John McCain may have seven (or is it nine?) houses, but Sarah Palin's home overseeing Lake Lucille may cause the Alaska Governor and veep wannabe more headaches than a bad case of sinusitis. Wayne Barrett, an evil member of the liberal media (and undoubtedly a distant cousin of the annoying CBS anchor, Katie Couric), has reared his head right into Sarah Palin's personal business and figured out that the timing of the Palin's Wasilla home construction is, well... curious.
Turns out the Palin home was built about the same time as building and materials contracts were being handed out like candy canes at Christmas to contractors and vendors for the $12.5 million Wasilla sports complex and hockey rink. Coincidence? Some people think not.
According to Wayne Barrett's recent article in the Village Voice, "Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as 'buddies.' As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the 'buddies' were."
On MSNBC's Countdown tonight, reporter Barrett told the show's host Keith Olbermann that many people in Wasilla could not seem to remember if they had worked on the Palin house or not. It is as if a petrochemical has infiltrated the Wasilla water system, creating widespread amnesia. Surely the experience of helping to build the mayor-and-soon-to-be-governor's home could not be that hard to remember.
The Housegate scandal, as it will soon be known, follows the Troopergate scandal and several mini-scandals in between, including Sarah Palin's use of a private email account to conduct public business and her pretending to need glasses to seem more intelligent (okay, we do not have proof of the latter... yet).
It makes you wonder if maverick is an Eskimo word for corrupt?
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