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From: Cliff on 14 Apr 2010 03:00 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14876636?source=most_emailed&nclick_check=1 "Dumped documents: Sarah Palin demanded bendable straws, Learjet for Cal State speech" [ SACRAMENTO "� From bendable straws to a Learjet, the list of Sarah Palin"s demands for her speaking engagement at Cal State Stanislaus is a striking portrait of the rock star perks and comforts a celebrity speaker can command. But it was how some details of Palin"s contract with the Cal State Stanislaus Foundation came to light that had Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, outraged Tuesday. A pair of Cal State Stanislaus students said they recovered from a Dumpster parts of the very contract that Yee had sought in a public records request, along with bags of other shredded documents. "When we have individuals that are deceiving people and obfuscating, we are in deep trouble "� our democracy is in trouble," said Yee, ...... ..... The students, Alicia Lewis and Ashli Briggs, submitted the documents to Attorney General Jerry Brown who late Tuesday announced he would launch an investigation to examine the foundation's finances and the "alleged dumping of documents into a university Dumpster." ..... ] |