Now that former Governor Sarah Palin's book is out for all to read, some Alaska leaders say her facts are plain wrong.

In the manuscript's early pages Palin talks about the oil boom. While she says energy production and jobs were an upside, she also says downsides, like social problems for Alaska Natives, were created.

"Some Alaska Native leaders knew they must aggressively protect natural resources to which they were spiritually and physically connected." Palin writes. "Thankfully, the young state's founding fathers and mothers ensured the state constitution contained specific language guaranteeing equal rights."

But Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Executive Director Brad Garness says, "Sarah Palin has never supported tribal sovereignty, and she's made it clear she'll sell resources based solely on profit, with no respect for people who've inhabited the land since before recorded history."

Garness' organization represents all 229 Alaska tribes.

In 2008 US Supreme Court Justices ruled Exxon Valdez plaintiffs could receive some punitive damages. But the court slashed the award dramatically from $5 billion to no more than $507.5 million.

Palin writes, "...finally, Alaskans could recover some of their losses."

That is not what she told CBS 11 News the day the decision came down.

"Very, very disappointed, but also very sorry for those affected fisherman...You know it breaks

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our hearts," Palin said.

As to her decision to reject $28.5 million stimulus dollars, the former governor writes, "The documents clearly stated that acceptance of the funds required the adoption and enforcement of energy building codes."

The legislature's stimulus expert Larry Persily says that is not the case.

"She has it wrong," Persily says. "Maybe her favorite country/western song is 'That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It.' The law does - the Department of Energy is not requiring states, municipalities, counties, boroughs to adopt energy efficiency building codes."

State Senator Lesil McGuire, R-South Anchorage, says, "I understand that Governor Palin wanted to make a political point, and she needed a place in that stimulus package to veto in order to set herself up in opposition to Obama. But unfortunately she picked a place that really Alaskans came out against and were in dire need of."

While Palin never mentions her first legislative director by name, in her book Palin describes John Bitney as a unkempt, BlackBerry addict who caused her bad legislative relationships.

Bitney says he feels stabbed in the back by a person he considered a friend.

"I worked hard to get Sarah Palin elected governor," Bitney says. "I worked very, very hard. And made a lot of personal sacrifices of my career, my time, my health to help her out. And, so it's come down to where she feels it's necessary to stab me in the back to further her own career. That's just sad."

The former legislative liaison says Palin simply is not telling the truth.

"The events she talks about in her book are complete fiction," Bitney says. "They never happened. She is basically making up events, where she says I was in a meeting with lawmakers, and I had a coming to Jesus. Never happened."

Bitney says the former governor rewrote history to blame him for her bad legislative relationships.

"This is just another group of Alaskans who she sticks in the back to further her own career. By painting them in a fiction image of doing things that they don't do. There's a lot of good people down here that don't deserve that," Bitney says.

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