Palin Miscellany for September 1

Show Me The Money!

The McCain campaign raised $10M in the 2.5 days following the announcement of the Palin pick, leading to the highest monthly total for McCain thus far ($47M). McCain Raises Record $47M In August

Baby

There have been lots of rumors flying around the Internet about whether Palin's recent child (born in April) belongs to her or her 17-year-old daughter. This is now officially debunked it appears, since it has been revealed that her daughter is about five months pregnant right now. In Wasilla, Pregnancy Was No Secret

Trooper Firing

Another story that seems to be of great interest has to do with the alledged pressure to fire Palin's former brother-in-law. From Electoral-Vote.com:

"In a nutshell, there have been allegations that Palin used her position as governor to try to fire her state trooper ex-brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, who was in a bitter child custody battle with her sister. When the Commissioner of Public Safety, Walt Monegan, refused to fire Wooten, Palin fired him. Initially Palin denied having any of her staff try to pressure the Dept. to fire Wooten, but then a police recording surfaced in which one of her staff was clearly putting on pressure to get Wooten fired, so she backtracked and said yes there was pressure but she didn't know her staff was doing this. The full recording is available here. The first few minutes are about a different topic, not relevant to this discussion. Here is an edited version (MP3) in which the irrelevant material has been deleted. This is indicated by a bleep sound 42 seconds into the call. Nothing else has been changed." Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily