Anti-Establishment Palin Gained Political Know-How Working on Stevens 527The presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has made her albeit-short public service career on ending corruption and turning the Alaskan political establishment on its ear.
Palin has been vocal about not being more of the same in Alaskan poltics. “[Experience is] not what Alaska needed,” Palin has said. “The state needed new blood in there. A candidate with new energy and new ideas.”
But it looks like Palin got her experience working as a director at the 527 group from the oldest of Alaskan politicians, embattled Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK).
From the Washington Post:
Palin’s name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.