Palin to reimburse Alaska nearly $7K for 9 trips taken by her kids in response to ethics probe

Since this week's topic was the 2008 election, I tried to find an article that had something to do with one of the candidates.

This article is about Sarah Palin and her family's travel expenses. About $7000 of Alaska's state funds were spent for her family to travel with her and the article states there is no wrong in that. However, an investigator "interpreted the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act to require that the state only pay if the first family serves an important state interest," which he claims they did not. The article goes on to list what the expenses were for, such as her daughter attending a play and air fair to the Iron Dog snow machine race.

Palin suggests that this claim was "an obvious political weapon" since it was filed right before the election. Either way, she agrees to reimburse the state funds she used.

Enjoy!! :)