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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons for resigning -- that ethics complaints against her were draining the state of money -- appear to be false.
The only costs to the state were opportunity costs, not incremental expenditures. The "millions" cited as being wasted amounted to salaries paid to lawyers in the governor's office and the Department of Law (yes, the state has one). The money would have gone to the lawyers no matter what they were doing. The complaints are "just distracting them from other duties," the governor's spokesperson told the Anchorage Daily News.
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