Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is stepping down as governor of Alaska, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Palin announced today that she intends to resign as Alaska’s chief executive by the end of the month and will not seek a second gubernatorial term in 2010.
Palin, who was elected governor in 2006, was recruited by Arizona Senator John McCain to be his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election.
The Republican governor said she plans to transfer authority to Lt Gov. Sean Parnell, who will be sworn in on July 25.
“She thinks she has accomplished goals she has set forward,” a source told CNN. “She sees what a positive influence she has had on people’s lives from traveling the country in the last year.”
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Ohio's next governor?
We all know Alec Baldwin is a political guy but could he be the next governor of Ohio?
That’s what a group of lawyers from the state are hoping. They recently sent him a letter asking him to move to Ohio and run in the Democratic Party primaries. They would like to start his oft-rumored political career in 2012. Baldwin has said that he intends to retire from acting that year and has also said that, when it comes to getting into politics, “the desire is there.”
I really like Alec Baldwin and think he’s a smart guy. But does he have what it takes to be a politician? Hey, stranger things have happened. Just ask Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Sarah vs. Letterman
David Letterman made a joke earlier this week that ‘Sarah Palin’s daughter got “knocked up” by New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez during their recent trip to New York.’
Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor, appeared on NBC’s “Today” show Friday, continuing a feud with David. She told the “Today” show that ‘David Letterman owes an apology to young women across the country for his joke about her daughter.’
Sarah told host Matt Lauer, “I would like to see him apologize to young women across the country for contributing to kind of that thread that is throughout our culture that makes it sound like it is OK to talk about young girls in that way, where it’s kind of OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape,” she said. “It’s not cool. It’s not funny.”
Palin said that it was ‘time for people to rise up against Letterman’s form of humor.’ She thinks that these kind of jokes give girls ‘low self esteem.’
Sarah said, “No wonder young girls especially have such low self-esteem in America when we think it’s funny for a so-called comedian to get away with such a remark as he did,” she said. “I don’t think that’s acceptable.”
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Watch out Arnold, Reuters is reporting that ex eBay CEO, Meg Whitman, has ”formed a committee to explore running for governor of California in 2010, the first official step of a campaign.”
“California faces challenges unlike any other time in its history – a weak and faltering economy, massive job losses, and an exploding state budget deficit,” said Whitman, 52, “I refuse to stand by and watch it fail.”
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Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich may have a new job…
Blagojevich, who was booted out of his governor gig after trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated senate seat on the internet has been offered a job as Chairman of TNA Wrestling.
If Blagojevich accepts, he will be working along side Kurt Angle, Olympic Gold Medal turned pro wrestler.
“He’s innocent until proven guilty,” Angle said. “As the leader of the Main Event Mafia, I am a huge fan of the Illinois style of politics. As such, Governor Blagojevich is welcome to join me and the entire Main Event Mafia at any and all TNA events in the future, and certainly is welcome to sell his seat with us should he choose not to accept our generous offer.”
The job may not be too far off Blagojevich’s knowledge pool; he is a former amateur boxer. Angle insists Blagojevich will, “easily will be able to handle the transition to pro wrestling.”
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