Lt. Gov. Parnell Says Palin ‘Felt Frustrated’

Mary Lu Carnevale reports on politics. Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell , who will move up to the top job state later this month when Gov. Sarah Palin steps down, didn’t seem surprised by Palin’s decision. Maybe because he’s had a couple days to digest the news. In a video interview with the Anchorage Daily News , Parnell said Palin talked to him Wednesday about her decision. He didn’t exactly explain the governor’s decision on camera, but suggested that Palin has further ambitions and had grown frustrated with all the scrutiny. “Nobody, unless they’ve been in her position and understood what she has gone through and dealt with and who she is as a person… unless you have a sense for that, you wouldn’t really understand the reasoning,” Parnell said. “But because I know that Sarah Palin speaks from integrity and purpose, and because she wants to be able to expand her work on behalf of us all, I can tell she felt frustrated where she was unable to do that. And I think she made that ... (link)