Sarah Palin, GOP vice presidential candidate last year, rolls into Minnesota as part of her Going Rogue book tour and Mall of America officials told reporters that the former governor requested English-speaking reporters only.

Officials at the Minnesota mega-mall this week told reporters planning to cover the Minneapolis-area stop on Palin’s Going Rogue book tour they must address the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate who resigned as governor last summer by her old title – a common honor, actually, which normally is accorded to former governors.

But the mall also was banning foreign reporters, permitting “only English speaking press.” That’s not a common requirement.

Mall officials, calling the proposed guidelines a mistake, apologized to Palin today for “an internal miscommunication” that was “inadvertently distributed.”

In other words, it got out.

The request for English-only reads as an insult to Minnesota’s growing Latino population, especially since Sarah Palin’s answer to Katie Couric in support of the bank bailouts last year reads more like jibberish than English.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.

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Governor Sarah Palin scheduled a press conference in Wasilla, Alaska to make a big announcement. Rumors swirled that she was, inevitably, declaring herself a candidate for president in 2012.

But the one-term governor declared that she would resign her office effective July 26 and handing over the reigns of the state government to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell.

Palin delivered an incoherent and rambling speech describing her reasons for abandoning her post as chief executive for the state of Alaska. This press conference will be mocked across the country but not amount of snark will do service to the actual speech itself. (She’s quitting to prove she’s not a quitter?)

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Chris Matthews hosted Mike Allen of Politico on Hardball to talk about the carrier to noise ratioSarah Palin book deal announcement with HarperCollins (no surprise as it is owned by News Corporation, the same entity that owns FOX News). Matthews exclaimed “what an embarrassment” over the deal.

Watch the video here. дивани

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Sarah Palin’s sky high approval numbers were much touted during the general election last year but her numbers in Alaska have plummeted from May 2008. The former vice presidential candidate was on the rise when the fledgling McCain campaign added her to the ticket but her star has since dimmed.

A new poll shows that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s popularity among Alaskans has plummeted in a year’s time. According to the poll conducted by Hays Research, about 54% of Alaskans have a “very positive” or “somewhat positive” view of the Republican governor.

Meanwhile, about 41.6% say they have a “somewhat negative” or “very negative” view of the former vice presidential nominee, according to the poll.

Compare that with numbers from May 2008 from the same group, when about 86% of those polled said they had a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” opinion of Palin. About 9% said they had either a “somewhat unfavorable” or “very unfavorable” view of the governor.

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Roughly sixty days into the Barack Obama presidency, automated phone calls were placed to Iowa and New Hampshire for SarahPAC, the political action committee of the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin (Alaska).

KCCI confirmed Tuesday that some Iowa Republicans have received automated phone calls from Sarah Pac, governor Palin’s political action committee.

The calls asked Iowans several questions including whether they have a favorable opinion of Palin.

Some Iowans received the calls over the weekend as did some voters in New Hampshire.

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A group filed paperwork in Connecticut to draft Governor Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Huffington Post obtained an e-mail from the group announcing the first meeting, which was held at a local Denny’s — how fitting.

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Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) submitted her spending priorities for the federal stimulus money allocated to the states and the former Republican vice presidential candidate’s plan is coming under fire from Alaskan lawmakers.

Lawmakers are questioning Gov. Sarah Palin’s plans to spend stimulus money for transportation projects.

Palin has proposed spending about $461 million, but lawmakers say only about $260 million of that is available through the federal stimulus program. [...]

Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before: Sarah Palin spending a lot of other peoples’ money, an affinity for transportation projects with little need and drill, baby, drill:

But the co-chairs of the Senate Finance Committee say the plan doesn’t have enough geographic balance and puts too much emphasis on gas line infrastructure.

“We need to take a look at what money is coming to the state in cash,” Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Ketchikan, said. “And when we distribute that, that it’s a fair and equitable distribution around the state.”

Stedman says he would prefer to use federal stimulus money for road projects in economically stressed areas and use state savings for the gas line infrastructure when the time comes to build it.

Related Governor Palin voiced support for a bill passing through the state legislature surrounding parental consent on abortion in Alaska. Read into this paragraph what you will:

Although Palin “voiced strong antiabortion views” as Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) running mate in the 2008 presidential election, she “has not pushed that agenda in the Legislature until now,” the AP/Daily News-Miner reports. Palin said she did not propose her own bill this year because she did not want to create competing legislation (Sutton, AP/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 2/27).

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