska Statae Chamber of Cmmerce - Capital Notes
From; Wayne Stevens tmailto:wstevens@alaskachamber.com]
Sent; Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:49 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Alaska Statae Chamber of Cmmerce - Capital Notes
Alaska State Chamber of Commerce
Capital Notes
www.alaskachamber.com November 8, 2007
PLEASE NOTE:
The House & Senate Finance Committees are holding a joint public
hearing on ACES TONIGHT at 5:30 p.m.
The Alaska State Chamber strongly urges you to get out and offer your opinion on the proposed
changes to the Petroleum Profits Tax and Alaska's CLear and Equitable Share (ACES). This is
your chance to be heard on this important debate on the future of Alaska's economy.
You can testify by going to your local Legislative Information Offices (LIO) and signing up to
offer testimony on the House and Senate bills 2001.
You can find the location of all LIO's in the State, online at the State Legislature's web site by
clicking here
A copy of the both current versions the House and Senate bills are available online at the State
Legislature's web site.
Click here for Senate Bill SB 2001
Click here for House Bill HB2Q01
The Alaska State Chamber web site has a copy of our letter to the Governor and our talking
points available for your use at our web site by clicking here
The Alaska State Chamber of Commerce is urging the Governor and Legislature to proceed with
caution as they conduct their review and deliberations on the Petroleum Profits Tax (PPT) and
the bill introduced by the Governor, Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share. The concern is that
while the Legislature works to restore public faith, outcomes based more on emotion than
economics will further chill the oil investment climate. A second concern is the stated goal of
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generating more revenue for the treasury. The chamber does not agree with liiat goal, and we fear that
Alaskans will confuse the outcome of higher tax revenue with the goal of fair share.
We believe the tax debate creates unwelcome risk and stalls investment planning and decisions. Taxes
are a key consideration in all business investment decisions, so any time tax law is debated, investments
can be delayed. The wrong tax rate can end all consideration of investment. Certainly working to induce
investment such that the pipe is fiill of oil at $80+/bbl would generate more revenue at the current tax
rate than would a dwindling quantity of oil at a higher tax rate.
Given today's oil prices, the Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share (ACES) legislation proposes to collect
surplus revenue for a fiscal system that results in increased spending but lacks a strategic business plan
for the state. This policy outcome does not warrant worsening the investment environment.
The Alaska State Chamber strongly urges you to get out and offer your opinion on the proposed changes
to the Petroleum Profits Tax. This is your chance to be heard on this important debate on the fiiture of
Alaska's economy.
11/9/2009
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:14 PM
To: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Lelghow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschpen Beth (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Subject: Re: "pressure"
Keep in mind- we're not responding to Halcro, Fagen, et al... we're responding to the
specific false allegation from "a majority lawmaker" (as cited by our critics) that I'm
"threatening and pressuring". We owe it to Alaskans who argree that the threats are more
politics-as-usual to clear it up, and I will respond to those things which I know will
hurt our efforts if we don't take the time to clear it up. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahayahoo . com
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:30:29
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ .kelly@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Joe
Balash" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Cc: "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>, "Beth Leschper"
<beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, ''Pat Galvin" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
Subject: "pressure"
Don't know how these rumors of me "pressuring" lawmakers- espesoially Rural leggies-
started, and don't know why they're continuing, but I've met with them many times and
communicated with lawmakers on the phone at your request and upon your advice. Now, if
it's doing more harm than good to talk to any lawmaker (and I've never threatened, bribed
or anything else), please don't keep setting up these opportunities to work with them.
I think it's fishy that Harris came to me with the rumors of my "threats" to lawmakers if
they don't go along with ACES, which is bull... and then it's his suspicious aide we
believe is blogging the same bogus information.
Please do what you can do about the situation because perhaps we're better off not giving
our critics more opportunity to lie about the situation, meaning no more meetings between
me and lawmakers. ?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1 1 :36 AM
To: Yocom; Lauren J (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Subject: Re: Press Release: Governor Palin Calls School Study Inaccurate
You all are gooooood. Thank you so much.
Original Message
From: Yocom, Lauren J (GOV) <lauren.yocom®alaska.gov>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) ; Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Cc: Yocom, Lauren J (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 08 11:26:51 2007
Subject; Press Release: Governor Palin Calls School Study Inaccurate
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 07-220
Governor Palin Calls School Study Inaccurate
Offers to Talk to Students Considering Dropping Out
November 8, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today sent supportive letters to
the principals of seven Alaska high schools that were branded "dropout factories" in a
well-publicized Johns Hopkins University study. Governor Palin also offered to talk with
any student from those schools who may be considering dropping out.
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Governor Palin told the principals, "I want you to know that neither I nor anyone in my
administration believe this inflammatory label is accurate or fair. I know that you and
your staff work hard to educate every student and to offer extra attention for any student
who is at risk of dropping out . "
The seven Alaska high schools mentioned in the Johns Hopkins study are: Ben Eielson
Jr./Sr. High School, Lathrop High School, North Pole High School, Bethel Regional High
School, Wasilla High School, Dillingham Middle/High School and Barrow High School.
The Johns Hopkins study did not look at published graduation or dropout rates, which are
publicly available. Rather, it compared the number of seniors with the number of freshmen
from four years before. The ''retention rate" method does not take into account that some
students transfer to other schools.
Many of the seven affected Alaska schools had graduation rates notably better than the
'retention rates" published in the Johns Hopkins study.
Alaska, like other states, does have a serious dropout problem. Governor Palin said in the
letter to the principals. But, she added, 'I want you to know that my administration and
I stand shoulder- to- shoulder with you in your committed efforts to educate the youth of
Alaska as you prepare them to be successful, productive adults. To that end, if you have
any potential dropout students, please have them call me personally and let me help talk
them into staying. Even if one student stays in school as a result of talking to me,
it'll be worth it."
###
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1 1 :34 AM
To: Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: "pressure"
Excellent.
Ok- as long as they know we're not conducting politics as usual and threatening anyone,
and these mtgs are truly helping, then let's forge ahead mtg with them, with leggies '
concurrence .
Stuck me as odd that Harris attended his first ever bush caucus mtg the other day- like he
was there to keep an eye on what was said? Shoot- Mary's right- she asked for the mtg and
we were also conducting it as a follow up to AFN.
Thank you.
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:12:41
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: RE: "pressure"
I've been meeting w/legislators all morning and just now spoke w/Rep. Nelson, Rep. Gara &
Sen. Wielechowski . Hopefully, their reaction will put you at ease. First, they were
surprised we were responding to rumors pushed by the VOT, Halcro, Fagan, blogs, etc.,
because they don't believe those sources have any credibility. I explained that we just
didn't want the wrong impression out there. They understood and are clear that the rumors
are all untrue (I delivered the entire message, including that Green and Harris came up
and were told these rumors were false) .
Rep. Nelson said Dave Donaldson had asked her about the bush caucus meeting and whether
the capital budget was discussed with the governor. Rep. Nelson told Dave that SHE asked
for the meeting, not the other way aroundl I thanked her for clearing that up. I will^
visit with the folks in the press room (I do this every couple of days anyway) and see if
these rumors are gaining any steam. If so, I will work with Sharon to make sure we do our
best to stamp it out.
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Finally, those folks believe these rumors are not going to hurt our efforts. As Joe
stated, these rumors were started by those who want you to fail... hoping you will be
afraid to keep fighting for a good bill for Alaska. As Rep. Gara said so well, "Don't
reward bad behavior ! " In other words , don ' t let the rumors change how we are doing
business. . .honestly and in a straight -forward way debating ACES on its merits. That's
exactly why the rumors were started, euad we can't let them win.
Your calls/visits have been extremely helpful and completely appropriate. If you have any
other messages you'd like me to deliver, or would like me to make any other efforts, I
will. For the rest of today, I will continue to touch base with legislators and
personally dispel any rumors.
Russ
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:43 AM
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Sijbject: Re: "pressure"
Good advice re: Russ/Mike speaking with Mary and whomever else to dispel rumors and make
sure they don't believe we're engaged in budget -making deals amidst ACES debate.
You're right, also, re: "darned if we do, darned if we don't" express strong committment
to ACES and 25%... But we do have to weigh whether those rumors of "pressure" hurt our
efforts because we haven't publicly dispelled them yet. I think we ought to publicly do
so, or publicly call Harris and Lyda on them even bringing the rumors to us without any
back up info, otherwise continued communications with leggies may do more barm (if we
don't publicly call bs on this) .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:27:13
To:gov.sarah®yahoo.com, "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly@alaska,gov>, "Tibbies, Michael
A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)"
<beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Galvin, Patricks (DOR)" <patrick.galvin@alaska.gov>
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Subject: Re: "pressure"
Governor,
I believe Mike and Russ are out meeting with legislators right now, so I'll go ahead and
give you my reaction/thoughts on this .
The people spreading these "rumors" are the people opposed to making a change. The
likely reason this accusation is being made is because your meetings are having an effect.
Your opponents want you to stop.
Keep in mind that the first rumor was that you don't care about the 25% rate. That was
being spread by Charlie and Lyda in an effort to get others to follow their lead.
The rumor that you are going to campaign against those who vote against aces is patently
false. The presiding officers of both bodies know that you have personally dispelled this
particular rumor.
Now, the notion that you "off red" capital budget items to the rural legislators is coming
from the same vein.
My suggestion is that Mike and Russ go to Mary Nelson and make clear that she nor the
bush caucus got that message. Then, they should be dispatched far and wide throughout the
building (including the press offices) to deliver the message without any hesitation.
The efforts you have made have been effective. They're just tirying to stop you.
Joe
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Sent: ThU Nov 08 08:30:29 2007
Subject: "pressure"
Don't know how these rumors of me "pressuring" lawmakers- espescially Rural leggies-
started, and don't )cnow why they're continuing, but I've met with them many times and
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communicated with lawmakers on the phone at your request and upon your advice . Now, if
it's doing more harm than good to talk to any lawmaker (and I've never threatened, bribed
or anything else), please don't keep setting up these opportunities to work with them.
I think it's fishy that Harris came to me with the rumors of my "threats" to lawmakers if
they don't go along with ACES, which is bull... and then it's his suspicious aide we
believe is blogging the same bogus information.
Please do what you can do about the situation because perhaps we're better off not giving
our critics more opportunity to lie about the situation, meaning no more meetings between
me and lawmakers. ?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007672
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:43 AM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Co: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Gaivin; Patrick S (DOR)
Subject: Re: "pressure"
Good advice re: Russ/Mike speaking with Mary and whomever else to dispel rumors and make
sure they don't believe we're engaged in budget -making deals amidst ACES debate.
You're right, also, re: "darned if we do, darned if we don't" express strong committment
to ACES and 25%... But we do have to weigh whether those rumors of "pressure" hurt our
efforts because we haven't publicly dispelled them yet. I think we ought to publicly do
so, or publicly call Harris and Lyda on them even bringing the rumors to us without any
back up info, otherwise continued communications with leggles may do mora harm {if we
don't publicly call bs on this) ,
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:27:13
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael
A (GOV)" <:mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow®alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)"
<beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Gaivin, Patricks (DOR)" <patrick.galvin®alaska.gov>
Subject; Re: "pressure"
Governor ,
I believe Mike and Russ are out meeting with legislators right now, so I'll go ahead and
give you my reaction/thoughts on this.
The people spreading these "rumors" are the people opposed to making a change. The
likely reason this accusation is being made is because your meetings are having an effect.
Your opponents want you to stop.
Keep in mind that the first rumor was that you don't care about the 25% rate. That was
being spread by Charlie and Lyda in an effort to get others to follow their lead.
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The rumor that you are going to campaign against those who vote against aces is patently
false. The presiding officers of both bodies know that you have personally dispelled this
particular rumor.
Now, the notion that you "offred" capital budget items to the rural legislators is coming
from the same vein.
My suggestion is that Mike and Russ go to Mary Nelson and make clear that she nor the
bush caucus got that message. Then, they should be dispatched far and wide throughout the
building (including the press offices) to deliver the message without any hesitation.
The efforts you have made have been effective. They're just trying to stop you.
Joe
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com «;gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Galvin, Patrick S (DOR)
Sent: Thu Nov 08 08:30:29 2007
Subject: "pressure"
Don't know how these rumors of me "pressuring" lawmakers- espescially Rural leggies-
started, and don't know why they're continuing, but I've met with them many times and
communicated with lawmakers on the phone at your request and upon your advice. Now, if
it's doing more harm than good to talk to any lawmaker (and I've never threatened, bribed
or anything else), please don't keep setting up these opportunities to work with them.
I think it's fishy that Harris came to me with the rumors of my "threats" to lawmakers if
they don't go along with ACES, which is bull... and then it's his suspicious aide we
believe is blogging the same bogus information.
Please do what you can do about the situation because perhaps we're better off not giving
our critics more opportunity to lie about the situation, meaning no more meetings between
me and lawmakers. ?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007674
Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:27 AM
To: 'gov.sarahgyahoo.com'; Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Subject: Re: "pressure"
Governor ,
I believe Mike and Russ are out meeting with legislators right now, so I'll go ahead and
give you my reaction/ thoughts on this.
The people spreading these "rumors" are the people opposed to making a change. The likely
reason this accusation is being made is because your meetings are having an effect. Your
opponents want you to stop.
Keep in mind that the first rumor was that you don't care about the 25% rate. That was
being spread by Charlie and Lyda in an effort to get others to follow their lead.
The rumor that you are going to campaign against those who vote against aces is patently
false. The presiding officers of both bodies know that you have personally dispelled this
particular rumor.
Now, the notion that you "offred" capital budget items to the rural legislators is coming
from the same vein.
My suggestion is that Mike and Russ go to Mary Nelson and make clear that she nor the bush
caucus got that message. Then, they should be dispatched far and wide throughout the
building (including the press offices) to deliver the message without any hesitation.
The efforts you have made have been effective. They're just trying to stop you.
Joe
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Galvin, Patricks (DOR)
Sent: Thu Nov 08 08:30:29 2007
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Subject: "pressure"
Don't know how these rumors of me "pressuring" lawmakers- espescially Rural leggies-
started, and don't know why they're continuing, but I've met with them many times and
communicated with lawmakers on the phone at your request and upon your advice. Now, if
it's doing more harm than good to talk to any lawmaker (and I've never threatened, bribed
or anything else), please don't keep setting up these opportunities to work with them.
I think it's fishy that Harris came to me with the rumors of my "threats" to lawmakers if
they don't go along with ACES, which is bull... and then it's his suspicious aide we
believe is blogging the same bogus information.
Please do what you can do about the situation because perhaps we ' re better off not giving
our critics more opportunity to lie about the, situation, meaning no more meetings between
me and lawmakers . ?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007676
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:30 AM
To: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschpen Beth (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Subject: "pressure"
Don't know how these rumors of me "pressuring" lawmakers- espescially Rural leggies-
started, and don't know why they're continuing, but I've met with them many times and
communicated with lawmakers on the phone at your request and upon your advice. Now, if
it's doing more harm than good to talk to any lawmaker (and I've never threatened, bribed
or anything else), please don't keep setting up these opportionities to work with them.
I think it's fishy that Harris came to me with the rumors of my "threats" to lawmakers if
they don't go along with ACES, which is bull,., and then it's his suspicious aide we
believe is blogging the same bogus information.
Please do what you can do about the situation because perhaps we're better off not giving
our critics more opportunity to lie about the situation, meaning no more meetings between
me and lawmakers. ?
Sent from my BlackBerry'® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007677
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
<gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:41 AM
John Katz
Beth Leschper; Mike Tibbies; Sharon Leighow; Larry Persily; Mike Nizich
Re: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
Oh yes- let's do this. Timing is perfect.
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz®ALASKADC.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:18:45
To : <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Cc:"Beth Leschper" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon. leighow@alaska,gov>, "Larry Persily"
<lpersily®ALASKADC.org>, "Mike Nizich" <mike_nizich@gov. state .ak.us>
Subject: Re: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
I gave some thought to the Lieberman bill last = night. I think we could actually have
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Please note that my email address has = changed. My new email address = is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org, = Thank you .
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>>> on 11/7/2007 at 6:40 PM, in message «1371126392-11= 94478755-
cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry. rim. net- 81677018 -®bxe0 03. bisx.pro= d.on.blackberry>,
<gov.sarah@yahoo.cora> wrote:
Sheeeesh- I still can not = get over this. Why create more dependency on foreign sources?!
If = ever you hear of a grand idea to get these naysayers to listen, please let = me know
and we'll try anything reasonable to send a pro-ANWR message = nationally.
Sent from my BlackBerry=AE device from Cellular One
a Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz@AIiASKADC.org>=
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:41
To: "Governor Sarah Palin" = <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Subject; ANWR/Senator Lieberman
A= fter sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anything more will happen. 5cnb= sp; However, I
wanted you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote = some counter
battery fire.
ANWR: Lieberman = renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has = signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-
limits to oil = and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators, Sen. Joe = Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill today
that would designate the = coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an official wilderness
area, = thereby precluding any oil and gas activities.
"America's strength is = not in our oil reserves but in our reseirves of innovation,"
Lieberman said = in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national treasures but
= to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable = sources of
energy . "
All 26 sponsors are Democrats, excluding Lieberman = and Sen. Bemie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The coastal plain is currently = off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want = permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the Arctic =
preserve deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources on = the 1.5-
2
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million-acre coastal plain.
Alaskan lawmakers and others = seeking to boost domestic production have long sought to
tap an estimated = 5.7 billion and 16 billion barrels worth of oil in the region.
Republicans = came close to opening the area in the last Congress after expanding their =
majority in the 2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is = not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in favor of =
development and moderate Republicans having sink efforts to open the = reseirve in the last
Congress .
Opening the area is not on the table = under the Democratic leadership of Congress. At the
same time, permanent = protections are also considered quite unlikely given the
difficultly = associated with getting the 60 votes needed to pass such a measure. =
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Kinn.) introduced House = legislation in
January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness = area. House and Senate
legislation to create permanent protection has also = been introduced in previous sessions
of Congress.
Please =» note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz®alaskadc.org. Thank you . =
Please note that my email address has changed. My new = email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz®alaskadc.o= rg. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007680
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
<gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:37 AM
John Katz
Beth Leschper; Larry Persily; Mike Tibbies; Mil<e Nizich; Sharon Leighow
Re: ANWR/Congressional Delegation
Excellent! Thanks for the great idea, let's proceed.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" < jwkatzOALASKADC.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:30:17
To: "Governor Sarah Palin" <gov. sarah®yahoo.com>
Cc;"Beth Leschper" <beth.leschper@alaska.gov>, "Larry Persily"
<lpersily@ALASKADC.org>, "Mike Nizich" <mike_nizich@gov. state. ak.us>, "Mike Tibbies"
<mlchael_tibbles@gov. state. ak.us>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon_leighow@gov. state. ak.us>
Subject: ANWR/Congressional Delegation
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:24 PM
To: Krefeer; Annette E (DOA); Notti; Emil R (CED); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Sheila Toomey
Got it.
Too bad the gossip column is taking serious any of the "rumors" she hears.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA)" <annette. kreitzer@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:21:43
To:ExternalEmailgsp <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>, "Notti, Emil R (CED)"
<emil.notti@alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Subj ect : RE : Sheila Toomey
Since it's a personnel matter, I can't really comment to anyone outside of the Governor.
Kevin Brooks responded on my behalf to a few press inquiries (not unusual as they were
Kenai, Duane's home turf) - that we have a different management philosophy. That's about
all we can say publicly.
ak
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gpv.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:18 PM
To: Notti, Emil R (CED); Kreitzer, Annette E (DOA); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Sheila Toomey
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Original Message
From : gov . sarah^yahoo . com
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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 03:11:25
To: "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "K Perry" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Bailey,
Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Sheila Toomey
Wow- she got it wrong on both stories . Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
And Ron's lea ving has nothing to do with Jim Palin (who hasn't been GM of a utility since
about 1989) . Ipriviieoed or Personal Material Redacted
iPrivileoedor Pel
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Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:11:35
To: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)"
<f rank . bailey®alaska . gov> , gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Sheila Toomey
FYI
Sheila called me today to confirm that Dwayne Bannock was fired by the Governor. I told
her absolutely not - it was a commissioner call . She also got a call regarding Ron
Miller. The caller - mentioned the Governor's father in law's involvement in a utility -
as a possible reason for Miller losing his job at a time of record dividends. She
understood, or at least she saidy that the decision was made by the board. She hinted
this might be a news story not an ear item. If you folks want me to add anything please
let me know. I am not too familiar with this one.
I let Sheila know that CNBC is coming to Juneau next week. I also told her about Mindy
Rowland joining the Leg office.
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Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary-
Deputy Communications Director
(907) 269-7450 Anchorage
(907) 465-4031 Juneau
(907) 240-7943 cell
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6; 1 7 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Don testifying at 5:30 on GtG
Lemme know how it goes
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Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:35:19
To:gov.sarah@yahoo.cora, "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris. perry@alaska.gov?, "Bailey, Frank T
(GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Subject: Don testifying at 5:30 on GtG
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Unknown
From; gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6: 1 5 PM
To: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Smith; Lynne M (GOV); Tibbies; IViichael A (GOV); Todd; Nizich; IVIichael A (GOV); Frank
Bailey; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Thompson; Barbara A (EED)
Subject: Re: drop out response
Yeah!!! That's the coolest thing I've heard in a long time. Awesome job you guys - thank
you... and obviously the education experts thank you.
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Original Message
From: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:51:57
To : gov . sarahOyahoo . com
Cc: "Smith, Lynne M (GOV)" <lynne.smith®alaska.gov>
Subject: drop out response
I thought you might like to see this!
Original Message
Prom: Susan McCauley [mailto:Susan.McCauley@matsukl2.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:43 PM
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Sidaject: dropout press release
Dear Governor Palin:
Thank you for both the letter to principals and the press release
regarding the recently- released John Hopkins study that labeled one of
our high schools, Wasilla High, a "dropout factory". We in the
administrative office of the Mat-Su Borough School District received
your press release during a lunch break from our All Principals' Meeting
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today. During our morning session, principals, including Dwight
Probasco, principal of Wasilla High, updated the group of the efforts to
reduce dropouts that have been underway in our district for the past
year. Dwight referred to his school's "dubious title" and commented on
the misrepresentation of his school in the Hopkins report. What
wonderful timing that we were able to read aloud to our group of 40
principals your press release when we returned from lunch. It was met
with a round of applause.
Thank you for the due diligence you have done in investigating the
methodology used for this study, and in helping the public to understand
that more direct, accessible measures of dropout rate are readily
available. Mr. Probasco commented to me last week that this study felt
like "a kick in the gut". Your public statement has likely gone a long
ways toward helping Mr. Probasco and the principals of the S other
mentioned schools feel supported and appreciated.
Sincerely,
Susan McCauley
Susan A. McCauley
Director of Education
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
(907) 746-9212
(907) 746-9292, fax
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 2: 1 9 PM
To: teeranchinport@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: General_Administration
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailOgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:53 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sxibj ect : General_Administration
Web mail from: Mr. Sean Rogers
address: P.M.B. 179, 3377Bethel Rd.STE 107 Port Orchard WA 98366
360-674-7080
MESSAGE:
Good work Sara, Being a good leader you have to make some very tricky choises, excellent
job, well i hope you have a good day.
teeranchinportoyahoo , com
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
j Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:31 PM
To: Sarah Palln
Cc: Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Scheduling/Updates
Governor- 1 received a call from Jim Bowles office, Conoco Phillips asl<ing that a meeting be set up between you
and Mr. Bowles in regards to Gas pipeline. Mr. Bowles would be available to be in Juneau on Thurs/Fri.
11.15/11.16. Joe Balash has recommended this as Mr. Bowles would more than likely be stating what they are
going to do and we need to hear this.
The Lt. Gov will be attending the Wreath-Laying Ceremony on Veterans Day and will be presenting a Wreath on
your behalf. This is located @ Ft. Richardson Cemetery.
Kris has talked with RGA today and unfortunately they do not take care of spouses. Thanks, Janice
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Unknown
From: John Katz Dwkatz@ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4: 1 9 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.coni
Cc: Beth Leschper; Mike Tibbies; Sharon Leighow; Larry Persily; Mike Nizich
Subject: Re: ANWI^Senator Lieberman
I gave some thought to the Lieberman bill last night. I think we could actually have
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
jwkatzfgialaskadc.org . Thank you .
>» On 11/7/2007 at 6:40 PM, in mess^e < 1371126392-1194478755-
cardhu_decombobulator_blackl3eny.rim.net-81677018-
@bxe003.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> wrote:
Sheeeesh- I still can not get over this. Why create more dependency on foreign
sources?! If ever you hear of a grand idea to get these naysayers to listen, please
let me know and we'U try anything reasonable to send a prd-ANWR message
nationally.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz@ALASKADC.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:41
To:"Govemor Sarah Palin" <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Subject: ANWR/ Senator Lieberman
After sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anything more will happen. However,
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I wanted you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote some
counter battery fire.
ANWR: Lieberman renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
off-limits to oil and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill
today that would designate the coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an officisil
wilderness area, thereby precluding any oU and gas activities.
"America's strength is not in our oil reserves but in our reserves of innovation,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national
treasures but to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable
sources of energy."
All 26 sponsors are Democrats, excluding Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-
Vt).
The coastal plain is currently off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the
Arctic preserve deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources
on the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain.
Alaskan lawnaakers and others seeking to boost domestic production have long
sought to tap an estimated 5.7 billion and 16 bUlion barrels worth of oil in the
region. Republicans came close to opening the area in the last Congress after
expanding their majority in the 2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in
favor of development and moderate Republicans ha^ng^ sink efforts to open the
reserve in the last Congress.
Opening the area is not on the table under the Democratic leadership of
Congress. At the same time, permanent protections are also considered quite
unlikely given the difficultly associated with getting the 60 votes needed to pass
such a measure.
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) introduced House
legislation in January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness area. House
and Senate legislation to create permanent protection has also been introduced in
previous sessions of Congress.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:35 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey; Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Don testifying at 5:30 on GtG
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Unknown
From: John Katz [jwkatz@ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:30 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Cc: Beth Leschper; Larry Persily; Michael Tibbies; Mil<e Nizich; Sharon Leighow
Subject: ANWR/Congressiona! Delegation
I guess great minds think alike. I had not seen the statement below when I sent my
previous email. I don't think that the statement is as effective as it could be, but, for
better or worse, it adopts the same basic theme I suggested.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2007
Contacts: Aaron Saunders w/Stevens (202) 224-1028
Kevin Sweeney w/Murkowski (907) 276-8921
Meredith Kenny w/Young (202) 225- 5765
Alaska's Congressional Delegation Vows
to Defeat Anti-Development Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Alaska's Congressional Delegation, Senator Ted Stevens, Senator
Lisa Murkowski, and Congressman Don Young, today released the follovmg statement in
response to Senator Joe Lieberman's (ID-Conn.) newly introduced bill to designate Alaska's
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Coastal Plain as wilderness.
"With the price of oil approaching $100 per barrel and with our energy dependence on
hostile foreign nations at a record high, now is not the time to cut our country off from the
resources held in Alaska's Coastal Plain. This area has the largest untapped domestic oil
field in the United States and would provide our nation with a million barrels of oil per day
for at least three decades. Instead of blocking resource development. Congress must increase
our domestic production of energy.
"Alaska's Delegation supports a comprehensive energy plan that includes conservation,
increased efficiency standards, and greater renewable energy potential But without
increased production of traditional fossil fuels, like oil and natural gas, Americans will be
even more dependent on unstable foreign energy sources.
"We will fight any attempt to deny development of our State's resources, particularly the
Coastal Plain. Alaska already contains vast lands designated as wilderness, including the
eight million acres ofANWR south of the Coastal Plain. Wilderness areas in Alaska already
exceed 58 million acres. More importantly, more than 192 million acres of Alaska are
already protected in wilderness areas, national parks, national preserves, national forests,
national wildlife refuges, wild and scenic rivers, state parks, state preserves, state critical
habitat areas, and state marine parks. The total designated area is the equivalent of all the
East Coast seaboard states from Maine to mid-Florida.
"ANWR is nearly 20 million acres. Energy production would be limited to 2,000 acres - 0.01
percent of the entire refuge. In addition, development poses no threat to wildlife. Anti-
development advocates claim that thePrudhoe Bay oilfields have had serious impacts on
wildlife. That is not true. After 30 years of development of oilfields at Prudhoe Bay and
surrounding areas, wildlife have not been adversely impacted. Populations of caribou,
grizzly bears, polar bears, arctic foxes, and musk ox have all remained stable or increased
during oil exploration and development.
"Our Delegation intends to work with the State of Alaska to defeat this short-sighted
proposal Once again, we have the duty of educating the rest of the country about Alaska's
role in attaining the goal of energy independence and defending our State from attacks by
Outside extreme environmentalists. "
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
jwkatggialaskadc.org . Thank you .
8/31/2009
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Unknown
From: John Katz Owkat2@ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:1 9 AM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Beth Leschper; Mike Tibbies; Sharon Leighow; Larry Persily; Mike Nizich
Subject: Re: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
I gave some thought to the Lieberman bill last night. I think we could actually have
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
jwkatz@alaskadc.org . Thank you .
>» On 1 1/7/2007 at 6:40 PM, in message < 1371126392-1 194478755-
cardhu_decombobulator_blackl3eny.rim.net-8 1 6770 1 8-
@bxe003.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> wrote:
Sheeeesh- I still can not get over this. Why create more dependency on foreign
sources?! If ever you hear of a grand idea to get these naysayers to listen, please
let me know and we'll try anj^ing reasonable to send a pro-ANWR message
nationally.
Sent from my BlackBeny® device from Cellvilar One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz@ALASKADC.org>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:18:41
To:"Govemor Sarah Palin" <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Subject: ANWR/Senator Lieberman
After sending this, I though that you might also be interested.
There's nothing new here, and I doubt that anj^thing more will happen. However,
8/26/2009
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I wanted you to be aware of the current situation.
We're working with the remnants of Arctic Power and others to promote some
counter battery fire.
ANWR: Lieberman renews bid for permanent drilling ban
A quarter of the Senate has signed on to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
off-limits to oil and natural gas drilling.
Backed by a group of 25 senators, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill
today that would designate the coastal plain of the Alaskan reserve as an official
wilderness area, thereby precluding any oil and gas activities.
"America's strength is not in our oil reserves but in our reserves of innovation,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "The answer is not to drill in our national
treasures but to increase our energy efficiency and find alternative and renewable
sources of energy."
All 25 sponsors are Democrats, excluding Lieberman and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-
Vt.).
The coastal plain is currently off-limits to drilling rigs, but Lieberman and other
lawmakers want permanent protection. Legislation in 1980 that expanded the
Arctic preserve deferred a congressional decision on managing energy resources
on the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain.
Alaskan lawmakers and others seeking to boost domestic production have long
sought to tap an estimated 5.7 billion and 16 billion barrels worth of oil in the
region. Republicans came close to opening the area in the last Congress after
expanding their majority in the 2004 elections but fell just short.
The ANWR issue is not wholly partisan, with several pro-drilling Democrats in
favor of development and moderate Republicans having sink efforts to open the
reserve in the last Congress.
Opening the area is not on the table under the Democratic leadership of
Congress. At the same time, permanent protections are also considered quite
unlikely given the difficultly associated vdth getting the 60 votes needed to pass
such a measure.
Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) introduced House
legislation in January to designate the coastal plain as a wilderness area. House
and Senate legislation to create permanent protection has also been introduced in
previous sessions of Congress.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkat2@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
8/26/2009
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Byers, Gail Y (LAW)
From: Dwight Kramer [clwimar@gci.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:25 AM
To: Govemor Sarah Palln (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Lloyd; Denby S (DFG); Inwin; Tom E (DNR); NIzich; Michael A (GOV); Mike Chenault; Wagoner;
Tom (LAA)
Subject: Relocate Habitat Division to ADF&G
Dear Govemor Palin,
Our organization, Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition , supports your desire to move the Habitat Division back to
the Department of Fish and Game (See attached letter of support). We believe the State and the future health of
our fisheries would be better served by this relocation effort
Respectfully Submitted,
Dwight Kramer
Chairman KAFC
283-1054
6/9/2009
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KENAI AREA FISHERMAN^S COALITION
PO Box 375 Kenai, Ak. 9961 1 * (907) 283-1054 * dwimar@gci.net
Governor Sarah Palin Novembers, 2007
P.O.Box 110001
Juneau, Ak. 99811-0001
Dear Governor Palin,
The KAFC is an organization composed of scientists and concerned users of the
Kenai Peninsula waters. KAFC membership includes biologists (retired State and
Federal) which provide over 120 years of experience on the Kenai River and other
Peninsula waters in all areas of research and management. We consider the KAFC to be
a "Joe Fisherman" organization since we have no commercial interests.
It is our considered opinion that the state, and our fisheries, would best be served if the
Habitat Division were moved back under the auspices of the Department of Fish and
Game. As this is tiie only department with a mandate to protect these most valuable of
resources, we feel this would be the best path to insure the future health of our fisheries.
It would also be in the best interests of our state to begin this process as soon as possible.
We appreciate your time and attention regarding this very important matter.
Respectfiilly Submitted,
Dwight Kramer - KAFC Chairman
283-1054
cc; Hon. Dehby Lloyd, Coimnissioner of ADF&G
Hon. Tom Irwm, Commissioner of DNR
Mike Nizich, Dep. Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor
Tom Wagoner, Alaska State Senator
Mike Chenault, Alaska State House Representative
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Unknown
From; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:40 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: ED Review (11/09/07)
From: Honeysett, Adam [mailto:Adam,Honeysett@ed.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 5:42 AM
Subject: ED Review (11/09/07)
ED REVIEW
Novembet 9, 2007
.a bi-weekly update on U.S. Department of Education activities relevant to the
Intetgovemmental and Corporate community and other stakeholders
PRIVACY GUIDANCE
On October 30, Secretary Spellings joined Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and Sectetary of
Homeland Security Michael Chertoff at a high school in suburban Vitgiaia to announce the
availability of three new brochures that present guidance on the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act (FERPA), In the wake of the Virginia Tech University shootings, these brochures —
one for K-12 officials, one for higher education officials, and one for parents — seek to empower
schools to better balance students' privacy rights with school safety concerns by explaining the
agency's interpretations in plain language. "I think it is important for people to understand what the
current law allows," Secretary Spellings said. "It does allow [student records] to be shared,
particularly when the student is a dependent (a child — not an emancipated adult). So, before we
leap into legislative changes, let's make sure that we're maximizing all of the flexibilities and
information and latitudes that the law does provide within the context of privacy." The brochures
also include contact information for obtaining additional assistance and guidance. FOR MORE
INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http: / /www.ed.gov/policv/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/safeschools / .
Along with the brochures, the Secretary shared a handout on emergency management resources,
including a variety of materials from the Department and partners across the federal government.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ed.gov/pohcY/gen/guid/secletter/071030enc.html .
Meanwhile, in September, the Department's Family Policy Compliance Office
(http://www.ed.gov/policY/gen/guid/fpco/) issued its annual notification to states and school
districts of their obligations under FERPA and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).
PPRA gives parents and students over 18 certain rights regarding the conduct of surveys, the
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collection and use of infonnaoon for marketing, and some physical exams.
Also: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has supplied schools and parents with a concise
summary of guidelines on how to prevent the spread of metiiicillin-resistant Stcfphyheoccus aureus, or MRSA.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://www.cdc.pov/Features/MRSAInSchools/ .
ADOLESCENT READERS INITIATIVE
On November 2, Secretary Spellings announced the national distribution of 520,000 free, new books as part
of the 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative. The initiative, a joint venture between the Department and the
non-profit entity First Book, is designed to improve the literacy skills of struggling young adults in low-
income schools and communities. Most of the books donated for tiiis effort are from Townsend Press's
"Bluford Series," a batch of 13 novels that focus on the lives of a group of yoimg high school students and
their fanuHes. Set in contemporary urban America, each novel addresses topics relevant to the Eves of
today's students. Since June 2006, the Department, First Book, and major book publishers have
collaborated to distribute more than 1.65 mJlHon children's books to schools, libraries, and organizations
serving low-income students in h\irricane-affected communities and throughout the country. FOR MORE
INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/ll/llQ22007b.html .
Also: A recent study by the Center on Education Policy (CEP), "Reading First: Locally Appreciated,
Nationally Troubled," finds the Department's Reading First program, while embattied in Washington, is the
most highly rated No Child Lift Behind ■pto^am in terms of its effect on achievement. More than three-
fourths of states and two-thirds of school districts with Reading First grants repotted that the program's
instructional initiatives and assessment systems were "important" causes of gains in student achievement.
And, the program's impact is felt beyond just participating schools: over half of Reading First districts
reported using elements of Reading First in non-Reading First schools and in the upper grades. Therefore,
CEP recommends fixing and expanding the program. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ceD-dc.or^/index.cfiii?
fuseaction=document.showDocumentBvID&nodeID=l&DocumentID=228 .
A COMPETITIVE EDGE
The next "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (November 20, 8:00-9:00 ET) will focus on how
the Department, institutions of higher education, and other key stakeholders are working together to better
prepare students for postsecondary education and the jobs of the 21st century. Today, more than 90% of
the fastest-growing jobs require higher education and/or training. Moreover, three-quarters of diose jobs
require a college degree. Yet, 60% of Americans have no postsecondary credentials, and only one-third
have a degree. At the same time, many Americans want to go to college but decide not to, either because
they are unprepared or cannot afford the cost In response to these challenges, in the fall of 2005, Secretary
Spellings formed the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, fadlitating a dialogue on the vital
issues of accessibility, affordability, and accountability. Then, based on the commission's findings, she
developed and began implementing a detailed Action Plan
(http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfutute/actionplan-factsheet.html') . The broadcast will
discuss what has been accomplished under the plan as well as explore strategies to better prepare students
for college and help them succeed once they are enrolled FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO
TO http: / /www.ed.gov/edtv/ . (You can watch archived webcasts at
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http:/ /•www.connecdive.com/events /ednews/ .^
HIGHER EDUCATION REGULATIONS
In a Federal B^^sterno^ce. nittp:/Avww.ed.£^v/legislation/FedRegistei/pfopnilc/2007-4/l02207a.html') .
the Department declared its intention to establish one or two negotiated rulemaking committees to prepare
proposed regulations for changes made by the Colhge Cost Reduction and Access Act to Title IV of the Higher
Education Act. The actual niimber of committees and their organization will be based upon conaments
received in writing and at regional hearings. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2008/index2008.html .
During the week of October 29, the agency published in the Federa/ Register thxee regulatory packages
im.plementing changes to current federal student aid regulations. First, it published final regulations for
Academic Competitiveness and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) grants
(http: / /www.ed.gov/legisktion/FedRegister/finrule/20Q7-4/l 02907a.htmlV Second, it published final
regulations for the Federal Perkins Loan, Federal Family Education Loan, and William D. Ford Federal
Direct Loan programs ^ttp://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegistcr/finrule/2Q07-4/110107a.htmr) .
addressing, among other items, preferred lender lists, prohibited inducements, and "total and permanent
disability" discharge. Third, it published final regulations for general provisions
(http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRepster/finrule/2007-4/110107b.html') . All of the regulations become
effective on July 1, 2008. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ed.gOv/news/pressreleases/2007/l 1 /1 1012Q07.htmL
Other higher education-related resoxirces:
• 2008-09 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on die Web PowerPoint presentation
(http://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/1025FOTW0809Ei\ScreenShots.html)
• "Funding Education Beyond High School: The Guide to Federal Student Aid 2008-
09" (http://www.f5apubs.org/app/search/itemdetails.aspx.^item=EN%200797P^
• 2007 National Survey of Student Engagement rhttp://nsse.iub.edu/NSSE%5F2007%5FAnnual%
5FReport/V which summarizes the views of 313,000 first-year and senior students at 610 four-year
coUeges and universities on five benchmarks: (1) level of academic challenge, (2) active and
collaborative learning, (3) student-faculty interaction, (4) enriching education experiences, and (5)
supportive campus environment
CHARACTER EDUCATION
On November 5, at a LEAGUE town hall meeting in New York City, Secretary Spellings high%hted the
critical role schools play in developing character and teaching lessons like integrity and responsibility. "In
today's competitive world, om students obvioiisly need solid academic skills to succeed," she said. "But,
they also need the ability to make responsible choices, the courage to stand up for what's right, and the
compassion to help others." At the event, the Secretary released a new guidebook, "Mobilizing for
Evidence-Based Character Education," with a roadmap to help educators fully evaluate their programs.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ed.gov/programs/charactered/resources.html .
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DOING WHAT WORKS
Earlier this month, the Department launched a "Doing What Works" web site (Tittp: / /d\yw.ed.gov/) to
provide educators with recommendations on effective teaching practices to improve student achievement.
The site has a user-fidendly interface to quickly identify teaching practices that have been found effective by
the agency's research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences ^ES), and similar organizations. It also cites
examples of possible ways — although not necessarily the only ways ~ this research may be used to help
students reach their academic potential. For example, teachers interested in successful strategies for helping
English language learners can watch a video of eight techniques that teachers at one school use to teach
vocabulary. Classroom scenes, student reactions, and graphic aids can all be viewed. In the future, similar
resources wiU be available in the areas of cognition and learning, early childhood education, Eteracy, math
and science, high school reform, and school restructuring.
QUOTE TO NOTE
"I don't think the way to do it is a one-size-fits-all national standard that morphs into a national curriculum
that morphs into national textbooks. It's the wrong way to go, and it's a giant time-waster."
— Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (11/5/07), answering a question on national standards during
an interview with U.S. News <& World Report
UPCOMING EVENTS
Remember! Next week (November 12-16) is International Education Week. This year's theme is
"International Education: Fostering Global Citizenship and Respect," recognizing the importance of
teaching children to be responsible, thoughtful world citizens. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE
GO TO http://iew.state.gov/ .
On November 15, the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) will release results
firom the 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) in reading and math. Eleven urban districts
participated in this fourth iteration of the pilot project. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http: / /nationsreportcard.gov/ .
November 28-Decembet 6, the Department's Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is hosting a
series of technical assistance workshops for organizations interested in becoming supplemental educational
service (SES) providers. The workshops are free, but pre-registration is required. Registration is on a fiist-
come, first-served basis. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO
http://www.ed.^v/about/inits/list/fbci/suppserv-workshops.html .
Over the next two weeks, the Department will be exhibiting at the Latino Book and Family Festival in
Chicago (November 10-11), the National Association of Black School Educators' Annual Conference in
Nashville (November 13-17), and the National League of Cities' Annual Congress of Cities and Exposition
in New Orleans (November 13-17). If you ate attending any of these events, please stop by the
Department's booth.
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Please feel free to contact the Office of Communications and Outieach with any questions:
Directot, Intergovernmental Affairs — Rogers Johnson, (202) 401-0026, mailto:Rogers.Tohnson(a).ed.gov
Deputy Director - Marcie Ridgway, (202) 401-6359, mailto:Marcie.RidgwaY(Sled.gov
Program Analyst ~ Adam Honeysett, (202) 401-3003, mailto:Adam.HoneYsett(%ed.gov
To be added or removed from distribution, or submit comments (we welcome yoiu feedback!),
contact Adam Honeysett. Or, visit http://vyww.ed.^Qv/news/newsletters/edreview/ .
This newsletter contains hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These
links are provided for the user's convenience. The U.S. Department of Education does not control ot guarantee the accuracy,
relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information. Furthermore, the inclusion of links is not intended to reflect
their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed, or products or services offered, on these sites, or the
organizations sponsoring the sites.
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:31 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: WICHE Stat Alert
From: Stats [mailto:stats@wiche.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:01 PM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: WICHE Stat Alert
Stat Alert - November 8, 2007
ACT has recently released a report, State of College Readiness for Latino Students,
that shows progress in our nation's performance on getting Latino students ready for
college. Based on their scores on ACT's battery of assessment tests, it suggests that
the improvements are due in part to more Latinos taking more rigorous, college-
preparatory coursework. Details can be found in the report located at
fhttp://www.act.org/path/policv/pdf/CoHegeReadinessLatino.pdf) .
The Western Interstate Coramission for Higher Education (WICHE) strives to maintain excellent
communication with the education policy and research communities. To subscribe or
unsubscribe to the Policy Alerts and/or Stat Alerts distribution lists, please email your name,
title, and organization to Jeanette Porter at iporter@.wiche.edu . These electronic distribution lists
are used only to support WICHE-sponsored programs and to share resources about relevant
issues in higher education policy and research. As an additional resource, WICHE maintains a
Policy Publication Clearinghouse on the web at http://wiche.edu/poIicv/Clearinghouse. which
includes past Policy Alerts and Stat Alerts, as well as other studies, reports, surveys, and policy
briefs.
11/9/2009
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:49 PM
To: joegriffo@acsalaska.net
Subject: RE: Fish_and_Game
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment .
Original Message
Prom: WebMail®gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.u3]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:58 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sub j ect : Fish_and_Game
Web mail from: Mr. Joe Griff o
address; 1120 E. Huffman Rd. 24-516 Anchorage AK 99515
9073462483
MESSAGE :
Dear Governor Palin:
I live in Anchorage about one half of the time and on Susitna Lake (attached to Lk.
Louise) the other half. I would like to bring to your attention a problem that we have
during hunting season in the Louise - Susitna - Tyone area. I will also provide a couple
of possible solutions.
During the Fall hunting season the area becomes saturated with hunters. Most are heading
for the Tyone River. Every year the area becomes more and more like the wild west.
Hunters arrive in mass and make very messy camps that the locals later pick up. They cut
down trees near cabins, they are crazed with the need to shoot anything so they randomly
:; shoot ravens, eagles, loons, muskrats and anything else that wanders within range.
; Often the victims of the shootings are simply wounded and remain in the area, unable to
■: migrate, until the changing season results in their final demise.
j As for a couple of possible solutions:
4
1 . During the Fall hunting season a couple of F & G personel could cruise the area of
Susitna & Tyone. Just having a presence would do wonders towards taming the hunters.
2. If there is simply a shortage of personel, then F & G could consider training
volunteers to come on board during that period and provide similar assistance and
supervision.
Please give serious consideration to the above mentioned problem and the possible
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solutions. Your attention would go a long ways towards reducing the growing tension
between hunters and locals of the area.
Sincerely,
Joe Griffo
j oegrif f oSacsalaska . net
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Friday, November 09, 2007 1:22 PM
Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Re; update
Right on- thanks! Let ine know who/when, etc may need calling. Thank you guys!!!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ. kelly@ala.ska.gov>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:18:14
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Balash, Joseph R (C30V) " <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, tlichael A (GOV)"
<inike . tibbles@alaska . gov>
Subject: update
Governor,
A quick update:
House Finance: 'Session has been tentatively scheduled on Saturday, November 10th, at
6:00 p.m. The starting time is dependent on the time House Finance adjourns and on how
much time the drafters will need to complete the Finance Committee Substitute. The plan
is to have HE 2001 in second reading on Saturday." Rep. Chenault's committee substitute
will include the 25% rate and the ACES original progressivity. We are optimistic that the
committee will amend it to have higher progressivity and restore many of the other ACES
provisions we want to have in the final bill. It's looking like the House version will
pass first.
Senate Finance: Introduction of committee substitute bill scheduled for Saturday,
November 10, 1:30 p.m. We are less optimistic that what comes out of this committee will
include our provisions, but are fairly confident we have the votes on the floor to correct
that problem.
To summarize, we are in relatively good shape right now and believe we have some positive
momentum. I spoke with Mike and Joe this morning about possibly having you make further
phone calls, but we don't have any specifics yet. We will keep you updated on significant
events .
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Russ
Russ Kelly-
Legislative Director
Office of Governor Sarah
Palin <http://gov.state.ak.us/>
State of Alaska
(907) 4S5-3999
**Please note my new e-mail address: russ.keily@alaska.gov
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 7:45 AM
To: Tibbies; IVIichael A (GOV); Thompson; Barbara A (EED); Jacl<son; Karleen K (HSS)
Cc: Kim; Anna C (GOV); Peny; Kristina Y (GOV); Smith; Lynne IVI (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV);
Jeans; Eddy (EED)
Subject: Cert of Need and Educ Funding plan
Mike: I'd like to begin work on allowing flexibility in CoN for leggies to start
considering- when does the task force wrap up?
Also- that ' s a lot of nerve of Begich to say he ' s going to sue over Educ funding when
Carol Comeau doesn't even agree with him. We need to respond with Barbara's and Eddy's
idea on the three-year, three-legged stool idea. We're going to look reactionary if we
wait too long to let the public know our educ funding plans, so pis let Eddy know I'd like
something on the plan to be made public aaap. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry"® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:16 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Subject: FW: [Research Matters] ISER Research Matters No. 25
From: iserj3ublications-bounces@lists.uaa.alaska.edu [mailto:lser_pubiications-
bounces@lists.uaa.a(asl<a.edu] On Behalf Of ISER Research Announcements
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:45 PM
To: ISER_Publications@lists.uaa.aiaska.edu
Subject: [Research l^atters] ISER Research Matters No. 25
ISER Research Matters Is our effort to quickly let Alaskans know about research findings from the
Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the University of Alaska Anchorage. We post these
on our Web site and distribute them by e-mail. If you'd like to be removed from or added to our e-mail list,
send us a message at ResearchMattersOuaa.alaska.edu
ISER Research Matters No. 25. Economic Significance of Ted Stevens Anchorage International
Airport
November 9, 2007
The Ted Stevens Anchorage international Airport generates one in eight of all wage and salary jobs in
Anchorage, or about 1 8,400 of the city's total 146,800 such jobs in 2006. The airport also generates the
same share of payroll — about one in eight dollars of wage and salary payroll can be traced to the airport.
These are among the findings of a new study by Scott Goldsmith and Mary Kiilorin of ISER. The study
was funded by the airport, and other findings include:
About 55% of the airport-related jobs, or 10,222 jobs, are at the airport itself. The remaining 45%,
or 8,212 jobs, are generated In the Anchorage community when airlines and other airport
businesses make purchases in the community and when airport workers spend their paychecks.
Anchorage's airport is about five times bigger than airports in other cities of comparable size.
Thaf s because the airport serves not only Anchorage residents but intemational air cargo carriers,
visitors from outside Alaska, and residents of other Alaska places traveling through Anchorage.
Anchorage is now the third largest cargo airport in the world, based on ttie total weight of cargo
moving through the airport. According to the Airport Council Intemational, Anchorage ranked below
Memphis and Hong Kong but above Tokyo, Shanghai, and Frankfurt in 2006.
The airport's contribution to the economy of Anchorage and Alaska goes beyond jobs and payroll.
It's part of the infrastructure that links Alaska residents and businesses to each other and the rest
of the world.
Without it, the costs of living and doing business here would be much higher.
Click here to see the full report. Economic Significance of Ted Stevens Anchorage Intemational Airoort
November 9. 2007
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=F!RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 10:28 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fortune
I got my Fortune business magazine in the mail today, even though it was dated 10/29,
flipped through it and saw an article with your picture entitled "Alaska's Governor Gets
Tough with Big Oil." Nice spread for you!
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:15 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; 'krisandclark@yahoo.com'
Subject: Tools
Interesting how VOT, your critics and "a majority legislator" tried to take a tool out of
your toolbox to get your message out.
Equate that to what Therriault did today. He essentially handicapped a tool of Senate
ACES opponents by mentioning the possibility of the stalling tactic, that the media picked
up, that put Bert, Huggins, and probably Lyda on the defense. By that move he essentially
said, "if they run out the clock, their motives are suspect."
Taking away one of their tools. Brilliant.
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:34 PM
i To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
i Subject: Reduced urgency
No need to call until you have time. Karleen got more facts after speaking with me and
others .
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 5:50 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: OCS-infant
Governor,
Karleen Jackson called with a n extremely ur gent situation involving OCS. When you get the
opportunity, please call me at |PriviiegedorP - You'll want to be in a quiet place where you can
think and talk for a few minutes, if you haven't already been contacted.
Sean
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMI NISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:29 PM
To: . Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: iWayor Williams-Ketchikan Ferry
Mike,
At the AML meeting, Mayor V\^liiams of Ketchikan stood up and asked whether a deal would
be completed between the state and Ketchikan to keep the Marine Highway System hq in
Ketchikan. I told him that you were a better one to answer that question than I as I have not
been involved in discussions over the issue. Can you please call him and talk with him about
the issue. Thank you.
Sean
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE1
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:04 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: look what I found!
Rep. John Harris is reaching too far
Rep. John Harris, R-Valdez, needs to do the right thing and hand the gavel over to an objective
member of the House Finance Committee. He said just a few months ago he would ask finance Co-
Chairman Mike Chenault to hand over the gavel to Vice Chairman Bill Stoltze to run committee
hearings should the committee be considering oil tax legislation. Chenault owns a construction
business that has done regular oil field service work in the past. Harris has flip-flopped on allowing
an objective Finance member chair the committee dealing with Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share
oil tax plan.
Instead of telling Alaskans why he has flip-flopped on this important issue, Harris compares
Chenault's chairmanship to Todd Palin working on the slope. There's no comparison! Chenault is a
lawmaker considering and evaluating oil and gas tax legislation that will effect our entire state.
Todd is a laborer removed from any decision making. Harris needs to own up to his error in
judgment, and not blame the Palin family for his mistakes.
Don Benson
Palmer
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 4:53 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Cc: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Telephone Call - Carl Clausen
Governor - 1 just received a phone call from Carl Clausen slating that it is urgent that he speak with you. He
apparently has been trying to reach you on your cell phone.
He stated that the 10 percent alcohol tax was pulled from the ballot based on a deal he has made. He wants this
not to just go City wide but State wide. Important the he gets this information to you now. i have copied Kris on
this email so that Kris can call Carl back if you would like. Thanks, Janice
Contact: Carl Clausen Iprjvjjeged oi| (cell)
8/24/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S'OA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECiPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:04 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: look what I found!
Rep. John Harris is reaciiing too far
Rep, John Harris, R-Vaidez, needs to do the right thing and hand the gavel over to an objective
member of the House Finance Committee. He said Just a few months ago he would ask finance Co-
Chairman Mike Chenault to hand over the gavel to Vice Chairman Bill Stoltze to run committee
hearings should the committee be considering oil tax legislation. Chenault owns a construction
business that has done regular oil field service work In the past. Harris has flip-flopped on allowing
an objective Finance member chair the committee dealing with Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share
oil tax plan.
Instead of telling Alaskans why he has flip-flopped on this important issue, Harris compares
Chenault's chairmanship to Todd Palin working on the slope. There's no comparison! Chenault is a
lawmaker considering and evaluating oil and gas tax legislation that will effect our entire state.
Todd is a laborer removed from any decision making. Harris needs to own up to his error In
judgment, and not blame the Palin family for his mistakes,
Don Benson
Palmer
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Mayor Williams-Ketchikan Fery
Mike,
At the AML meeting, Mayor Williams of Ketchikan stood up and asked whether a deal would
be completed between the state and Ketchikan to keep the' Marine Highway System hq in
Ketchikan. I told him that you were a better one to answer that question than I as I have not
been involved in discussions over the issue. Can you please call him and talk with him about
the issue. Thank you.
Sean
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 5:50 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: OCS-infant
Governor,
Karleen Jackson called with an extremely urgent situation involving OCS. When you get the
opportunity, please call me at |priviiegedorF| - You'll want to be in a quiet place where you can
think and talk for a few minutes, if you haven't already been contacted.
Sean
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECiPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1 0:09 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: Jeffery & Nolan Opinion - Part 1
Dear Governor Palin and Mr. Tibbies,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Perst "Taiis^
From: Rawllngs, Kay J (LAW)
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 9:22 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Gordon, Nancy R (LAW); Grace, Joanne M (LAW); Hotchkin, Michael G (LAW);
Richards, Karyl B (LAW); Tillery, Craig 3 (LAW); Voigtiander, Gail T (LAW); Webb, Megan R (LAW)
Subject: Jeffery & Nolan Opinion - Part 1
Due to the size of this opinion I split it into 2 pieces. Attached is the decision. III send the
dissent next. Kay
Kay Rawllngs
Kay.Ravylinqsia)alaska.gov
907-269-5226
8/26/2009
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1
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1 0:08 PM
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: Update: House Finance
Thanks !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:53:20
To: Sarah Palin <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) " <mi)ce.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)'
< j oe . balash®alaska . gov>
Subject; Update: House Finance
House Finance just voted (6 to 5) to bring the rate back down to 22.5, per an amendment
introduced by Rep. Chenault. The result is a bill that will move to the floor with a
22.5% rate and 0.4% progessivity . The vote went as follows:
Yeas: Chenault, Meyer, Hawker, Foster, Joule, Thomas
Nays: Kelly, Stoltze, Crawford, Gara, Nelson
By the time they were ready to vote we knew Joule wasn't going with 25, but we still knew
Thomas and Nelson were in play. Neither was making any commitment to us. Nelson
ultimately voted for 25, so we're encouraged by that and what it says for the floor vote.
Thomas was a bit more complicated.
Before Thomas voted, he stated very clearly that he was ready to vote for 25 UNLESS Gara's
retroactivity amendment was adopted on the floor (in which case he would go with 22.5).
Thomas' rationale was that he didn't want the state to get "too greedy" by raising the tax
rate AND collecting taxes retroactively. Note that the retroactivity amendment had just
failed in committee and both Kelly and Gara pointed that out, hoping that Thomas would go
with 25. It didn't matter, as Thomas still wound up voting for 22.5. Thomas maintains
that he is comfortable with switching back to 25 when voting on the floor.~if retroactivity
is not part of the bill. It can be difficult to guess where their heads are at times, but
this would at least give us some expectation that Thomas is with us on 25 as long as
retroactivity stays out of the bill.
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We knew it was always going to come down to the floor vote. We hoped the bill would go to
the floor with the 25% rate for the sake of momentum, but it wasn't a necessity. Our vote
count for the floor still shows us with enough support for 25%. We now have to focus on
those that could flip for any number of reasons. We'll huddle-up tonight/tomorrow and let
you know if we have any names for you call.
RK
Russ Kelly
Legislative Director
Office of Governor Sarah
Palin <http://gov.state.ak.us/>
State of Alaska
(907) 465-3999
**Please note ray new e-mail address; russ.kellyOalaska.gov
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From; gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:00 PM
To: Ruaro; Randall P (GOV)
Subject: Re; Coverage of Veterans Day Events
You are awesome Randy. Thank you so much for doing this. And feel free to email any time.
Thank you sincerely!
Sent from ray BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Ruaro, Randall P (GOV)" <randall.ruaro®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:56:44
To : gov . sarahOyahoo . com
Subject: Coverage of Veterans Day Events
Governor :
Hannah, Beth, Janice and I have worked up a schedule for the weekend that will have
representatives from the Governor's office at 10-12 different Veterans Day events in
Jxineau, Anchorage, Mat-Su, Kenai, and Fairbanks. I try to keep my e-mail traffic down and
don't want to bother you too much, so let me know if you are interested in occasionally
receiving this type of information.
Have a nice day.
Randy
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From:
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To:
Subject:
Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=F!RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE1
Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:52 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Mike kelly
Mike is great !
"Go towards the resvoir of trust .. .25%will help regain the trust of the people, 22.5
represents a system that was tainted, the new administration has been more than
trustworthy and respectful. . .let ' s put this thing to bed."
I'm paraphrasing of course, but he was very thoughtful and wise. H fin is still going
strong tonight.
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From:
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To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:59 PM
Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Re: calls to legislators (Sat.)
Just talked to Sen Thomas. He says Lesil needs to be shored up, Stevens too... no changing
Lyda's mind. . .Betty needs shoring up (she already told me she's good at 25). Says he's
talking to Balash again this aft .
I'll try the other guys.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly@alaska.goy>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:47:43
To: Sarah Palin <gov . sarahsyahoo . com>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)'
< j oe . balashoalaska . gov>
Subject: calls to legislators (Sat.)
Governor,
The ever-changing schedule for today is House Finance at 1:00 p.m. and Senate Finance at
1:30. We still appear to be in good shape in the House. The Senate Finance outcome is
sure to disappoint„.as expected...but overall we're o.k. for now.
For today, it could be helpful for you to touch base with these senators:
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If you have the time, let us know if you had any luck contacting them and whether they
shared anything helpful .
Thanks ,
Russ
Russ Kelly
Legislative Director
Office of Governor Sarah
Palin <http://gov.state.ak.us/>
State of Alaska
(907) 465-3999
**Please note my new e-mail address:
russ . kelly@alaska . gov
PRA GSP01 0007727
Unknown
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1 0:33 AM
To: braheemhamadeh@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Other
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are importaint and valuable to 'the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us. [raailto:WebMailiSgov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 6:03 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subj ect : Other
Web mail from: Mr. Ibrahem Hamadeh
address: 6478 Scottsdale AZ 85262
602-332-9561
MESSAGE:
Hi Mrs. Palin,
I love what your doing in Alaska, you remind me alot of Presidential candidate Ron Paul,
would you be willing to endorse him? You share numerous of the same views. You could
possibly be his running mate ; ) .
Keep up the good work.
braheerahamadeh®gmail . com
PRA GSP01 0007728
Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 9:32 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Co: Perry; Krlstina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Wed
Governor - this is in regards to the supreme court interviews. Talis needs to speak with
you in this regards and asked that it not be listed on the calendar as such. Frank and
Talis requested the meeting. Janice
Sent using BlackBerry
Original Message
From: gov . sarahSyahoo . com <gov.sarah®yahoo. com>
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 09 21:48:33 2007
Sxibject: Wed
What is Wednesday Anchorage ratg about with AG ?
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:15 AM
To: 'gov.sarahigyahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Jeffery & Nolan Opinion - Part 1
Dear governor palin. Yes. Both judges were removed from office for not filing correct
papers. There is no appeal. Talis.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo. com>
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:24:48 2007
Subject: Re: Jeffery & Nolan Opinion - Part 1
Msg didn't come through. But is this what I read about yest in paper re: Whitney Brewster
interviewed on these judges?
Original Message
From: Talis Colberg
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Sent: Nov 9, 2007 9:08 AM
Subject: FW: Jeffery & Nolan Opinion - Part 1
Message truncated due to size.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:51 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); 'fek9wnr@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
I think if you can make it back here tomorrow, that is the soonest we need you. We may
need you to get some of the house Dems on board.
Original Message
From : gov . sarahOyahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat Nov 10 08:42:54 2007
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
What is your prediction? Should I hustle on trying to return before my scheduled rtn?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:28:31
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
They were told not to leave or to come back. I assume they will be flooding back to
juneau this afternoon.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 08:27:37 2007
PRA GSP01 0007731
Siobject: Re: Confidential. Floor
Are all the lawmakers back in Juneau now, anticipating floor action? Or when do they
trickle back in?
Sent from tny BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:25:31
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
The house has the bill on the floor schedule tonight. However, that will be subject to
the pace of the finance committee work this afternoon. Its possible the committee will
drag on into the night .
In either case, any floor action tonight will be procedural only. It is most likely
that any amendments or votes would take place Sunday.
Original Message
i From: gov.sarah®yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:43:37 2007
Subject: Confidential. Floor
I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back
there asap?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 8:43 AM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Todd
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
What is your prediction? Should I hustle on trying to return before my scheduled rtn?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:28:31
To: gov, satah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
They were told not to leave or to come back. I assume they will be flooding back to
juneau this afternoon.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 08:27:37 2007
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
Are all the lawmakers back in Juneau now, anticipating floor action? Or when do they
trickle back in?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:25:31
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
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Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
The house has the bill on the floor schedule tonight. However, that will be subject to
the pace of the finance committee work this afternoon. Its possible the committee will
drag on into the night.
In either case, any floor action tonight will be procedural only. It is most likely
that any amendments or votes would take place Sunday.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gDv.sarah®yahoo. cora>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:43:37 2007
Subject: Confidential. Floor
i I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back
I there asap?
!
' Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:29 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re; Confidential. Floor
They were told not to leave or to come back. I assume they will be flooding back to
juneau this afternoon.
Original Message
From: gov.sarahiayahoo.com <gov.sarah(Syahoo.cora>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 08:27:37 2007
S\ibject: Re: Confidential. Floor
Are all the lawmakers back in Juneau now, anticipating floor action? Or when do they
trickle back in?
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:25:31
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
The house has the bill on the floor schedule tonight. However, that will be siibject to
the pace of the finance committee work this afternoon. Its possible the committee will
drag on into the night.
In either case, any floor action tonight will be procedural only. It is most likely that
any amendments or votes would take place Sunday.
Original Message
PRA GSP01 0007735
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:43:37 2007
Subject: Confidential. Floor
I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back
there asap?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007736
Unknown
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:28 AM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
Are all the lawmakers back in Juneau now, anticipating floor action? Or when do they
trickle back in?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska;gov>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:25:31
To: gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
The house has the bill on the floor schedule tonight. However, that will be subject to
the pace of the finance committee work this afternoon. Its possible the committee will
drag on into the night.
In either case, any floor action tonight will be procedural only. It is most likely that
any amendments or votes would take place Sunday.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:43:37 2007
Subject: Confidential. Floor
I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back
there asap?
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007737
Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:26 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Confidential. Floor
The house has the bill on the floor schedule tonight. However, that will be subject to
the pace of the finance committee work this afternoon. Its possible the committee will
drag on into the night .
In either case, any floor action tonight will be procedural only. It is most likely that
any amendments or votes would take place Sunday.
Original Message
From: gov . sarahSyaiioo , com <gov . sarahayahoo . com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:43:37 2007
Subject: Confidential. Floor
I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back there
asap?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007738
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:44 AM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Confidential. Floor
I'm hearing the bill may actually get to the floor tonight? Should I try to get back there
asap?
1
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PRA GSP01 0007739
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:37 AM
To: 'gov.sarahigyahoo.com'
Subject: Re: look what I found!
Of course I will. When he found out Harris said that he was pretty fired up.
His testimony went well too-he's a pro know, ready to do it again in the regular
season... or session.
I heard the bills are going to the floor tonight. How exciting! And the house version will
be the vehicle?
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sat Nov 10 07:23:41 2007
Subject: Re: look what I found!
Very, very, very great. Todd and I so appreciate this! Would you let Don know?! :)
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
i Original Message
I From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:04:05
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: look what I found!
Rep. John Harris is reaching too far
Rep. John Harris, R-Valdez, needs to do the right thing and hand the gavel over to an
objective member of the House Finance Committee. He said just a few months ago he would
ask finance Co-chairman Mike Chenault to hand over the gavel to Vice Chairman Bill Stoltze
to run committee hearings should the committee be considering oil tax legislation.
Chenault owns a construction business that has done regular oil field service work in the
past. Harris has flip-flopped on allowing an objective Finance member chair the committee
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dealing with Alaska's Clear and Kquitable Share oil tax plan.
Instead of telling Alaskans why he has flip-flopped on this important issue, Harris
compares Chenault ' s chairmanship to Todd Palin working on the slope. There's no
comparison! Chenault is a lawmaker considering and evaluating oil and gas tax legislation
that will effect our entire state. Todd is a laborer removed from any decision making.
Harris needs to own up to his error in judgment, and not blame the Palin family for his
mistakes.
Don Benson
Palmer
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:27 AM
To: Thompson; Barbara A (EED); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Co: Smith; Lynne M (GOV); Jeans; Eddy (EED); Leschpen Beth (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W
(GOV)
Subject: Re: Cert of Need and Educ Funding plan
Thanks! And I emailed Mike yesterday re: importance of letting Alaskans kmow we're working
on plan (and not just reacting to Begich's lawsuit threat), we'll need to message this
asap. At least letting folks know our intentions. Pis touch base with Mike on that. I do
think it needs to be soon. Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Thompson, Barbara A (EED)" <barbara. thompsonoalaska.gov;.
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:37:29
To:gov. sarah@yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike . tibbles®alaska . gov>
Cc: "Smith, Lynne M (GOV)" < lynne. smith®alaska.gov>, "Jeans, Eddy (BED)"
<eddy . j eans@alaska . gov>
Subject: Re: Cert of Need and Educ Funding plan
Eddy and I are ready anytime. Thanks! Bat
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Thompson, Barbara A (EED); Jackson, Karleen K (HSS)
cc: Kim, Anna C (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Smith, Lynne M (GOV); Kelly, Russell T
(GOV); Jeans, Eddy (EED)
Sent: Fri Nov 09 07:44:54 2007
Subject: Cert of Need and Educ Funding plan
. Mike: I'd like to begin work on allowing flexibility in CoN for leggies to start
considering- when does the task force wrap up?
Also- that ' s a lot of nerve of Begioh to say he ' s going to sue over Educ funding when
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Carol Comeau doesn't even agree with him. We need to respond with Barbara's and Eddy's
idea on the three-year, three-legged stool idea. We're going to look reactionary if we
wait too long to let the pioblic know our educ funding plans, so pis let Eddy know I'd like
something on the plan to be made public asap. Thanks
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PRA GSP01 0007743
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:24 AM
To: Frye;lvyJ(DOA)
Subject: Re: look what I found!
Very, very, very great. Todd and I so appreciate this! Would you let Don know?! :)
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:04:05
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: look what I found!
Rep. John Harris is reaching too far
Rep. John Harris, R-Valdez, needs to do the right thing and hand the gavel over to an
objective member of the House Finance Committee. He said just a few months ago he would
ask finance Co- Chairman Mike Chenault to hand over the gavel to Vice Chairman Bill Stoltze
to run committee hearings should the committee be considering oil tax legislation.
Chenault owns a construction business that has done regular oil field service work in the
past. Harris has flip- flopped on allowing an objective Finance member chair the committee
dealing with Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share oil tax plan.
Instead of telling Alaskans why he has flip-flopped on this important issue, Harris
compares Chenault ' s chairmanship to Todd Palin working on the slope . There ' s no
comparison! Chenault is a lawmaker considering and evaluating oil and gas tax legislation
that will effect our entire state. Todd is a laborer removed from any decision making.
Harris needs to own up to his error in judgment, and not blame the Palin family for his
mistakes .
Don Benson
Palmer
PRA GSP01 0007744
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:22 AM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: Update MM
Sounds great. I am still anxious for some kind of op ed, or other messaging from MatMaid
re: why we knew it was imperative to get a second opinion before declaring MatMaid dead
already. The public still barely gets bits and pieces of the situation, and with Lyda now
"on it" the spin given to Alaskans may again not be truthfully reflective of what we
found, why we committed to such great effort to get it ready for sale, etc. Lyda's comment
to me was she's going to audit to find problems "we created", already you know it's going
to be a bs message unless we get our word out on the tremendous efforts of BAG and AG
these last six months. Please have Kristan, Joe, whomever else, really think about finding
someone to help them write this- or to be interviewed with our message more clearly
articluated.
Thanks for doing such an awesome job coordinating all the MatMaid "stuff", Kris! It'll be
good - at the end of the day - we'll know we did the right thing for AK with this.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:16:24
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo. corns., "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" < j oe . balash®alaska . gov>
Subject: Update MM
Some good MM news:
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted , . „ I ""^^^^ ^'^^
legislative (Neuman) debate on whether proceeds should return to the cenerax fvnd. This
opinion is good news!
We had our meeting on Wednesday and finalized some transitional items in terms of working
with Northern Lights Dairy and the Cooperative to purchase from producers. We'll be
ramping up production of jugs for purchase by Northern Lights to sustain them for 6 months
and we'll be offering to lease equipment to the Cooperative that is non-essential to the
sale. Both will help them keep things going. MM is winding down operations in December
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and will stop pick-up from producers by raid-month.
Joe Austerman is doing a great job. Yesterday he spoke at the Eagle River Rotary. I
understand it went very well and folks left with a better understanding and support of our
efforts. Today, Joe met with Carlisle Trucking (MM's largest payable and the only vendor
with a balance beyond 3 days) and they are comfortable with our plan to satisfy the
outstanding debt upon the sale, as well as the role they will be playing in MM's wind
down. They are also interested in transitioning some of MM's truck drivers to their
organization. Within the last day or so, KTUU did an information request of BAC on MM
payables. Carlisle is sending a letter indicating that our outstanding balance is
proprietary information and they request that it be kept confidential.
In summary from Joe's meeting with them, Carlisle considers MM a long time partner and
they'll continue to work with us in any way possible to assure success with Governor
Palin's attempt to transition the dairy industry.
The next BAC meeting is Sianday.
Kris
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7: 14 AM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: OCS-infant
Should I just call her?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.parnell@alaska.gov>
Date: Pri, 09 Nov 2007 17:49:46
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Siibject: OCS-infant
Governor,
Karleen Jackson called with an extremely urgent situation involving OCS. When you get the
opportunity, please call me at iPriwilanaW nr d . You'll want to be in a quiet place where you
can think and talk for a few minutes, if you haven't already been contacted.
Sean
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7: 14 AM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Reduced urgency
I have a window where I could call Karleen today- should I? What's the topic?
Original Message
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 9, 2007 S:34 PM
Subject: Reduced urgency
No need to call until you have time. Karleen got more facts after speaking with me and
others .
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 7:1 2 AM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Fortune
Thanks !
Original Message
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 9, 2007 9:28 PM
Sub j eot : Fortune
I got my Fortune business magazine in the mail today, even though it was dated 10/29,
flipped through it and saw an article with your picture entitled "Alaska's Governor Gets
Tough with Big Oil." Nice spread for you!
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Unknown
From: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=MATIBBLES]
Sent: Saturday, November 1 0, 2007 7:45 PM
To: Sarah Palln
Subject: Carol Comeau letter
Governor,
Please let me know what you think of the draft letter to Carol Comeau. Thank you.
Mike
November 9, 2007
Carol Comeau
Superintendent
Anchorage School District
P.O. Box 196614
Anchorage, AK 99519
Dear Ms. Comeau:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
8/31/2009
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Sincerely,
Sarah Palin
Governor
8/31/2009
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From: Ruaro, Randall P (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=RPRUARO]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:57 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Coverage of Veterans Day Events
Governor:
Hannah, Beth, Janice and I have worked up a schedule for the weekend that will have representatives from the
Governor's office at 1 0-12 different Veterans Day events in Juneau, Anchorage, Mat-Su, Kenai, and Fairbanks. I
try to keep my e-mail traffic down and don't want to bother you too much, so let me know if you are interested in
occasionally receiving this type of information.
Have a nice day.
Randy
8/31/2009
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From: Sarah Palin [gov.sat3h@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 2:48 PM
To: Fagerstrom; Erika (GOV)
Subject: Re: Just fyi
It's no prob at all for the decorations tomorrow. And the house looks beautiful! I can't wait for
the kids to see it. Thanks!
"Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) " <enka.fagerstrom@alaska.gov> wrote:
Hello!
That's just not right- who leaves Hawaii early??! !! Good decision though; it would be hard to relax and
enjoy tfie sun, warm sand, tropical smells, drinks w little umbrellas... Now you'll just need to go back!! :)
It would be cool if they were able to meet up- Alex was all happy when he found out you guys would be
there-and so close! The kid would probably run 5 miles if he had too, he's such a goof!
Did you see my note about decorators on Monday (9-4) it's no problem to reschedule, but I wanted to
check with you before I made any calls.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To; Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun Nov 1 1 1 1:50:45 2007
Subject: Just fyi
HiE-
I hope Bristol found Alex. I tiiink our hotels are just a few doors down.
I hustled back to Juneau early- felt to guilty and nervous being away w/special session... so I'm here. Todd
and kids stayed for the wedding that is tonight, tfiey'U return to Anchorage late Tuesday. It was flippin'
GORGEOUS there!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
11/9/2009
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From: Sarah Palin [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 2:50 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Mike kelly
Tell him Alaska loves 'em! :)
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ixy.frye@ttlaska.gov> wrote:
Mike is great!
"Go towards the resvoir of trust...25%will help regain the trust of the people, 22.5 represents a system that
was tainted, the new administration has been more than trustworthy and respectful.. .let's put this thing to
bed."
I'm paraphrasing of course, but he was very thoughtful and wise. H fin is still going strong tonight.
1 1/9/2009
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 1 :31 PM
To: pczzzz@gci.net
Subject: RE: Budget
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state, ak. us [mailto:WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:12 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sub j ect : Budget
Web mail from; Mr. Patrick Cunningham
address: 5031 Garland Circle Anchorage AK 39508
MESSAGE:
Thank you. Governor Palin for your letter regarding the university of Alaska Regent ' s
Budget. This is a follow-up to the postcard that I sent. The Regent's have now finalized
their budget. Under the capital request is the UAF Bio Building and UAA Health Sciences
Building. Last year you approved the planning money for the Health Sciences Building and
I recommend that you place this building at the top of your priority list for the upcoming
Legislative Session in 2008. Nursing and the other related Health Sciences need this
facility in order to improve the quality of instruction and to expand sufficiently to meet
the health care needs of Alaska citizens. Physicians are becoming increasingly scarce as
primary care resources but the Nursing Program is posed to increase their Nurse
Practitioner programs in response to this anticipated shortage.
Best wishes, Patrick M Cxinningham
pczzzz®gci . net
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 1 :20 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Just fyl
Hello!
That's just not right- who leaves Hawaii early??!!! Good decision though; it would be
hard to relax and enjoy the sun, warm sand, tropical smells, drinks w little umbrellas.
Now you'll just need to go back! ! : )
It would be cool if they were able to meet up- Alex was all happy when he found out you
guys would be there-and so close! The kid would probably run 5 miles if he had too, he's
such a goof 1
Did you see my note about decorators on Monday (9-4) it's no problem to reschedule, but I
wanted to check with you before I made any calls.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov. sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <f ek9wnr@yahoo. com>
Sent: Sun Nov 11 11:50:45 2007
Subject: Just fyi
Hi E-
I hope Bristol found Alex. I think our hotels are just a few doors down.
I hustled back to Juneau early- felt to guilty and nervous being away w/ special session,
so I'm here. Todd and kids stayed for the wedding that is tonight, they'll return to
Anchorage late Tuesday. It was flippin' GORGEOUS there!
PRA GSP01 0007756
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007757
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 1 1 :27 PM
To: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leighow; Sharon
W(GOV)
Subject: Re: PRESS RELEASE: Governor Palln Praises the Work of the House ofRepresentatives
Great. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:40:47
To: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)"
<mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon. leighow@alaska.gov>,
gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Fw: PRESS RELEASE: Governor Palin Praises the Work of the House of
Representatives
It ain't perfect, format-wise, but it got out to all the important ones on the media list.
Original Message
From: Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
To: Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Cc: Yocom, Lauren J (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 22:10:55 2007
Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Governor Palin Praises the Work of the House of Representatives
IMMEplATE RELEASE
No. 07-224
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Governor Palin Praises the Work of the House of Representatives
November 11, 2007, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today thanked the members of the
Alaska House of Representatives for their work in passing ACES.
"I am sincerely grateful to all the members of the House of Representatives for their
efforts over the past 25 days." Governor Palin said. "They have worked diligently in
pursuing the people's business. All Alaskans can be proud of the bill the House has
passed."
"I am particularly happy that the 25 percent rate was included. We worked closely with
legislators from both sides of the aisle to make sure that Alaska remains an attractive
place to invest in oil and gas development. At the same time, they have moved to ensure
that Alaskans receive an equitable share of these non- renewable resources."
"If this bill is enacted, we will all take a positive step forward in Alaska's future. I
look forward to working with members of the Senate to preserve the good work done by the
House tonight . "
The ACES bill now moves to the Senate.
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###
Russ Kelly
Legislative Director
Office of Governor Sarah Palin <http://gov.state.ak.us/>
State of Alaska
(907) 465-3999
**Please note my new e-mail address: russ. kelly®alaska. gov
PRA GSP01 0007760
Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 9:46 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Subject: Re; 2nd version
We said it a little but differently, but its there.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah©yahoo . coin>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 21:43:59 2007
Subject: Re: 2nd version
Can you add Kelly's "don't screw it up" quote? :)
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Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:41:18
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash(aalaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon. leighow®alaska.gov>
Cc:"Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Russ Kelly" <russ. kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: 2nd version
Yeah! ! !
Sent from my BlaokBerry" device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:27:40
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To: "Joe Balash" <:joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Cc:"Mike Tibbies" <:raike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Siabject: Re: 2n<i version
Great .
What's wrong with Peggy Wilson's iinderstanding of the 80 's crash? Sheeesh.
Original Message
From: Joe Balash
To: Governor Sarah Palin
To: Sharon Leighow
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Cc: Russ Kelly
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: 2nd version
"I am sincerely grateful to all the members of the House of
Representatives for their efforts over the past 25 days. They have
worked diligently in pursuing the people's business. All Alaskans can
be proud of the bill the House has passed."
"I am particularly happy that the 25 percent rate was included. We
worked closely with legislators from both sides of the aisle to make
sure that Alaska remains an attractive place to invest in oil and gas
development. At the same time, they have moved to ensure that Alaskans
receive an equitable share of these non- renewable resources."
"If this bill is enacted, we will all take a positive step forward in
Alaska's future. I look forward to working with members of the Senate
to preserve the good work done by the House tonight."
PRA GSP01 0007762
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i
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:44 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Subject: Re: 2nd version
Can you add Kelly's "don't screw it up" quote? :)
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Hon, 12 NOv 2007 06 i 41 -.18
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash®ala3ka.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Cc:"Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re; 2nd version
Yeah 111
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Original Message
From : gov , sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:27:40
To:"Joe Balash" <joe,balash®alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon, leighow®alaska.gov>
Cc:"Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: 2nd version
I Great .
What's wrong with Peggy Wilson's understanding of the 80 's crash? Sheeesh.
Original Message
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From: Joe Balash
TO: Governor Sarah Palin
To: Sharon Leighow
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Cc: Russ Kelly
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: 2nd version
"I am sincerely grateful to all the members of the House of
Representatives for their efforts over the past 25 days. They have
worked diligently in pursuing the people's business. All Alaskans can
be proud of the bill the House has passed."
"I am particularly happy that the 25 percent rate was included. We
worked closely with legislators from both sides of the aisle to make
sure that Alaska remains an attractive place to invest in oil and gas
development. At the same time, they have moved to ensure that Alaskans
receive an equitable share of these non-renewable resources."
"If this bill is enacted, we will all take a positive step forward in
Alaska's future. I look forward to working with members of the Senate
to preserve the good work done by the House tonight . "
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From:
Sent:
To;
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:41 PM
Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Re; 2nd version
Yeah! ! 1
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Original Message
Prom : gov , sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Hon, 12 Nov 2007 06:27:40
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash®alaska.gov>, "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Co: "Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Russ SCelly" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: 2nd version
Great .
What's wrong with Peggy Wilson's understanding of the 80 's crash? Sheeesh.
Original Message
From: Joe Balash
To: Governor Sarah Pal in
To: Sharon Leighow
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Cc: Russ Kelly
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 9:26 PM
Subject: 2nd version
"I am sincerely grateful to all the members of the House of
Representatives for their efforts over the past 25 days. They have
worked diligently in pursuing the people's business. All Alaskans can
be proud of the bill the House has passed."
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"I am particularly happy that the 25 percent rate was included. We
worked closely with legislators from both sides of the aisle to make
sure that Alaska remains an attractive place to invest in oil and gas
development. At the same time, they have moved to ensure that Alaskans
receive an equitable share of these non-renewable resources."
"If this bill is enacted, we will all take a positive step forward in
Alaska's future. I look forward to working with members of the Senate
to preserve the good work done by the House tonight . "
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 9: 1 3 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Statement?
The statement should be FULL of thanks to those who did the right thing and are looking at
AK's future optimistically... did you notice the difference between the Yes's and No
votes- they're either positive or negative/doom and gloom people.
Original Message
From: Joe Balash
To: Governor Sarah Palin
To: Sharon Leighow
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Statement?
Do you want one tonight? Or do you want to wait and grant interviews tomorrow?
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:57 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: Statement?
Tonight ! This is going well . . .
Original Message
From: Joe Balash
To: Governor Sarah Palin
To: Sharon Leighow
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 8:56 PM
Subject: Statement?
Do you want one tonight? Or do you want to wait and grant interviews tomorrow?
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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I
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 8: 1 8 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Todd
Subject: Fw. Gara
Frank hit the nail...
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:16:31
To: "Frank Bailey" <ftb907@yahoo.com>
Siobj ect : Re ; Gara
I thanked him today for being quite the statesman. Beth, too. Really Frank, these folks
have been great. You should forward your positive comments on to him.
Original Message
From: Frank Bailey
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 8:15 PM
Subject: Gara
Man. . .gotta hand it to this guy. He's being reasonable. . .clear. . .proud to stand with you
even though he originally wanted Gross, higher taxes, retro-active, etc.
Sure counter-balances Ralph's doomsday scenario.
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROIVI]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 6:14 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Just iyl
Hi-
You have the House to yourself tomorrow, the CCRW won't be decorating and the staff is
off. Hope that's a good thing!
Turn up the heat if it's too cold- thermostat's for the 1st floor are in the closet in the
back stairwell by the kitchen. If it's not heating up call me-might be boiler problems...
There's a lot of deli meat- but call if you want anything else.
Original Message
From: Sarah Palin <gov . sarahoyahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 14:48:15 2007
Stibject: Re: Just fyi
It's no prob at all for the decorations tomorrow. And the house looks beautiful! I can't
wait for the kids to see it. Thanks!
"Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika . f agerstromOalaska . gov> wrote:
Hello !
That's just not right- who leaves Hawaii early??!!! Good decision though; it would
be hard to relax and enjoy the sun, warm sand, tropical smells, drinks w little
umbrellas... Now you'll just need to go back!! :)
It would be cool if they were able to meet up- Alex was all happy when he found out
you guys would be there-and so close! The kid would probably run 5 miles if he had too,
he ' s such a goof !
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Did you see my note about decorators on Monday (9-4) it's no problem to reschedule,
but I wanted to check with you before I made any calls .
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . cora>
To: Fagerstrora, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun Nov ll 11:50:45 2007
Subject: Just fyi
Hi E-
I hope Bristol found Alex. I think our hotels are just a few doors down.
I hustled back to Juneau early- felt to guilty and nervous being away w/special
session... so I'm here. Todd and kids stayed for the wedding that is tonight, they'll
return to Anchorage late Tuesday. It was flippin' GORGEOUS there!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007772
Unknown
■I
From; Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FiRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTR0M]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 6: 14 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re:Justfyi
Hi-
You have the House to yourself tomorrow, the CCEW won't be decorating and the staff is
off. Hope that's a good thing!
Turn up the heat if it's too cold- thermostats for the 1st floor are in the closet in the
back stairwell by the kitchen. If it's not heating up call me-might be boiler problems...
There's a lot of deli meat- but call if you want anything else.
Original Message
From: Sarah Pal in <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 14:48:15 2007
Sub j ect : Re : Just f yi
It's no prob at all for the decorations tomorrow. And the house looks beautiful! I can't
wait for the kids to see it . Thanks !
"Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika. fagerstrom@alaska.gov> wrote:
Hello!
That's just not right- who leaves Hawaii early??!!! Good decision though; it would
be hard to relax and enjoy the svin, warm sand, tropical smells, drinks w little
umbrellas... Now you'll just need to go back!! :)
It would be cool if they were able to meet up- Alex was all happy when he found out
you guys would be there-and so close! The kid would probably run 5 miles if he had too,
he ' s such a goof !
PRA GSP01 0007773
Did you see ray note about decorators on Monday (9-4) it's no problem to reschedule,
but I wanted to check with you before I made any calls.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr@yahoo. corns
Sent: Sun Nov 11 11:50:45 2007
Sub j ect : Just f yi
Hi E-
I hope Bristol found Alex. I think our hotels are just a few doors down.
I hustled back to Juneau early- felt to guilty and nervous being away w/special
session... so I'm here. Todd and kids stayed for the wedding that is tonight, they'll
return to Anchorage late Tuesday. It was flippin' GORGEOUS there 1
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PRA GSP01 0007774
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 5:49 PM
To: Frank Bailey; Todd; Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Valley Rep
For some reason Thomas doesn't want us to retro back the tax change. So he voted no on 25.
Hope he ' s a Yes at the end of the day .
We hear Hawker really wants to ball this up by now supoorting only a gross! And of course
the senate may be a cluster. . .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frank Bailey" <ftb907@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:35:19
To:"SP" <gov. sarah®yahoo.com>, fek9wnr®ycUioo.com
I Subject: Re: Valley Rep
Lots of folks who supported you did not like Neuman. I fail to remember why, but i just
remember how folks were freaking out about him posting his signs next to yours post-
primary saying he was trying to get a boost on your cogittails.
Guess it was cool to side with you when it worked in his favor.
F
Original Message
From: SP
To : Todd
Cc: Ivy Frye
Cc: Kris Perry
Cc: Frank Bailey
ReplyTo: SP
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: Valley Rep
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Mark Nueman was one of only 14 house members just voting NO on 25%. Along with Samuels and
Johnson and Hawker and crew. Sheeeesh. . ,
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/O=S0A/0U=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 5:36 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Veterans Day
of course! Today, was pure pleasure, just got done shaking hands (with Gen. Layfield) with
345 or so returning troops as they got off the 747 with their gear. I don't think I've
seen such collectively happy faces in a long time. (Some were troubled too--but overall,
my spirits were lifted just by seeing them come off the plane.)
I am told they got on the plane in Kuwait and walked into our beautiful falling snow
tonight. Some had their heads tilted back catching the flakes in their mouth. Pure
blessing to even be a witness to all this! Look forward to catching up when we can.
Sean
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . cora>
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 17:24:36 2007
Subject: Re: Veterans Day
Thank you SP- Alaskans sure appreciate you being "everywhere", esp on a day like this.
Please thank Sandy for me, too. And Jay.
House upped to 25%... lots of amendments on the floor though.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr .parnell@ala3ka.gov>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:33:14
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Veterans Day
PRA GSP01 0007777
Sandy and I went to two ceremonies on Ft Rich and I read portions of your proclamation.
Jay is on his way to Palmer Pioneer Home and will read the same portions of your
proclamation on your behalf. At some point about 300 warriors return to Elmendorf (within
next three hours) . Sandy and I plan to meet them. Hope your day is well--we remember you,
Todd, Trak and family. Thanks for your guys' personal investment of your lives and that of
your son.
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007778
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■J
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 5:25 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Veterans Day
Thank you SP- Alaskans sure appreciate you being "everywhere", esp on a day like this.
Please thank Sandy for me, too. And Jay.
House upped to 25%... lots of amendments on the floor though.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) " <sr.pamell@alaska.gov;>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:33:14
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Veterans Day
Sandy and I went to two ceremonies on Ft Rich and I read portions of your proclamation.
Jay is on his way to Palmer Pioneer Home and will read the same portions of your
proclamation on your behalf. At some point about 300 warriors return to Elmendorf (within
next three hours) . Sandy and 1 plan to meet them. Hope your day is well--we remember you,
Todd, Trak and family. Thanks for your guys' personal investment of your lives and that of
your son.
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007779
Unknown
From:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent:
Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:52 PM
To:
Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Cc:
Todd
Subject:
Re: they changed your tax ratel!!
Yeah!
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Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy .frye@alaska.gqv>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:47:44
To : Sarah Pal in <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subj ect : they changed your tax rate ! 1 i
The House amended your tax rate back to 25% ! 1 !
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From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2 007 4:06 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; 'Privileged or Persof; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: Lions Club ConferencBTT
Governor - There was a Lion Club Conference that was regretted - I will be in the office
tomorrow early afternoon and will follow up on this. Janice
Sent using BlackBerry
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Sean Parnell < Privileged Of Personal >; Mason, Janice L (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 15:51:26 2007
Sxibject; Re: Lions Club Conference??
Wow- never heard of that one. But I'll ask Janice and Kris. Thanks!
Original Message
From: Sean Parnell
To : Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 11, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: Lions Club Conference??
I had a veteran approach me today and ask where you were Thursday. I didn't
say anything except to inquire further about why he was asking. He said that
you were listed on a program and invite at a Lions Cliib conference or event
on Thursday to give Welcoming remarks, perhaps in the Valley??? Not sure how
they didn't get regrets or have someone from the group stand up and
acknowledge that you weren't able to make it, but thought I'd pass this
along to you.
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 2:51 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Just fyi
Thank you ! !
Original Message
From: Sarah Palin <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 11 14:48:15 2007
Si;ibject: Re: Just fyi
It's no prob at all for the decorations tomorrow. And the house looks beautiful! I can't
wait for the kids to see it . Thanks !
"Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika.fagerstrom@alaska.90v> wrote:
Hello !
That's just not right- who leaves Hawaii early??!!! Good decision though; it would
be hard to relax and enjoy the sun, warm sand, tropical smells, drinks w little
umbrellas... Now you'll just need to go back!! :)
It would be cool if they were able to meet up- Alex was all happy when he found out
you guys would be there-and so close! The kid would probably run 5 miles if he had too,
he ' 3 such a goof 1
Did you see my note about decorators on Monday (9-4) it's no problem to reschedule,
but I wanted to check with you before I made any calls.
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Original Message
From: gov.sara.h@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun Nov H 11:50:45 2007
Subject: Just fyi
Hi E-
I hope Bristol found Alex. 1 think our hotels are just a few doors down.
I hustled back to Juneau early- felt to guilty and nervous being away w/special
session... so I'm here. Todd and kids stayed for the wedding that is tonight, they'll
return to Anchorage late Tuesday. It was flippin' GORGEOUS there!
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 1 :33 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.conn'
Subject: Veterans Day
Sandy and I went to two ceremonies on Ft Rich and I read portions of your proclamation.
Jay is on his way to Palmer Pioneer Home and will read the same portions of your
proclamation on your behalf. At some point about 300 warriors return to Elraendorf (within
next three hours). Sandy and I plan to meet them. Hope your day is well- -we remember you,
Todd, Trak and family. Thanks for your guys' personal investment of your lives and that of
your son.
Sean
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From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) 1/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH1
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:48 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: FW: THANK YOU
From: DGottstein@aol.com [maitto:DGottstein@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:26 PM
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: THANK YOU
Joe:
You're welcome. I hope you enjoy the new TV spot. If not, use the UTube link herein, or download the attached
file. Please distribute with abandon. I tried to fly in today to testify, but couldn't land. Will try again on Saturday.
Have a good day;
David
http://youtube.com/user/filmdeep
See what's new at AOL.com and Mal<e AOL Your Homepage .
8/26/2009
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 3:22 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: RE: Mike kelly
Well the gallery doesn't look locked, but I don't see the usual suspects.
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:54 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: RE: Mike kelly
He did the right thing that's for sure'. Oh, great article in the ADN today by Cockerham re: oil and gas tax
legislation. NONE of the people that wrote in to comment on the article were in favor of the 22.5% tax rate. Goes
to show you and Mike Kelly and others are right on with the tax rate, prog, admin tools, etc. that bring AK it's fair
share.
Today is going to be interesting. I was just talking to Ian (special asst in Rev.) and he said they aren't allowing
anybody in the gallery, they're locking the doors, and no ceil phones or pagers are allowed on the floor.
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:50 PM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Mike kelly '
Tell him Alaska loves 'em! :)
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye@alaska.gov> wrote:
Mike is great!
"Go towards the resvoir of trust...25%will help regain the trust of the people, 22.5 represents a system fliat was tainted, the
new administration has been more than trustworthy and respectfiil...lef s put this thing to bed."
Tm paraphrasing of course, but he was very thoughtful and wise. H fin is still going strong tonigjit
8/25/2009
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Byers, Gail Y (LAW)
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPlENTS/CN=iJFRYE]
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 4:48 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: they changed your tax rate!!!
The House amended your tax rate back to 25% !!!
6/9/2009
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Printing, GOV (GOV sponsored)
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sunday, November 1 1 , 2007 4:48 PM
To: "Sarah Palin'
Subject: they changed your tax rate!!!
The House amended your tax rate bacl< to 25% II!
8/5/2009
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Unknown
From: Nancy Barnes [Nancy_Barne$@legis.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1 :54 PM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Co: Nizich; Michael A (GOV); btiedemann@alclea.org; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); Harper;
Michael C (AIDEA)
Subject: FW: Rural Energy Crisis
Senator Kookesh asked me to forward this note to you from the Mayor of Bettles. Nancy Barnes, Senator
Albert Kookesh's Office
From: Bettles Lodge [mailto:bttlodge@alaska.net]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:31 PM
To: Sen. Albert Kookesh
Subject: RE; Rural Energy Crisis
Albert,
I did get a response from the Governors office which was a boiler plate response that it would be
passed on to her staff. I am in high hopes that this will be taken serious by the Governor and
warrants her involvement. I am sure you are aware what these oil prices are doing to rural
Alaska. I am also sure Juneau is happy with the increased revenue, however I hope someone
there has the foresight to use some of the windfall for investing in our future wdth a sound energy
policy that benefits all Alaskans, not just the rail belt and Juneau. As I told the Governor, this is
an immediate crisis for rural Alaska. As such the residents of the "bush" need and deserve an
immediate response from Juneau.
Thank you for contacting me. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help move this
issue forward.
Dan Klaes
At 1 1 :07 AM 1 1/12/2007, you wrote:
Hello Mayor Klaes — Thank you for writing— I have contacted the Governor's Office Chief of Staff & Mike
Harper at AIDEA and have asked for a copy of the response from Govemor Palin. All the best, Albert
From: bettles lodge rmailto:bttlodae®alaska.netl
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:39 AM
To: governor@alaska.gov
Cc: Sen. Albert Kookesh; Rep. Woodle Salmon; Rep. Jay Ramras
Subject: Rural Energy Crisis
Dear Govemor Palin,
I would like to start with "we need your help and support". My name is Dan Klaes.I am the
Mayor of the City of Bettles, a community that is rural and not attached to the road system. I
also own a small business in Bettles and a current member of the State of Alaska Aviation
Advisory Board. The cost of oil has created a serious crisis for rural Alaska. This is an
inunediate crisis, not a future event. If the current situation is not addressed in the very near term,
what little economies in the rural communities are in danger of collapse. Residents are being
forced to make the decision to "heat or eat". This is an appalling concept in a state which is
reaping such tremendous income from tiie high price of oil. We are going to see a "migration" of
residents from rural Alaska to our larger communities as they caimot afford to stay.
1 1/9/2009
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It is in the best interests of the State of Alaska and the residents to foster ways to reduce the dependence
on oil in Alaska. Alternative sources of energy are expensive to install and have a very limited
capability to produce energy on a year round basis, making most cost prohibitive. The way to make
alternative energy more affordable is to spread the cost for installation over the entire year by receiving
benefits from the system during times they produce little energy. Solar has potential to provide
substantial excess amounts of power during our long periods of sunlight during the summer months in
Bettles. The problem is, there are no economical ways to store that excess power. One possible way to
make alternative energy sources more affordable is through Net Metering. Over 40 states have now
passed net metering in one form or another. Alaska needs to do the same. Net metering is required under
the Energy Policy act of 2005 signed by the president and states:
SEC. 1251. NET METERING AND ADDITIONAL STANDARDS.
(a) Adoption of Standards- Section 11 1(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16
U.S.C. 2621(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
'(11) NET METERING- Each electric utility shall make available upon request net metering service to
any electric consxmier that the electric utility serves. For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'net
metering service' means service to an electric consumer under which electric energy generated by that
electric consumer from an eligible on-site generating facility and delivered to the local distribution
facilities may be used to offset electric energy provided by the electric utility to the electric consumer
during the applicable billing period.
The use of alternative energy in rural Alaska has numerous benefits including:
1 . lower cost to produce
2. reduced oil consumption
3. reduce carbon output
4. reducing energy cost for residents
Generation of electricity by alternative sources would allow utilities to "downsize" generating capacity
during the peak times of alternative production.
Rather than having each utility address net metering, a statewide poUcy is desirable and essential, to
allow individuals and businesses to make the substantial investment required.
Creating a grant, or no interest loan program, by the State of Alaska would substantially help speed up
the installation of alternative energy sources and see a reduction in energy cost and dependency on oil. It
would truly be an investment in the future of Alaska.
I am asking that you, as Governor, consider introducing a bill to the legislature to create a statewide
policy in the Alaska Statutes regarding net metering. I have reviewed numerous laws from a number of
states and have drafted a possible bill that I feel fits Alaska. I am enclosing that draft for your reference.
I would also ask the State of Alaska research the concept of grant or loan programs to speed up the use
of alternative energy in rural Alaska.
Thank you in advance for considering the issue. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
11/9/2009
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Dan Klaes
Mayor
CityofBettles
Bettles Lodge and Bettles Air
serving the Arctic Traveler since 1950
www.bettleslodge.com
Bettles Office 907-692-5 1 11
Fairbanks Office 907-479-70 1 8
Bettles Fax 907-692-5655
Fairbanks Fax 907-479-7028
email: reservations@bettleslodge.com
Visit us at httD://www.bettleslodge.com
Your key to the Gates of the Arctic
-Bettles Lodge-
PO Box 27, Bettles, Alaska 99726
International phone 907-692-51 1 1
FAX 907-692-5655
US phone 800-770-5111
-Bettles Air Service-
6146 Old Airport Way
Fairbanks, AK 99706
phone 907-479-7018
FAX 907-479-7028
11/9/2009
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:38 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Food
Glad you thought of it M Good use of the extras ! 1 : )
Original Message
From: gov.sarah®yahoo.com <gov . sarah@yahoo . coin>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 12 12:34:27 2007
Subject: Re: Food
He ' s over there now- whatever he brings over here will be fine . Thanks !
Sent from my BlackBerry** device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <:erika.fagerstrom®alaska.gov>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:31:29
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Re: Food
No problem-take everything!! I was going to order pizza for their next work day. I can
meet him and pack stuff up if you want .
:)
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Mon Nov 12 12:28:31 2007
Subject: Food
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Hi! Tom is running over to the house for me to grab sandwich-making stuff so I can feed
the few staffers who are here (ACES team, basically) on Vet's Day today.
I now realize the meat and bread may be for Rep Women's group? If I took their food for
our lunch, I'll replace it!
Sent from my BlackBerry'® device from Cellular One
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:32 PM
To: 'gov.sarahlgyahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Food
No problem-take everything! ! I was going to order pizza for their next work day. I can
meet him and pack stuff up if you want.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah©yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika «30V)
Sent: Mon Nov 12 12:28:31 2007
Sub j ect : Food
Hi! Tom is running over to the house for me to grab sandwich-making stuff so I can feed
the few staffers who are here (ACES team, basically) on Vet's Day today.
I now realize the meat and bread may be for Rep Women's group? If I took their food for
our lunch, I'll replace it!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, November 1 2, 2007 1 1 :20 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: heads up
Rep Samuels will be speaking on the gas tax today at the CCRW monthly luncheon at the Prospector. If you just
happened to be in those neck of the woods and stopped in . . .
8/26/2009
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
Kim, Anna C (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=ACK1M]
Monday, November 12, 2007 6:00 PM
Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Peny; Kristina Y (GOV); 20080515kkjackson_A; Kim; Anna C (GOV)
Health Initiative
Governor and. Mike,
Just a followup to my prior email before the next Gov health initiative working group
meets regarding funding parameters for spending on a Gov's health initiative for a FY2010
roll out? I need to communicate the general funding parameters to the working group at
our Wed meeting. Dr. Butler is the primary working on this with me and others.
Please advise. Thanks Anna
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/O=S0A/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:08 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Office
Good moming-
I'm in the Anchorage office this morning preparing for an RDC talk on Wednesday a.m. No one
else is around so it should be productive. Feel free to call if you have anything you want to go
over related to ACES, the RDC talk, or anything else. My direct line is 269-0325 (don't leave a
voice mail on that one as I don't check it), and I've got my cell phone with me. Have a great
day!
Sean
8/26/2009
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:44 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: Sour Grapes Party... Ibund this in the clips
Turning bitter whine into wine
Since they are both opposed to the current administration, namely everything Gov. Sarah Palin
supports or advocates, perhaps Senate President Lyda Green and Andrew Halcro should form a
new party for the next election. Maybe they could call it the Sour Grapes Party.
— Gerald Groff
Wasllla
8/24/2009
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/O=S0A/0U=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:08 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Office
Good morning--
I'm in the Anchorage office this morning preparing for an RDC talk on Wednesday a.m. No one
else is around so it should be productive. Feel free to call if you have anything you want to go
over related to ACES, the RDC talk, or anything else. My direct line is 269-0325 (don't leave a
voice mail on that one as I don't check it), and I've got my cell phone with me. Have a great
day!
Sean
8/25/2009
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From: Stroman, Ronald A (DOT) [ron.stroman@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 1 0:50 AM
To: 'Linda Holzman'
Cc: Palin; Sarah H (GOV); Von Scheben; Leo (DOT); Richards; Franl< T (DOT); 'jccklk@acsalaska.net';
Devon; Kurt E (DOT); Fullerton; Jack F (DOT); Ruaro; Randall P (GOV)
Subject: RE: Willow Lake
Good moming Linda.
I'm sorry I didn't get back to you sooner but I was in Juneau last week. Linda, we are going through the
public process for adoption of a 'Lake Use Plan' as you should have been aware from attending the last
public meeting. Cheryl Fuglestad is the Willow Lake Compromise Committee Chairperson. She, on
behalf of the landowners, submitted a proposal which we used as a basis for the plan that was submitted
back to the Committee. I'm sonry if you didn't directly receive the Committee's draft or the draft sent to the
Committee.
We (the Committee and the State) wanted to get something down in print that gives us a starting point for
negotiations. We felt that the plan needed to get closer to ready, before we disseminated to every
landowner and aviation user for their input. I have received comment from the Committee on our
reworked version and I will be contacting Cheryl tomorrow to discuss the plan. If needs be, we will set up
a working meeting to hash out details of a plan. If you'd like to participate please let me or Cheryl know.
The department's authority to initiate and implement a plan for use of the lake can be found under:
AS 02.10.010. Supervision over aeronautics and communication regulations: (b) "The department shall,
whenever it considers the action necessary in the interest of general safety or the safety of those
engaged in aeronautics, adopt regulations establishing minimum standards with which all air navigation
facilities shall comply, and shall adopt and enforce regulations to safeguard from accident and to protect
the safety of persons operating or using aircraft and persons and property on the ground, and to develop
and promote aeronautics and communications in the State...."
AS 02.15.020. Powers of department: (a), "The department may perform acts, issue and amend orders,
and adopt reasonable general or special regulations and procedures, and establish minimum standards,
consistent with the provisions of this chapter, as it considers necessary to cany out the provisions of this
chapter.";
AS 02.15.060. Establishment, operation, and maintenance : "The department may plan, establish,
construct, enlarge, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect, and police airports and air navigation
facilities within the state."
Linda, it was never the intent of the department to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone the
land around the lake to minimize incompatible land uses (AS 02.25.030-050). What were originally
presented by the department's aviation design group were alternatives. One of the alternatives was to
formalize ainways on the lake and if that were to occur, then the department would be feced with
purchasing certain properties around the lake. This alternative has been removed from consideration.
Personally, I'd like for the issue to be resolved at the local level. I was hoping that the land owners and
the aviation users could come to an acconj without the department's involvement. While I appreciate that
people want this matter to go away, I don't see that happening without a written plan. Hopefully, this will
be accomplished before year end. With your knowledge of land rights, your assistance to make this plan
work would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.
Ron Stroman
Chief, Statewide Aviation Leasing
Division of Aviation
11/9/2009
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Ph. 907-344-2695
Fax 907-269-0489
Cell 907-240-8295
From: Linda Holzman [mailto:lindalu@alaska.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Stroman, Ronald A (DOT)
Ce:Palin, Sarah -H (GOV)
Subject: Willow Lake
Ron,
I've read your proposed Willow lake plan that you sent to Cheryl Fuglestad and no other property owners (that I
know of, please correct me if I am wrong). It sounds very much like a plan that is written for one air taxi operator.
It pretty much destroys the historical use of the lake. At this point we truly question your authority to change the
historical use of Willow Lake. Please provide us with the documentation from your Commissioner as to your
authority to create a lake plan with no public process.
Ron you should know that there is a process in place that the State of Alaska requires when State
Agencies decide to make area plans/lake plans and the process involves many things, one of which is a
committee of more than one person. This is necessary because plans restrict uses of State owned
land/water and all of the public need to have the opportunity to give their comments. IF DOT would
have informed the public in 1964 of these potential water restrictions and DOT's eminent domain
authority as DNR requested by letter dated August 11, 1964 we more than likely would not be having
this discussion. Public Notice was ignored in 1964 and it appears DOT is trying to ignore the public
process again. One person is not the public.
Alaska Statutes were written for a reason. DOT needs to comply.
Again, the threat for DOT to use eminent domain to take our properties needs to go away. Hopefully
you have discussed this very big problem with your department heads and have more of an answer
than we don't have to worry about our property be taken during this administration, however who
knows what the next 4 years will bring. That of course Is not a satisfactory answer to me and others.
Please inform me if you can be of any help or have any answers that can make me smile.
Thanks, Linda-Lou Holzman 346-3421
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Allen; Richard K (LAW)
Subject: RE: Thank You!!!
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or information you
have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is unable to respond to each and
every email herself, your message has been received and is being reviewed by the appropriate staff
person in this office who can best address your need, suggestion, or comment.
From: Allen, Ridiard K (LAW)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:36 PM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV); Parnell, Sean R (GOV)
Subject: Thank You!! I
On May 21, 2007 my wife Stephanie and I drove our three-year-old son Rhys (Rees) to Mat-Su Regional
Hospital because he was sick and not able to eat or drink. Within 30 minutes Rhys was diagnosed with
leukemia. Rhys was immediately medivaced to Providence in Anchorage and then to Children's Hospital
in Seattle. We did not return home for 4 !4 months. Our femily endured an extremely stressful summer
with two life threatening incidents during that time. I am pleased to report that we have now been home
for over a month and Rhys is doing very well. Rhys is In remission and will continue to receive
chemotherapy treatment from Providence Hospital in Anchorage for the next three years. Rhys will return
to Seattle for two weeks of radiation in Febmary. His prognosis is excellent.
I was able to spend the entire summer in Seattle with my wife and young son as a result of the
unbelievable kindness and generosity of my fellow state employees. Per state regulations I am prohibited
from knowing the names of all those who donated. I do know that the list is large and that folks from all
over the slate contributed. We will never know all of your names but I want you to understand the depth of
our gratitude. As a result of your thoughtfulness and friendship our family is winning our battle against
cancer. Each of you who donated leave, sent letters of support and kept us in your prayers have
contributed to saving our son's life. Words cannot express what this means to us.
Thank you and God bless you. Rick, Stephanie and Rhys Allen
11/9/2009
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)
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:27 AM
To: atitus@yksd.com
Subject: RE: Education
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:27 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Education
Web mail from: Ms. Anne Titus
address; Merreline A. Kangas School POB 68110 Ruby AK 99768
907-468-4465
MESSAGE:
Dear Governor Palin- I have worked as a teacher here in the village of Ruby since 1982.
This year I took over as Principalof this K-12 grade school. I am discouraged with folks
coming up from the lower 48 to teach or take on the job as principal for a year and
leave. So, I thought I would see if I could make a difference. My pipes are old and
breaking down, so we have water pressure problems. The 30 year old walls have cracked in
the gym. We cannot regulate the heat in the building-today it is 69 degrees and we are all
wearing sweaters. But today we had a great lunch, a handful of Ruby veterans showed up.
Last week in the paper and again on the news you were quoted as saying that you would talk
to any high school s tudent th at has the potential of dropping out. I have one such
student . Her name is iPrivileaei She has been in high school for two years now but has
shuffled between three different school. She is 16. Last spring she got pregnant and
recently had a baby girl which her mom and dad w
ill raise. She does not get a whole lot of encouragement from home-they talk the talk but
don't walk the walk, if you catch my drift.
Will you talk to her? Her teacher and I practically cheer for her when she shows up. Her
grades are behind. We keep telling her not to give up-to show up every day. To finish the
month. When the month comes to a close we encourage her to finish another month. Our number
here at school is 907-468-4465. Her school times are 8:30-3:00 pm.And if you cannot call,
well, at least I feel better having mentioned it. Thanks Anne Titus
atitus@yksd.com
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Unknown
From:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:50 AM
To:
Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc:
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject:
Open house
j- would u. Check on progress of open house- including the status of the 10,000-plus
cookies that have to be served? Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007805
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:01 PM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Privileged
Remind me to touch base with the Ruby student again after Thanksgiving. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Smith, Lynne M (GOV)" <lynne. smith@alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:22:35
To ; gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: |Privilege(i
The principal had already talked to jPrivilegecabout taking a correspondence course to get
back on track, so she was delighted that |ppiYJ|egg| heard it from someone else as well.
PRA GSP01 0007806
Unknown
From: Cayce, Sunny C (GOV) [sunny.cayce@alaska.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:12 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Castle; Lillian K (GOV)
Subject: RE: IVIIIitary_and_Veterans_Affeirs
The two issues that this addresses are education funding/materials (Lynne) , and benefits
for assembly members {??) Although she mentioned military benefits, the real issue is
clarification as to whether what she heard about the benefits is true. Not really sure if
that falls vmder Labor or Admin, but Lynne should be able to answer that.
Siinny Cayce
Executive Secretary to the
Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the Governor
4S5-3985
Original Message-- r--
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Cc: Cayce, Sunny C (GOV); Castle, Lillian K (GOV)
Subject: FW: Military_and_Veterans_Af fairs
Original Message
From: WebMail®gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:46 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject : Military_and_Veterans_Af fairs
Web mail from: Ms. Holly Herd
address: 2132 N. Verde Dr. Palmer AK 99645
907-745-7292
PRA GSP01 0007807
MESSAGE:
Governor Palin,
I want to start this letter to you with a sincere thank you for the wonderful work you do
in our state as governor. It is a joy to see you working hard for this wonderful state. My
husband and I feel you are doing a great job.
With that said, I'd like to get a couple of things off ray chest that are very close to my
heart. First, my daughter attends Palmer Junior Middle School. I think it is a great
school with good teachers. 1 am very unhappy though that my daughter does not have her own
books to bring home when she feels she needs them for study. We have been told that there
is a set for each classroom, and that there is no money for each student to have their
own. Luckily, we have access to the internet, a straight A student, and both parents home
every day for our daughter, but what about these parents who can't afford a computer with
the internet, must work late, and have kids struggling through school? I think if they had
a book to take home nightly, they'd have a much better chance for success. I'm 32, and
when I was in school, I had my own book to use as needed. I don't understand why there is
not funding for materials. Where on earth does my $3100.00 property taxes go per year?
Next, i was unfortunately told by a local assemblyman's wife last night that her husband
and family get free insurance now that he is in the assembly, and if he gets elected to
another term, he will get.it for life. This struck a nerve with me due to the fact that my
husband is active duty Air Force, amd will have been in for twenty years this coming
February 10, 2008. I am so proud of him and the service he has given to our country, but
have become upset with some of the things that have changed over the years. First, he was
supposed to have had all of his healthcare covered 100%, which we do have coverage that is
awesome, but... he does pay for the insurance, it is not "free". When he retires next
year, we will then be paying 20%. So, when I hear that local assemblymen have better
healthcare coverage than our military, it really hurts. I realize that there is a big
difference between the local government and federal government. It just really hurts.
Especially when I see the news an
d see servicemen returning from the war, followed by a list of names of people who did not
return. Then I think about how much better benefits our government officials have. It
really breaks my heart. I know you are a very stong supporter of our military, and we
appreciate that. My husband and I are strong supporters of President Bush, the war, and
especially our service men and women. I suppose for that reason ±§, why JC, get. so upset to
hear about the difference in benefits between the above. It makes us feel that the
military is looked at as much less important than the local and federal government .
I would love to be able to meet with you some day and ask questions and pick your brain on
some issues. We have a mutual friend, Adele Morgan. She has told me that you have grown up
together. I work for Mat-Su Regional Medical Center. I am an RN diabetes educator, wear an
insulin pump, and do many of the insulin pump trainings for the Valley as well as
Anchorage. This is how Adele and I met. And, I'm actually in the Ladies in Red picture
with you that was taken at the old Valley Hospital in Palmer.
I would love to hear back from you, though I know you are busy. I just felt I needed to
get some of these things off of my chest. Thank you for listening.
Again, thank you for your service !
PRA GSP01 0007808
Sincerely,
Holly Herd
herd4®gci . net
PLEASE ADD TO E-NEWS
PRA GSP01 0007809
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 1 0: 1 3 PM
To: Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: MatMaid
Anyone know why "the state" refused to comply with KTUU's FOIA request for MatMaid info?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007810
Unknown
i
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:47 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: man...
Man- this is crazy... talk about stubborness getting in the way off just doing what's
right .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:32:17
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo.cora>
Subject: man. . .
The Sen Pres is digging a hole, huh? She has the Administration and the House telling her
that 25% is the only acceptable base tax rate.
PRA GSP01 0007811
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:01 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: MM Update
Man, you guys are doing so well with MatMaid, Kris. Thank you! At the end of the day all
Alaskans will thank you and Kristan and Joe and the crew. Thank you!
Got any heat on us closing Wasilla Office?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:07:04
To: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
<mike . t ibbles@alaska . gov> , gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Cc: "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon,leighow®alaska.gov>
Sxibject: MM Update
At the meeting on Sunday, both boards approved motions to rent 12 pieces of non-essential
equipment to the South Central Joint Venture (SCJV) and they also approved a motion to
allow SCJV to use the Mat Maid Logo. SCJV has secured a building; they, have secured other
equipment both in and out of state, and seem to be moving along to get their plant up and
online for Cheese processing by mid-December and for milk processing within 90-120 days or
so.
Late last week, Kristan did request the$600k from Commissioner Irwin. Based on the fact
they have announced shut down dates, Joe A. will begin to lay off employees which will
invoke their severance and retention plan benefits which must be paid within 14 days. Her
request; The Creamery Corporation is requesting distribution of the $600,000 approved and
appropriated by the Alaska Legislature to DNR for assistance to the Creamery Corporation
dba Matanuska Maid Dairy. Pursuant to the supporting budget request, the funds will be
used for ongoing business obligations of the Dairy and for employee severance packages
related to the upcoming closure in December, 2007. It is understood that the Creamery
Corporation will return these ftinds, or parts thereof, to the State of Alaska if proceeds
from the anticipated sale of corporate assets aire sufficient and all of our obligations
have been satisfied.
Also, while MM is not in a position to offer a severance package to the producers today
because of current obligations and responsibilities, MM will be in a better position in
December if there's a successful bidder on December 7th. Kristan brought this possibility
PRA GSP01 0007812
up and is reviewing with attorneys.
There was a story in the Frontiersman today and there will likely be a follow-up article
with points of clarification that Kristan spoke with them on. ADN is also doing an
article; Kristan expects it to be accurate and positive. And, she had a phone interview
with Channel 2 this afternoon.
Lastly, I've asked Joe Austerman to assist in drafting an Op Ed, Sharon is working on the
promotional / feel-good egg nog stuff.
Kris
PRA GSP01 0007813
Unknown
From: Cayce, Sunny C (GOV) I/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SCCAYCE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:17 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Castle; Lillian K (GOV); Provost; Kathryn T (GOV)
Subject- RE: Seniors
Not sure if this should go to Lynne (community involvement) or Randy (military youth), can
you both check with them?
Sunny Cayce
i
I Executive Secretary to the
Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the Governor
4 65-3985
Original Message
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
I Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:31 PM
To: beasley.bree@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Seniors
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 1:57 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin [GOV sponsored)
Subject: Seniors
Web mail from: Ms. Bree Beasley
address: 13520 Neptune Court Anchorage AK 99515
1
PRA GSP01 0007814
MESSAGE:
I am a Junior at South Anchorage High School in AFJROTC. We would like to be more
involved with the community this year . We would love the opportunity to do a Color Guard
or any other community services with your help. We have many seniors that really need
more exposure in the community for their college profiles. I hope you have suggestions
than can help us out.
beasley . breeSgmail . com
PRA GSP01 0007815
Unknown
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 1 1 :26 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: recent Richard Carle appointment
Dear Governor Palln,
This came to me today. It may or may not be the person you recently appointed. The
date of birth would probably give you an idea. I thought it better to pass it on than
not. Talis
Original Message
From: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:08 AM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Subject: RE: recent Richard Carle appointment
Talis Colberg,
Richard Carle DOB 8-9-64 is currently facing the following charges that I am aware of:
Stalking in the 2nd Degree
Violating Conditions of Release
PTRP for an underlying Assault4DV
Richard Carle DOB 10-27-68 is currently facing these charges:
Driving With License Revoked (2 separate charges)
Felony DWI
Violating Conditions of Release
Also, James Scott is handling both of these cases. He might be able to provide more
i information. He is in a jury trial today - so he will be busy for mOst of the day today.
Also, again, I am not trying to poke my nose where it does not belong. If this is
something I should butt-out of, just let me know. I only recognized the name, and thought
1
PRA GSP01 0007816
s
it might be information that the people who appointed Richard Carle might want to know.
If you need anything else, please let me know.
Nick
Original Message
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
Subject: Re: recent Richard Carle appointment
What are they being prosecuted for? Talis.
Original Message
From: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: Tue Nov 13 10:42:52 2007
Subject: recent Richard Carle appointment
Talis Colberg,
Just wanted to drop a short line regarding a recent appointment made by Gov. Palin.
Richard Carle of Hydaburg (on located on Prince of Wales Island, near Ketchikan) was
appointed to the Northern Panel of the Pacific Salmon Commission. I'm not sure who this
individual is, but we are currently prosecuting two different Richard Carles.
PRA GSP01 0007817
One is Richard S. Carle, date of birth 10-27-1968.
The other is Richard Carle, date of birth 8-9-1964. This individual is from Prince of
Wales Island, so this might be the same individual Gov. Palin appointed.
Just wanted to give you an FYI. It is none of my business how Gov. Palin makes
appointments, or if this information is relevant, but I thought I would pass it along just
in case it might be something that could save Gov. Palin a future situation. Feel free to
disregard if this is not important.
Hope you are doing well.
Nick
Nicholas Polasky
Assistant District Attorney
415 Main Street, Room 304
PRA GSP01 0007818
Ketchikan, AK 99901
telephone: (907) 225-6128
fax: (907) 225-3917
email: nick.polasky@alaska.gov
PRA GSP01 0007819
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECiPlENTS/CN=KYPERRY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:07 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: MM Update
At the meeting on Sunday, both boards approved motions to rent 12 pieces of non-essential equipment
to the South Central Joint Venture (SCJV) and they also approved a motion to allow SCJV to use the
Mat Maid Logo. SCJV has secured a building; they have secured other equipment both in and out of
state, and seem to be moving along to get their plant x^ and online for Cheese processing by mid-
December and for miUc processing within 90-120 days or so.
Late last week, Kristan did request the$600k from Commissioner Irwin. Based on the fact they have
announced shut down dates, Joe A. will begin to lay off employees which will invoke their severance
and retention plan benefits which must be paid within 14 days. Her request: The Creamery
Corporation is requesting distribution of the $600, 000 cpproved and appropriated by the Alaska
Legislature to DNRfor assistance to the Creamery Corporation dba Matanuska Maid Dairy. Pursuant
to the supporting budget request, the funds will be used for ongoing business obligations of the Dairy
and for employee severance packages related to the upcoming closure in December, 2007. It is
understood that the Creamery Corporation will return these funds, or parts thereof, to the State of
Alaska if proceeds from the anticipated sale of corporate assets are sufficient and all of our obligations
have been satisfied.
Also, while MM is not in a position to offer a severance package to the producers today because of
current obligations and responsibilities, MM will be in a better position in December if there's a
successful bidder on December 7*^. Kristan brought this possibility up and is reviewing with attorneys.
There was a story in the Frontiersman today and there will likely be a follow-up article with points of
clarification that Kristan spoke with them on. ADN is also doing an article; Kristan expects it to be
accurate and positive. And, she had a phone interview with Channel 2 this afternoon.
Lastly, I've asked Joe Austerman to assist in drafting an Op Ed. Sharon is working on the promotional /
feel-good egg nog stuff.
Kris
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007820
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Smith, Lynne M (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LMSMITH1]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 2:23 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: privilege
The principal had already talked to iPrivilegj about taking a correspondence course to get back on track, so she
was delighted that [prjvj|egj heard It from someone else as well.
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007821
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:32 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: man...
The Sen Pres is digging a hole, huh? She has the Administration and the House telling her that 25% is the only
acceptable base tax rate.
8/26/2009
PRA GSP01 0007822
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1P1ENTS/CN=EFAGERSTR0M]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 4:43 PM
To: Sarah Palln
Subject: Wednesday 7:30am. and Steak
Hello Govemorl
1 just wanted to double check to see if plumbers could work tomorrow at 7:30am. on the 3rd floor?
Susan broiled a steak for you, if you'd like I could drop it off to you when I leave tonight- there's actually two.
Erika
Erika Fagerstrom
Executive Residence Mtoiag^
Gmemor's House
State ofAJaska, Offia of the Governor
716 Calhoun Avenue, Juneau, Alaska 99801
Phone: 907-465-3500; Fax: 907A65-20i1
8/24/2009
PRA GSP01 0007823
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Frye. Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Tuesday, November 1 3, 2007 5:32 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: man...
The Sen Pres Is digging a hole, huh? She has the Administration and the House telling her that 25% is the only
acceptable base tax rate.
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007824
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Smith, Lynne M (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=LMSMITH1]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:23 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Privilege
The principal had already ta lked to iPrivilegj about taking a correspondence course to get back on track, so she
was delighted that |priviieaj f'^^''*^ ■* ^o"^ someone else as well.
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007825
Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KYPERRY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 4:07 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Co: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: MM Update
At the meeting on Sunday, both boards approved motions to rent 12 pieces of non-essential equipment
to the South Central Joint Venture (SCJV) and they also approved a motion to allow SCJV to use the
Mat Maid Logo. SCJV has secured a building; they have secured other equipment both in and out of
state, and seem to be moving along to get their plant up and online for Cheese processing by mid-
December and for milk processing within 90-120 days or so.
Late last week, Kiistan did request the$600k from Commissioner Irwin. Based on the fact they have
announced shut down dates, Joe A. will begin to lay off employees which will invoke their severance
and retention plan benefits which must be paid within 14 days. Her request: The Creamery
Corporation is requesting distribution of the $600, 000 approved and cq}propriated by the Alaska
Legislature to DNRfor assistance to the Creamery Corporation dba Matanuska Maid Dairy. Pursuant
to the supporting budget request, the funds will be used for ongoing business obligations of the Dairy
and for employee severance packages related to the upcoming closure in December, 2007. It is
understood that the Creamery Corporation will return these funds, or parts thereof, to the State of
Alaska if proceeds from the anticipated sale of corporate assets are sufficient and all of our obligations
have been satisfied.
Also, while MM is not in a position to offer a severance package to the producers today because of
current obligations and responsibilities, MM will be in a better position in December if there's a
successful bidder on December 7*"^. Kristan brought this possibility up and is reviewing with attorneys.
There was a story ill the Frontiersman today and there Avill likely be a follow-up article with points of
clarification that Kristan spoke with them on. ADN is also doing an article; Kristan expects it to be
accurate and positive. And, she had a phone interview with Channel 2 this afternoon.
Lastly, I've asked Joe Austerman to assist in drafting an Op Ed. Sharon is working on the promotional /
feel-good egg nog stuff.
Kris
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007826
Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:42 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: FW: Education
Governor - I know that you want to see these but in this instance it is more of a
complaint and we can send to Lynne Smith for Education answer if you prefer. Thanks,
Janice
Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state .ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:18 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Education
Web mail from: Ms. Donna Hickle
address: 1580 Pipestone Dr. Wasilla AK 99654
907 376 1043
MESSAGE :
Dear Sarah,
Do you remember Joel Kenworthy, the boy who took your daughter to prom? Wall, he doesn't
look the same. He looks s
PRA GSP01 0007827
Page 1 of 4
Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:48 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'; Colberg; Talis J (LAW)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: RE: FW: recent Richard Carle appointment
This is correct we are vetting these with the tools we have available publicly, but this appears to be a different
Carle than the one reported below.
John Carle that was appointed to the Northern Panel of the Pacific Salmon Commission was bom on 7-1 7-1 973.
Richard Carle could be a relative to John Carle.
Excerpt from the 10/30 Press Release:
^^Pacific Salmon Commission Nortliern Panei
Governor Palin re-appointed Russell Thomas of Ketchikan and John Carle of Hydaburg to the
Northern Panel of the Pacific Salmon Commission,
The Northern Panel provides technical and regulatory advice to the Pacific Salmon Commission, a
U.S.-Canada treaty organization that manages salmon originating in Southeast Alaska/Northern
British Columbia rivers. The panel helps negotiate and implement treaty provisions, offers
recommendations on fish management, and reviews technical data on each nation's annual fishing
and salmon enhancement programs.
Carle is a lifelong Alaskan and commercial fisherman who operates from Hydaburg, fishing for
salmon, herring and shrimp. He was nominated as an alternate for a seat designated for a
member of the public with experience in salmon fisheries. He was originally appointed as an
alternate to the panel in 2005."
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 1:02 PM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: FW: recent Richard Carle appointment
I;ll ask Frank about this... don't know anything about the guy, but assume B and C vetted all names
through court records.
"Colberg, Talis J (LA W) " <talis.colberg@alaska.gov> wrote:
Dear Governor Palin,
This came to me today. It may or may not be the person you
recently appointed. The date of birth would probably give you an idea.
I thou^t it better to pass it on than not. Talis
Original Message
From: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:08 AM
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007828
Page 2 of 4
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Subject: RE: recent Richard Carle appointment
Talis Colberg,
Richard Carle DOB 8-9-64 is currently facing the following charges that
I am aware of:
Stalking in the 2nd Degree
Violating Conditions of Release
PTRP for an underlying Assault4DV
Richard Carle DOB 10-27-68 is currently facing these charges:
Driving With License Revoked (2 separate charges) '
Felony DWI
Violating Conditions of Release
Also, James Scott is handling both of these cases. He might be able to
provide more information. He is in a jury trial today - so he will be
busy for most of the day today.
Also, again, I am not trying to poke my nose where it does not belong.
If this is something I should butt-out of, just let me know. I only
recognized the name, and thought it might be information that tiie people
who appointed Richard Carle might want to know.
If you need ans^thing else, please let me know.
Nick
Original Message
From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
Subject: Re: recent Richard Carle appointment
What are they being prosecuted for? Talis.
Original Message
From: Polasky, Nick A (LAW)
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: TueNov 13 10:42:52 2007
Subject: recent Richard Carle appointment
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007829
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Talis Colberg,
Just wanted to drop a short line regarding a recent appointment made by
Gov. Palin. Richard Carle of Hydaburg (on located on Prince of Wales
Island, near Ketchikan) was appointed to the Northern Panel of the
PaciJBc Saknon Commission. I'm not sure who this individual is, but we
are currently prosecuting two different Richard Carles.
One is Richard S. Carle, date of birth 10-27-1968.
The other is Richard Carle, date of birth 8-9-1964. This individual is
from Prince of Wales Island, so this might be the same individual Gov.
Palin appointed.
Just wanted to give you an FYI. It is none of my business how Gov.
Palin makes appointments, or if this information is relevant, but I
thought I would pass it along jiist in case it might be something that
could save Gov. Palin a future situation. Feel free to disregard if
this is not important.
Hope you are doing well.
Nick
Nicholas Polasky
Assistant District Attorney
415 Main Street, Room 304
Ketchikan, AK 99901
telephone: (907) 225-6128
8/25/2009
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fax: (907) 225-3917
email: iiick.polasky@alaska.gov
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: Linda Holzman [lindalu@alaska.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:42 PM
To: Stroman; Ronald A (DOT)
Cc: Ruaro; Randall P (GOV); Fullerton; Jack F (DOT); Devon; Kurt E (DOT); jccklk@ac3alaska.net;
Richards; Frank T (DOT); Von Scheben; Leo (DOT); Palln; Sarain H (GOV); michael.a.cirillo@1aa.gov
Subject: Re: Willow Lake con-ection to paragraph 5
Ron,
You stated that it was never the intent of the DOT to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone
the land around the lake to minimize incompatible uses (AS 02.25.030-050). However, you did use that
threat against us (the private property owners) at every public meeting at the Willow Community Center
with exception of the last meeting on October 1 0, 2007. And if you remember the meeting chaired by
Senator Huggins was recorded.
Ron, you said at the last meeting our land is safe during this administration but you could not speak for
future administrations. Is your attached email stating something different?
Are you against management of the lake reverting to DNR? From the information received at the last
meeting (October 10, 2007), federal funding maybe an issue. However, it was stated that DOT has never
spent federal funding on the lake, federal funding has been spent only across the Parks Highway on the
upland airport for snow removal (I believe this is what was said). Does DOT receive additional federal
funding by keeping Willow Lake under DOT? If so, how much and from what agency does it come?
Since DOT has informed us of their authority we have no choice but to do all we can to retain our property
rights and our historical uses of the lake. The only way I can see this happening is for DOT to relinquish
management responsibility of the lake. If there is another way please tell me? How can DOT justify
keeping ILMT (Interagency Land Management Transfer ) Identified as ADL 18500, when DOTs own
Willow Airport Plan signed and dated February 19, 2003, clearly states (paragraph 'L') Willow Lake is not
suitable to develop as a seaplane base/airport? My next question is how can you create a LAKE PLAN
without creating a SEAPLANE BASE/AIRPORT?
The historical use of Willow Lake as been for recreational purposes only, with one small air taxi operating
(similar to other lakes managed by DNR, i.e. Long Lake, Big Lake and Horseshoe Lake, etc.). Willow
Lake has developed as a recreational lake not a seaplane base. DOT has not managed Willow Lake
since the transfer of management authority by the ILMT. Consequently, Willow Lake developed as a
recreational lake, not a seaplane base/airport.
Again, it appears that the only solution for all users is for management of Willow Lake to revert back to
DNR, thusly allowing all uses including Willow Air Taxi and private watercraft. Under DNR our property
rights would be protected. Currently, other lakes and rivers in the STATE that Willow Air Taxi operates
on are likely under DNR management. So why not Willow Lake? When Willow Air Taxi takeoffs out of
Willow Lake they have to land on other lakes or rivers and those are likely managed by DNR.
Thank-you for your time and 1 hope your support.
Linda-Lou Holzman
907 346-3421
— Original Message —
From: Stroman. Ronald A fDOTI
To: Linda Holzman
Cc: Palin. Sarah H (GOV) ; Von Scheben. Leo (DOT) ; Richards. Frank T (DOT) ;
iccklk@acsalaska.net : Devon. Kurt E (DOT) : Fullerton. Jack F (DOT) : Ruaro. Randall P (GOV)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: VVfillow Lake
11/9/2009
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Page 2 of 5
Good morning Linda.
I'm sorry I didn't get bacl< to you sooner but I was in Juneau last week. Linda, we are going through the public
process for adoption of a "Lake Use Plan' as you should have been aware from attending the last public
meeting. Cheryl Fuglestad is the Willow Lake Compromise Committee Chairperson. She, on behalf of the
landowners, submitted a proposal which we used as a basis for the plan that was submitted back to the
Committee. I'm sorry if you didn't directly receive the Committee's draft or the draft sent to the Committee.
We (the Committee and the State) wanted to get something down in print that gives us a starting point for
negotiations. We felt that the plan needed to get closer to ready, before we disseminated to every landowner
and aviation user for their input I have received comment from the Committee on our reworked version and I
will be contacting Cheryl tomorrow to discuss the plan. If needs be, we will set up a working meeting to hash
out details of a plan. If you'd like to participate please let me or Cheryl know.
The department's authority to initiate and Implement a plan for use of the lake can be found under:
AS 02.10.010. Supervision over aeronautics and communication regulations: (b) "The department shall,
whenever it considers the action necessary in tfie interest of general safety or the safety of those engaged in
aeronautics, adopt regulations establishing minimum standards with which ail air navigation facilities shall
comply, and shall adopt and enforce regulations to safeguard from accident and to protect the safety of persons
operating or using aircraft and persons and property on the ground, and to develop and promote aeronautics
and communications in the State...."
AS 02.15.020. Powers of department: (a), "The department may perform acts, issue and amend orders, and
adopt reasonable general or special regulations and procedures, and establish minimum standards, consistent
with the provisions of this chapter, as it considers necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.";
AS 02.15.060. Establishment, operation, and maintenance: "The department may plan, establish, construct,
enlarge, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect, and police airports and air navigation facilities within the
state."
Linda, it was never the intent of the department to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone the land
around the lake to minimize incompatible land uses (AS 02.25.030-050). What were originally presented by the
department's aviation design group were altematives. One of the alternatives was to formalize runways on the
lake and if that were to occur, then the department would be faced with purchasing certain properties around the
lake. This alternative has been removed from consideration.
Personally, I'd like for the issue to be resolved at the local level. I was hoping that the land owners and the
aviation users could come to an accord without the department's involvement. While I appreciate that people
want this matter to go away, I don't see that happening without a written plan. Hopefully, this will be
accomplished before year end. With your knowledge of land rights, your assistance to make this plan wor1<
would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.
Ron Stroman
Chief, Statewide Aviation Leasing
Division of Aviation
Ph. 907-344-2695
Fax 907-269-0489
Cell 907-240-8295
From: Linda Holzman [mailto:lindalu@alaska.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Stroman, Ronald A (DOT)
Cc: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Willow Lake
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007833
Page 3 of 5
Ron,
I've read your proposed Willow lake plan that you sent to Cheryl Fuglestad and no other property owners (that I
know of, please corect me if I am wrong). It sounds very much like a plan that is written for one air taxi
operator. It pretty much destroys the historical use of the lake. At this point we truly question your authority to
change the historical use of Willow Lake. Please provide us with the documentation from your Commissioner as
to your authority to create a lake plan with no public process.
Ron you should know that there is a process in place that the State of Alaska requires when State
Agencies decide to make area plans/lake plans and the process involves many things, one of which is
a committee of more than one person. This is necessary because plans restrict uses of State owned
land/water and all of the public need to have the opportunity to give their comments. IF DOT would
have informed the public in 1964 of these potential water restrictions and DOT's eminent domain
authority as DNR requested by letter dated August 11, 1964 we more than likely would not be having
this discussion. Public Notice was Ignored in 1964 and it appears DOT is trying to ignore the public
process again. One person is not the public.
Alaska Statutes were written for a reason. DOT needs to comply.
Again, the threat for DOT to use eminent domain to take our properties needs to go away. Hopefully
you have discussed this very big problem with your department heads and have more of an answer
than we don't have to worry about our property be taken during this administration, however who
knows what the next 4 years will bring. That of course is not a satisfactory answer to me and others.
Please inform me if you can be of any help or have any answers that can make me smile.
Thanks, Linda-Lou Holzman 346-3421
— Original Message —
From: Stroman. Ronald A fOOT^
To: Linda Holzman
Co: Palin. Sarah H (GOV^ ; Von Scheben. Leo (DOT^ ; Richards. Frank T (DOT^ : iccklk@,acsalaska.net :
Devon. Kurt E (DOT^ : Fullerton. Jack F fPOT) : Ruaro. Randall P fGONO
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: Willow Lake
Good morning Linda.
I'm son7 I didn't get back to you sooner but I was in Juneau last week. Linda, we are going through the public
process for adoption of a 'Lake Use Plan' as you should have been aware from attending the last public
meeting. Cheryl Fuglestad is the Willow Lake Compromise Committee Chairperson. She, on behalf of the
landowners, submitted a proposal which we used as a basis for the plan that was submitted back to the
Committee. I'm sorry if you didn't directly receive the Committee's draft or the draft sent to the Committee.
We (the Committee and the State) wanted to get something down in print that gives us a starting point for
negotiations. We felt that the plan needed to get closer to ready, before we disseminated to every landowner
and aviation user for their input 1 have received comment from the Committee on our reworked version and I
will be contacting Cheryl tomorrow to discuss the plan. If needs be, we will set up a working meeting to hash
out details of a plan. If you'd like to partidpate please let me or Cheryl know.
The department's authority to initiate and implement a plan for use of the lake can be found under:
AS 02.10.010. Supervision over aeronautics and communication regulations: (b) "The department shall,
whenever It considers the action necessary in the interest of general safety or the safety of those engaged in
aeronautics, adopt regulations establishing minimum standards with which all air navigation fecilities shall
comply, and shall adopt and enforce regulations to safeguard from accident and to protect the safety of persons
operating or using aircraft and persons and property on the ground, and to develop and promote aeronautics
and communications in the State...."
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007834
Page 4 of 5
AS 02.15.020. Powers of department : (a), "The department may periderm acts, issue and amend orders, and
adopt reasonable general or special regulations and procedures, and establish minimum standards, consistent
with the provisions of this chapter, as it considers necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter";
AS 02.15.060. Establishment, operation, and maintenance : "The department may plan, establish, construct,
enlarge, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect, and police airports and air navigation facilities within the
state."
Linda, it was never the intent of the department to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone the land
around the lake to minimize incompatible land uses (AS 02.25.030-050). What were originally presented by the
department's aviation design group were alternatives. One of the alternatives was to formalize runways on the
lake and if that were to occur, then the department would be faced with purchasing certain properties around the
lake. This alternative has been removed from consideration.
Personally, I'd like for the issue to be resolved at the local level. I was hoping that the land owners and the
aviation users could come to an accord without the department's involvement. While i appreciate that people
want this matter to go away, I don't see that happening without a written plan. Hopefully, this will be
accomplished before year end. With your knowledge of land rights, your assistance to make this plan work
would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.
Ron Stroman
Chief, Statewide Aviation Leasing
Division of Aviation
Ph. 907-344-2695
Fax 907-269-0489
Cell 907-240-8295
From: Linda Holzman [mailto:lindalu@alaska.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Stroman, Ronald A (DOT)
Cc: Palln, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Willow Lake
Ron,
I've read your proposed Willow lake plan that you sent to Cheryl Fuglestad and no other property owners (that I
know of, please correct me if I am wrong). It sounds very much like a plan that is written for one air taxi
operator. It pretty much destroys the historical use of the lake. At this point we truly question your authority to
change the historical use of Willow Lake. Please provide us with the documentation from your Commissioner as
to your authority to create a lake plan with no public process.
Ron you should know that there is a process in place that the State of Alaska requires when State
Agencies decide to make area plans/lake plans and the process involves many things, one of which is
a committee of more than one person. This is necessary because plans restrict uses of State owned
land/water and ail of the public need to have the opportunity to give their comments. IF DOT would
have informed the public in 1964 of these potential water restrictions and DOT's eminent domain
authority as DNR requested by letter dated August 11, 1964 we more than likely would not be having
this discussion. Public Notice was ignored in 1964 and it appears DOT is trying to ignore the public
process again. One person is not the public.
Alaska Statutes were written for a reason. DOT needs to comply.
Again, the threat for DOT to use eminent domain to take our properties needs to go away. Hopefully
you have discussed this very big problem with your department heads and have more of an answer
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007835
P^e5of5
than we don't have to worry about our property be taken during this administration, however who
l<nows what the next 4 years will bring. That of course is not a satisfactory answer to me and others.
Please inform me if you can be of any help or have any answers that can make me smile.
Thanks, Linda-Lou Holzman 346-3421
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007836
Page 1 of 3
Unknown
From: Linda Holzman [linclalu@aiaska.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 :03 PIW
To; Stroman; Ronald A (DOT)
Cc: Ruaro; Randall P (GOV); Fullerton; Jack F (DOT); Devon; Kurt E (DOT); jccklk@acsalaska.net;
Richards; Frank T (DOT); Von Scheben; Leo (DOT); Palin; Sarali H (GOV); micliael.a.cirillo@faa.gov
Subject: Re: Willow Lake
Ron,
You stated that it was never the intent of the DOT to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone
the land around the lake to minimize incompatible uses (AS 02.25.030-050). However, you did use that
threat against us (the private property owners) at every public meeting at the Willow Community Center
with exception of the last meeting on October 10, 2007. And if you remember the meeting chaired by
Senator Huggins was recorded.
Ron, you said at the last meeting our land is safe during this administration but you could not speak for
future administrations. Is your attached email stating something different?
Are you against management of the lake reverting to DNR? From the infonnation received at the last
meeting (October 10, 2007), federal funding maybe an issue. However, it was stated that DOT has never
spent federal funding on the lake, federal funding has been spent only across the Parks Highway on the
upland airport for snow removal (I believe this is what was said). Does DOT receive additional federal
funding by keeping Willow Lake under DOT? If so, how much and from what agency does it come?
Since DOT has informed us of their authority we have no choice but to do all we can to retain our property
rights and our historical uses of the lake. The only way I can see this happening is for DOT to relinquish
management responsibility of the lake. If there is another way please tell me? How can DOT justify
keeping ILMT (Interagency Land Management Transfer ) identified as ADL 1 8500, when DOT'S own
Willow Airport Plan signed and dated Febaiary 19, 2003, clearly states (paragraph 'L') Willow Lake is not
suitable to develop as a seaplane base/airport? My next question is how can you create a LAKE PLAN
without creating a SEAPLANE BASE/AIRPORT?
The historical use of Willow Lake as been for recreational purposes only, with one small air taxi operating
(similar to other lakes managed by DNR, i.e. Long Lake, Big Lake and Horseshoe Lake, etc.). DOT illow
Lake has developed as a recreational lake not a seaplane base, has not managed Willow Lake since the
transfer of management authority by the ILMT. Consequently, W
Again, it appears that the only solution for all users is for management of Willow Lake to revert back to
DNR, thusly allowing all uses including VWIlow Air Taxi and private watercraft. Under DNR our property
rights would be protected. Cun^ntly, other lakes and rivers in the STATE that Willow Air Taxi operates
on are likely under DNR management. Sowhy not Willow Lake? When Willow Air Taxi takeoffs out of
Willow Lake they have to land on other lakes or rivers and those are likely managed by DNR.
Thank-you for your time and I hope your support.
Linda-Lou Holzman
907 348-3421
— Original Message —
From: Stroman. Ronald A (DOT>
To: Linda Holzman
Cc: Palin. Sarah H (GOV) : Von Scheben. Leo (DOT) : Richards. Frank T (DOT) :
iccklk@acsalaska.net : Devon. Kurt E (DOT) : Fullerton. Jack F (DOT) : Ruaro. Randall P (GOV)
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: Willow Lake
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007837
Page 2 of 3
Good morning Linda.
I'm sorry I didn't get bacl< to you sooner but I was in Juneau last week. Linda, we are going through the public
process for adoption of a 'Lal<e Use Plan' as you should have been aware from attending the last public
meeting. Cheryl Fugiestad Is the Willow Lake Compromise Committee Chairperson. She, on behalf of the
landowners, submitted a proposal which we used as a basis for the plan that was submitted back to the
Committee. I'm sorry if you didn't directly receive the Committee's draft or the draft sent to the Committee.
We (the Committee and the State) wanted to get something down in print that gives us a starting point for
negotiations. We felt that the plan needed to get closer to ready, before we disseminated to every landowner
and aviation user for their input, i have received comment from the Committee on our reworked version and 1
will be contacting Cheryl tomorrow to discuss the plan. If needs be, we will set up a working meeting to hash
out details of a plan. If you'd like to participate please let me or Cheryl know.
The department's authority to initiate and implement a plan for use of the lake can be found under
AS 02.10.010. Supervision over aeronautics and communication regulations : (b) "The department shall,
whenever it considers the action necessary in the interest of general safety or the safety of those engaged in
aeronautics, adopt regulations establishing minimum standards with which all air navigation facilities shall
comply, and shall adopt and enforce regulations to safeguard from accident and to protect the safety of persons
operating or using aircraft and persons and property on the ground, and to develop and promote aeronautics
and communications in the State...."
AS 02.15.020. Powers of deoartment : (a), "The department may perform acts, issue and amend orders, and
adopt reasonable general or special regulations and procedures, and establish minimum standards, consistent
with the provisions of this chapter, as it considers necessary to canry out the provisions of this chapter.";
AS 02.15.060. Establishment, operation, and maintenance : 'The department may plan, establish, construct,
enlarge, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect, and police airports and air navigation facilities within the
state."
Linda, it was never the intent of the department to invoke 'eminent domain' over landowners or zone the land
around the lake to minimize incompatible land uses (AS 02.25.030-050). What were originally presented by the
department's aviation design group were altematives. One of the alternatives was to formalize runways on the
lake and if that were to occur, then the department would be faced with purchasing certain properties around the
lake. This alternative has been removed from consideration.
Personally, I'd like for the issue to be resolved at the local level. I was hoping that the land owners and the
aviation users could come to an accord without the department's involvement While I appreciate that people
want this matter to go away, I don't see that happening without a written plan. Hopefully, this will be
accomplished before year end. With your knowledge of land rights, your assistance to make this plan work
would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for taking the time to let me know your thoughts.
Ron Stroman
Chief, Statewide Aviation Leasing
Division of Aviation
Ph. 907-344-2695
Fax 907-269-0489
Cell 907-240-8295
From: Linda Holzman [mailto:lindalu@alaska.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Stroman, Ronald A (DOT)
Cc: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Willow Lake
Ron,
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007838
Page 3 of 3
I've read your proposed Willow lake plan that you sent to Cheryl Fuglestad and no other property owners (that I
know of, please correct me if I am wrong). It sounds very much like a plan that is written for one air taxi
operator. It pretty much destroys the historical use of the lake. At this point we truly question your authority to
change the historical use of Willow Lake. Please provide us with the documentation from your Commissioner as
to your authority to create a lake plan with no public process.
Ron you should know that there is a process in place that the State of Alaska requires when State
Agencies decide to make area plans/lake plans and the process involves nnany things, one of which is
a committee of more than one person. This is necessary because plans restrict uses of State owned
land/water and all of the public need to have the opportunity to give their comments. IF DOT would
have informed the public in 1964 of these potential water restrictions and DOT's eminent domain
authority as DNR requested by letter dated August 11, 1964 we more than likely would not be having
this discussion. Public Notice was ignored in 1964 and it appears DOT is trying to ignore the public
process again. One person is not the public.
Alaska Statutes were written for a reason. DOT needs to comply.
Again, the threat for DOT to use eminent domain to take our properties needs to go away. Hopefully
you have discussed this very big problem with your department heads and have more of an answer
than we don't have to worry about our property be taken during this administration, however who
knows what the next 4 years will bring. That of course is not a satisfactory answer to me and others.
Please inform me if you can be of any help or have any answers that can make me smile.
Thanks, Linda-Lou Holzman 346-3421
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007839
Page 1 of 4
Unknown
From: Leschper, Beth (GOV) [beth.leschper@alaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:12 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Parnell; Sean R (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV); Morgan; Katryn L (GOV)
Subject: Right to Life Dinner Speech
Governor.
We got some internal wires crossed and I didn't realize that someone else was working on a speech.
Here's a draft copy that Talis Colberg has reviewed.
If the Lt. Governor, or Kate, has any suggestions or edits, they can send to me and I'll get you a final
copy.
Beth Leschper
Deputy Communications Director
Office of the Governor
State of Alaska
907-465-3443
907-723-1321
Privileged or Personal i\/laterial Redacted
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Privileged or Personal IVIaterial Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahcx).conri
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:06 PM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Have Kate cont this- as I didn't even know Beth was working on it... And I'd rather have
heart- felt short/sweet Kate comments. Thanks 1
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) " <sr.parnell®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:02:21
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Hi,
I haven't mentioned this to Kate yet as I wanted to get some direction from you first.
Kate was under the impression that you wanted her to write comments for your (and my)
Right to Life Banquet appearance around November 24th. As I understand it, Beth has
already drafted your comments, obtained the AG's input, etc. [I've been talking solely
with Talis.] Seems like I need to take Kate off the project at this point but I wondered
if you had other designs in mind before I talk with her???
Sean
PRA GSP01 0007844
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:04 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Coffee?
Good deal . Wanted to check on ya
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 12:01:29 2007
Subject: Re: Coffee?
I ' m gone for a few hrs
Original Message
From : Ivy Frye
] To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 14, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: Coffee?
I ' 11 leave it at the front desk if you want some .
Sent from my BlackBerry*' device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007845
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Franci Havemelster
Subject: Re: personal favor
Got it. We'll do it. And I do remember him! He also wrote for AK Magazine and a few other
publications.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: Franci Havemeister <francihav®yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:44:05
To: Sarah Pal in <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
Subject: personal favor
Hi Sarah,
I received this request from my mom about Ron Wendt, I don't know if you remember him but
he was the janitor at Wasilla Jr and High School when we were in school there. He passsed
away this past Saturday and was very proud and vocal of the fact that he knew you when you
were young. His wife contacted my Mom and asked that I contact you and see if you could
possibly write the family a letter of condolence. It would mean a lot to them.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Franci
PRA GSP01 0007846
Original Message
From: Peggy Zschiegner [inailto:peggyz®rogerslisa.com <mailto:peggyz®rogerBhsa.com> ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Havemeister, Franci A (DNR)
Subject: Ron Wendt
Hi Franci,
I received a call from Bonnie (Ron's wife) informing me that he had
passed away on Saturday morning.
Bonnie told me that Ron had always been so proud of the fact that he
knew Sarah and that he was so blessed by her commitment to the State of
Alaska. Ron was a great guy, a gentle giant of a man. He was an
extremely talented writer with hundreds of published articles and books
to his credit.
Bonnie asked me if it would be possible to have you contact Sarah asking
her write to a letter to the Wendt family. Bonnie said it would mean so
much to her, his parents and siblings.
Thanks Hon.
Love , Mom
Bonnie Wendt (Wendt Family)
PO Box 870624
Wasilla, Alaska 99687
ps: I didn't think to get Bonnie's home email. If you need it let me
know.
PRA GSP01 0007847
Unknown
From; gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:01 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Coffee?
I ' m gone for a few hrs
Original Message
From: Ivy Frye
TO: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 14, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: Coffee?
I'll leave it at the front desk if you want some.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:02 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Coffee?
I'll leave it at the front desk if you want some.
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:00 PM
To; 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Bailey; Frank T (GOV); 'fek9wnr@yahoo.com'; Perry; Kristina Y
(GOV)
Subject: Re: early predictions
You're right- i've never known gary to stand up against any of his sen presidents. He talks
a good game tho . . ,
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Bailey, Frank T (GOV); Frye, Ivy J (DOA); Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>; Perry, Kristina Y
(GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 11:57:46 2007
Subject: Re: early predictions
Oh I love it. . . And I think ivy may be right i Don't know about donny or gary Stevens
tho...
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Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey®alaaka.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:51:43
To: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>, gov. sarah@yahoo.com, fekSvmrsyahoo. com,
"Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>
Subject: Re; early predictions
Innnnnnnteresting .
Prediction on timing?
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: ExternalEmailgsp; 'Todd' <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey, Frank
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T (GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 11:50:05 2007
Subject: early predictions
(S) FIN will knock the base tax rate back down to 22.5%
Hollis will offer an amendment on the floor to raise tax rate back up to 25%
The final bill, with 25%, .04 prog, and admin tools including standard deductions, will
pass the Senate 15-4.
NOS!
Green
Huggins
Hoffman
Stedman
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 1 :58 AM
To: Bailey; Frank T (GOV); Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Todd; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: early predictions
Oh I love it... And I think ivy may be right! Don't know about donny or gary Stevens
tho. . .
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Original Message
From: "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:51:43
To:"Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>, gov.sarah@yahoo.eom, fek9wnr@yahoo.eom,
"Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: early predictions
Innnnnnnteresting .
Prediction on timing?
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: ExternalEmailgsp; 'Todd' <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey, Frank
T (GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 11:50:05 2007
Subject: early predictions
(S) FIN will Jcnock the base tax rate back down to 22.5%
Hollis will offer an amendment on the floor to raise tax rate back up to 25%
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The final bill, with 25%, .04 prog, and admin tools including standard deductions, will
pass the Senate 15-4.
NOs:
Green
Huggins
Hoffman
Stedman
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 1 :62 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; 'fek9wnr@yahoo.com'; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Re: early predictions
Innnnniuiterestlng .
Prediction on timing?
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: ExternalKmailgsp; 'Todd' <fek9wnr@yahoo.com>; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey, Frank T
(GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 11:50:05 2007
Subject: early predictions
(S) FIN will knock the base tax rate back dovm to 22.5%
Hollis will offer an amendment on the floor to raise tax rate back up to 25%
The final bill, with 25%, .04 prog, and admin tools including standard deductions, will
pass the Senate 15-4.
NOs:
Green
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HTiggins
Hoffman
Stedman
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 1 :44 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Co: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Fw: personal favor
May we do this ...
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Original Message
From: Franci Havemeister <francihav@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:44:05
To: Sarah Palin «:gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
Subject: personal favor
Hi Sarah,
I received this request from my mom about Ron Wendt". I don't know if you remember him but
he was the janitor at Wasilla Jr and High School when we were in school there. He passsed
away this past Saturday and was very proud and vocal of the fact that he knew you when you
were young. His wife contacted my Mom and asked that I contact you and see if you could
possibly write the family a letter of condolence. It would mean a lot to them.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Franci
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Original Message
From: Peggy Zscliiegner [mailto:peggyz@rogershsa.com <mailto:peggyz@rogersh9a.com> ]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Havemeister, Pranci A (DNR)
Subject: Ron Wendt
Hi Franc i,
I received a call from Bonnie (Ron's wife) informing me that he had
passed away on Saturday morning.
Bonnie told me that Ron had always been so proud of the fact that he
knew Sarah and that he was so blessed by her commitment to the State of
Alaska. Ron was a great guy, a gentle giant of a man. He was an
extremely talented writer with hundreds of published articles and books
to his credit.
Bonnie asked me if it would be possible to have you contact Sarah asking
her write to a letter to the Wendt family. Bonnie said it would mean so
much to her, his parents and siblings.
Thanks Hon.
Love, Mom
Bonnie Wendt (Wendt Family)
PO Box 870624
Wasilla, Alaska 99687
ps: I didn't think to get Bonnie's home email. If you need it let me
know.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 1 :03 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Re: Pillars of America Rotary Event
Pis let him know it 'a only tentative. I kinda doubt I could get out of Juneau at that
time. . .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Mason, Janice L (GOV)" <janice.mason@alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:29:18
To:ExternalEmailgsp. <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Pillars of America Rotary Event
I will add this into scheduling for the February dates. I think due to
session beginning on 01.15,08 that we may not want to confirm this far
in advance as you will not know if you're in Juneau or Wasilla just yet
on those dates . Jamice
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto:gov. sarah®yahoo.cora]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Pillars of America Rotary Event
Am I free this day? If so, I'd do the speaker introductions...
Sent from my BlackBerry (r) device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: David Krigbaum <dave®pip . alaska . com>
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:09:41
To : gov . sarahOyahoo . com
Subject: Pillars of America Rotary Event
HI- I hope I'm not intruding on a personal email address- I got
this from my wife Anne at Wasilla High.
Each year the Rotary groups of Anchorage sponsor Pillars of America.
The event is aimed at high school students and features motivational
speakers who have overcome great hardship or have had unusual
successes in their lives. It exposes the students to some of the
great success stories our nation has to offer.
Last year we had Chief Von Esson, Chief of the New York fire
Department during 9-11 and Kyle Maynard- a quadreplegic who overcame
his handicap to become a college wrestler and successful student.
This year our speakers are Sean Swarner and Mary Quinn. The events
are an hour to an hour and a half and are on February 5th and 21st.
I know Govenor Palin is a proponent of young people and was curious
if she would have an interest in either emceeing or doing speaker
introductions for one of those days.
Thanks for your time and consideration. Dave
David Krigbaum
PIP Printing
Direct (907) 265-7712
Main (907) 274-3584
FAX (907) 274-7477
Email : daveOpip . alaska . com
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 0:23 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Pillars of America Rotary Event
Am r free this day? If so, I'd do the speaker introductions.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: David Krigbaum <dave@pip . alaska . com>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:09:41
To : gov . sarah®yahoo .com
Siibject: Pillars of America Rotary Event
HI- I hope I'm not intruding on a personal email address- I got
this from my wife Anne at Wasilla High.
Each year the Rotary groups of Anchorage sponsor Pillars of America,
The event is aimed at high school students and features motivational
speakers who have overcome great hardship or have had unusual
successes in their lives. It exposes the students to some of the
great success stories our nation has to offer.
Last year we had Chief Von Esson, Chief of the New York fire
Department during 9-ii and Kyle Maynard- a quadreplegic who overcame
his handicap to become a college wrestler and successful student.
This year our speakers are Sean Swarner and Mary Quinn. The events
are an hour to an hour and a half and are on February 5th and 21st.
I know Govenor Palin is a proponent of young people and was curious
if she would have an interest in either eraceeing or doing speaker
introductions for one of those days.
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Thanks for your time and consideration. Dave
David Krigbaum
PIP Printing
Direct (907) 265-7712
Main (907) 274-3584
PAX (907) 274-7477
Email : dave@pip . alaska . com
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From; Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.govl
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:34 AM
To: Wilken; Jessica M (GOV); Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: FW: Oil&Gas
Original Message
From; WebMailSgov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:07 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Oil&Gas
Web mail from: Ms. Janice Rice
address: P.O. Box 32734 Juneau AK 99803
907 586-3749
MESSAGE:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I believe you are doing a great job as our Governor of Akaska!
I support your decision on the 25% profit oil tax....i'ra hoping the Senate will quickly
approve like the House and finally adjourn... so all can enjoy Thanksgiving!!
I also support you in having meetings around Alaska to do Alaska's business and to learn
firat hand about each locations needs, etc.
Jan Rice, senior volimteer in ceramics and exercise at 12th St. Juneau Senior
Center. . .Bazaar Sat.. Nov. 17, 2007 from 9:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. low publicity..
j anrice j uneau@yahoo . com
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:30 AM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: THANK U FOR THE COFFEE!!!
Governor, don't worry about it! I ]aiow how swamped you are right now. I'd love to see
you-any time, but I understand completely that you're focussed on ACES. (I'm on the 10th
floor all day if you do go all the way out of your way- which IS NOT neccessary. I'm more
thaji happy to keep you stocked w coffee.
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . aarah@yahoo . cora>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 07:21:26 2007
Sub j ect : Re : THANK U FOR THE COFFEE ! ! !
May I bring u one this morning? I have an early appt but then can run one over to you.
let me know what time I can interupt.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahsyahoo . com
Date: Wed, X4 Nov 2007 16:01:33
To: "Ivy Frye" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Subject: THANK U FOR THE COFFEE! ! !
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:51 AM
Galvin; Patrick S (DOR); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Leighow; Sharon
W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GO\0
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Frank Bailey
Senate
Come to think about it our three major pieces of legislation: E:hics Reform, AGIA and ACES
all have some down to the wire in this perplexing scenerio that almost leads to panic {or
desperation) by some legislators... all because Senate leadership has chosen to hold on
and "mull" until the last minute. What an unnecessary practice ;:hey're in, as in each case
we've provided enough time and information to allow them a better process and product.
Wonder how long leggies will put up with this frustrating practice caused by any leader.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:41 AM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: MatMaid
Thanks . . .
Be that's not a good practice to deny - media ends up getting it anyway (and rightfully
so), so my choice would bne to disclose.
Original Message
From: K Perry
To : Governor Sarah Palin
To: Tom Irwin
To: K Perry
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Cc: Sharon Leighow
Sent: Nov 14, 2007 6:09 AM
Subject: RE: MatMaid
From what I understand, Carlisle - MM's largest payable - requested that we keep their
information confidential. I will look more into this to make sure I'm not missing anything
because I thought we were only denying that piece and that there was more to their
request ,
Original Message
From : " gov , sarahOyahoo . com " <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: "Tom Irwin" <tom.irwin®alaska.gov>; "K Perry" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>; "Sharon Leighow" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>
Sent: 11/13/2007 10:13 PM
Siibject: MatMaid
Anyone know why "the state" refused to comply with KTUU's FOIA request for MatMaid info?
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:03 PM
To: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Subject: Re: UPDATE
Good. Good
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV) " <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:01:37
To:gov.sarali®yahoo.com, "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <raike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Balash,
Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: UPDATE
Mostly good news from Senate Finance (rate and progressivity) . A few things that will
likely be addressed on the floor.
Original Message
From: Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com' <gov.sarah@yahoo.cora>
Sent: Wed Nov 14 21:25:35 2007
Subject: UPDATE
25 percent Is back in the bill - unanimous consent.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:27 PM
To: Todd; Frank Bailey; Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV); Chuck
Subject: Fw: UPDATE
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:26:29
To;"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Re: UPDATE
Holy! Mil!
Original Message
From: Russ Kelly
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 14, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: UPDATE
25 percent is back in the bill - unanimous consent.
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From:
Sent:
To;
Subject:
Fagerstroiti, Erika (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:43 PM
'gov.8arah@yahoo.com'
FYI Freezer Stuff
Hello!
Just in case you didn't know there's frozen cookie dough in the freezer and a large lemon
cake (restaurant type that you slice as needed) . You can take any of it with you or we
can run stuff up if needed.
Thanks ,
Erika
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6.43 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; 'fek9wnr@yahoo.com'; 'krisandclark@yahoo.com';
■ivyfrye@yahoo.com'
Subject: Article on Pic - going on blog
Haven't seen it, but was just told about an article around a couple pictures received
earlier today.
www . alaskareport . com
Its getting posted on the blog shortly.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:04 PM
To: Frank Bailey; Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Perry; Krlstlna Y (GOV); Todd
Subject: Ktuu's poll tonight re: Senate
Check it out
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:39 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Wagoner on 650
Eddie has a very boring guest on. . .ugh.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
TO: Bailey, Frank T (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) ; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)
Sent: Wed Nov 14 16:36:28 2007
Subject: Re: Wagoner on 650
Right on. . .
Original Message
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
To: K Perry
To: Sharon Leighow
To: Governor Sarah Palin
Sent: Nov 14, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: Wagoner on 650
Sounding optimistic. .. .complimentary to Gov.
Sent from my BlaclcBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:17 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
I Subject: Wagoner on 650
Sounding optimistic .... complimentary to Gov.
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:02 PWI
To: •gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Hi,
I haven't mentioned this to Kate yet as I wanted to get some direction from you first. Kate was
under the impression that you wanted her to write comments for your (and my) Right to Life
Banquet appearance around November 24*^. As I understand it, Beth has already drafted your
comments, obtained the AG's input, etc. [I've been talking solely with Talis.] Seems like I need
to take Kate off the project at this point but I wondered if you had other designs In mind before
I talk with her???
Sean
8/26/2009
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=iJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:02 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: Governor's Regional Office to Close
That's awesome. Just wanted to let you know.
8/26/2009
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) 1/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wtednesday, November 14, 2007 3:25 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: staffing issues, yuck
1. I went to talk with Kate about the RTL speech after getting your last email. I found out
more of the story. She said that several days ago Beth had told her she had heard that
Kate would have a draft ready for you and she directed Kate to send her a copy and she
would clear it with Talis before giving it to you. Kate let her know that she had a couple
projects due this week for me (I had/have about eight to ten speaking appearances
between last Saturday and this Friday), that she was almost complete with and that she
would tum her attention to the RTL remarks at the end of this week (Friday).
2. After the call, Beth then apparently drafted remarks, shot them over to Talis, who let me
know that they had come over as I asked him for thoughts related to what Kate might
draft.
3. I expect now that Talis told Mike or Beth that he had sent Talis had sent Beth's draft
remarks (without his changes) to me but I haven't shared and don't plan to share
them with Kate. For you, I just want her natural work product and ideas to flow. (I'll look it
over for precision and the like but I'm trying to keep her free of other influences so we
see what she can do.)
4. Mike T. just called in and talked with Kate. He said that Beth had already drafted
something, etc. She told him the same message — ^that you had asked her, that she is
happy to do this for you, and that she would get to it so you had plenty of time to review
and make changes.
I'm just going to have Kate do it as you requested, I'll send the remarks directly to you so you
can use it, merge it with what Beth has done, or chuck it— just thought you should know what
the trail looks like around us on this one.
Sean
8/24/2009
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 5:37 PM
To: 'Sarah Palln'
Subject: sJBve
Just talked to Steve. He said, "I just talked to your 2 favorite women." I said, "gov.. .and who's my other favorite?"
I drew a complete blank— he had to give in and tell me who else he talked to.
Anyway, he went on to say, "Lyda said the governor asked her if she likes white meat or dark meat. Do you
know where they're getting together for Thanksgiving dinner?" I almost fell out of my chair.. .and then realized he
was kidding and said to him, "Yah, they're both coming over to my house." ...he almost fell out of his chair! HA
Anyway, he was left with the impression (after talking to LG) you guys are old friends and neighbors (like walking
distance/borrow sugar type of neighbors) and that the media is blowing "the feud" out of proportion.
First of all, I wouldn't want to walk from your house to Lyda's— it would take all day. And second of all, if by
friends Lyda means she liked trying to boss her around when she was mayor, then yes they were friends. I was
joking of course, but he got a kick out of it.. .and now knows I'll never believe him again : )
8/24/2009
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From: Ruaro, Randall P (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=RPRUAR0]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:27 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Leschper Beth (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Seldovia Village Tribe Letter / Media issue Channel 2
Governor:
There is an issue with the Seldovia Village Tribe. The Tribe is refusing to sign the standard waiver of tribal
sovereign immunity that is required when receiving state funds to administer grants. I believe the waiver is
required by statute or DHSS regulation.
The grant funds in this case are $30,000 for a seniors meals program. The Tribe's position is that if s assets
should not be put at risk in a lawsuit by a waiver of immunity for such a small grant In a letter dated October 29,
2007, the Tribe asks you to accept a substitute such as naming the state as an insured, or simply quit requiring
waivers any longer from Tribes for grants under $100,000.
Channel 2 has contacted DHSS and been sent a copy of the Tribe's October 29. 2007 letter. I also believe DHSS
told the reporter that these types of waivers have been required as a condition of receiving grant funds for many
years and the requirements are in statute or regulation or both. I am not sure if this will develop into an actual
story.
1 am meeting with Talis, Monica, and DHSS personnel tomon-ow to discuss.
Randy
8/24/2009
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From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 -.32 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.corn'
Subject: RDC speech
I shared a platform at the RDC conference today with Jim Bowles, Doug Suttles (BP), Mitch
(Marathon's new Alaska person), and an exec from Anadarko. It was a full house at
the RDC. My speech focused only briefly on ACES, AGIA, and then went to spending policy
and state pennitting challenges (water/mining initiatives), and potential ESA listings (as threats
to the federal permitting processes).
Bottom line...|Privileged or Personal Material Redact ed
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted [Bowles threw these numbers out to the
crowd. He said that under PPT this year, they figure the state would get $3.4 billion, under
ACES about 4.2 billion, and under the House version about 5.1 billion.
I did mention publicly that I hoped the legislature would moderate its stance and come bade
closer to your original proposal (though it appears there's little chance of ttiat happening).
When Ch 2 asked if you supported the House version, I said that you were pleased with
progress in the House moving a bill over to the Senate and that the Administration sees this as
an ongoing conversation until both the House and Senate action is complete.
8/25/2009
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Unknown
From: Frye. Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 1 :50 AM
To: 'Sarah Palin'; Todd'; Peny; Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey; Frank T (GOV)
Subject: early predictions
(S) FIN will knock the base tax rate back down to 22.5%
Hollis will ofFer an amendnnent on the floor to raise tax rate back up to 25%
The final bill, with 25%, .04 prog, and admin tools Including standard deductions, will pass the Senate 15-4.
NOs:
Green
Huggins
Hoffman
Stedman
8/28/2009
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Page 1 of 1
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Wednesday, November 1 4, 2007 4; 1 3 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'; Todd'; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Bailey; Frank T (GOV)
Subject: Claire Fitzpatrick, BP
Stedman:
What do we need to do to move this bill forward?
Fitzpatrick:
Mr. Chairman, thaf s like asking what do you need to move a car forward, the engine or the wheels? You need
them both. . . I'm sorry I can't be more upbeat
Ivy Frye:
I'm Sony too! Let's move this bill to the floor already!'!
8/31/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1 :32 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: RDC speech
shared a platform at the RDC conference today wKh Jim Bowles, Doug Sutlles (BP), Mitch
(Marathon's new Alaska person), and an exec from Anadarko. It was a full house at
the RDC. My speech focused only briefly on ACES, AGIA, and then went to spending policy
and state permitting challenges (water/mining initiatives), and potential ESA listings (as threats
to the federal pennitting processes).
Bottom line.., Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted jBowles threw these numbers out to the
crowd. He said that under PP r this year, they figure the state would get $3.4 billion, under
ACES about 4.2 billion, and under the House version about 5.1 billion.
I did mention publicly that I hoped the legislature would moderate its stance and come back
closer to your original proposal (though it appears there's little chance of that happening).
When Ch 2 asked if you supported the House version, I said that you were pleased with
progress in the House moving a bill over to the Senate and that the Administration sees this as
an ongoing conversation until both the House and Senate action is complete.
8/26/2009
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P^elofl
Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=JLMAS0N]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:32 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: FW: Educational Facilities Planners Conference
Governor - i had to fonward this to you! We can print on photo stocit if you'd like. Janice
From: David Moore [mailto:clmoore@archftectsalaska.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:04 PM
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Subject: RE; Educational Fadliti^ Planners Conference
Thanks for trying. I know she is busy, especially with the special session now going on. Just for fun, next time
you see here show her the attached picture. She is in the lower left hand comer of the picture. Her mom and dad
are in the back. This was taken at our house in the 1960's when she lived in Skagway. She has enough
business going on, she might enjoy a lighthearted moment in her busy day.
David Moore
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [mailto;ianice.mason@aiaska.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:29 AM
To: dmoore@archftectsalaska.com
Subject: FW: Educational Fadlities Planners Conference
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:26 AM
To: dmoore@archltectslaska.com
Cc: Buck, Hannah K (GOV)
Subject: Educational Fadlities Planners Conference
Dear Mr. Moore:
Thank you for the invitation for Governor Paiin to speak at the Educational Facilities Planners Conference on
December 7 through December 8, 2007. The Governor sends her regrets as she wrill not be available on those
dates. Thank you again and please email anytime with future scheduling requests.
Janice Mason
Scheduler/Executive Secretary
Office of Governor Sarah Palin
(907) 465-3500
(907) 465-3889 (fax)
janice.mason@alaska.aov
8/27/2009
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Unknown
From: Mason. Janice L (GOV) [;o=SOA/OU=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:15 PM
To: govpalin@alaska.gov
Subject: FW: Good Morning Governor Sarah Palin,
Greetings for you and your family. Janice
From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:01 PM
To: Lee, Pamela R (HSS)
Subject: RE: Good looming Governor Sarah Palin,
Thank you for writing to Alaska Govemor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or information you have sent
are important and valuable to the Govemor. Although she is unable to respond to each and every email herself,
your message has been received and is being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best
address your need, suggestion, or comment.
From: Lee, Pamela R (HSS)
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:33 AM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Good Morning Govemor Sarah Palin,
I wish you and yours a Beautiful Thanks Giving and
Christmas HoHday 2007.
I know how much you will miss your Soldier in Training, as
My Son Dennis was there at Fort Benning, Georgia, last year,
and now he is up at Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, and is
training to drive a Stiyker vehicle.
I hope and pray for Peace, and I'm glad to be Blessed living in
the Home of the Free, Because of the Brave.
God Bless you and yours.
Sincerely,
Pamela Rene Lee,
8/27/2009
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:46 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: RE: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Will do . Thanks .
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com [mailto : gov . sarahdyahoo . com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:06 PM
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Have Kate cont this- as I didn't even know Beth was working on it... And I'd rather have
heart-felt short/sweet Kate coimnents. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr .parnell8alaska.gov>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:02:21
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Kate and Right to Life Speech
Hi,
I haven't mentioned this to Kate yet as I wanted to get some direction from you first.
Kate was under the impression that you wanted her to write coitiments for your (and my)
Right to Life Banquet appearance around November 24th. As I understand it, Beth has
already drafted your comments, obtained the AG's input, etc. [I've been talking solely
with Talis.] Seems like I need to take Kate off the project at this point but I wondered
if you had other designs in mind before I talk with her???
Sean
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Unknown
From: Sarah Palin [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:54 PM
To: Smith; Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fwd: FW: Education
would u find out if she's really a teacher in the valley?
Note: forwarded message attached.
11/9/2009
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From: Dwight Kramer Idwimar@gd.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:34 AM
To: Colberg; Talis J (LAW)
Cc: Governor Saraii Palin (GOV sponsored); Parnell; Sean R (GOV); Nizicli; IVIichael A (GOV); Mike
Clienault; Wagoner; Tom (LAA)
Subject: DNR 50hp Regulation Pad<age Legal Questions
Dear Attorney General Colberg,
Please see the advanced copy of a letter from our organization, Kenai Area Fisherman's Coalition
(attached) regarding legal questions in reference to certain aspect of DNR's Kenai River 50hp Regulation
Package. We believe there may be constitutional and state statute aspects that require further review.
There is a portion of these changes that call for the removal of a select group of citizens from the
resource that we find unjustifiable and arbitrary. We have tried to resolve these issues with DNR
leadership without success.
We would appreciate further scrutiny of these changes before your agency signs off on them.
Thank You,
Dwight Kramer
KAFC Chairman
283-1054
11/9/2009
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:14 AM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Perry; Kristina Y
(GOV); Leighovi^; Sharon W (GOV); Leschpen Beth (GOV); Nizich; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Strictly confidential.Good news!!
Thank the Lord . . .
Joe- let them Icnow we're delighted to publicly say "great job"....
Thanks ! ! !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:52:25
To : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>, "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)"
<russ.kelly®alaska.gov>, "Irwin, Tom E (DNR)" <tom.irwin@alaska.gov>, "Perry, Kristina Y
(GOV)" <kris.perry®alaska.gov>, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)"
<sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth.leschper®alaska.gov>, "NiziCh,
Michael A (GOV)" <niike.nizich@alaska..gov>
Subject: Fw: Strictly confidential.Good newsl!
Original Message
From: Wheeler, Dennis <DWheeler®coeur.cora>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV); Katz, John W (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 00:35:00 2007
Subject: strictly confidential.Good news!!
Dear Governor Pal in
I am pleased to advise that agreement has been reached with Seacc et al for an
alternate tailings plan for Kensington. You will be receiving news release to be issued
tomorrow at close of market. I am writing to personally thank you for all you have done to
stand by us and support Kensington, a truly sound environmental model for future resource
development in Alaska!! 'The USPS and State agencies have pledged to make approval process
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expedited and a priority. I may need to call on. you to obtain the. same support from EPA
and COE.
Thanks again and I will call following the release. Would you be willing to publicly
thank the parties Coeur d' 'Alene Mines and Seacc, Sierra Club and Lynn Canal for working
diligently for all Alaskans following your summit meeting?
j Also could you call us together again first week in December 4 or 5 with your
I Commissioners to urge us to move quickly to provide more jobs with mine producing and
j pledge support in prioritizing any new required State approvals? Thank you again. Dennis E.
i Wheeler CEO
Best regards
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From:
Sent:
To:
Cc:
Subject-.
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:52 AM
Katz; John W (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW)
Tillery; Craig J (LAW); Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Re: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
I agree- it would be great to have their support on this.
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkat2@AIiASKADC.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:17:25
To: "Talis J (LAW) Colberg" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>
Cc:" Craig J (LAW) Tillery" <craig.tillery@alaska.gov>, "Michael A (GOV) Tibbies"
<mike . tibbles®alaska . gov> , <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject! RE: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
Will do. I'll give you a call shortly after 8am, Alaska time.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
>>> On 11/14/2007 at 6:05 PM, in message <:B4E53292CAFB8B4EAD5071BAE70DA89D6D9DB8
@SOAANCMSG01.soa.alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov> wrote:
Dear Mr. Katz,
Thank-you for the message. Sorry I missed you. I tried to call. I will try again
tomorrow.
We think it would be helpful and positive to have the support of the delegation.
Go ahead and let them know we would appreciate their support. Thanks Talis
PRA GSP01 0007889
From: John Katz [raailto: jwkatz®ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:42 PM
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW)
Cc: Bishop, Samuel T (GOV)
Subject: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
A staffer in behalf of at least one member of the Alaska Congressional Delegation, and
perhaps all three, asked whether it would be possible for the delegation to join in the
state's amicus brief in the Exxon Valdez litigation. We were non committal but promised
to ask.
Any guidance you can give us would be appreciated. Thanks.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<raailto: jwkatz®alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007890
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1 1 :01 PM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Balash; Joseph R
(GOV); Galvin; Patrick S (DOR)
Subject: Re; Senate
Unless our statement is:" Senate made the right call to provide the stability our state's
economy needs, and we look forward to their confirmation of tonight's majority vote when
the Senators reconvene tomorrow morning. "
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike. tibbles®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:56:59
To : Sarah Pal in <gov . sarahSyahoo . com>
Cc: "Kelly, Russell T (GOV)" <russ .kelly®alaska.gov>
Subject: Senate
Governor,
The Senate did vote to pass the bill but there was a notice of reconsideration &iven.
That meams that the bill will need to come up again tomorrow for one more vote. We were
thinking about sending out a statement tonight but given the lack of finality tonight, I
was thinking we should wait until tomorrow (after the final vote) . Is this OK with you?
Mike
PRA GSP01 0007891
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From;
Sent:
To:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:47 PM
Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Havemeister; Franci A (DNR); Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Tibbies; Michael A
(GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV); Baiash; Joseph R (GOV); Galvin;
Patrick S (DOR); Kelly; Russell T (GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Yeahil!
Thank you! ! !
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007892
Unknown
I
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday. November 15, 2007 10:45 FM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Woo hooil!
14-5 baby!!! You did it!!! You're awesome!!! 25%, .04, standard deduc, exempt auditors,
etc! ! ! Coffee on me tomorrow! ! !
No:
Green
Huggins
Stedman
Bunde
Hoffman
PRA GSP01 0007893
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:08 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
Thanks i
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:06:23
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
17 in the clerks office. They're on 16
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:49:50 2007
Subject; Re; How many amendments to go?
Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy. frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:16
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
PRA GSP01 0007894
Man, I don't know. I'll ask ian I've been watching him in the gallery.
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarahsyahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:47:09 2007
Subject; Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:46:49
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash®ala3ka.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To;"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Sxibject: Pw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Original Message
Fr om : gov . s a r ahsyahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:30:47
To: "Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlaokBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007896
Unknown
3
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:05 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
17 in the clerks office. They're on 16
Original Message
From ; gov . sarahSyahoo . com <gov . sarahOyahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21 -.49 -.50 2007
Siobject: Re: How many amendments to go?
Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:16
To : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Subject; Re: How many amendments to go?
Man, I don't know. I'll ask ian I've been watching him in the gallery.
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:47:09 2007
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
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Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
i
Original Message
From : gov . sarahSyahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:45:49
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash@alaska,gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly®alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahayahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:30:47
To: "Mike Tibbies" <raike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) l/0=SOA/OU=FtRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:04 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
One more from Bert. Don't know the details... he just turned it in.
Original Message
Prom: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Balash, Joseph R (GOV)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:46:49 2007
Subject: Pw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: gov.sarah®yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:30:47
To : "Mike Tibbies " <mike . tibblesSalaska . gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
1
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i
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:50 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
Thanks
Sent from my BlaclcBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy,frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:16
To : gov . sarahOyahoo . com
Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
Man, I don't know. I'll ask ian I've been watching him in the gallery.
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com < gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:47:09 2007
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarahoyahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:46:49
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Subject: Pw: How many amendments to go?
PRA GSP01 0007901
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: gov.sarah®yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:30:47
TO: "Mike Tibbies" <:mike . tibblesOalaska . gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:48 PM
i To: ■gov.sarah@yahoo.conT
I Subject: Re: How many amendments to go?
Man, I don't know. I'll ask ian I've been watching him in the gallery.
Original Message
From ! gov . sarah®yahoo . com <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Thu Nov 15 21:47:09 2007
Subject; Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry** device from Cellular One
Original Message
From ! gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:46:49
To: "Joe Balash" <joe.balash@alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message ^-
From : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Pri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
1
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Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From ; gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Fri, IS Nov 2007 06:30:47
To: "Mike Tibbies" <mike . tibblesOalaska . gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:47 PM
Balash; Joseph R (GOV)
Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov , sarah®yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:34:38
To:"Russ Kelly" <russ.kelly@alaska.gov>
Subject: Fw: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:30:47
To: "Mike Tibbies" <mike.tibbles®alaska.gov>
Subject: How many amendments to go?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From; gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:12 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Holycowlll
I keep falling asleep tho - trying to watch 1
Original Message
From: Ivy Frye
To: Governor Sarah Pal in
Sent: Nov 15, 2007 8:00 PM
Subject: Holy cow!!!
This is awesome!!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 8:00 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Holy cow!!!
This is awesome!!
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:56 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Irwin; Tom E
(DNR); Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: Re: l\^atanuska Maid
It's imperative that the media correct this.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:50:30
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>, "Balash, Joseph R (GOV)"
<joe. balash@alaska.gov?, "Leighow, Sharon W (GOV)" <sharon.leighow@alaska.gov>, "Irwin, Tom
E (DNR)" <tom.irwin®alaska.gov>
Subject: FW: Matanuska Maid
FYI, update on the FOIA from Channel 2. I reviewed the video clip today and noticed the
extent of their inaccurate reporting Tuesday night in which they say that "by law the
deadline is November 15th (today) and that MM notified them they'd not comply by the
deadline..." The deadline to comply is November 26th, And, what they were told - in writing
- was that we needed to consult with legal on the sensitivity of disclosing third party
information. I've worked with Sharon on this today and she has requested a retraction from
Channel 2. As you can see from below (and attached), Kristan provided them the totals
without vendor specific info.
Also they had an earlier information request on September financials and that information
was provided to them by November 5th. We are certainly demonstrating our willingness to
work with them and that is what Sharon reiterated to them today.
Kris
PRA GSP01 0007908
From: Kristan Cole [mailto:kccole@mtaonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:25 PM
To : j herbst@ktuu . com
Sxibject: Matanuska Maid
Mr. Herbst, attached you will find the September income statement and consolidated income
statement for Matanuska" Maid Diary. Our current payables as of today are $908,738.60 and
our current receivables as of today are $1,35,6,146.86. These are the latest financial
documents I have available to rae. Donna Edwards our controller is on vacation. We are
doing our best to comply with your request. According to the regulation 2AAC96 .325 (a)
however, we have 10 working days after we received a request to comply. We received this
request from you on November 8th. Because of the holidays involved we have laitil November
26, 2007 to reply. In good faith we are sending you what we can today. We are consulting
with legal counsel about what can release beyond what I have given you. Thank you for
your understanding. Kristan Cole, Chairman of the Board, Creamery Corporation
PRA GSP01 0007909
Unknown
From: <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Talis Colberg; John Katz
Cc: Mike Tibbies
Subject: Re: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
It's all very good! Glad you were ahead on it!
Sent from ray BlaokBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:42:13
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>, "Katz, John W (GOV)" <jwkatz®alaskadc.org>
Cc: "Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)" <mike.tibbles@alaska.gov>
Subject: RE: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
Yikes!
Dear Governor Palin,
I did not mean to get out ahead of you on this. I am glad that you are in agreement
with what I said. I should have asked you first.
I spoke with Mr. Katz ajid we are working on a process to make it happen. Apparently
at this point Don Young was the one who asked to join. Stevens and Murkowski will be
approached by Katz.
Talis
Original Message
From: gov . sarahSyahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah®yahoo.coTn]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:52 AM
To: Katz, John W (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Cc: Tillery, Craig J (LAW); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
PRA GSP01 0007910
I agree- it would be great to have their support on this.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz@ALASKADC.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:17:25
To: "Talis J (LAW) Colberg" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>
Cc: "Craig J (LAW) Tillery" <craig.tillery®alaska.gov>, "Michael A (GOV) Tibbies"
<mike . tibblesSalaska . gov> , <gov . sarahSyahoo . com>
Subject: RE: Exxon Valdez/Araicus Brief
Will do. I'll give you a call shortly after Sam, Alaska time.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto: jwkatz®alaskadc.org> jwkatz®alaskadc.org. Thank you .
»> On 11/14/2007 at 6:05 PM, in message <B4E53292CAFB8B4EAD5071BAE70DA89D6D9DB8
@S0AANCMSG01.soa.alaska.gov>, "Colberg, Talis J (LAW)" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov> wrote:
Dear Mr. Katz,
Thank-you for the message. Sorry I missed you. I tried to call. I will try again
tomorrow.
Wfi think it would be helpful and positive to have the support of the delegation.
Go ahead and let them know we would appreciate their support . Thanks Talis
Prom: John Katz [mailto:jwkatz@ALASKADC.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:42 PM
PRA GSP01 0007911
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Tillery, Craig J (LAW)
Cc: Bishop, Saniuel T (GOV)
Subject: Exxon Valdez/Amicus Brief
A staffer in behalf of at least one member of the Alaska Congressional Delegation, and
perhaps all three, asked whether it would be possible for the delegation to join in the
state's amicus brief in the Exxon Valdez litigation. We were non committal but promised
to ask.
Any guidance you can give us would be appreciated. Thanks.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007912
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) l/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:54 AM
To: govpalin@alaska.gov
Subject: Student Disliking Sciiooi
-Original Message
From: WebMailSgov. state. ak. us f mailto ; MebMail8aov . state . ak. . us 1
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:04 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subj ect : Education
Web mail from: Mr. Will Roberts
address: 22811 Green Garden Drive Chugiak AK 99567 230 6483
MESSAGE :
Dear Mrs. Palin.
You recently said on the news that if I were thinking of droping out of
school that I should contact you. Well, I do not enjoy the life of schooling. I am,
as of recent, attending high school and think that it is so lame because I feel
that I do not learn anything. If you think that you can help me with this issue
then you should give me a call.
p.s. You would be a great kindagarden teacher.
freebillol7@hotmail.com
8/24/2009
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Unknown
From: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=MATIBBLES]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:57 FM
To: Sarah Palin
Cc: Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Subject: Senate
Governor,
The Senate did vote to pass the bill but there was a notice of reconsideration given. That means that the bill will
need to come up again tomonrow for one more vote. We were thinking about sending out a statement tonight but
given the lack of finality tonight, I was thinking we should wait until tomorrow (after the final vote), is this OK with
you?
Mike
8/24/2009
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Unknown
From:
Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=REClPiENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:30 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: FW: Alasl<a/Planned Parenthood - Petition for Rehearing Order (847-005)
Dear Govemor Palin,
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Talis
From: Avonna L. Murfitt [mailto:amurrrtt@brenalaw.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:14 PM
To: colberg, Talis J (LAW); Grace, Joanne M (LAW); ftb907@yahoo.com
Subject: Alaska/Planned Parenthood - Petition for Rehearing Order (847-005)
Attached please find the Order of the Supreme Court ordering that Appellees respond to the State's Petition for
Rehearing by November 30, 2007. An order was also issued granting the Motion for Overlength Petition.
Avonna L. Murfitt, Legal Assistant
Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C.
810 N Street, Suite 100
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
Telephone: (907)258-2000
Facsimile: (907)258-2001
E-mail: amurfitt@brenalaw.com
This electronic transmission may contain information in the message contents or in attachments to the message
which may be privileged and/or confidential, and tiierefore protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended
recipient of this e-mail, review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
If you received tiiis message in error, please immediately e-mail the sender and delete the message and any
attachments.
8/28/2009
PRA GSP01 0007915
Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIP!ENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Thursday, November 1 5, 2007 9:52 AM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subject: RE: Education
No - I will forward directly to the Governor for her to respond. Thanks, Janice
Original Message
j From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:21 AM
To: Mason, Janice L ' (GOV)
Subject: FW: Education
Janice, should I send the "form" response?
-michelle
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail@gov.state.ak.us]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:04 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Sub j e ct : Educat ion
Web mail from: Mr. Will Roberts
address: 22811 Green Garden Drive Chugiak AK 99567
230 6483
MESSAGE:
De
PRA GSP01 0007916
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Unknown
From: Smith. Lynne M (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=REC1PIENTS/CN=LMSMITH1]
Sent: Thursday, November 1 5, 2007 4:08 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Cc: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: RE: FW: Education
She is an English teacher at Palmer High School.
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:54 PM
To: Smith, Lynne M (GOV)
Cc: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Subject: Fwd: FW: Education
would u find out if she's really a teacher in the valley?
Note: forwarded message attached.
8/25/2009
PRA GSP01 0007917
Pagel of 2
Unknown
From: Rutherford, Marty K (DNR) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=MKRUTHERF0RD1
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 5:15 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Contact information for suggested AGIA' phone calls
Governor,
Thanks for taking the time to speak with me earlier today. Like everyone, I'm sending up prayers that the
legislature does the right thing for Alaska during today's ACES' deliate.
During yesterday's phone conversation we discussed the possibility of you making telephone calls to the
TransCanada & MidAmerican CEO's, conveying your hope they choose to participate in the AGIA
process. Here are more spedfics for those phone calls. For your information, the contact information I
have for these two CEO's are their work contact information, therefore I would suggest you make these
calls early next week. Finally, the messaging suggestions are somewhat tailored to the particular party in
order to address issues that I know to be their concerns:
1) TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.
Hal Kvisle, President and CEO (Kvisle Is pronounced KWISLEE)
Corporate Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hal Kvisle's Scheduler is Samantha Smith @ Phone # 403-920-201 7
General Infbnnation:
• I believe you have previously spoken with Hal Kvisle on the phone re: the AGIA process
• TransCanada's primary contact person for Alaska is Tony Palmer;
• Tony Palmer's boss, who heads their gasline effort, is Russ Giriing, President/Pipelines
Suggested Message:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
2) MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
David Sokol, Chairman and CEO (Sokol is pronounced SEW-KULL)
Corporate Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
Phone #402-231-1400
David Sokol's Assistant/Scheduler is Barijara Tracy @ Phone # 402-231-1402
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007918
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General Information:
• You and I had breakfast with David Sokol in Washington DC in late February and since then ! believe you
have spoken with him on the phone;
• David Sokol is one of two CEO's that report directly to Warren Buffet. MidAmerican is a subsidiary of
Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. David is also an owner in Berkshire Hathaway, which
is a diversified, privately held company.
Suggested Message:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Once again, Governor, your willingness to assist the AGIA effort is greatly appreciated by your Gasline Team.
Marty
1 1/9/2009
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Unknown
From: Sarah Palin [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:19 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Woo hoo!!!
yeah -coffee!!'.
and you called it again - the numbers anyway!
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye%alaska.gov> wrote:
14-5 baby ! ! ! You did it! ! ! You're awesome! ! ! 25%, .04, standard deduc, exempt auditors, etc! ! ! Coffee on
me tomorrow!!!
No:
Green
Huggins
Stedman
Bunde
Hoffinan
11/9/2009
PRA GSP01 0007920
Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1)
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:53 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Fv\f. troops returning
Thought I'd send the schedule below and a suggestion. The generals don't really want us at
the plane as troops come off with weapons as that, in their view, is traditionally a
military greeting by commanders. They suggest if we want to participate that we meet with
the families in the gym where the troops get bussed to after they land. The last thing I
want to do is greet people as families are reunited, but Jay suggested that arriving early
at the fieldhouse and saying hello to the spouses before the troops get there could work
really well . . . and then fade away and let the families unite without us in the middle of
it. Just wanted you to know what we're thinking. It might be good for you to make one or
two of these next week if you're able. Let me. know whether you plan any. I won't be able
to get to all. (If you scroll down past the message below you'll see tentative dates.)
Thanks
Sean
Original Message
From: Clifton, Kelly I* (GOV)
To: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored); Pullins, Jay D (GOV)
Cc: Showalter, Kristine D (GOV)
Sent: Pri Nov 16 08:37:38 2007
Subject: troops returning
Robert just contacted me and gave me the info below for troops returning, with all times
very "tentative" except for the one today.
He said they normally try to wait until they know for sure what time they'll arrive before
notifying people, since the time chsuiges so drastically every time. I asked him to let us
know when the wheels of the planes leave the ground in Iraq, and he said he would, and
then he'll give us updates to the accurate time of arrival here.
He suggests that you meet the troops in the gym with the families, like you have before,
rather than the plane, because normally at the plane, only the General is there, and
they're busy securing their weapons, etc.
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Today: 12:30 PM w/231 pax (this time is pretty set in stone, since the troops have already
left the ground in the states on their way here)
SAT: 2:40 PM w/291 pax returning
MON, NOV 19: 10:40 AM
TUB, NOV 20: 5 AM
WED, NOV 21: 6:40 AM
Kelly Clifton
Scheduler
Office of Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell <http://ltgov.state.ak.us/>
"Alaskans without fear; Alaskans with hope and opportunity."
Anchorage, Alaska
(907) 269-7460
FAX: (907) 269-0263
PRA GSP01 0007922
From: Kristine Showalter [mailto:kris@dshowalter.cotn]
Sent; Friday, November 16, 2007 7:04 AM
To: Clifton, Kelly L (GOV)
Cc: Pullins, Jay D (GOV); PPkRNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: more troops
I know he was gone, but I was thinking more about the flights returning this week. Oh
well. Right now they're scheduled to land at 1245, but thats already been delayed so who
knows, they could get delayed till later and .the boss may still be able to go. I'll let
you know if I hear anymore.
On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Clifton, Kelly L (GOV) wrote:
I'll ask him tomorrow. . .he just returned from two weeks in Colorado, so it's not like he's
been here to keep us informed. I'll ask him about the troops returning in the morning.
From: Kristine Showalter [mailto:kris@dshowalter.cora]
Sent: Thu 11/15/07 10^06 PM
To: Clifton, Kelly L (GOV)
Cc: Pullins, Jay D (GOV); PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: more troops
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Its up to the boss if he wants you to ask. I"m just curious why Robert hasn't been keeping
you informed. Its in the paper now too.. .the paper says tomorrow afternoon. Parker says
tomorrow morning.
On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Clifton, Kelly L {GOV) wrote:
I haven't heard from Robert on this one yet... just let me know if I should call him.
From: Kristine Showalter [mailto: kris@dshowalter.com]
Sent: Thu 11/15/07 7:58 PM
To: Pullins, Jay D (GOV); PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored); Clifton, Kelly L (GOV)
Subject: more troops
Has anyone heard there are more troops coming in tomorrow morning?
j Dont know time or anything just that they are. We might want to check
■ in and find out what time. Not sure that the LG will have time before
Kenai anyway, but it would be nice if they were at least letting us
know .
PRA GSP01 0007924
Unknown
From: <gov.sarah@yahoo.com> [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:50 AM
To: Talis Colberg; John Katz; Craig Tillery
Cc: l\^ichael Tibbies
Subject: Re: Congressional Delegation/EXXON Valdez - CONFIDENTIAL -ATTORNEY CLIENT
PRIVILEGE
Wow- this is good.
Are they returning to AK for Thanksgiving holiday? Would they want to publicly announce
this with us then?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkat2®ALASKADC.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:26
To; "Talis Colberg" <talis.colberg®alaska.gov>, "Craig Tillery"
<Craig_Tillery@law. state. ak,us>
Cc: "Michael Tibbies" <michael_tibbles@gov. state. ak.us>, "Governor Sarah Palin"
<gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: Congressional Delegation/EXXON Valdez - CONFIDENTIAL -
ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE
I spoke with Senator Stevens about our offer that the congressional delegation join the
state's amicus brief. He was most appreciative that you and the Governor are providing
this opportunity.
The Senator said that he would be talking to his two colleagues and then would get back to
us. He mentioned that, before receiving the state's invitation, the delegation had
contemplated filing an amicus of their own. The Senator has some personal recollections ■
in the immediate aftermath of the Exxon/Valdez accident which he thinks will be helpful to
the Court but could not easily be inserted into our brief.
I responded that either a joint brief or two separate ones would be fine with us and
agreed with him that personal recollections would probably not be appropriate for our
brief. We agreed that, in any event, we could coordinate on the briefs if we file
separately.
My guess is that, as the only lawyer in the delegation. Senator Stevens' views will be
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persuasive with his colleagues. I haven't heard anything yet from the other two
delegation members and probably won't until Senator Stevens talks with them directly.
In the meantime, the Senator asked me to advise him on the deadline for filing amicus
briefs and when we would intend to file ours. Could you help me with this? Thanks.
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto:jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007926
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:31 AM
To: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re: Savings
Ugh!!! No more special sessions! It is draining.
Thanks for going to Kenai . We have two more S Court interviews today and then should be
able to announce this evening who our new Justice is.
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "PAHNELL, S (GOV sponsored)" <sr.pamell®alaska.gov>
Date: Pri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:54
To : gov . sarah®yaboo . com
Subj ect : Re : Savings
Good question to ask, thank you. I'm going to Kenai today to visit with the criminal
justice section of the bar association. I'm told they have concerns about our DOL office
there. I will be in touch with Talis on what I hear there.
Hope you can get some sleep! And, now, please promise me we'll only keep the legislature
in session for ninety days next year. No more special sessions. :)
Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) ; Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV)
Cc: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 08:12:38 2007
Subj ect : Savings
May I see an outline of all our "savings" initiatives in 'o9 budget:
Perm fund
Cbr
3-yr educ forward- fund
PRA GSP01 0007927
Pers/trs
Also;
Muni assist and GO bond pkg
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007928
Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:21 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Savings
Good question to ask, thank you. I'm going to Kenai today to visit with the criminal
justice section of the bar association. I'm told they have concerns about our DOL office
there. I will be in touch with Talis on what I hear there.
\ Hope you can get some sleep! And, now, please promise me we'll only keep the legislature
i in session for ninety days next year. No more special sessions. :)
Original Message
Prom: gov.sarah@yahoo.cora <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
To: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Rehfeld, Karen J (GOV)
Cc: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 08:12:38 2007
Sub j ect : Savings
May I see an outline of all our "savings" initiatives in 'o9 budget:
Perm fund
Cbr
3-yr educ forward-fund
Pers/trs
Also:
Muni assist and GO bond pkg
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007929
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:09 AM
To: Katz; John W (GOV); Colberg; Talis J (LAW); Tillery; Craig J (LAW)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV)
Subject: Re; Congressional Delegation/EXXON Valdez - CONFIDENTIAL -ATTORNEY CLIENT
PRIVILEGE
Wow- this is good.
Are they returning to AK for Thanksgiving holiday? Would they want to publicly announce
this with us then?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "John Katz" <jwkatz®ALASKADC.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:38:26
To: "Talis Colberg" <talis.colberg@alaska.gov>, "Craig Tillery"
<Craig_Tillery@law . state . ak . us>
Cc: "Michael Tibbies" <raichael_tlbbles®gov. state. ak.us>, "Governor Sarah Palin"
<gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subject: Congressional Delegation/EXXON Valdez - CONFIDENTIAL -
ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE
I spoke with Senator Stevens about our offer that the congressional delegation join the
state's amicus brief. He was most appreciative that you and the Governor are providing
this opportunity.
The Senator said that he would be talking to his two colleagues and then would get back to
us. He mentioned that, before receiving the state's invitation, the delegation had
contemplated filing an amicus of their own. The Senator has some personal recollections
in the immediate aftermath of the Exxon/Valdez accident which he thinks will be helpful to
the Court but could not easily be inserted into our brief.
I responded that either a joint brief or two separate ones would be fine with us and
agreed with him that personal recollections would probably not be appropriate for our
brief. We agreed that, in any event, we could coordinate on the briefs if we file
separately.
My gueaa is that, as the only lawyer in the delegation. Senator Stevens' views will be
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persuasive with his colleagues. I haven't heard anything yet from the other two
delegation members and probably won't until Senator Stevens talks with them directly.
In the meantime, the Senator asked me to advise him on the deadline for filing amicus
briefs and when we would intend to file ours . Could you help me with this? Thanks .
Please note that my email address has changed. My new email address is
<mailto: jwkatz@alaskadc.org> jwkatz@alaskadc.org. Thank you .
PRA GSP01 0007931
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:13 AM
To: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Rehfeld; Karen J (GOV)
Co: PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Savings
May I see an outline of all our "savings" initiatives in 'o9 budget:
Perm fund
Cbr
3-yr educ forward- fund
Pers/trs
Also :
Muni assist and GO bond pkg
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007932
Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/O=S0A/0U=FlRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 1 6, 2007 7: 1 9 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc; Perry; Kristlna Y (GOV); Bailey; Frank T (GOV); 'fek9wnr@yahoo.com'
Subject: Congratulations!
Tara and just went and grabbed some dinner before she went to the airport. We both toasted
to your success! We got to talking about the last year and are just both amazed at your
accomplishnients, leadership, and how you've brought so many of us together. I mean, tara
will be a lifelong friend I'm bonded to b/c of your campaign. Same w kris and frank, your
girls and parents. Anyway, we're very proud of all you've done this last year-beating 2
governors, ethics reform, agia, aces-just to name a few! This is a very
important/historic/monumental time in
Alaska and I'm proud to be a small part of it b/c of you. I remember my first fundraiser
of yours-nov 2005 at Joanne and dorwin's place on the hwy aiid still can't wrap my mind
around how all of our lives have changed since then. I know you're modest and way too
humble to agree with me, but it's the truth!
Have a safe trip home. Tell my favorite girls I say hi. And, take some time to enjoy this!
As always- you're awesome.
Ivy
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Subject:
Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Friday, November 16. 2007 6: 1 1 PM
"gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Bristol
Hello Governor,
Bristol called and wanted you to take some of her things home. They're on the bench in
the entry.
The Nordicflex is in the family room. It needs to be stabilized once we know exactly
where you want it .
Thanks ,
Erika
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 6:36 PIVI
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Unbelievable
It is almost amazing to see the big and long-term achievements that are being accomplished
under your leadership. You have a way of treating folks that makes them want to do
everything they can to help accomplish your goals. I think this is it: trust. Trust
that you have the State's best interests in mind, and aren't afraid to push forward to
accomplish that.
You are writing history.
PRA GSP01 0007935
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Friday, November 16, 2007 4:18 PM
Jacl<son; Karleen K (HSS); ExtemalEmailgsp; Tibbies; IViichael A (GOV); Galvin; Patrick S
(DOR); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Re: CONGRATULATIONS!
YeahHl Awesome job, all!
Original Message
From: Jackson, Karleen K (HSS)
To: ExtemalEmailgsp; Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored); Tibbies, Michael A (GOV); Galvin,
Patrick S (DOR) ; Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 16:17:12 2007
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations! Well done, all!!
Karleen
PRA GSP01 0007936
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: house
I hear ya!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
-Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:20:39
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah@yahoo.cora>
Siabject: house
What is with Ramras? And don't even get me started on Neuman! ! ! I can't believe he's
flip flopping— at least the other NOs are sticking by there vote. The bill hasn't changed
at all but now he's miraculously a "yes." Give me a break. I'm still mad about his
original no.
PRA GSP01 0007937
Unknown
From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Friday, November 16, 2007 3:56 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Tan bed
Governor,
There was no work order for the teuming bed and no one here has discussed it with ADN or
anyone else. Did Gail at the AK Club say that she'd be discreet about your purchase?
They knew it required a 220 outlet.
We've had 3 electricians bid on the 220. They agreed that it was a good thing to add more
capacity to the third floor for future use and for the w/d 1 want moved up there after
it's not needed for the plumbing project.
The one bid in so far-
$3500- cedar closet
$3200-basement family room
No bid too complicated for Todd's office.
We're waiting for 2 other bids to come in.
Erika
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarcih®yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Cc: Todd <fek9wnr®yahoo.com>; Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 15:29:06 2007
Subject; Re: Tan bed
There should be no work order to "install a sun bed", as this reporter claims there is.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Original Message
From : gov . sarah@yahoo . com
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:14:05
To:"Erika Fagerstrom" <erika . f agerstrom@alaska . gov>
Co : "Todd" <f ek9vm.r®yahoo , com>
Subject: Tan bed
Erika- the press from ADN just called about the sun bed. Any idea where this would have
come from?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:55 PM
To: Perry; Kristina Y (GOV); Frye; Ivy J (DOA); Bailey; Frank T (GOV); Todd
Subject: Re: 3 for 3 baby!
Right on ivy! ! !
Great job crew. . .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
Prom: "Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)" <kris.perry@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:52:51
To: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy,frye@alaska.gov>, ExternalEmailgsp
<gov.sarah@yahoo.cora>, "Bailey, Frank T (GOV)" <frank.bailey@ala3ka.gov>
Subject: RE: 3 for 3 baby!
Awesome job Ivy. You were right on. YIIIPPPPEEE. A great day!
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:51 PM
To: ExternalEmailgsp; Bailey, Frank T (GOV) ; Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: 3 for 3 baby!
Technically Foster isn't there, but bad he been it would have been 27-13 instead of 25-13.
I'm going to Vegas!!
PRA GSP01 0007940
Unknown
From;
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Friday, November 16, 2007 3:52 PM
Frye; Ivy J (DOA); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Perry; Kristina Y (GOV)
Re: 3 for 3 babyl
Woo hool
Original Message
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
To: ExtemalEmailgsp; Bailey, Frank T (GOV),- Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 15 15:51:03 2007
Subject: 3 for 3 baby!
Technically Foster isn't there, but had he been it would have been 27-13 instead of 26-13.
I ' m going to Vegas I ! -
PRA GSP01 0007941
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From;
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIP1ENTS/CN=TJC0LBERG]
Friday, November 16, 2007 1:52 PM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Sup court
There appear to have been 17. This would be number 18. Talis.
Original Message ^
From: gov.sarah®yahoo.com <gov. sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Colberg, Talis J (LAW); Frank Bailey
<ftb907®yahoo.com>; Tibbies, Michael A (GOV)
Cc: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Sent: Pri Nov 16 13:47:01 2007
Sub j ect : Sup court
How many justice's have we had since becoming a state?
Sent from my BlackBerry* device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 16,20071:12PM
To: Leschper; Beth (GOV); 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'; Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Cc: Colberg; Talis J (UW); Saddlen Daniel R (GOV)
Subject: Fw: Talking Pts
Talis said these are fine. We'll print on regular paper.
Dan working the presser right now. Talis has some specific thoughts he'll relay to Dan.
Original Message
Prom: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
To: Colberg, Talis J (LAW)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 12:53:06 2007
Subject: Talking Pts
Talis,
Can you peek at ray rough talking points for the Governor. Sharon will spruce them up for
me but these are the points I was thinking:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Frank
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Unknown
From: Balash, Joseph R (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JRBALASH]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:05 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: What was amendment #3?
It was the standard deduction. It needs a technical fix.
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah®yahoo.coiB>
To; Balash, Joseph R (GOV) ; Kelly, Russell T (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 13:03:33 2007
Subject: What was amendment #3?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
PRA GSP01 0007945
Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:04 PM
To: Balash; Joseph R (GOV); Kelly; Russell T (GOV)
Subject: What was amendment #3?
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:25 PM
To: Rehfeld; Karen J (GOV)
Cc: Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); PARNELL; S (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Biz lie tax
Pis show the biz license tax reduction that we tried last year- maybe it will fly in this
budget .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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Unknown
From: PARNELL, S (GOV sponsored) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=SRPARNELL1]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:38 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Cc: 'kristina.perry@alaska.gov'
Subject: Character schools in Kenai
Just finished meeting with three principals and the superintendent of schools. The
district leadership eight years ago made a decision that they were going to be schools of
character and character traits and language have become cultural in many of the schools.
They have amazing stories and are willing to share what they are doing. Jay and I are
pretty pumped about it. We asked if they would be willing to share their stories in other
venues and they are excited to do so. Just thought you should know of another resource out
here .
Sean
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 1 6, 2007 1 0:54 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re:Woohool!!
Maybe olson is a yes?
Let me think a minute here . . .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:07:03
To : ExternalEmailgsp <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
Sub j ect : RE ; Woo hoo ! 1 !
I win a million dollars and marry Brad Pitt : )
I think the numbers are staying the same 27-13--Peggy won't trick me again. Although I
hear we might lose Thomas, but I'm not going to count him out just yet b/c his
constituents, as he said on the floor, don't care one way or the other.
The sticking point for the Dems was the standard deduc and the sticking point for the Mike
Kelly type Republicans was .04 prog and 25% base tax rate. The gloom and doom Ralph
Samuels crew will stick together. Should we go double or nothing?
No:
Johansen
Samuels
Ramras
Hawker
Fairclough
Roses
Chenault
Meyer
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I
Foster
Johnson
Olson
Neuman
Wilson
Original Message
From: gov . sarah®yahoo . com [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:53 AM
To: Prye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subj ect : Re : Woo hoo ! U
Tell me your next predictions .
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.f rye®alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:41:39
To: Sarah Palin <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Subj ect : RE : WoO hoo ! ! !
Coffee is on it's way. I'll leave it at the front desk for ya.
Yah, Bunde caught me off guard. . .but at least the 14 votes were there.
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarahi8yahoo.com]
2
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:19 am
To: Prye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subj ect : Re : Woo hoo ! ! I
yeah - coffee ! ! !
and you called it again - the numbers anyway!
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye®alaslca.gov> wrote:
14-5 baby!!! You did it!!! You're awesome!!! 25%, .04, standard deduc, exempt auditors,
etc! ! ! Coffee on me tomorrow! ! i
No:
Green
Huggins
Stedman
Bunde
Hoffman
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Unknown
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:51 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: floor session
Thanks for the coffee!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:09:13
To: Sarah Palin <gov.sarah®yahoo.com>
Subject: floor session
FYI, I think the S Floor Session could be delayed b/c Lyda is not happy about the standard
deductions and the in-state only purchase of materials (or something like that) .' You
probably already knew that...
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Unknown
From; gov.sarah@yahoo.Gom
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:53 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Woo hoo!!!
Tell me your next predictions.
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 15 l^ov 2007 09:41:39
To: Sarah Palin <gov . sarah®yahoo . com>
Sub j ect : RE : Woo hoo ! ! !
Coffee is on it's way. I'll leave it at the front desk for ya.
Yah, Bunde caught me off guard. . .but at least the 14 votes were there.
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:19 AM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Woo hoo!!!
yeah - coffee ! ! !
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and you called it again - the numbers anyway!
"Frye, Ivy J (DOA) " <ivy.frye@alaska.gov> wrote:
14-5 baby!!! You did it!!! You're awesome!!! 25%, .04, standard deduc, exempt auditors,
etc! ! 1 Coffee on me tomorrow! 1 !
No:
Green
Huggins
Stedman
Bunde
Hoffman
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From: Colberg, Talis J (LAW) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=TJCOLBERG]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:55 PM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Dear Governor Palin. WInfree would be number 19. There have been 18 to date since statehood. Talis
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy d (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:21 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: house
What is with Ramras? And don't even get me started on Neuman!!! I can't believe he's flip flopping— at least the
other NOs are sticl<ing by there vote. The bill hasn't changed at all but now he's miraculously a "yes." Give me a
break. I'm still mad about his original no.
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From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV) I/0=SOAyOU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FTBAILEY]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:44 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Leighow; Sharon W (GOV); Leschper; Beth (GOV)
Subject: How Many Supreme Court Justices
Justice Winfree will be the 19*" Justice appointed to the Supreme Court.
The first of which was Buel Nesbett, appointed In August 1959 to March of 1970.
http://www.state.ak.us/coiirts/ctmfo.htm#sctjst
Supreme Court Jarisdiction
The tenn "jurisdiction" means a court's legal power and authority to hear particular types of cases.
The supreme court has final state appellate jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters:
1 . CIVIL APPEALS: The supreme court must accept appeals fi:om final decisions by the superior
coiirt in civil cases (including cases which originated in administrative agencies).
2. The supreme court may exercise its discretion to accept:
a. CRIMINAL APPEALS, from decisions of the court of appeals or upon certification from the
court of appeals that the case involves a significant question of constitutional law or an issue of
substantial public interest; and
b. PETITIONS, fi:om non-final decisions by the superior court in civil cases and fi'om final
decisions of the superior court on review of the district court^s decisions in civil matters.
3. ORIGINAL APPLICATIONS: The supreme court may also exercise its discretion to hear matters
in which relief is not otherwise available, including bar admission and attorney discipline matters
and questions of state law certified fi'om the federal courts.
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Supreme Court Justices
[x] Photo of Justice Dana
Fabe
Photo of Justice
Warren W. Matthews
fxj Photo of Justice
Rotiert L Eastaugh
Chief Justice Dana Fabe has served on the Supreme Court since March
1996 and is the fiurst woman to serve on the court. Chief Justice Fabe was
bom in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 29, 195 1. She holds a B.A. degree
from Cornell University and a J.D. degree from Northeastern University
School of Law. Chief Justice Fabe clerked for Justice Edmond W. Burke
of Alaska Supreme Coxat in 1976-77. She served as a staff attorney for
the Alaska Public Defender Agency from 1977-81, and in 1981 she was
appointed by the governor to be Chief Public Defender for Alaska. She
was a member of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association
in 1987-88. Chief Justice Fabe was appointed to the superior court bench
in Anchorage in 1988. She was Deputy Presiding Judge of the Third
Judicial District from 1992-95, as well as a Training Judge for the Third
Judicial District. She served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from
July 2000-2003 and was elected second vice-president of the Conference
of Chief Justices. She began her current term as Chief Justice in July
2006. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American
Judicature Society. She currently chairs the Alaska Supreme Court's Civil
Rules Committee, the Alaska Supreme Court's Judicial Outreach
Commission, the Alaska Court System's Law Day Steering Committee,
and the Alaska Teaching Justice Network. She also serves as co-chair of
the Alaska Bar Association's Gender Equality Section. She is married to
Randall Simpson and they have a daughter, Mia.
Justice Warren Yf. Matthews was bom April 5, 1939, in Santa Cruz,
California. He holds a B.A. degree from Stanford University (1961) and
J.D. from Harvard University Law School (1964). He was in private
practice in Anchorage from 1965 through 1977. He served as a member
of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association, the Alaska Bar
Ethics and Unauthorized Practices Committee, and the Supreme Court
Criminal Rules Revision Cpnmiittee. He was appointed to the Alaska
Supreme Court on May 26, 1 977. He served as Chief Justice from
October 1987 to September 1990, and July 1997 to June 2000. He was
former Board Member and Second Vice-President, Conference of Chief
Justices. He was chairman, Alaska Judicial Coimcil, October 1987
through September 1990, and July 1997 to June 2000. He served on the
Alaska Sentencing Conunission, 1990 through 1993. He resides in
Anchorage. He is married to Dorma Matthews. They have two children.
Justice Robert L. Eastaugh was bom in Seattle in 1 943 and first
traveled to Alaska in 1944. In early 1946 the family permanently returned
to Alaska, where his parents had been bom. Justice Eastaugh was raised
in Juneau, where his fether, F.O. Eastaugh, and grandfather, R.E.
Robertson, both practiced law. Justice Eastaugh graduated from Juneau-
Douglas High School in 1961 . He holds a B.A. in English Literature from
Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law SchooL
He was admitted to practice law in Alaska in 1968. He was an Alaska
Assistant Attorney General from 1968 - 1969 and an Assistant District
Attorney from 1969 - 1972. He was in private practice at Delaney, Wiles,
Hayes, Reitman & Bmbaker, Inc. between 1972 and 1994. His
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[x] Photo of Justice
Walter LCarpeneti
professional emphasis was on appeals. Governor Walter J. Hickel
appointed him to the supreme court He took office on April 18, 1994. He
has been co-chmr of tiie Alaska Supreme Court's Famess and Access
Implementation Committee since 1998, has been a member of the Alaska
Supreme Court's Appellate Rules Committee since 1985, chaired an
Alaska Court System committee that revised personnel rules and
procedures on discriminatory harassment, and was a Bar Examiner for the
Alaska Bar Association in the early 1 980's. He was a charter member of
the Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Internal Operating
Procedures for the Ninth Circuit, serving from 1983-1992. He chairs an
Alaska Supreme Court committee to reduce appellate delay. He has two
grown children.
Justice Walter L. Carpeneti was bom in San Francisco in 1945. He
graduated with an A.B. degree (with distinction) in History from Stanford
University in 1967, and received a J.D. degree from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1970, where he was managing editor of the law
review. He was a law clerk for Justice John H. Dimond of the Alaska
Supreme Court in 1970-71. From 1972 to 1974 he was in private practice
in San Francisco, first with Melvin Belli and then in an office with his
father, retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Walter I. Caipeneti,
and his brother, Richard Carpeneti. He returned to Alaska in 1974 as the
Public Defender in Juneau. He left that office in 1978 to go into practice
with William T. Coimcil, where he stayed until appointed to the Superior
Court by Governor Jay Hammond in 1981. He was a judge of that court
in Juneau until 1998, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by
Governor Tony Knowles. He was married to Anne Dose Carpeneti in
1969, and they have four children: Christian, Marianna, Lia, and Bianca.
Justice Alexander O. Bryner retired on October 31, 2007.
Appointment of a new justice is expected soon.
Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court
Justice
Term
BuellNesbett
August 1959 - March 1970
John H. Dimond
August 1959 - December 1971
Walter a Hodge
August 1959 - February 1960
Harry O. Arend
May 1960 - January 1965
Jay A. Rabinowitz
February 1965 - February 1997
Roger G. Connor
December 1968 - May 1983
George F. Boncy
December 1968 - August 1972
Robert C. Erwin
August 1970 -April 1977
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Robert Boochever
March 1972 -October 1980
James M. Fitzgerald
December 1972 - March 1975
Edmond W. Burke
March 1975 - December 1993
Warren W. Matthews
May 1977-
Allen T. Compton
December 1980 -November 1998
Daniel A. Moore, Jr.
July 1983 -December 1995
Robert L. Eastangh
April 1994-
Dana Fabe
January 1996-
Alexander O. Bryner
February 1997 - October 2007
Walter L Carpeneti
November 1998 -
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:22 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: my bad
He's still a no (Neuman). At least he doesn't mess up my numbers— I had him as a no anyway.
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=S0A/0U=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1 :13 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: senate
Lesil sure is breaking away from Lyda. These last two days she's been holding her feet to the fire. Somebody
should b/c Lyda's last minute tactics on the floor are ridiculous.
8/24/2009
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Unknown
From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FiRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:58 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Weights
Perfect! :)
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov . sarahSyahoo . com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 09:54:18 2007
Subject: Re: Weights
That tv room where the coffee maker is. Thanks!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)" <erika.fagerstrom@alaska.gov>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:42:38
To : gov. sarah@yahoo . com
Subject: Re: Weights
Yes, I'll coordinate picking them up. Any place in particular that you want them?
Original Message
From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com <gov.sarah@yahoo.com>
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Sent: Fri Nov 16 09:31:27 2007
Subject: Weights
A guy is giving us his nordicflex weight machine- it's a one-piece contraption, don't
know really how it works, but it's free and is at least sorta' a weight set. His number is
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iPrivilege dl/ he says he can meet anyone at his house to have it picked up. Would you call him
and hook up one of our guys to pick it up? Thanks
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:42 AM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: RE: Woo hoo!!!
Coffee is on if s way. I'll leave it at the front desk for ya.
Yah, Bunde caught me off guard.. .but at least the 14 votes were there.
From: Sarah Palin [mailto:gov.sarah@yahbo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:19 AM
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Woo hoo!!i
yeah -coffee!!'.
and you called it again - the numbers anyway!
"Frye,Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.flye@alaska.gov>'moit:
14-5 baby!!! You did it!!! You're awesome!!! 25%, .04, standard deduc, exempt audhors, etc!!! Coffee on me
tomorrow!!!
No:
Green
Huggins
Stedman
Bunde
Hoffinan
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From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent Friday, November 1 6, 2007 3:22 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'
Subject: my bad
He's still a no (Neuman). At least he doesn't mess up my numbers— I had him as a no anyway.
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Unknown
From: Frye, Ivy J (DOA) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPiENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 10:09 AM
To: 'Sarah Paiin"
Subject: f oor session
FYI, I think the S Floor Session could be delayed b/c Lyda is not happy about the standard deductions and the in-
state only purchase of materials (or something like that). You probably already knew that...
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RE: Attached is Responses to Interrogatories Page 1 of 2
Unknown
From: Perry, Kristina Y (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=KYPERRY]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:20 PM
To: 'Sarah Palin'; Tibbies; Michael A (GOV); Irwin; Tom E (DNR); Balash; Joseph R (GOV);
Leighow; Sharon W (GOV)
Subject: CONFIDENTIALVan Treek litigation
Importance: High
FYI. We were expecting this sooner or later. All questions from media should be referred to the litijgafmg attorney,
Mr. Givens, who is handling the Terry Clarl< case.
From: Kristan Cole [mailto:kccole@mtaonline.net]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:55 PM
To: Ben Vanderweeie; John Sdiirack; Kristan Cole; Ralph Carney; Ray DePriest
Co: Austerman, Joseph M (CED); Otto, Christina L (LAW); 'Jon Givens'; pglaw@alaska,net; Bus, Nicolaas W
(DNR); Simons, Leta L (DNR); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: Joe Van Treek litigation
It's unbelievable, but within minutes of being told of the lawsuit by our attorney's, the Anchorage Daily
News was on the phone to me. Wow, wonder how they knew so fast? That's a rhetorical question by
the way. Kristan
From: Kristan Cole [maiito:kccnie@mtaonline.net]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:44 PM
To: 'Austerman, Joseph M (CED)'; 'dedwards@matmaid.com'
Cc: 'Jon Givens'
Subject: Joe Van Treek litigation
Joe, I just spoke with Jon Givens and he said Donna should Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
[Privilege4 I don't know when Donna gets back. If you know who to call, then you may want !b do that
and then have Donna follow up when she gets back. Donna, as I mentioned last week please make sure
our D&O policy is continued extended as we would not want to be without coverage. Thanks Kristan
From: Kristan Cole [mailto:kccole@mtaonline.net]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:08 PM
To: 'Bus, Nicolaas W (DNR)'; 'Otto, Christina L (LAW)*; 'Simons, Leta L (DNR)'
Cc: 'LeFebvre, Dick'; 'Irwin, Tom E (DNR)'; 'Perry, Kristina Y (GOV)'; 'pglaw@alaska.net'; 'Jon Givens'; Ben
Vanderweeie; John Schirack; Kristan Cole; Ralph Carney; Ray DePriest
Subject: Joe Van Treek litigation
As the representative for the shareholder (I know the Deputy Commissioner is out of town), I wanted to
make you aware Mr. Ginder received a summons and complaint today from Mr. Van Treeck's attorney.
He is contacting Mr. Givens our litigating attorney so he can respond.
Also just an FYI in case the media were to contact you about this, please refer them to the Creamery
Boards litigating attorney Jon Givens at 276-1 711.
Mr. Givens has instructed us before to not discuss any litigation and refer inquiries to him. Kristan
8/31/2009
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From: Kristan Cole [mailtx):kccole@mtaonllne.net]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2007 1:01 PM
To: 'Jon Givens'; 'Jana Vanderbrink'; 'pglaw@alaska.nef; 'dedwards@matmaid.com'; 'Austerman, Joseph M
(CED)'
Cc; Ben Vanderweele; John Schirack; Kristan Cole; Ralph Carney; Ralph Carney (rcamey@matmaid.com); Ray
DePriest
Subject: Joe Van Treek
Jon, I understand Pete received a summons and complaint from Mr. Van Treeck's attorney today. I
assume you will have your office respond if necessary while you are on vacation. Also, Donna Edwards
our controller is on vacation, privileged or Personal Material Redacted
I have copied Donna, Joe Austerman and Pete in on this email in case we need to do this while you are
away. Not sure who notified them in the Terry Clark matter. Kristan
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Unknown
From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:59 PM
To: Sarah Palin
Subject: FW: How Many Supreme Court Justices
From: Bailey, Frank T (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:49 P!^
To: Laghow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV); Colberg, Talis 3 (UW); Tibbies, Midiael A (GOV)
Cc: l^ason, Janice L (GOV)
Subject: FW: How Many Supreme Court Justices
From: Bailey, FranlcT (GOV)
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:44 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Cc: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV); Leschper, Beth (GOV)
Subject: How Many Supreme Couri: Justices
Justice Winfree will be the 19* Justice appointed to the Supreme Court
The first of which was Buel Nesbett, appointed in August 1959 to March of 1970.
ht^://www.state.ak.us/courts/ctinfoJitn^sc1jst
Supreme Court Jurisdiction
The term "jurisdiction" means a court's legal power and aufliority to hear partictilar types of cases.
The stq)reme court has final state appellate jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters:
1 . CrVIL APPEALS: The supreme court must accept appeals fiom final decisions by the superior
court in civil cases (including cases which originated in administrative agencies).
2. The supreme court may exercise its discretion to accept:
a. CRIMINAL APPEALS, fi-om decisions of the court of appeals or upon certification fi-om the
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3.
court of appeals that the case involves a significant question of constitutional law or an issue of
substantial public interest; and
b. PETITIONS, from non-final decisions by the superior court in civil cases and from final
decisions of the superior court on review of the district court's decisions in civil matters.
ORIGINAL APPLICATIONS: The siqjreme court may also exercise its discretion to hear matters
in which relief is not otherwise available, including bar admission and attorney discipline matters
and questions of state law certified from the federal courts.
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Supreme Conrt Justices
fxl Photo of Justice Dana
Fabe
Chief Justice Dana Fabe has served on the Supreme Court since March
1996 and is tiie first woman to serve on the court. Chief Justice Fabe was
bom in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 29, 1951 . She holds a B.A. degree
from Cornell University and a J.D. degree from Northeastern University
School of Law. Chief Justice Fabe clerked for Justice Edmond W. Burke
of Alaska Supreme Court in 1976-77. She served as a staff attorney for
the Alaska Public Defender Agency from 1977-81, and in 1981 she was
appointed by the governor to be Chief Public Defender for Alaska. She
was a member of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association
in 1987-88, Chief Justice Fabe was appointed to the superior court bench
m Anchorage ia 1 988. She was Deputy Presiding Judge of the Third
Judicial District from 1992-95, as well as a Training Judge for the Third
Judicial District. She served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from
July 2000-2003 and was elected second vice-president of the Conference
of Chief Justices. She began her current term as Chief Justice in July
2006. She is a member of the Board of Dkectors of the American
Judicature Society. She currently chairs the Alaska Supreme Court's Civil
Rules Committee, the Alaska Supreme Court's Judicial Outreach
Commission, the Alaska Court System's Law Day Steering Committee,
and the Alaska Teaching Justice Network. She also serves as co-chair of
the Alaska Bar Association's Gender Equality Section. She is married to
Randall Simpson and they have a daughter, Mia.
Justice Warren W. Matthews was bom April 5, 1939, in Santa Cruz,
California. He holds a B.A. degree from Stanford University (1961) and
J.D. from Harvard University Law School (1964). He was in private
practice in Anchorage fix)m 1965 through 1977. He served as a member
of the Board of Govemors of the Alaska Bar Association, the Alaska Bar
Ethics and Unauthorized Practices Committee, and the Supreme Court
Criminal Rules Revision Committee. He was appointed to the Alaska
Supreme Court on May 26, 1977. He served as Chief Justice from
October 1 987 to September 1990, and July 1 997 to June 2000. He was
former Board Member and Second Vice-President, Conference of Chief
Justices. He was chairman, Alaska Judicial Council, October 1987
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fxj Photo of Justice
Warren W. Matthews
[x| Photo of Justice
Robert LEastaugh
jxj Photo of Justice
Walter L. Carpeneti
through September 1990, and July 1997 to June 2000. He served on the
Alaska Sentencing Commission, 1990 through 1993. He resides in
Anchorage. He is married to Doima Matthews. They have two children.
Justice Robert L. Eastaugh was bom in Seattle in 1943 and first
traveled to Alaska in 1944. In early 1946 the family permanently returned
to Alaska, where his parents had been bom. Justice Eastaugh was raised
in Juneau, where his father, F.O. Eastaugh, and grandfether, R.E.
Robertson, both practiced law. Justice Eastaugh graduated fix)m Juneau-
Douglas High School m 1961. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from
Yale University and a J.D. from liie University of Michigan Law School.
He was admitted to practice law in Alaska in 1968. He was an Alaska
Assistant Attorney General from 1968 - 1969 and an Assistant District
Attorney from 1969 - 1972. He was in private practice at Delaney, Wiles,
Hayes, Reitman & Brabaker, Inc. between 1972 and 1994. His
professional emphasis was on appeals. Governor Walter J. Hickel
appointed him to the supreme court. He took ofBce on April 18, 1994. He
bias been co-chair of the Alaska Si5)reme Court's Fairness and Access
Implementation Committee since 1998, has been a member of the Alaska
Supreme Court's Appellate Rules Committee since 1985, chaired an
Alaska Court System committee that revised personnel mles and
procedwes on discriminatory harassment, and was a Bar Examiner for the
Alaska Bar Association in the early 1980's. He was a charter member of
the Advisory Committee on Rules of Practice and Internal Operating
Procedures for the Ninth Circuit, serving from 1983-1992. He chairs an
Alaska Siqjreme Court committee to reduce appellate delay. He has two
grown children.
Justice Walter L. Caipeneti was bom in San Francisco in 1 945. He
graduated with an AB. degree (with distinction) in History from Stanford
University in 1967, and received a J.D. degree from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1970, where he was managing editor of the law
review. He was a law clerk for Justice John H. Dimond of the Alaska
Supreme Court in 1970-71. From 1972 to 1974 he was in private practice
in San Francisco, first with Melvin Belli and then in an office with his
father, retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Walter I. Carpeneti,
and his brother, Richard Carpeneti. He returned to Alaska in 1974 as the
Public Defender in Juneau. He left that office in 1 978 to go into practice
with William T. Council, where he stayed until appointed to the Superior
Court by Governor Jay Hammond in 1981. He was a judge of that court
in Juneau until 1998, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by
Governor Tony Knowles. He was married to Anne Dose Carpeneti in
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1969, and they have four children: Christian, Marianna, Lia, and Bianca.
Justice Alexander O. Bryner retired on October 31, 2007.
Appointment of a new justice is expected soon.
Justices of tlie Alaska Supreme Court
Justice
—
Term
BuellNesbett
August 1959 - March 1970
John H. Dimond
August 1959 - December 1971
Walter H. Hodge
August 1959 - February 1960
Harry O. Arend
May 1960 - January 1965
Jay A. Rabinowitz
February 1965 - February 1997
Roger G. Connor
December 1968 - May 1983
George F. Boney
December 1968 - August 1972
Robert C. Erwin
August 1970 -April 1977
Robert Booctaever
March 1972 -October 1980
James M. Fitzgerald
December 1972 - March 1975
Edmond W. Burke
March 1975 - December 1993
Warren W. Matthews
May 1977-
Allen T. Compton
December 1980 -November 1998
Daniel A. Moore, Jr.
My 1983 -December 1995
Robert L. Eastaugh
AprU 1994 -
Dana Fabe
January 1996 -
Alexander O. Bryner
February 1997 - October 2007
Walter LCarpeneti
November 1998 -
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From: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=MATIBBLES]
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Sarah Palln
Subject: public announcements
Governor,
I have been going over my to do list and I wanted to give you a quick update of the items we are working on as
news/public announcements from now until the end of the year. I am scheduled to fly up to Anchorage Monday
night and stay until Wednesday night. This will give me an opportunity to spend some time focusing on the
budget and energy. I am going to work on the energy administrative order today and I am hopefijf while in
Anchorage, we can meet with Emil to talk about AIDEA (emergency board meeting) and also meet witfi Emil and
Invin regarding the AO and other energy components.
Anyway, if there is sometfiing that stands out as being absent, please let me know.
Bill signing for ACES .
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
AGIA applications
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Habitat - We can announce your decision based upon the completed multi-agency review.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Mat-Maid - Hopefully we will have good news regarding purchase proposals.
Legislation - We can announce any of our legislation (once completed) for next session. I will keep working with
Russ on potential bills.
Let me know if you would like me to fonward this to the Lt. Governor. Since he is out talking to so many groups, it
might be helpful.
Mike
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Unknown
From: Tibbies, Michael A (GOV) I/OSOA/OU=F1RST ADMINISTRATIVE
GR0UP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=MATIBBLES1
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Sarah Palln
Subject: public announcements
Governor,
I have been going over my to do list and I wanted to give you a quick update of the items we are working on as
news/public announcements from now until the end of the year. I am scheduled to fly up to Anchorage Monday
night and stay until Wednesday night. This will give me an opportunity to spend some time focusing on the
budget and energy. I am going to work on the energy administrative order today and I am hopefijl while in
Anchorage, we can meet with Emii to talk about AIDEA (emergency board meeting) and also meet with Emil and
Irwin regarding the AO and other energy components.
Anyway, if there is something that stands out as being absent, please let me know.
Bill signing for ACES .
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
AGIA applications
Privileged or Personal iVIaterial Redacted
Habitat - We can announce your decision based upon the completed multi-agency r^iew.
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
Mat-Maid - Hopefully we will have good news regarding purchase proposals.
Legislation - We can announce any of our legislation (once completed) for next session. I will keep working with
Russ on potential bills.
Let me know if you would like me to fonward this to the LL Governor. Since he is out talking to so many groups, it
might be helpful.
Mike
8/26/2009
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Unknown
From: Leschper, Beth (GOV) [beth.leschper@alaska.gov]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 3:40 PM
To: ExtemalEmailgsp
Cc; Mason; Janice L (GOV); Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Monday Remarks for Aviation Day
Governor:
I finallly got an answer about the order of the program. I've attached a Word document
(first page is event details, pages 2-3 your remarks and the rest is background.) The last
of your remarks is the introduction of the speaker to follow you.
Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing this and I'll re-send.
Beth
Thank you General Campbell and all of you here today for your warm welcome! I'm so
happy to join you for Aviation Day.
In 1886, Mark Twain said, "The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing
and dehcious. And why shouldn't it be? — it is the same the angels breathe."
And he hadn't been in a plane! He said this 17 years before Orville Wright flew the
"Flyer" at Kitty Hawk (North Carolina) in 1 903!
How many of you have watched an eagle soar across our Alaskan skies and wanted to
do the same?
(Pause)
Flying teaches you that you can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it, it's so
challenging. No two flights are the same. You learn patience and how to figure things
out for yourself - plus it's a lot of fun!
Alaska is such a unique place - nowhere else in the world do people depend on
aviation. Airplanes are the only way to travel to many of the most remote parts of our
state.
Because of our remote, unpopulated, rugged and diverse landscape, Alaska is on the
cutting edge of research and development for aviation.
One example is a new digital map of our state - its being created to more accurately
show elevation, and location of mountains, rivers and valleys.
Aviators rely on these kinds of accurate maps in simulators - and to stay out of danger
in real-world scenarios.
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Models and simulators are important - they help us learn how to build aircraft and they
replicate the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible.
Two very famous pilots - and Apollo astronauts - Neil Armstrong and Frank Borman began
their aviation careers with airplane models. Borman commanded Apollo 8 the first spacecraft to
fly around the moon and Annstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon.
(pause)
Aviation safety is improving in here in our state and across the nation because of Alaskan-led
development of new aviation and space surveillance technology.
Now, for those of you who think you might be interested in aviation, the industry needs people
like you to be pilots, flight instaictors, air traffic controllers, mechanics and engineers.
Aviation is a career that involves all of the subjects you're studying - math and science are
important - but so are language arts, social studies.
These would be great career paths for you to choose - and these are jobs that we will need in
Alaska.
I'd like to close with a quote from Amelia Earhart, a famous woman pilot. She said, "You
haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky."
I encourage any of you here today - young men and young women alike - to pursue your
passion - if you work and study hard, you can achieve anything!
(Pause)
I'm now pleased to introduce Roberta Degenhardt (Day-ghen-hart), a professional pilot with
more than 1 1 ,000 hours of flight time. She is rated in both jets and helicopters.
Inspired by flying with her father, a private pilot who owned a Piper Tri-pacer, she decided to
pursue a career in aviation. She is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in
Daytona Beach, Florida.
Roberta returned to her home in New York, where she worked as a flight instructor and flew as
a charter pilot on multi-engine aircraft including the Beech Baron, Piper Navajo, Beech Kingair,
Cessna Citation 550, Canadair Challenger 603. She has also piloted helicopters, float planes
and gliders.
In 1995 Roberta left corporate aviation for a job flying for Federal Express, which brought her
to Anchorage for the first time in January 2000. Having visited all 50 of the United States, and
numerous other countries, she decided to make Alaska her home and moved here in March of
2001.
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:05 AM
To: , Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Re: Natural first parents
You know it!
Sent from ray BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Frye, Ivy J (DOA)" <ivy.frye@alaska.gov>
Date: Siin, 18 Nov 2007 10:03:21
To : gov . sarah®yahoo . com
Subject: Re: Natural first parents
Thank you! It was the first article I read this morning! They're just awesome.
Uncle Don is happy to know if he ever needs lures he just has to drop off some beer.
Original Message
From: Anchorage Daily News <:adn®nandomedia.com>
To: Frye,, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sun Nov 18 09:57:00 2007
Subject: Natural first parents
The following adn.com article was sent by:
s (gav.sarah®yahoo.com)
Natural first parents
Chuck and Sally Heath' s lives emphasize an affinity with wilderness
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By MELISSA DeVAUGHN, mdevaughn@adn . com
Published: November 18, 2007
WASILLA
-- Think Gov. Sarah Palin i3 an interesting person?
You haven't met Chuck and Sally-
Heath, the Wasilla couple responsible for bringing Alaska's
first female governor into this world. From hunting and hiking
to fishing and skiing, there's very little Alaska's first
parents have not tried outdoors. And at 69 and 67, respectively,
they show no signs of slowing down.
"When it comes to taking advantage of all of Alaska's amazing
outdoor opportunities, they seize those opportunities --
spring, summer, winter and fall," said Palin of her parents.
"They go without a lot of sleep, I think, but they atill
have more energy than anybody else 1 know.
You can read the full story online at:
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/9463551p-9374818c.html
<http : //www. adn. com/outdoors/story/ 9463551p- 9374818c . html>
This article is protected by copyright and should not be
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PRA GSP01 0007979
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From:
Sent:
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Subject:
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GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=IJFRYE]
Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:03 AM
'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Re: Natural first parents
Thank you! It was the first article I read this morning! They're just awesome.
Uncle Don is happy to know if he ever needs lures he just has to drop off some beer.
Original Message
From: Anchorage Daily News <adn@nandoraedia . com>
To: Frye, Ivy J (DOA)
Sent: Sun Nov 18 09:57:00 2007
Subject: Natural first parents
The following adn.com article was sent by:
s (gov.sarah@yahoo.com)
Natural first parents
Chuck and Sally Heath's lives emphasize an affinity with wilderness
By MELISSA DeVAUGHN, mdevaughn@adn.com
Published: November 18, 2007
WASILIiA
-- Think Gov. Sarah Palin is an interesting person?
You haven't met Chuck and Sally
Heath, the Wasilla couple responsible for bringing Alaska's
first female governor into this world. From hunting and hiking
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to fishing and skiing, there's very little Alaska's first
parents have not tried outdoors. And at 69 and 67, respectively,
they show no signs of slowing down.
"When it comes to taking advantage of all of Alaska's amazing
outdoor opport\inities, they seize those opportunities --
spring, summer, winter and fall," said Palin of her parents.
"They go without a lot of sleep, I think, but they still
have more energy than anybody else I know.
You can read the full story online at:
http;/ /www. adn.com/outdoors/story/ 9463551p-9374818c.html
This article is protected by copyright and should not be
printed or distributed for anything except personal use.
For information on reprinting this article or placing it
on your Web site, please contact the Daily News marketing
department at (907) 257-4429 or marketing@adn.com.
PRA GSP01 0007981
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From; Anchorage Daily News [adn@nandomeclia.com] on behalf of s [gov.sarah@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Frye; Ivy J (DOA)
Subject: Natural first parents
The following adn.com article was sent by:
s ( gov . sarah@yahoo . com)
Natural first parents
Chuck and Sally Heath's lives emphasize an affinity with wilderness
By MELISSA De VAUGHN, mdevaughn®adn . com
Published: November 18, 2007
WASILLA
-- Thiiik Gov. Sarah Palin is an interesting person?
You haven't met Chuck and Sally
Heath, the Wasilla couple responsible for bringing Alaska' s
first female governor into this world. From hunting and hiking
to fishing and skiing, there's very little Alaska's first
parents have not tried outdoors. And at 69 and 67, respectively,
they show no signs of slowing down.
"When it comes to taking advantage of all of Alaska's amazing
outdoor opportunities, they seize those opportunities --
spring, summer, winter and fall," said Palin of her parents,
"They go without a lot of sleep, I think, but they still
have more energy than anybody else I know.
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You can read the full story online at;
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/9463551p-9374818c.html
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From: Mason, Janice L (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=JLMASON]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 10:46 AM
To: 'gov.sarah@yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: Natural first parents
Thank you for forwarding this to me. I downloaded the story on one of the boys laptop and
read it out loud. You are who you are because of the wonderful parents you have. How
proud you can be. Janice
Sent using BlackBerry
Original Message
Prom: Anchorage Daily News <adn@nandomedia . com>
To: Mason, Janice L (GOV)
Sent: Sun Nov 18 09:57:48 2007
Subject: Natural first parents
The following adn.com article was sent by:
3 ( gov . sarah®yahoo . com )
And s had this to say:
My ma & pa.
Natural first parents
Chuck and Sally Heath's lives emphasize an affinity with wilderness
By MELISSA DeVAUGHN, mdevaughn®adn . com
Published: November 18, 2007
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WAS ILIA
-- Think Gov. Sarah Palin is an interesting person?
You haven't met Chuck and Sally-
Heath, the Wasilla couple responsible for bringing Alaska's
first female governor into this world. From hunting and hiking
to fishing and skiing, there's very little Alaska's first
parents have not tried outdoors. And at 69 and 67, respectively,
they show no signs of slowing down.
"When it comes to taking advantage of all of Alaska's amazing
outdoor opportunities, they seize those opportunities --
spring, summer, winter and fall," said Palin of her parents.
"They go without a lot of sleep, I think, but they still
have more energy than anybody else I know.
You can read the full story online at:
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From: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Sent; Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:19 PM
To: Leschpen Beth (GOV)
Co: Mason; Janice L (GOV); Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Subject: Re; Monday Remarks for Aviation Day
Thanks Beth! I'm just now getting into afternoon emails, so I'll read this over but don't
anticipate needing anything else for the speech tomorrow. Thank you for doing this!
Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Cellular One
Original Message
From: "Leschper, Beth (GOV)" <beth.leschper@aiaska.gov>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:40:13
To : Governor Palin <gov . sarah@yahoo . com>
Cc: "Mason, Janice L (GOV)" <janice.mason@alaska.gov>, govpalin@alaska.gov
Subject: Monday Remarks for Aviation Day
Governor ;
I finallly got an answer about the order of the program. I've attached a Word document
(first page is event details, pages 2-3 your remarks and the rest is background.) The last
of your remarks is the introduction of the speaker to follow you.
Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing this and I'll re-send.
Beth
Thank you General Campbell and all of you here today for your warm welcome! I'm so happy
to join you for Aviation Day.
In 1886, Mark Twain said, "The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing
and delicious. And why shouldn't it be? —it is the same the angels breathe."
And he hadn't been in a plane! He said this 17 years before Orville Wright flew the
"Flyer" at Kitty Hawk (North Carolina) in 1903 1
How many of you have watched an eagle soar across our Alaskan skies and wanted to do the
same?
(Pause)
Plying teaches you that you can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it, it's so
challenging. No two flights are the same. You learn patience and how to figure things out
for yourself - plus it's a lot of fun!
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Alaska is such, a unique place - nowhere else in the world do people depend on aviation.
Airplanes are the only way to travel to many of the most remote parts of our state.
Because of our remote, unpopulated, rugged and diverse landscape, Alaska is on the cutting
edge of research and development for aviation.
One example is a new digital map of our state - it's being created to more accurately show
elevation, and location of mountains, rivers and valleys.
Aviators rely on these kinds of accurate maps in simulators — and to stay out of danger in
real -world scenarios.
Models and simulators are important - they help us learn how to build aircraft and they
replicate the experience of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying> flying an
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft> aircraft as closely and realistically as possible.
Two very famous pilots - and Apollo astronauts - Neil Armstrong and Frank Borman began
their aviation careers with airplane models. Borman commanded Apollo 8 the first
spacecraft to fly around the moon and Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the
moon .
(pause)
Aviation safety is improving in here in our state and across the nation because of
Alaskan- led development of new aviation and space surveillance technology.
Now, for those of you who think you might be interested in aviation, the industry needs
people like you to be pilots, flight instructors, air traffic controllers, mechanics and
engineers.
Aviation is a career that involves all of the subjects you're studying - math and science
are important - but so are language arts, social studies.
These would be great career paths for you to choose - and these are jobs that we will need
in Alaska.
I'd like to close with a quote from Amelia Earhart, a famous woman pilot. She said, "You
haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky."
I encourage any of you here today - young men and young women alike - to pursue your
passion — if you work and study hard, you can achieve anything!
(Pause)
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I'm now pleased to introduce Roberta Degenhardt (Day-ghen-hart) , a professional pilot with
more than 11,000 hours of flight time. She is rated in both jets and helicopters.
Inspired by flying with her father, a private pilot who owned a Piper Tri-pacer, she
decided to pursue a career in aviation. She is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Roberta returned to her home in New York, where she worked as a flight instructor and flew
as a charter pilot on multi-engine aircraft including the Beech Baron, Piper Navajo, Beech
Kingair, Cessna Citation 550, Canadair Challenger 603. She has also piloted helicopters,
float planes and gliders.
In 1995 Roberta left corporate aviation for a job flying for Federal Express,
which brought her to Anchorage for the first time in January 2000. Having visited all 50
of the United States, and numerous other countries, she decided to make Alaska her home
and moved here in March of 2001.
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Natural first parents
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From: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV) [/0=SOA/OU=FIRST ADMINISTRATIVE
GROUP/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=EFAGERSTROM]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 3:38 PM
To: gov.sarah@yahoo.com
Subject: FW: Natural first parents
i just love your parents; it's so coot to see an article that captures what a unique treasure they are!! Hianlcs for
sharing!
A huge congratulations on the passing of the oil tax bill!!! Thanks for your hard work and persistence! God is
good! Plus- great picture on the front page of the Jnu Empire!
Erika
From: Anchorage Daily News on behalf of s
Sent: Sun 11/18/2007 9:56 AM
To: Fagerstrom, Erika (GOV)
Subject: Natural first parents
The following adn,com article was sent by:
s (gov.sarah@yahoo.com)
And s had this to say:
Ma and Fa Heath...
Natural first parents
Chuck and Sally Heath's lives emphasize an affinity with wilderness
By MELISSA DeVAUGHN, mdevaughn@adn.c(»n
Published: November 18, 2007
WASILLA
- Think Gov. Sarah Palin is an interesting person?
You havent met Chuck and Sally
Heath, die WasiUa couple responsible for bringing Alaska's
first female governor into this world. From hunting and hiking
to fishing and skiing, there's veiy little Alaska's first
parents have not tried outdoors. And at 69 and 67, respectively,
Ihey show no signs of slowing down.
"When it comes to taking advantage of all of Alaska's amazmg
outdoor opportunities, they seize those opportunities —
spring, summer, winto' and fall," said Palin of her parents.
"They go without a lot of sleep, I think, but they still
have more energy than anybody else I know.
You can read the full stoiy online at:
8/26/2009
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From: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [governor@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:29 AM
To: Mason; Janice L (GOV)
Subject: FW: Governor Palin Halloween Look Alike
From: Sandy Empson [mallto;sandy_empson@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:45 PM
To: Palin, Sarah H (GOV)
Subject: Governor Palin Halloween Look Alike
Dear Governor Palin:
Just wanted to send you a picture of my Halloween costume, in which I dressed up as you. I
have attached two pictures of my outfit. I hope you at least get a quick laugh out of these.
Thanks you for your time.
Take care and God bless,
Sandy Empson
Juneau
sandy empson(fl).vahoo.com
Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.
11/9/2009
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From: Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) [sharon.leighow@alaska.gov]
Sent: Monday, November 1 9, 2007 1 :40 PM
To: Palin; Sarah (GOV sponsored)
Cc: Peny; Kristina Y (GOV)
Subject: FYI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 19, 2007
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Walt Parker, 907.333.5189; Lois Epstein, 907.929.9372
Statewide Poll Shows Little Support for Juneau Road/Ferry Project
Alaskans Prefer Local Projects and Will Not Use the Road to Contact Legislators
Anchorage, AK - A new statewide poll shows that Alaskans prefer by a 79% to 11 % margin that the state
spend money on local transportation repairs, maintenance, and upgrades rather than on the $374 million
Juneau Road/Ferry Project. The poll also shows that by an even higher margin, 81% to 13%, Alaskans do
not plan to use the proposed road/ferry project to access the legislature in Juneau. Southeast Alaska
residents alone backed local repairs, maintenance, and upgrades over the project by a smaller margin,
63% to 26%. The poll, conducted by Anne Hays Research fwww.havsresearch.com) . was taken on
November 9-12 and is available at http://www.aktransportation.org/press-releases/november-l9th-2007 .
The Juneau Road/Ferry Project, a holdover transportation project proposed by the Murkowski
Administration, consists of 50 miles of new road that would end at a new ferry terminal on the east side of
Lynn Canal, 18 ferry miles Srom Skagway. Travelers would then take ferries to Haines or Skagway. The
proposed road route is along very steep terrain prone to avalanches, rockfalls, and landslides, so a good
portion of the project will be among the toughest - and most expensive per mile - road construction
projects in the country.
"These poll results demonstrate that the Juneau Road/Ferry Project is not a priority for 8 of 1 Alaskans,
and that almost no one in the state plans to drive to Juneau. Governor Palin should cancel this expensive
project and use the money for essential transportation repairs and maintenance, which only will increase
Willi permafrost melting and increased flooding caused by climate change," stated Walt Parker,
Anchorage-based former head of the state's Department of Highways (now Alaska Department of
Transportation) under Governor Jay Hammond.
Lois Epstein, Director of the Alaska Transportation Priorities Project, a non-profit, statewide
transportation "watchdog" organization stated that "the legislature needs to hold oversight hearings on
what would not be funded if the Juneau Road/Feny project moves forward, including transportation
projects that Would benefit the trucking industry and relieve congestion in and en route to Anchorage."
Much of the $244 million in currently-unidentified ftmds for the project will come from the state because
federal transportation fiinding is in decline, resulting in Alaskan transportation needs being cancelled,
delayed, or scaled back to fund the Juneau Road/Feny project. Using genera) iiind money could affect
non-transportation priorities, such as funding for education and municipal revenue sharing. Important
state transportation projects that may have inadequate fiinding should the Juneau Road/Ferry Project
proceed include the Glenn/Seward Highway to Highway coimection in Anchorage, upgrading the Parks
Highway to allow for year-round truck travel, and ensuring the safety of existing roads and bridges.
Hays Research Group conducted the poll as part of a survey of 400 residents statewide, and the margin of
error is +/- 4.9%. Only approximately 1 in 10 poll respondents didn't know or refused to answer the poll
questions.
Lois N. Epstein, P.E.
Director
Alaska Transportation Priorities Project
11/9/2009
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308 G St., Suite 221
Anchorage, AK 99501
ph: 907 929-9372
fax:907 929-1562
lois@aktransportation.org
www.aklran5Portation.org
Sharon Leighow
Deputy Press Secretary
Deputy Communications Director
(907) 269-7450 Anchorage
(907) 465-4031 Juneau
(907) 240-7943 cdl
11/9/2009
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From: Eric A. Olson [eolson@gci.net]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:41 PM
To: Palin; Sarah H (GOV)
Cc: Crome; Cora J (GOV); Rehfeid; Karen J (GOV); Lloyd; Denby S (DFG)
Subject: Univ. of Alaska Funding - Fislieries
Dear Governor Palin-
1 am writing you to express my support for an addition of $1 million in ftrnding for the University of
Aiasl<a's budget for the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences program aimed at preparing Alaskans
for jobs and careers in the fishing industry and fisheries management.
It is my understanding that this liinding will be used as matching funds to leverage an additional $5 million
in private grant funds. I believe this would be money welhspent to improve the quality of fisheries related
programs the University provides as well as increasing the number of Alaskans prepared to manage the
fisheries that are so important to this state.
I might also mention that in the reauthorized MSA there is a new provision (Section 109) that among other
things is focused on improving education and training on marine resource professions among coastal
community residents of Alaska and Hawaii. The Section is much more detailed and I can provide you
with exact language if you like. The main point 1 wanted to make though, is that funding this program will
go a long ways toward the University to start "filling the pipeline' with Alaskans who are prepared and
qualified to enter marine resource professions.
In closing I ask that the request by the University of Alaska for $1 million for fisheries be funded in full.
Sincerely,
Eric Olson
Kwik'Pak Fisheries LLC
1016 West 6th Avenue, Suite 301
Anchorage AK 99501
Phone:907-644-0326
Fax: 907-644-0327
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) [govpalin@alaska.gov]
Monday, November 19, 2007 6:55 AM
Rutherford; Marty K (DNR)
Re: Contact information for suggested AGIA' phone calls
Got it and I'll call. Thanks so much Marty!
Original Message
From: Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
To: ExternalEmailgsp; Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) ; govpalin@yahoo.com
<govpalin®yahoo. com>
Sent: Mon Nov 19 06:52:03 2007
Subject: PW: Contact information for suggested AGIA' phone calls
Governor,
I apologize for sending this e-mail to three addresses, but I wasn't sure which address
would reach you.
Since sending the contact information for TransCanada & MidAmerican pipeline companies to
you on Friday, I have learned there is more current information for Hal Kvisle at
TransCanada since his normal scheduler is not available. Therefore this version of the
docximent is more current.
I have also learned that today Hal Kvisle is receiving the final proposed AGIA'
application for his review and that he will be reviewing it carefully. I am advised he
will be deciding whether or not to support it with the TransCanada' Board of Directors
based upon his sense of whether the AGIA' Licensee will actually be able to get the Firm
Transportation (FT) commitments during an Open Season. Therefore I'm sure he will be
asking you whether you are willing to do whatever it takes to get the gas. Thus it turns
out that the timing of this call is perfect and it also becomes critical for you to convey
that, once we have an AGIA' partner, we will use all our sovereign powers to ensure the
Open Season process is successful .
Thank you again. Governor, for your willingness to do this.
Marty
-Original Message
From: Rutherford, Marty K (DNR)
Sent: Fri 11/16/2007 5:14 PM
To : ' gov . sarahoyahoo . com '
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Subject: Contact information for suggested AGIA' phone calls
Governor ,
Thanks for taking the time to speak with me earlier today. Like everyone, I'm sending up
prayers that the legislature does the right thing for Alaska during today's ACES' debate.
During yesterday's phone conversation we discussed the possibility of you making telephone
calls to the TransCanada & MidAmerican CEO's, conveying your hope they choose to
participate in the AGIA process. Here are more specifics for those phone calls. For your
information, the contact information I have for these two CEO's are their work contact
information, therefore I would suggest you make these calls early next week. Finally, the
messaging suggestions are somewhat tailored to the particular party in order to address
issues that I know to be their concerns:
1) TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.
Hal Kvisle, President and CEO (Kvisle is pronounced KWISLEE)
Corporate Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hal Kvisle's Scheduler is Janna Laberge ® Phone # 403-920-7710.
General Information:
* I believe you have previously spoken with Hal Kvisle on the phone re: the AGIA
process
* TransCanada ' s primary contact person for Alaska is Tony Palmer;
* Tony Palmer's boss, who heads their gasline effort, is Russ Girling,
President /Pipelines
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Suggested Message :
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
i 2) MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company-
David Sokol, Chairman and CEO (Sokol is pronounced SEW-KULL)
Corporate Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
Phone # 402-231-1400
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David Sokol's Assistant/Scheduler is Barbara Tracy @ Phone # 402-231-1402
General Information:
* You and I had breakfast with David Sokol in Washington DC in late February and since
then I believe you have spoken with hira on the phone;
* David Sokol is one of two CEO's that report directly to Warren Buffet. MidAmerican
is a subsidiary of Warren Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. David is also an
owner in Berkshire Hathaway, which is a diversified, privately held company.
Suggested Message:
Privileged or Personal Material Redacted
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Once again. Governor, your willingness to assist the AGIA effort is greatly appreciated by
your Gasline Team.
Marty
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From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored) [govemor@alaska,govl
Monday, November 19, 2007 9:27 AM
tawnythatchery@hotmail.com
RE: Other
Thank you for writing to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The concerns, opinions, and/or
information you have sent are important and valuable to the Governor. Although she is
unable to respond to each and every email herself, your message has been received and is
being reviewed by the appropriate staff person in this office who can best address your
need, suggestion, or comment.
Original Message
From: WebMail@gov. state. ak. us [mailto:WebMail®gov. state. ak. us]
Sent: Sionday, November 18, 2007 12:54 PM
To: Governor Sarah Palin (GOV sponsored)
Subj ect : Other
Web mail from: Ms. Angelie Ferryman
address: 765 N. Gulkana Ct. Palmer AK 99645
907-746-6609
MESSAGE:
Dear Sarah
It's that time of year when I take stock, re-evaluate & remember people & things I am
thankful for. So, with this in mind I'd like to take the time to tell you how THANKFUL I
am to have you looking out for us & loving us (i.e., your fellow Alaskans) . Thank you for
putting yourself last. I think of the time in my life when I was an ass & you helped me
and how that one instance changed my whole life. Thank you Governor Palin for looking out
for us. Thank you for letting the Lord use you. Thank you for being a shining example to
our up and coming young ladies. Thank you for your courage and your thick skin! God's
Blessings to you & yours!
Angelie Darkwood- Ferryman (nee' Coyne)
tawnythatchery@hotraail . com
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