...have been paid for by the state, according to a June 17 memo from Linda Perez, the administration's designated ethics supervisor. The state has traditionally paid for staff members who are required to travel with a governor attending either...

...abruptly resigned from his $118,000-per-year job amid allegations he was performing GOP work on state time. As ethics supervisor, Palin was outspoken in calling for Ruedrich to leave and had threatened to resign over the matter herself. But...

...attorney general. Current law requires that potential violations of the Ethics Code be reported to the employee's ethics supervisor. The supervisor then forwards a report to the attorney general for further investigation possibly resulting in formal...

...was filed even after Perry obtained an opinion from Perez, her ethics supervisor. "It is outrageous to file an ethics complaint against a state...advance ethics guidance giving her express permission from her ethics supervisor."

...year she was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, eventually serving as its chairwoman and ethics supervisor. In 2004, she resigned from the commission in protest and filed a formal complaint against two commission members...

...bang, proposing that the state eliminate the position of a regulator who called for his removal. Sarah Palin, ethics supervisor and chairman of the commission, along with other prominent Republicans had called on Ruedrich to resign as one of...

...Former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin, a Republican, was appointed to the commission along with Ruedrich. She served as ethics supervisor and chairwoman. She called for Ruedrich to step down in November after discovering he used state supplies and time...