Access to public Palin E-mail? $15 million please.

[SirNitram]

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Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.

The office of the Republican vice-presidential nominee has quoted prices as high as $15 million for copies of state e-mails requested by news organizations and citizens. No matter what the price, most of the e-mails of Palin, her senior staff and other state employees won't be made public until at least several weeks after the Nov. 4 presidential election, her office told msnbc.com on Thursday.

How did the cost reach $15 million? Let's look at a typical request. When the Associated Press asked for all state e-mails sent to the governor's husband, Todd Palin, her office said it would take up to six hours of a programmer's time to assemble the e-mail of just a single state employee, then another two hours for "security" checks, and finally five hours to search the e-mail for whatever word or topic the requestor is seeking. At $73.87 an hour, that's $960.31 for a single e-mail account. And there are 16,000 full-time state employees. The cost quoted to the AP: $15,364,960.

Raise hand if surprised.

[Alyrium Denryle]

Oh please, these are public fucking documents. Someone should fucking sue her ass

[The Romulan Republic]

This is just stupid. Not as horrifying as her mob raising, or her religious views, but still pretty sleazy.

A Palin Presidency will create a lot of nostalgia for the good old days of George Bush.

[ArcturusMengsk]

Typical. This woman is an abomination; her mindset seems to rest somewhere between the simple-mindedness of Bush the Younger and the pure cancerous malignancy of Richard Milhous. She must be stopped, at all costs.