Sarah Palin on Benefits for Same-sex Partners of LGBTQ State Employees

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On Benefits for Same-sex Partners of LGBTQ State Employees

Emails listed here in chronological order, earliest first.

From: Gov.Sarah@yahoo.com
Sent: 3/19/2007
To: Michael Tibbles, John Bitney, Meghan Stapleton, Ivy Frye
Subject:'ear

Text: "does anyone know what the 'Ear was talking about yesterday with the quip about Randy Ruedrich sending out a piece w/Sean Parnell and me re:same sex benefits? i haven't seen it and dread being used by Randy"

Source: Page 10 at http://projects.nytimes.com/palin-emails/date/2007-03-19