{"id":683341,"date":"2010-03-05T04:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/sarah-palin-s-spokeswoman-meg-stapleton-resigns-40394\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T04:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T09:28:00","slug":"sarah-palin%c2%92s-spokeswoman-meg-stapleton-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683341","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin\u0092s Spokeswoman Meg Stapleton Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.04.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Sarah%2BPalin_1961_19644154_0_0_7019371_300.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin&#8217;s top adviser and spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, who was rumored to have a &quot;difficult&quot; relationship with the media and some Republicans, has resigned. <\/p>\n<p>Officially, Stapleton cited family commitments and the need to spend more time with her 2-year-old daughter as the reason for the resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Taking care of the governor was my priority for the last [few years] and now I just want to personally refocus and spend some time with my precious little one,&quot; she said, quoted by <i>The Associated Press<\/i> (AP). <\/p>\n<p>However, others have pointed out that Stapleton has been increasingly unable to handle the growing amount of scrutiny surrounding Palin since the end of the 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, media have reported journalists&#8217; frustration with Stapleton who frequently failed to answer phone calls and emails and when she did, her answers appeared &quot;terse and combative,&quot; according to <i>CNN<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, although the former spokeswoman&#8217;s performance earned praise from some Palin advisers&amp;mdash;including Fred Malek who said Stapleton &quot;has been a one woman band and deserves much credit and admiration&quot;&amp;mdash;other commentators were less generous. <\/p>\n<p>According to Geoffrey Dunn, writing for <i>The Huffington Post<\/i>, Stapleton was considered &quot;incompetent&quot; by senior McCain officials during the 2008 presidential campaign, and her feud with GOP fundraiser Becki Donatelli, of the Washington D.C.-based Campaign Solutions, reportedly led to Donatelli breaking off her relationship with Palin&#8217;s Political Action Committee. <br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/sarah-palins-spokeswoman-meg-stapleton-resigns-19644154\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;igns-19644154\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.04.10 07:01 PM Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin&#8217;s top adviser and spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, who was rumored to have a &quot;difficult&quot; relationship with the media and some Republicans, has resigned. Officially, Stapleton cited family commitments and the need to spend more time with her 2-year-old daughter as the reason for the resignation. &quot;Taking care of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RLD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}