Discarded Palin contract sparks investigation

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_re_us/us_calif_palin_contract_12

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A document fished out of a California state university trash bin last week has prompted a state investigation into the university's foundation arm and its refusal to disclose details related to Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the school.
On Tuesday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office would look into the finances of the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation, as well as allegations that the nonprofit organization violated public disclosure laws by keeping details of Palin's contract secret.
Palin is scheduled to speak at a June 25 gala hosted by the foundation to mark the university's 50th anniversary.
Brown's investigation was prompted, in part, by a group of CSU Stanislaus students who retrieved five pages of the contract from a campus trash bin last Friday after hearing administrators were engaged in shredding documents.
The contract detailed the former Alaska governor's requirements for her visit, including first-class flights from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...," the contract specifies.


Snippety China, the Chinese chicken
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Interesting.
 
Well, anything smaller than a Lear 60 would just be insulting. :rolleyes:
 
Travis said:
Well, anything smaller than a Lear 60 would just be insulting. :rolleyes:
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I would have thought the Caribou Barbie would be happy to arrive in one of the tiny single engine wood and fabric things the various trappers, guides, and bush pilots use. Just try to land a Learjet on a lake in the middle of the woods.

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Disgusting. Sarah just wants to share her story with young minds, and the libtards can't handle it. They're afraid of her normalness.
 
Travis said:
Well, anything smaller than a Lear 60 would just be insulting. :rolleyes:
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It's not a very big plane at all. It's one of the smallest "passenger" planes and one of the smallest planes with jet engines instead of propellers, with a capacity of 8 or 9 passengers in its highest-capacity internal configuration. Normally, anything smaller than that is slower (and I think less efficient per pound or per passenger) and used for non-passenger functions, such as cropdusting or just hobby flying for the pilot to have fun. I've been in smaller planes to observe the progress of forest fires and tree-killing insect outbreaks, and ridden a handful of other sizes up to Boeing 747. The smaller and lighter the plane is, the more nausea-inducing it is. Also, the only two models of Learjet smaller than this one have an internal height of 4.92 feet, whereas this one's internal height is 5.71, making this the smallest one she could stand up in.

All that the defined flight options in this contract mean is that if the only private plane available is going to be especially slow and make her more likely to puke and experience much muscle/joint stiffness, she'd rather just take a quicker, more comfortable commercial flight with everybody else.
 
Sounds like whomever was operating the shredder was a bloody incompetent.

Interesting detective work by the students. This bit of "dumpster diving" could offer up some interesting follow on stories.
 
The NPR report I heard described the requirement as being first or business class, or private jet. Which seems pretty reasonable to me.

NPR also reported that the contract calls for two bottles of water at the podium, with bendy straws. My wife claimed that the bendy straw requirement has something entirely reasonable to do with lipstick, but she started using womanly technical jargon, so I just tuned her out and went back to scraping my beard off with a Bowie knife.

Anyway, popular speaker prefers to travel business class, and says so. Shocking!
 
Darth Rotor said:
Sounds like whomever was operating the shredder was a bloody incompetent.

Interesting detective work by the students. This bit of "dumpster diving" could offer up some interesting follow on stories.
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Stanislaus State has--or at least had, ten years ago when I was down there--a pretty good journalism program. If these kids were from that they now have some good stories to relate.

theprestige said:
The NPR report I heard described the requirement as being first or business class, or private jet. Which seems pretty reasonable to me.

NPR also reported that the contract calls for two bottles of water at the podium, with bendy straws. My wife claimed that the bendy straw requirement has something entirely reasonable to do with lipstick, but she started using womanly technical jargon, so I just tuned her out and went back to scraping my beard off with a Bowie knife.

Anyway, popular speaker prefers to travel business class, and says so. Shocking!
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Bah, I use an ax! That is when I'm not using an enraged hyena on a stick.
 
Darth Rotor said:
Sounds like whomever was operating the shredder was a bloody incompetent.

Interesting detective work by the students. This bit of "dumpster diving" could offer up some interesting follow on stories.
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Or.... bloody clever.
 
Travis said:
Bah, I use an ax! That is when I'm not using an enraged hyena on a stick.
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Meh. You poncy kids today and your fancy sticks. In my day, we had to hold our enraged hyenas with our bare hands! And we liked it that way! (Well, those of us who still had hands.)
 
luchog said:
Meh. You poncy kids today and your fancy sticks. In my day, we had to hold our enraged hyenas with our bare hands! And we liked it that way! (Well, those of us who still had hands.)
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Well, normally I shave by sticking my face into a bathtub full of angry sharks, but they're at the cleaners right now.
 
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