it appears she paid for it herself BUT those bad boys are EXPENSIVE. REALLY expensive. she bought hers used but STILL
Palin’s Private Tanning Bed in the Alaska Governor’s Mansion
One of Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin’s First Actions as Alaska Governor Was to Equip the State Building with a Tanning Bed
By Al Giordano and Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
.............The Republican nominee for vice president, Governor Sarah Palin, it turns out, is a pioneer of the Great Indoors:
“The governor did have a tanning bed put in the Governor’s Mansion,” Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska’s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, confirmed to this newspaper. “It was done shortly after she took office [in early 2007] and moved into the mansion.”
The home tanning bed in the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau adds a trivial fact among the many, big and small, coming to light about the right-wing’s latest celebrity, McCain’s gamble to try and wrestle the election away from Democrat Barack Obama, but one that – tug the thread – leads to other questions about elitism, ethics, public health and the insufferable phoniness that plagues politics and politicians............
Sarah Palin installed a tanning bed at the governor's mansion
..............According to Wetherell, it was paid for with her own money and purchased used from a health club.
Tanning beds can cost up to $35,000 to install in a home -- not including parts, Alaska-based Color Me Tan manager Erin Weise told the Narco News. Weise added, "I don't think it's normal for people to have a tanning bed in their house. It's expensive."
Palin's running mate, John McCain, battled skin cancer in 1993 and 2000 and has admitted to being a regular wearer of SPF 30, long sleeves and a hat in the sun. Bet he won't be in favor of her installing one of these babies.
The irony here is that Palin declared May 2007 to be Skin Cancer Awareness Month in Alaska. In the press release, it read, "Skin cancer is caused, overwhelmingly, by over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and from tanning beds.”...........
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This is one thing I don't care about at all . . .
Indications are that she bought the bed surplus, had it installed, all at her own expense. No biggie.
Living with someone who has seasonal affective disorder, I understand how much extra UV light and vitamin D can help. She's in Alaska after all . . . just being in Minnesota can be hard enough.
I declare this one a non-issue.
tanning beds are NOT for treatment of s - a - d. i believe they're different types of lights than what is usually used to treat s-a-d.
it is a non-issue compared to other things but i still think it's a dopey thing to do
and i did state in my comment before the article link, she did pay for it herself and it was used.
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