Details emerge on Palin’s e-mails

Details are emerging of Sarah Palin’s life as Governor of Alaska, following the release of 24,000 pages of her e-mails by officials in the US State.

As well as the mundane matters of political office, the correspondence reveals her frustration over rumours about her family and marriage.

Media organisations applied to see the e-mails in 2008 when she was picked as the Republican running mate.

‘’Palin is widely viewed as a potential 2012 presidential candidate.

Alaska has released 24,199 printed pages of e-mails covering Palin’s first 21 months as governor - from 2006 until she accepted the vice-presidential nomination.

Reporters from a number of news organisations descended on the Alaskan capital of Juneau on Friday to sift through the documents, which are only being released in paper form.

Some of the correspondence is written in Palin’s trademark folksy manner. The day after she was plucked from relative obscurity in 2008 for the presidential ticket of Republican nominee John McCain, she wrote to an associate: “Can you flippinbelieveit?!”

The e-mails reveal her irritation at the so-called Troopergate affair, when she was accused of pursuing a vendetta against her sister’s ex-husband, an Alaska policeman.

‘’I do applogise if I sound frustrated with this one. I guess I am. It’s killing me to realise how misinformed leggies [legislators], reporters and others are on this issue,” she wrote to colleagues.

The State of Alaska’s investigation into Troopergate found that Palin had abused her powers by dismissing an official who had refused to sack her former brother-in-law.

In another e-mail, Palin praises a speech on energy policy made by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, asking her aides to write a statement “saying he’s right on”.