What is her relationship with indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens?
They’ve worked together since at least 2003, when Palin was a director on Stevens’ independent fundraising group, Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service Inc. In her unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor in 2002, she received about $4,500 in campaign donations from an oil firm involved in the Stevens scandal. Palin also filmed a commercial with Stevens in 2006 to demonstrate the senator’s support of her gubernatorial campaign. New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks wrote that Palin has since made “mortal enemies” of Alaska’s senators, and Palin has kept her distance from Stevens since his indictment on felony charges of accepting illegal payments from an oil company.
