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Team Coleman can’t be happy with today’s McCain pick for VP for two huge reasons:

First, Tim Pawlenty would have provided some more hope for the campaign in regards to getting more Republican party-line voters to the polls. More importantly though, Sarah Palin is a “reformer.”  She is “someone who stands up to special interests,” as McCain is saying on TV right this moment. She made her bones exposing Ted Stevens’ Kenai River Classic.

Yeah. The same one Coleman was a special guest at three times.

From the Anchorage Daily News: (emphasis mine)

Other Alaska interests were also well represented at last year’s Kenai River Classic and there is no reason to believe they won’t be attending this year’s event. Representatives of BP, Shell, and Conoco Phillips and the Pebble prospect and other big mining interests were there in force.

With the future of the state at stake through controversial mining developments, a multibillion-dollar gas line and the continuing battle over fish allocation, it is to Gov. Sarah Palin’s credit that her attorney general’s office ruled that invited participation by any state official in the Kenai River Classic is intended to influence decisions and is subject to ethics laws.

There’s a lot, lot more to come on that front. I’m barely getting started.

But Governor Sarah Palin isn’t so clean herself. She’s been under investigation for firing a transportation official who wouldn’t fire a state trooper who was divorcing her sister.

Either way, Sarah Palin is bad news for Coleman, who is already having a hard end to his summer.