Former Palin Aide Pens Book "Renegade: Sarah Palin's Hatchet Man."

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:11 AM EDT

Article Source: The Huffington Post

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Sarah Palin isn't the only member of her former administration planning a book.

The Anchorage Daily News reports that Frank Bailey, a close aide to the former Alaska governor, is writing his own book, titled "Renegade: Sarah Palin's Hatchet Man."

Bailey was embroiled in Troopergate, the investigation of Palin's firing of her police commissioner over allegations he wouldn't fire a trooper who went through a bitter divorce from Palin's sister.

Bailey quit state government shortly after Palin resigned as governor in July.

A publisher for Bailey's book hasn't yet been determined.

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For those who don’t remember Frank Bailey, he was the “Troopergate” figure who was Palin’s close aide and director of boards and commissions.

He's best known for calling a state trooper lieutenant and complaining about trooper Mike Wooten (Palin’s ex-brother-in-law), saying Palin and her husband couldn’t understand why Wooten still had a job.

Bailey also was the subject of a separate ethics investigation into whether improper influence was used to win a state job for a Palin campaign supporter. Bailey had an "improper motivation" to get the supporter a job, concluded investigator Tim Petumenos, who recommended Bailey get ethics training.

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#1 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:19 AM EDT

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In an interview with Joy Morgan this morning, one of the co-authors of the book, she said the book will be "accurate, factual and very documented." She stated the book will tell Bailey's "side of the story."

Along with his deleted emails and his recorded phone call released during the Troopergate scandal, which showed him pressuring a State Trooper officer to help get Palin's former brother-in-law fired, his behavior raised questions about just how much the governor knew about Bailey's dirty work.

Palin denied ever knowing about the phone call and called Bailey's action "out of bounds" and "wrong," even though Bailey told the Trooper he was calling on behalf of both the governor and her husband. Palin punished Bailey with a two month paid leave.

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#2 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:22 AM EDT

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now to see if this book ever gets out there or simply gets swept under the rug like troopergate itself ultimately was.

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#3 - Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:14 AM EDT

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