Palin says she plans to stay on in politics after quitting as Alaska Governor

October 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Seattle-based photographer, John Keatley, who was tapped by publishers HarperCollins to capture a picture of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for the jacket of her autobiography titled "Going Rogue", has revealed on his website that the image he shot implied that Palin was much softer than her professed image of "rugged action and steely independence" The cover image of Palin in a zippered jacket made of a red micro-fiber fabric and studded with an American flag pin implies something much softer. Like "Going For a Hike", Politico quoted Keatley, as saying.

August 19th, 2009 Juneau (Alaska, US), - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has reported receiving more than a dozen gifts last year, including a gun case, a glass elephant and a statue of the Virgin Mary. In a filing Monday with the Alaska Public Offices Commission by her attorney, Thomas V.

August 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has said that while some aspects of the healthcare proposals forwarded by the Obama administration are disturbing, she urged reform opponents to not give the Democrats fodder by disrupting town hall meetings. Palin's comments, posted on her Facebook page, come after weeks of raucous town halls in which conservatives have shouted down members of Congress, reports Politico.

July 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former Republican US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin left unclear her future political plans Sunday as she formally ended her tenure as governor of the state of Alaska. Palin, 45, surprised political spectators earlier this month when she announced that she would give up the governor's office nearly a year and a half before her term was up, citing distractions caused by ongoing personal and political attacks.

July 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Less than one in four Americans hold a favourable view of Alaska's outgoing governor Sarah Palin, a new CBS News poll has found. According to the survey, just 23 percent view Palin favourably, while 37 percent hold an unfavourable view of the former Republican vice presidential nominee.

July 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, whose resignation as the Alaska Governor was termed as a political suicide, has received worlds of encouragement from her ex- boss, Senator John McCain, who is confident that Palin will remain on the national stage. "I understand that Sarah made the decision where she can be the most effective for Alaska and for the country.

July 10th, 2009 Anchorage (Alaska, US),J - Alaska's response to ethics allegations and requests for information concerning the conduct of soon-to-be-ex-governor Sarah Palin has cost the state 1.9 million dollars. The expense of supplying information and answering the allegationsis a key reason behind Palin's decision to resign from her post on July 26.

July 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - A new poll suggests that Republicans still would love to see Sarah Palin as their presidential candidate in 2012 in spite of her decision to resign as Alaska Governor. According to a new USA Today/Gallup poll, 19 percent of voters would "very likely" vote for her if she ran, with another 24 percent saying they were "somewhat likely" to give her their vote.

July 7th, 2009 NEW YORK - Well known conservative political commentator and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has said that while he is flummoxed by Sarah Palin's decision to resign as Alaska Governor on July 26, he retains a gut feeling that she will run for the office of US president in 2012. "As far as I know, nobody in Palin's camp or Palin herself has said what the hell this is about and why she's doing this.

July 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is to resign from office on July 26, can still make a lot of money for herself and the party, top Republicans said Sunday. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and former White House political guru Karl Rowe told Fox News Sunday that: "She marches to the beat of her own drum, and it's going to be very interesting to see how she pulls this off." Palin's stunning announcement Friday that she was resigning to pursue a "higher calling" confounded many of her strongest supporters.

July 1st, 2009 NEW YORK - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin may have lost the race to become the next US vice-president, but she has told Runner's World, a sports magazine that she could beat President Barack Obama in long-distance running. "If [it] were a long race that required a lot of endurance I'd win.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - Amid growing speculation that Sarah Palin will not seek re-election as Alaska Governor in 2010, many Republicans and Democrats across the state have begun eyeing running for the post. No candidate, including Palin, has yet filed papers with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

June 17th, 2009 Juneau (Alaska, US),J - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has accepted comedian David Letterman's apology on making a bad joke about her 14-year-old daughter. In a statement, Palin said she accepted Letterman's apology "on behalf of young women like my daughters, who hope men who 'joke' about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve." "Letterman certainly has the right to 'joke' about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction," Palin continued in the statement.

May 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged the conservative Alaska governor to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary Clinton, who is now the US Secretary of State. According to the web site Politico, John Coale , a wealthy trial attorney, reportedly made an attempt to forge an alliance between two of the most prominent families in American politics - the Palins and the Clintons.

May 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been inundated by ethics complaints, most of them filed against her after she agreed to become Senator John McCain's running mate in last year's presidential elections. The complaints run the gamut, ranging from the governor's use of state funds and staff to the workings of her political action committee and even to a jacket she wore to a snow machine race involving her husband, reports Politico.