What was missing from the video was her opening remarks about the legal bills she's had to pay for all the ethics investigation. Here is her rambling:
"Some say things changed for me on August 29th last year - the day John McCain tapped me to be his running-mate - I say others changed.
Let me speak to that for a minute.
Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. Over the past nine months I've been accused of all sorts of frivolous ethics violations - such as holding a fish in a photograph, wearing a jacket with a logo on it, and answering reporters' questions.
Every one - all 15 of the ethics complaints have been dismissed. We've won! But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to "opposition research" - that's money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers - or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the "politics of personal destruction" ... Todd and I are looking at more than half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly accusations? It doesn't cost them a dime so they're not going to stop draining public resources - spending other peoples' money in their game."
Left-Wing Wacko wrote:
> Check out the announcement video at Huffington Post, jeeeez she just rambles
> and rambles and rambles......
> Is it scandal or further ambitions?
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> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bill O'Connor <billyoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> You think that means Goodbye?
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>> I think it means they'll be putting the bracelets on her soon.
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>> In Solidarity,
>> Billy O'Connor
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