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It has been discovered that former Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation cost the taxpayers about $41,000, not including the $100,000 cost for the one-day special session held last month in which state lawmakers confirmed Palin's successor. Travel expenses and moving her out of the governor's mansion contributed to some of the cost.
    The final price tag will be a mere fraction of the roughly $2 million Palin has said it cost the state dealing with "frivolous" ethics complaints against her. Still, bloggers, residents, newspaper letter writers and lawmakers alike have questioned what they saw as unnecessary costs associated with Palin's resignation 16 months before the end of her first term.

ANCHORAGE — Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that she will resign in a few weeks. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will take over at the Governor's Picnic in Fairbanks on July 26.

"People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska," Palin said.

"Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine."

Palin made the announcement at a news conference at her home in Wasilla.

"I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path," Palin said.

"Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional 'Lame Duck' status in this particular climate would just be another dose of 'politics as usual,' something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success."

As for her future, Palin said: "I look forward to helping others --to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence."

After Parnell is swornin as governor, Craig Campbell, head of the state Department of Military Affairs and National Guard, will become lieutenant governor.

Sarah Palin's Memoirs Hit Bookshelves Sooner Than Expected

Official cover, HARPER/AP

When former Alaska governor Sarah Palin announced that she will be writing a book about her memoirs, the probable release date was set for sometime in the spring. We now have received confirmation that she is finished with it and it is set to come out as early as this November.
 Now that's dedication.

 Palin's book, titled Going Rogue: An American Life will officially hit bookshelves November 17th.

 Johnathon Burnham, publisher of Harper publishers said in a statement that Palin focused all her time and energy into this piece and is clearly devoted to the project.

According to Burnham Palin has been "hands-on" and "investing herself deeply and passionately in this project." Palin's finished book is 400 pages--and considering she finished this piece four months in advance we can take this statement of his to be true.

 For part of her book experience she had spent weeks in San Diego after she resigned from office. Here is where she worked on her manuscript with help from Lynn Vincent, an editor at Evangelical Magazine who became her collaborator and later her family and top help Meghan Stapleton. Later, she moved her travels and writing to New York to work with several Editors at Harper.

 This book will highlight Palin's experiences as governor and more as the running-mate Vice President candidate next to John McCain in the 2008 Presidential election. It will also highlight Palin's public criticism of being too inexperienced to be considered for the Vice Presidency. Palin resigned from office in July for her own reasons, and the story behind this and much more will be told in her soon-to-be-released book.

Ex-Gov. sarah palin Was Second Choice in '84 Beauty Contest

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Twenty-four years before making history as the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket, Alaska Governor sarah palin came in second place at the Miss Alaska pageant in 1984.

Since then, palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council before becoming mayor of the town -- the state's fastest-growing with a population of 6,715 -- in 1996.

palin won the governorship in 2006. she is the state's youngest and first female governor.

The 44-year-old Idaho-native is the mother of five children, the youngest of whom was Born in April and has Down syndrome. Both palin and McCain both have children in the military.

"Governor palin is a tough executive who has demonstrated during her time in office that she is ready to be president," the McCain campaign said in a statement Friday. "Governor Palin has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of. Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today."

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivers her speech Friday after Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, left, introduced her as running mate at a campaign stop in Dayton, Ohio.

FAIRBORN, Ohio -- In a surprise pick that may have been aimed at Democrats disgruntled over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's defeat, Sen. John McCain today named 44-year-old Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his running mate.

Ms. Palin, the first woman and youngest governor of the 49th state, would become the first woman vice presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party. She will accept the party's nomination Wednesday night in St. Paul, Minn.

"She's not from these parts and she's not from Washington, but when you get to know her, you're going to be as impressed as I am,'' Mr. McCain said. "She's got grit, integrity, good sense, and fierce devotion to the common good and what is right, and that is exactly what we need in Washington today."

The popular first-term governor and mother of five plays into the "maverick" and reformer image that Mr. McCain has tried to foster in an attempt to distance himself from the unpopular President Bush.

Ms. Palin has a reputation for bucking her party, riding GOP ethics scandal to a primary victory over a Republican incumbent governor and then defeating her Democratic opponent in 2006. An abortion rights opponent, she gave birth to her fifth child in April.

Her oldest son will soon be deployed to Iraq with his U.S. Army brigade.

"As the mother of one of those soldiers and as commander of the Alaska National Guard, that's the kind of man that I want as our commander-in-chief," she said of Mr. McCain.

Born in Idaho, she was transplanted to Alaska as a child and earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda"' as a player on her high school basketball team. She was a Miss Alaska runner-up in 1984. She hunts, fishes, rides snowmobiles, and is a member of the National Rifle Association.

"She knows where she comes from and she knows who she works for," Mr. McCain. "She stands up for what is right and she doesn't let anybody tell her to sit down."

The Obama campaign immediately attacked her level of experience.

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "Gov. Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil, and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies. That's not the change we need. It's just more of the same."

She is already at odds with Mr. McCain on one issue, oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She favors it.

While Mr. McCain has adamantly supported more off-shore drilling, he has so far kept ANWR off the table and he succeeded in keeping an endorsement of ANWR drilling out of the draft party platform that will come to a vote next week at the convention in St. Paul, Minn.

Mr. McCain has attempted to exploit the reluctance of some Clinton supporters to rally behind Barack Obama after he secured his party's nomination.

Democrats tried to heal the wounds with their convention this week, culminating with robust endorsements of Mr. Obama from Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton. But it remains to be seen how many of those who voted for her will follow her to Mr. Obama on Nov. 4.

In a direct nod to Mrs. Clinton and this week's suggestion that her votes reflected 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling for women, Ms. Palin said, "The women of America are not finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling."