Palin Vindicated Again: APOC Rules Disclosures Compliant With State Law

Yesterday, the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) "unanimously ruled in favor of Governor Palin and concluded that Governor Sarah Palin's APOC disclosures were compliant with state law and rejected the assertion that the disclosure information about the Arctic Cat sponsorship for Todd Palin was insufficient," according to a press release from Palin's attorney Thomas Van Flein.

The ADN's story on this is here. It does not have a prominent place on their home page like so many of the ethics related stories did when the complaints were filed. Strange.

You can find background on this here and here, but to sum it up:

On her [2008] financial disclosure, Governor Palin revealed that her husband Todd, who is a sponsored snowmachine racer, had received a unspecified discount from his sponsor on the machines he uses for racing. Ethics anklebiters Linda Kellen Biegel and Andree McLeod pestered the Alaska Public Offices Commission to ask Governor Palin to specify the exact amount of the discount.

Linda Kellen Biegel's assertion to APOC that the disclosures about Todd Palin's Arctic Cat sponsorship were insufficient followed on the heels of her infamous Arctic Cat jacket ethics complaint. Van Flein points out in his press release that "[t]hat complaint was also dismissed as meritless."

You can read the entire press release here.

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