With the election less than a week away, the Wasilla Project posts it's 4th and final video. This video is on Governor Palin's use of a personal Yahoo email account to conduct state business. Palin and her aides have been found to be in violation of a state ethics law during the Troopergate scandal by a bipartisan Alaskan ethics investigation. They released a 300 page report early October as a result of an investigation that began before McCain picked her as his running mate. Part of the investigation of the committee centered around emails that Palin and her aides traded back and forth, emails that also included Palin's husband, the Alaskan citizen Todd Palin.

In our video, Andrée McLeod, a government watchdog, contends that using a Yahoo account for state business and keeping those emails from the official record of state business is unethical. In early October of this year, Alaska State Superior Court Judge Craig Stowers agreed. While he didn't ban the use of Yahoo or other 3rd party email accounts for state business, he ruled that e-mails sent or received through Gov. Sarah Palin's personal e-mail accounts are public records if they concern official state business. Palin and her aides have gone to great lengths to make sure that the mails they've released have had large sections withheld or redacted. Emails that Palin or her aides cc'd to her husband Todd, who is a state citizen and not an elected official, should have been part of the public record and were withheld or redacted as well.

With the controversy of the $150,000 clothes shopping spree, and her appearance on SNL dominating coverage of Governor Palin, this story has been seriously underreported. We feel that it's very important for people to know that on even the most basic level, Sarah Palin has not been transparent or reform minded in her time as governor and that she has had serious ethics problems at home.