Is Alaska a complete Peyton Place?
having dipped into the blogs in Alaska, you can’t make this stuff up. Sarah Palin may not have foreign policy experience, but she seems to have plenty of firsthand knowledge of entangling alliances. Below is a digest of some of the many blog-snippets. Debbie Richter and Scott Richter are business partners of the Palins (together they own acres of land in Big Lake, AK and they co-own the Palin residence in Wasilla), and Scott is said by some to be a former boyfriend of Sarah’s. The Richters are divorcing, and Debbie was Sarah’s campaign treasurer, rewarded with a job as the Director of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend Division for her service. This division lost the computer list of citizens who applied for their annual payout from an oil and gas royalty fund, so you can tell it is well managed. Another from-high school friend who worked on the campaign, last name Bitney, was then made Sarah’s legislative aide and seems he started dating Debbie before the divorce was final. He believe
