June 10, 2011 2:26 PM
ABC News?�Michael Falcone�(@michaelpfalcone)�and The Daily Beast?s�Shushannah Walshe�(@shushwalshe)�reporting from Juneau, Alaska:
2:26pm ET - Sarah Palin Had Her Eye On Vice Presidential Slot Months Before Receiving Nomination
Sarah Palin kept a close watch on her constituent mail in the months before Sen. John McCain picked her as the vice presidential nominee, especially a series of flattering messages suggesting she join the Republican presidential ticket.
?Sarah Palin should run for Vice President of the United States,? Richard Casey of Fort Collins, Colo. wrote in a message sent to the governor through her website in June 2008. ?She is terrific! A vote from Colorado.?
Palin, who was evidently personally monitoring her constituent email, forwarded the message ?- without comment -- to Jessalyn Rintala, Palin?s coordinator of constituent relations and Janice Mason, the governor?s scheduler and executive secretary.
These messages were sent to the address: ?webmail@govweb.alaska.gov? and popped into Palin?s official state email account.
Another message sent on the same day, June 29, 2008, from William McKane of Yankton, S.D. read: ?I think that she would make a first-rate running mater for Senator John McCain. Please encourage her to accept if asked! What can we do to encourage Senator McCain to put her on the ticket??
Keith Mundy of Nogales, Ariz. wrote: ?Maybe you should run at some point in time. I sure as hell would vote for you.?
Palin forwarded five separate emails to Rintala and Mason on June 30, 2008 -- a day when speculation about who McCain would name as his running mate was heating up.
On that day, conservative commentator Bill Kristol appeared on Fox News, predicting that if McCain were to pick Palin as his running mate gas prices would "plummet immediately" because she would convince him to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Reserve.
?I think she would help him get elected, which would be a good thing if you want gas prices to come down,? Kristol said. ?Then she?ll persuade him that we have to drill in ANWR and have an aggressive drilling program across the board.?
But at that point in the presidential race, Palin?s ascent to the vice presidential slot was far from certain. On the same morning the news website, Politico, ran a story headlined: ?Romney Tops McCain Veep List.?
Palin was apparently relishing the attention, which was suddenly coming in from all over the country.
?For the first time today I heard some politicians discussing running mates for John Mc Cain,? Carol Brannock of Willow Spring, NC wrote to Palin. ?I am excited about the possibility that you may be our next vice president!?
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1:54pm ET - Palin Emails: What You'll See and What You Won't
A spokesman for Gov. Sean Parnell tells reporters what they can and cannot expect to see in the emails and explained that they have been redacted to shield the "executive deliberative process" and attorney-client privilege. She said there were no requests by the Palins to redact anything. READ MORE.
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1:40pm ET - Pre-emptive statement on email release by Tim Crawford, Sarah PAC Treasurer:
"The thousands upon thousands of emails released today show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state. The emails detail a Governor hard at work. Everyone should read them."
Read more about the release of Sarah Palin's emails from her time as Alaska Governor.
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The Daily Beast has joined up with ABC News in cooperation with the Anchorage Daily News to mine the documents for interesting information and other nuggets from the 24,199 pages of emails, which requesting organizations received Friday in 6 boxes weighing 55 lbs each.
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