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NEWS ABOUT: Todd Palin

Todd Palin stories: 46 news summaries

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Deputy Warned Palins About Troopergate

Official said efforts to fire trooper could embarrass governor

Oct 14, 08 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Todd Palin and other aides were warned by state police officials that their push to have a state trooper fired could come back to haunt them, CNN reports. Deputy commissioner of public safety John Glass told a persistent Palin that the trooper had already been disciplined and "discomfort and... More »

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Alaska • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin • Mike Wooten

 LiLo's Halloween 
 Costume? 
 Sarah Palin 

Girlfriend Ronson may dress up as First Dude Todd

Oct 13, 08 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan will strike out at Sarah Palin, whom she has described as a “media-obsessed homophobe,” by pretending to be her for Halloween, the New York Daily News reports. The actress promises the glasses, red suit and cleavage. The icing on the cake: Lohan’s lover Samantha Ronson... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • celebrity • Halloween • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Samantha Ronson • Todd Palin

Ethics Report Zeroes in on Todd Palin

First Dude had 'significant influence' over state politics

Oct 12, 08 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin is back in the headlines with official findings that she abused her power as governor of Alaska—but her husband is the main character in the 300-page tome issued by the state legislature last week, reports AP. Alaska's “First Dude” spent half his time in Palin’s... More »

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ethics • Alaska • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin

Palins Piled On Pressure for Trooper's Firing

'Obsessed' pair repeatedly contacted commissioner to slam trooper

Oct 10, 08 3:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin, her husband and officials from the governor's office made dozens of phone calls to Palin's public safety commissioner and his aides denouncing state trooper Mike Wooten, the New York Times reports. Walt Monegan, whose firing Palin claims was unrelated to the matter, says the governor and her husband... More »

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Alaska • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin • Mike Wooten

Palin Clashed With Fired Official Over Trig's Car Seat

Todd's Troopergate statement hints at bad blood with axed commissioner

Oct 9, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Deep in the statement Todd Palin wrote to Troopergate investigators is a surprise history of his wife's long-standing feud with a fired Alaska safety commissioner—including clashing over her apparent failure to use a car safety seat for her baby son, Trig. The commissioner was not axed because he refused... More »

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Alaska • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • Trig Palin

(Newser) - Todd Palin tried to convince several Alaska officials to support firing a trooper who was divorcing his sister-in-law, reports the Anchorage Daily News. But in a sworn statement, he denies interfering with his wife's job as governor and says he played no role in the firing of a safety commissioner... More »

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Alaska • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • Mike Wooten

Todd Palin to Speak to Troopergate Investigator

Decision to cooperate in other case awaiting Alaska Supreme Court ruling

Oct 5, 08 4:57 AM CDT
(AP) - Todd Palin plans to speak later this month with an investigator probing abuse-of-power allegations against his wife, his attorney tells the AP. He previously ignored a subpoena ordering him to testify in a parallel probe by the Alaska legislature into the Palins' role in the firing of a public safety... More »

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subpoena • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin

Palin's Tax Returns Raise Questions

Experts query travel payments, other reimbursements

Oct 4, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's tax returns, released yesterday, show her to be the least wealthy of the presidential candidates, the Wall Street Journal reports, and the governor herself to be the family's main breadwinner. The Palins reported a combined income of $166,000 in 2007, up from $128,000 in 2006. Todd... More »

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Alaska • tax returns • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Wasilla • Todd Palin • per diems

Judge Refuses to Block Troopergate Probe

Alaska judge rules that investigation must go on, upholds subpoenas

Oct 3, 08 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Alaska judge has refused to halt the Troopergate probe, declaring it a "legitimate" investigation, despite a Republican lawsuit against it, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The judge upheld subpoenas against Sarah Palin's husband and several aides. Five Republican state legislators had filed a lawsuit claiming that the investigation... More »

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Alaska • Election 2008 • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Walt Monegan • Todd Palin

ANALYSIS

 'Everyday' Palins 
 Worth About $1.2M 

2007 income tops $250K; salaries, fishing rights, handful of properties add up

Oct 2, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Financial reports show that, while they’re no John and Cindy McCain, the Palin family is much more well-off than the average American, the AP reports, worth about $1.2 million. The Alaska governor and her husband together appear to have made more than $250,000 last year, from her... More »

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Alaska • personal finance • fishing • Election 2008 • property values • Sarah Palin • Wasilla • Todd Palin

 Palin Grabbed $25K in Gifts 

41 gifts as governor include some from industry execs, municipalities

Sep 26, 08 6:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin accepted gifts totaling over $25,000 during her 20 months as governor of Alaska, the Washington Post reports. The gifts to Palin, who made a crackdown on gift-giving a central plank of her reform agenda, included expensive artwork and free travel for a family member. Donors included industry... More »

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Alaska • lobbyist • gift • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

Enquirer Names Alleged Palin Lover, Bolsters Claim

Former in-law goes on the record for the Enquirer

Sep 24, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer returns this week to its claim that Sarah Palin had an affair, this time naming the alleged lover as Brad Hanson, a city council member in Palmer (near Wasilla) and former partner of Todd Palin in a snowmobile business. To bolster the claim, the tab now says... More »

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Alaska • tabloids • affair • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate • extramarital affair • Todd Palin • Brad Hanson

Line Between Public, Private Lost on Small-Town Palins

Critics say unelected Todd too involved in governing Alaska

Sep 22, 08 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Todd and Sarah Palin’s small-town roots, and the everyone-knows-everyone nature of politics in Alaska, have led to some blurring of the lines between public and private in Todd Palin’s role in his wife’s administration, the Washington Post reports. After one supporter complained, Gov. Palin swiftly called him.... More »

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Alaska • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

OPINION

Fox Plays Softball
in Palin Interviews 

LA Times media watchdog laments network's uncritical presentation

Sep 20, 08 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News had a chance to score some credibility this week with its interviews of the Palins. Instead, writes LA Times media critic James Rainey, it served up embarrassing softball interviews that had more to do with polishing the Fox brand than journalism. The result was "three nights of... More »

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Republican • GOP • Fox News • Sarah Palin • vice presidential candidate • Todd Palin

 Todd Palin 
 Defies 
 Subpoena 

Refuses to testify in Troopergate probe

Sep 19, 08 3:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin's husband will not comply with a subpoena demanding he testify before a panel of Alaska lawmakers investigating Troopergate. He and anyone else who refuses to compy with the subpoena cannot be held in contempt until the full state Senate reconvenes in January—after the presidential election.  More »

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John McCain • Senate Judiciary Committee • Judiciary Committee • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • Mike Wooten • Public Safety Commissioner • Sen. Bill Wielechowski

Enquirer
Targets Palin's
In-Laws

Todd's brother charged in drunken hit-and-run incident

Sep 17, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Enquirer takes another swing at Sarah Palin's colorful family again this week—this time wielding not unnamed sources but Alaskan court documents. It seems that her brother-in-law James had a drunk-driving hit-and-run arrest in 1989, when he was 20. According to records, he hit a woman, breaking her... More »

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Alaska • drugs • drunk driving • child neglect • hit-and-run • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

ANALYSIS

 Todd Palin  
 Is Alaska's 
 (Unelected) 
 Cheney 

Role of 'First Dude' is secretive, powerful ... and outside bounds of normal government

Sep 16, 08 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Todd Palin isn’t just Alaska’s “First Dude,” Mike Madden reports in Salon—Sarah Palin’s husband plays a nebulous but obviously major role in her administration. Todd is involved in both personnel and legislative decisions, getting copied in on many official e-mails, and working directly with... More »

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Dick Cheney • Alaska • secrecy • governor • state governments • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

Lawmakers to Subpoena Todd Palin in Alaska

GOP efforts to delay probe thwarted by
state senator

Sep 12, 08 8:01 PM CDT
(AP) - The abuse of power investigation against Sarah Palin took a potentially ominous turn for her party today when state lawmakers voted to subpoena her husband. Republican efforts to delay the probe until after the Nov. 4 election were thwarted when GOP State Sen. Charlie Huggins, who represents Palin's hometown of... More »

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Alaska • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Anchorage • Todd Palin

Palin Was Warned Over Troopergate

Governor's ethics adviser urged her
to apologize

Sep 11, 08 3:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - An attorney who acted as an informal ethics adviser to Sarah Palin urged her to apologize for her role in firing Alaska's safety commissioner before it grew into a scandal, the Wall Street Journal reports. "The situation is grave," he wrote shortly before Palin was picked for the... More »

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ethics • Alaska • Troopergate • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin • Mike Wooten

 Palin Billed 
 State to 
 Live at Home 

Gov. charged per diem home fee, and family got $43K in travel expenses

Sep 9, 08 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin charged the state of Alaska nearly $17,000 in per diem fees for 312 nights she spent at her Wasilla home, even though she had moved with her family to the state capitol of Juneau before the legislative session last year, reports the Washington Post. The state has... More »

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Juneau • Department of Commerce • Sarah Palin • Republican National Convention • Wasilla • Todd Palin • travel expenses • per diems • Kim Garnero

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