By Mark Thiessen (Bottom pic added by B.S. Report)
Palins erect fence to protect their privacy (AP Photo: Mark Thiessen)
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor – a writer working on a book about her – from peering in.
The brown-plank wall has caused a sensation on conservative airwaves and attention online. In live-and-let-live Wasilla?: No real ruckus, according to Mayor Verne Rupright.
“No crime has been reported,” he said Thursday. If Palin wants to build a fence on her property, he said, that’s her right.
On Monday Palin took to Facebook to “welcome” author Joe McGinniss, who’d previously written a critical magazine story on the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee. Palin said he was renting a house next door “for the next five months or so” and wondered what he’d gather “while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” (Read more.)
"Hey you, stop looking over our fence or I'll get my shotgun!"
