New Book: Sarah Palin Applied to Be Dispatcher

Next week a new book will go on sale documenting, “The Lies of Sarah Palin,” including allegedly false statements she made in 1996 on an application for the job of Palmer (Ak.) police dispatcher. Author Geoffrey Dunn obtained the application paperwork during research for the book, which began in 2008, and wonders in the book why local journalists didn’t uncover it during the presidential campaign. Palmer is a town of about 8,500 residents about 20 minutes east of Palin’s home town of Wasilla. The application is ironic, since also during 1996 Palin was elected mayor of Wasilla and within months fired the city’s police chief. Iri Stambaugh later sued Palin over being fired without cause. He alleged Palin fired him because he opposed certain gun and bar legislation that Palin’s supporters were trying to pass through the state legislature and Wasilla city council. A judge later found for Palin in the lawsuit. Dunn’s book goes on sale May 10th.