WHOOPS - AT 10:43 A.M. ET:  The Politico reported a few days ago that Sarah Palin was asking $100,000 for a political speech in Iowa, before the Iowa Family Policy Center.  Iowan feathers were mighty ruffled, as politicians who have presidential aspirations normally do Iowa for zip.  Chattering classes chattered that Palin wasn't running in 2012, or didn't know the rules.

But, as reader Tom Wharton alerts us, it may have been a $100,000 misunderstanding.  Newsweek's "The Gaggle" reports:

...did Palin actually ask the group to pay $100K for her appearance? An IFPC spokesman tells Martin he's "not personally aware" of a speaker's fee. "There may or may not be, I don't know," he tells Politico. For their part, the Palin camp tells NEWSWEEK there's no fee. Meg Stapleton, Palin's spokeswoman, tells your Gaggler that Palin "has not requested anything" and that she "does not charge people to campaign for them."

Besides...

"We don't believe she will be able to attend with her tightly scheduled book tour, and the group has been told that through formal and informal channels," Stapleton says in an e-mail this morning. "However, it appears that some enthusiastic members are willing to try anything to entice the governor as we look at her schedule."

COMMENT:  Our Sarah, no gouger is she.  I'm glad she didn't commit a political sin.

October 31, 2009