Digital News Report – Sarah Palin travels in style, according to a five-page contract that was reported to have been found by California State University students in a bin on March 16th, that could have become shredded.
The Telegraph UK said that the document asked that Sarah Palin requires an aircraft (a Lear 60 or larger) to travel. She required either first class travel or a private aircraft. She needs three deluxe hotel rooms to stay at, and two unopened bottles of distilled water with bendable straws.
The students, according to the report, were searching for documents in a bin relating to Palin’s speech that was scheduled for June 25 at the University’s Stanislaus Foundation galas 50th anniversary event. The reason the students went on a search is that they heard that university officials would be shredding documents related to Palin.
According to reports, Palin asked for $100,000 for other speaking engagements in the past. The University has been faced with budget crisis and students struggling to meet the cost of rising tuition. The promoters of the gala planned to sell tickets for $500 each. They hoped they could recoup the fees in with a large crowd in attendance.
The California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced yesterday that he has begun an investigation into the California State University Stanislaus Foundation for both their finances as well as the alleged trashing of Palin related documents into a university dumpster.
Brown started the investigation after State Senator Leland Yee asked his office to investigate the California State University Stanislaus Foundation’s refusal to hand over records about the gala event. The foundation was supposed to do this according to the Public Records Act.
In addition to looking into how the documents were being destroyed, Brown is also looking into how the foundation spends their money. The foundation has assets over $20 million and spends over $3 million each year on university activities. The attorney general’s (AG) office wants to make sure that they are doing this as this is what the foundation promises its donor and the public.
“We are taking this action to make sure that the money raised goes toward the intended educational purposes and not a dollar is wasted or misspent,” Brown said, “Prudent financial stewardship is crucial at a time in which universities face vastly decreased funding and increased student fees.”
Brown has received documents relating to Palin’s speech contract. These are the documents the college students found in a dumpster near the CSU Stanislaus administration building. Brown said this isn’t about anything Sarah Palin has done wrong, she has every right to speak at any university event, but it is more about how the foundation handled their affairs that could be in the wrong.
Almost daily we listen to her trash talk (she is in the Quayle and “W” league), all thanks to the man who now claims that he never called himself a maverick, McCain, right, tell us another. She spends her days trash talking it is only fitting that someone found a great place for her contract. I guess some dumpster diving found it, All’s Well That Ends Well.