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Some Alaskans are unhappy over the McCain campaign's decision to hide Gov. Sarah Palin and her family behind campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan in what has been dubbed "the abdication of Sarah Palin."

"When did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" asked the Anchorage Daily News in a recent editorial.

The Daily News wrote:

Gov. Sarah Palin has surrendered important gubernatorial duties to the Republican presidential campaign. McCain staff are handling public and press questions about actions she has taken as governor. The governor who said, "Hold me accountable," is hiding behind the hired guns of the McCain campaign to avoid accountability.

Palin, who once promised to cooperate with the bipartisan Troopergate investigation, has become such a creature of McCain campaign "handling" that her own gubernatorial staff has been kept in the dark while press conferences were called and decisions announced on her behalf.

The Daily News recalled the good old days when Alaska was a state whose governor attempted to do her job, herself, and made no pretense at being qualified to stand a heartbeat from the presidency of the Unites States:

Way back when, before John McCain chose Palin as his vice presidential running mate, Palin promised to cooperate with the investigation.
Now she won't utter a peep about it to Alaskans. Nor will her husband, Todd, who definitely needs to explain his role in Troopergate.
Instead, Alaskans have to sit back and listen to John McCain's campaign operatives handling inquiries about what Alaska's governor did while governing Alaska. Residents of any state would be offended to see their governor cede such a fundamental, day-to-day governmental responsibility to a partisan politician from another state. It's especially offensive to Alaskans.

The McCain-Palin campaign is just too busy trying to justify stonewalling the bipartisan Troopergate investigation to be concerned about the niceties of state sovereignty.