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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Michael Tomasky

Palin's pay "cut": negative $3,800

Sarracuda loves to brag that she took a pay cut while mayor of Wasilla. "Which didn't really thrill my husband," she always adds. Gosh golly, ain't she just regular folk?

Funny pay cut though, as Juliet Eilperin reported in the Wash Post, based on newly released documents. Palin started out at $64,200 -- pretty good, I'd say, for a town of 6,000 people where she didn't even have to worry about the fire department and the schools.

Then she did indeed go down to $61,200. But then she went to $68,000. Then one more dip to $66,000, then back up to $68,000, which is where it was when she left office.

We're now left waiting for the day when she says something about her record that is actually, you know, true.

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