The issue isn't "righting [sic] off" a home office.  The issue is billing the state of Alaksa for staying at home:

Palin bills Alaska for nights in own home, family travel expenses

By JAMES V. GRIMALDI and KARL VICK
WASHINGTON POSTPublished: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 9:02 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 9:13 a.m. ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.

The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he made on official business for his wife.

Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by the Washington Post.

The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel and many of the trips were to and from their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show…

The popular governor collected the per diem allowance from April 22, four days after the birth of her fifth child, until June 3, when she flew to Juneau for two days. Palin moved her family to the capital during the legislative session last year, but she prefers to stay in Wasilla and drive 45 miles to Anchorage to a state office building where she conducts most of her business, aides have said…

She wrote some form of "Lodging -- own residence" or "Lodging -- Wasilla residence" more than 30 times at the same time she took a per diem, according to the reports. In two dozen undated amendments to the reports, the governor deleted the reference to staying in her home but still charged the per diem.In separate filings, the state was billed about $25,000 for Palin's daughters' expenses and $19,000 for her husband, Todd Palin.

Flights topped the list for the most expensive items, and the daughter whose bill was the highest was Piper, 7, whose flights cost nearly $11,000, while Willow, 14, claimed about $6,000 and Bristol, 17, accounted for about $3,400…

In the past, per diem claims by Alaska state officials have carried political risks. In 1988, the head of the state Commerce Department was pilloried for collecting a per diem charge of $50 while staying in his Anchorage home, according to local news accounts. The commissioner, the late Tony Smith, resigned.

"It was quite the little scandal," said Tony Knowles, the Democratic governor from 1994 to 2000. "I gave a direction to all my commissioners if they were ever in their house, whether it was Juneau or elsewhere, they were not to get a per diem because, clearly, it is and it looks like a scam -- you pay yourself to live at home."

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"And the policy was not to reimburse for family travel on commercial airlines, because there is no direct public benefit to schlepping kids around the state," he said. The rules were articulated by Mike Nizich, then director of administrative services in the governor's office, said Knowles and an aide to another former governor, Walter Hickel.

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Trip: 847.9 mi, 21 hr 28 min to drive from Anchorage to Juneau if ye be consultin Live Search

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Frank, the likes of you is so tedious to debate with, but okay, I'll roll'em up and here goes:

If you consider Iraq a success, Lord help us from a Republican failure.

What do you consider Iraq? It was a war, I'll remind you, so on a scale of wars, how much of a -- I guess your word will, astonishingly, be "failure"? -- is Iraq, as the situation is constituted now?

""We" haven't been attacked since 9/11.  Just our friends in Italy, Spain, London - did I leave one out here? 

First off, how you so easily bypass a very fundamental thing as "a country's president's first job is to protect the country he/she presides over" escapes me, completely. I guess you don't put the country you live in -- to keep you and yours alive and safe -- first. Gosh, the horrors, that I should do this. And, of course, it must mean I have no compassion for the "global community". Right now, the globe is not one big loving country, so as much as I love humanity, I'm standing by the country I live in -- and not blindly, but because I believe it's a great country.

Secondly, our friends in Spain, Italy and London -- all three, places I've been to and have fond memories -- and yes, more, that you left out, have been free of violence and attacks for nearly four years (early 2005 in London, last one), and some for a longer time. I'm thankful for this, and to Bush's actions ("eeeeww, did he just compliment BushCheneyHitlerChimp?"), and I believe you won't be seeing any for some time. Unfortunately, there was the botched attempt on that embassy last week, killing a few, but it was foiled thankfully.

And all those Americans who've died in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Guess you don't consider those meaningful losses, do you?"  

Americans that died in "two theaters of war", is what you meant to write, I'm sure. No wait, what you REALLY should have written was American *soldiers* that died, courageously, for our country, restoring two dangerous, rogue nations to some sort of modern, civilized, democratic condition.

You better believe I am indebted to them all. Are you?

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Was there some lock-out on Frank that I'm not privy to? Did I not get the memo?

Why am I the only one toiling with our latest troll du jour here on this thread?

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If you consider Iraq a success, Lord help us from a Republican failure.  I was there earlier this year.  It isn't a bowl of cherries but it is FAR from the failure you so ache for it to be.

"We" haven't been attacked since 9/11.  Just our friends in Italy, Spain, London - did I leave one out here?  Italians were victimized in the past by the Red Brigades; the Spanish by the ETA, and the British by the IRA.  Your point?  And all those Americans who've died in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Gee, frank, how about the Americans and countless others whose lives have been SAVED there.  Yeah, guess what?  I saw that to happen before my eyes.  Guess you don't consider those meaningful losses, do you?  I do - a waste of blood along with the huge waste of treasure.  But paying poor people to BE poor and otherwise coddling, pampering and babying Americans a la France and Sweden would be a very wise investment. Right, frank, my good little Socialist? Since our government has spent some $815,000,000,000 in the past week or so - perhaps we'll cut back a bit overseas.  Which you likewise ache for.  Admit it - you are deeply embarrassed and overwhelmingly ashamed of being an American and of the United States military because of our will and means to project power globally and to spread democracy and freedom elsewhere (and that is never ever free, in spite of your beliefs).  When you travel overseas and hand your passport to Country X's border control official - what do you do?  Turn beet red, apologize to him/her for being American, or hang your head in shame, or do all three? 

This post of yours is all the evidence I need that you want the United States to be a Socialist Nanny State like Sweden - just as pampering and just as whiny on the world scene.

Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief.  Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.

...I would vote for that in a second.

Rog...

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