The Next Palin Scandal

New emails show that Todd Palin often voiced approval or disapproval of Alaskan state hiring and appointments to the relevant authorities. Conservatives were rightly irritated when Hillary Clinton tried to boot-strap her ceremonial position into a role in personnel and policy. But did even she go so far as this?

Todd Palin was voicing approval or disapproval of Alaskan state hiring and appointments? Directly to the relevant authorities?

According to the NBC News report:

Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got involved in a judicial appointment, monitored contract negotiations with public employee unions, received background checks on a corporate CEO, added his approval or disapproval to state board appointments and passed financial information marked 'confidential' from his oil company employer to a state attorney.

Conservatives were rightly irritated when Hillary Clinton tried to boot-strap her ceremonial position into a role in personnel and policy. But did even she go so far as this?

(h/t Andrew Sullivan, who has tirelessly bird-dogged this story.)