Crump: Another Palin Insider Critic

It’s been a tough month for Sarah Palin. Two tell-all books have been published in May about the shortcomings of her 31-month tenure as governor of Alaska, including Blind Allegiance by ex-Palin aide Frank Bailey. The second, The Lies of Sarah Palin by Geoffrey Dunn, includes some pointed comments about Palin from former Twin Falls newscaster Rhonda McBride. McBride, who worked as a reporter at KMVT-TV during the mid-1980s, was appointed Palin’s rural adviser in 2007, dealing with Alaska Native affairs. She got the job in part because of her reporting on rural issues for Anchorage television station KTUU and before that for KYUK, a public radio and television station in Bethel, Alaska. But after she was hired, Palin and senior members of her staff rebuffed McBride’s efforts to meet with her and with Native leaders/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here. (AP file photo of book cover of Frank Bailey’s tell-all, “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin”)

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