The Boston Herald has exposed the latest Sarah Palin scandal: She spent $50.000 of taxpayers’ money to repair Alaska’s governor’s mansion:

The work on the Anchorage site created new offices for Kelly Goode, Palin’s legislative director, and Roseanne Hughes, director of external communications, McAllister said. The third office is reserved for “traveling staff,” who divide their time between Anchorage and Juneau, which are located 571 miles apart, McAllister said.

A Palin staffer said the Juneau mansion’s new blinds were installed to provide privacy.

“The residence manager determined that the blinds were necessary to prevent observation from the street of the family members,” administrative director Linda J. Perez said in an e-mail.

Mike McBride, past president of the Alaska Voters Organization, did not take issue with the expenses. “It’s not a tremendous amount of money. Things in Alaska cost substantially more than they do in other parts of the country,” McBride said. “It’s not an unreasonable number.”

Their hook is that Governor Palin is running for veep, in part, on her record of reducing wasteful government spending. The implication — nay, the outright assertion — is that fixing the governor’s mansion is a wasteful use of taxpayers’ money. The mansion belongs to the taxpayers, to house their executive, and the taxpayers foot the bill for repairs and removations.

Erick at RedState writes:

If McCain pulls this off, I want media heads piled on the South Lawn of the White House. If he does not pull this off, I’ll take the scalps myself over the next few years in anticipating Governor Palin’s 2012 bid.

I’d like to see these reporters continued to be fired for economic reasons which have resulted from their own abuses.