Alaska GOP Senate Leader Says Palin Lied about Missed Economic Meeting

Alaska GOP Senate Leader Says Palin Lied about Missed Economic Meeting

Late last week, Alaska politics were roiled by another controversy involving Gov. Sarah Palin when Gary Stevens, the Republican president of the Alaska Senate, described a press release issued by Palin’s office explaining her reasons for skipping a vitally important economic meeting as “absolutely false.”

Instead of participating in the session with legislative leaders to discuss her decision to reject a portion of federal stimulus money, Palin attended a news conference to announce a new state attorney general. When legislators complained after she sent a staffer to meet with them instead of showing up herself as planned, she issued a press release claiming it was the legislators, not her own office, who had canceled the meeting — an assertion Stevens flatly denied:

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