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Governor Sarah Palin returned to her office Friday after taking a day off. And while the governor was excited to be back home, she was also eager to get to work.
After a whirlwind tour on the national stage, the governor was all smiles as she talked about her plans for Alaska. And despite having endured over two intense months on the national stage, Palin came in focused to do what she says was nominated for.
"Working on the gasline team, making sure that things are progressing the way that they should in order to start supplying the U.S. with more natural gas. When that final section of pipe is laid, and that's still years off, but there is a lot of work to make sure that happens," said Palin.
Some of that work is next year's state budget and the impact of decreasing oil prices.
"It's a good a time for our fiscal conservatism to be kicked in full fledged and to remind Alaskans we can not be spending at the rate that this state has been spending," said Palin.
Palin says the experience gained on the national level was invaluable and she will use it to put Alaska first, "My participation on the national level will have to do with on what Alaska's needs and how Alaska can progress and contribute to the U.S."
As the governor settled back into her workplace, she was eager to address all the rumors and allegations swirling around, most coming from the McCain campaign. And in her first day back on the job, Palin was in a good mood and as she talked about the criticisms coming from the campaign and the media concerning her. She took an opportunity to defend herself, "As long as reporters will choose to, nowadays, reports based on false allegations, based on anonymous sources, its kind of
What the governor was talking about was rumors, she says were just not true, "Those are the RNC clothes, they're not mine clothes I never forced anyone to buy I never forced anyone to buy anything except a diet Dr. Pepper every once in awhile."
Palin says the rumors of the Republican National Committee (RNC) lawyers coming to get the campaign clothes are false, as she says she will return them, "I mean we are talking about my shoes, and belts and skirts, and this is ridiculous. Let's talk about progressing this nation and, for me, I want to start talking about progressing the state of Alaska."
The governor says the anonymous McCain advisors are wrong on statements made about her preparations for debates and her interviews were completely taken out of context. "That's cruel, that's mean spirited, its immature, its unprofessional, and those guys are jerks if they came away from it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news, that's not fair and not right."
Palin says she feels she was put under a double standard as a woman candidate but hopes her campaign will serve as a role model for "girls" across America. "Girls you better study hard, you better work hard, you better plow through the double standards that are gong to be in front of you. Yes there will be a couple of hurdles for every young woman in America, it makes us work that much harder," Palin said.
The governor says she hopes America will stop focusing on what she says are false rumors about her and instead focus on a historic moment in U.S. history with Barack Obama's election.
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