Questions surface about Governor Palin’s postion on Alaska ballot measure

I don’t claim to know the law in Alaska, but I do know an interesting lead when it lands on my plate.  Here’s one from the blogosphere regarding how Governor Palin invoked “personal privileged” to take a position on a recent state ballot measure.  Measure 4 (which, incidentally, was defeated) would have stopped the huge Pebble Mine project. If allowed to proceed, the mine will place the largest open-pit mine at the watershed draining into the largest salmon-producing river system in the world.  Would you like some cyanide with that sushi?

Here’s a little from the post [click here to jump to the article]:

It is against the law in Alaska for the Governor to take sides on a ballot measure. For Palin, getting around that law meant merely “taking off her governor hat” while talking to the press in order to take “personal privilege” in order to firmly state her opposition to ballot measure 4, a clean water initiative.

Well, isn’t that dandy. Illegal, but dandy. And what is it with Republicans and their “hats”? In any case, it seems obvious that a Governor can’t simply state, while talking to the press, that she’s taken off her Governor hat so she can now speak publicly when the law expressly forbids her from so doing. When you’re talking to the press, your Governor hat is stuck to your head. Sorry, but “personal privilege” in this context is apparently something Palin just made up.

It might come in handy should she become VP.