Students at California State University Stanislaus have discovered evidence that documents related to an upcoming speaking engagement by Sarah Palin were shredded and dumped after the university claimed that no public documents existed, a state senator said on Tuesday.

The students appeared at a Sacramento news conference with State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco this morning and said they found the documents on Friday in a dumpster outside the school’s administration building in Turlock. They include four pages of a contract for a “speaker” who will be traveling from Anchorage, though they do not identify the speaker by name.

The senator in March questioned how much the university is paying the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate for her speaking engagement on June 25. The university said a private university foundation contracted Palin for the $500-a-plate event and the contract included a privacy clause preventing officials from disclosing the speaker’s fee. Continue reading this article over at the San Francisco Chronicle.

And if you want to see how many first-class airfares and luxury hotel rooms ole Sarahdactyl wants, check out this AP article, and don’t forget the bendable straws! (Seriously, read the article!)

Just after the RNC fired a low-level staffer for setting up a young donors event at Voyeur West Hollywood, it seems the GOP accidentally sent out a mailer asking for money with a phone number that directed loyal Republicans to… a phone sex hotline.

The mailer was supposed to look a bit like a Census form, with a series of questions for Republican voters, though they’re a bit more leading than the ones the government is asking: “Are you concerned that historic federal deficits and debt will seriously harm the future economic health of our country?” Which prompted one voter in Minnesota to try to call the phone number listed to complain about the resemblance to an official government document. Instead, that person got the phone sex lines. So the voter sent the mailing on to their member of Congress, who happened to be a Democrat, and turned it over to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. RNC spokesman Doug Heye says he doesn’t know how many copies went out with the wrong number.

Continue reading this article, including having a look at the mailer itself, over at Salon. LOL!!

Courtesy The NYTimes:

Since 2000, Florida has been synonymous with badly run and undemocratic elections. This distinction has not come to it by chance. Many of the state’s election officials and legislators work hard to keep eligible voters from casting ballots. The Florida Legislature is at it again, threatening to pass new rules that would make it harder for eligible voters, especially those from minorities and those who are poor, to register and vote.

Republican state legislators, who are behind the latest bills, want to make it illegal for anyone to get within 100 feet of a line of voters. That provision would criminalize election protection programs, in which nonpartisan volunteers make themselves available outside of polling places on Election Day to ensure that eligible voters know their legal rights and are able to cast ballots.

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