Putting jet on eBay not even Palin's idea

[Popeye]

Another hole in the Sarah Palin as a reformer image? First it was the lies about the Bridge to Nowhere, now it appears as if another staple of her stump speeches...that it was her idea to put the governor's jet on eBay, may not be true either.

What is left unmentioned is that Palin didn't come up with the idea to sell the plane using eBay in the first place. Moreover, because of the unique purchasing terms of the aircraft -- which required the state to make payments amounting to $20,000 per month even if the jet wasn't in use -- the decision not to hire a broker to help sell the property appears in hindsight to have been a costly mistake.

Before the Alaska Republican took office, it was something of a standard operating procedure for the state to try to sell such big-ticket items using the online auction site. Officials had been doing it since at least 2003, three years before Palin became governor.

"It was the practice of the state to dispose of items such as this via eBay prior to listing the jet," Vern Jones, Alaska's Chief Procurement Officer, acknowledged on Tuesday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/palins-ebay-story-what-ac_n_125361.html

 

[top gun]

Another hole in the Sarah Palin as a reformer image? First it was the lies about the Bridge to Nowhere, now it appears as if another staple of her stump speeches...that it was her idea to put the governor's jet on eBay, may not be true either.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/palins-ebay-story-what-ac_n_125361.html

This seems to be more new information about whether Palin came up with the idea. It's a FACT she didn't sell it on ebay.

In fact it was taken off ebay when it didn't sell and sold by somebody else in the state government to some businessman at $600,000 below estimated value.

This is just another stump speech lie Palin is pushing until the media calls her on it.

Another she's pushing hard is that she fired the Governor's chef. What she really did was keep the chef but assign her a different job title... and the chef continued to cook for Palin's kids.

These are little lies I know. But the media doesn't like to be lied to. There will be a lot more information coming forward very soon and it will show a pattern of trying to be "tricky" with the truth.

It's just a matter of a couple weeks before the polish wears off the bowling ball.