Who built Sarah Palins half-million-$$$$ house??? Contractors on the city payroll, that's who !!!
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
accused of accepting $250,000 worth of free renovations to his house
from VECO, an oil pipeline company. VECO workers labored for months
remodeling Stevens' home at the company's expense.
The Palin's two-story, four bedroom, four bath home on Lake Lucille is
worth $552,000. Todd Palin said in a recent TV interview that he built
the house with friends who were contractors.
At the same time the mighty Todd was building the house, the Wasilla
Sports Complex was under construction right down the road.
Just who were these "friends who were contractors" who did such a huge
favor for the Palins by building their house for them?
Was it payback for the sports complex contracts?
The question of who built the Palin house deserves a close look in
light of the corruption uncovered in Troopergate and the Stevens
trial. Todd's explanation, I built the house with the help of a few
buddies, defies belief. Todd! You're a fisherman, a snomobile
champion, an oil worker, a caribou hunter, a government operative, AND
a plumber, electrician, drywall hanger, drywall finisher,
cabinetmaker, mason, carpenter? Wow! You are one Super Dude.
Wayne Barrett, writing in the Village Voice, reports that after the
$12.5 million Wasilla Sports Complex was approved, the design contract
went to architect Blase Burkhart, "son of Roy Burkhart, who is
frequently described as a "mentor" of Palin and was head of the local
Republican Party."
Roy Burkhart was also a Palin campaign contributor.
Palin then appointed Blase Burkhart to the builder-selection
committee, which awarded the construction contract to "Howdie Inc., a
mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent."
Nugent was a Palin campaign contributor, also.
What happened next is rather curious. Here's Barrett:
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A list of subcontractors on the [sports complex] job, obtained by the
Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply,
the state's leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other "pre-
engineered components." In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin's
snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin
family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television
commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home
off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for
lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied
the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla
office. Spenard actually filed a notice "of its right to assert a
lien" on the deed for the Palin property after contracting for labor
and materials for the site. Spenard's name has popped up in the trial
of Senator Stevens—it worked on the house that is at the center of the
VECO scandal as well.
Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-
foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of
contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked
an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open
city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were. The
house was built very near the complex, on a site whose city purchase
led to years of unsuccessful litigation and, now, $1.3 million in
additional costs, with a law firm that's also donated to Palin
collecting costly fees from the city.
Dorwin and Joanne Smith, the principals of complex subcontractor DJ
Excavation & Development, have donated $7,100 to Palin and her allied
candidate Charlie Fannon (Joanne is a Palin appointee on the state
Board of Nursing). Sheldon Ewing, who owns another complex
subcontractor, Weld Air, has donated $1,300, and PN&D, an engineering
firm on the complex, has contributed $699.
Ewing was one of the few sports-complex contractors, aside from
Spenard, willing to address the question of whether he worked on the
house as well, but he had little to say: "I doubt that it occurred,
but if it did indirectly, how would I know anyhow?" The odd timing of
Palin's house construction—it was completed two months before she left
City Hall and while she and Todd Palin were campaigning statewide for
the first time—raises questions, especially considering its synergy
with the complex.
What an unusual situation. Giant construction contracts are being
awarded to campaign contributors at the same time that "buddies" who
just happen to be contractors are "helping" Todd build their two-story
house. At the same time Sarah ensures there will be no public record
of building permits. WTF? How is this different from the Stevens
situation?
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We need to know:
Who Built Sarah Palin's House?
And how much did she and Todd pay them for it???
Could it be that the contractors padded their bids on the Wasilla
Sports Complex to cover the cost of the house??
Tab182
Hell at least Teddy Stevens had the good sense to have the Oil
Companies pickup the tab on his house?
BTW I wonder how long (after the Obama landslide victory)it will be
before old Malibu Sarah is either Impeached or forced to resign and
cop a plea in order to avoid jail time???