Palin billed taxpayers to sleep at home

Would the media kindly now end its Sarah Palin lovefest?

Despite the media's fawning over McCain's running mate, I manage to find new scandals about Failin' Palin almost daily - and this one's a real doozy. It turns out that even though she's been Governor of Alaska for just a bit more than a year, Palin has billed Alaska taxpayers for 312 nights that she's spent in her own home. She abused a state allowance that was intended only to cover official business.

Palin has also charged Alaska taxpayers for travel expenses for taking her kids with her on trips.

That's not exactly what I call accountability - especially from someone who claims to be an accountability stickler.

As an example of Palin doublespeak, she wrote some variant of "lodging; own residence" over 30 times in her allowance reports. She also billed the state for attending a college basketball tournament and for her husband entering a snowmobile race.

At least McCain wasn't billing the taxpayers to sleep at home. Then it would've cost the taxpayers 7 times as much.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088.html)