Open letter to Mike Wooten (Palin's ex-brother-in-law)

[pnwmom]

Time is running out. In a few weeks, your chance to make big bucks talking to the National Enquirer may disappear. Call them now, before Sarah Palin and John McCain are HISTORY.

You were still married to Molly in 2002, when the Palins were building their half a million dollar home -- at the same time (and not far away) from the $13.5 million dollar Wasilla sport complex that Sarah pushed through. Todd says he built the house himself with the help of some "contractor buddies." Were those some of the same "buddies" who built the sport complex, by any chance? How did that work, exactly? Who were those contractor buddies? Did Todd pay them anything for their labor? Did he brag about any great deals he was getting? Do you have any photos of the house as it was being built? Any pictures of the trucks that were parked around there? Or of the "buddies"?

Good luck on making your own good deal with the Enquirer!


http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah/5

Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were. The house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in additional costs, with a law firm that's also donated to Palin collecting costly fees from the city.

Dorwin and Joanne Smith, the principals of complex subcontractor DJ Excavation & Development, have donated $7,100 to Palin and her allied candidate Charlie Fannon (Joanne is a Palin appointee on the state Board of Nursing). Sheldon Ewing, who owns another complex subcontractor, Weld Air, has donated $1,300, and PN&D, an engineering firm on the complex, has contributed $699.

Ewing was one of the few sports-complex contractors, aside from Spenard, willing to address the question of whether he worked on the house as well, but he had little to say: "I doubt that it occurred, but if it did indirectly, how would I know anyhow?" The odd timing of Palin's house construction—it was completed two months before she left City Hall and while she and Todd Palin were campaigning statewide for the first time—raises questions, especially considering its synergy with the complex.