Reformer for change reformed her mayoral digs into tacky seraglio

As newly elected mayor of East Bumfuck, Alaska, Mooselini spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office -- without authorization. Or taste, for that matter.

"I thought it was an outrageous expense, especially for someone who had run as a budget cutter," said Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney. "It was also illegal, because Sarah had not received the council's approval."

According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello."

Although Carney says he no longer has documentation of the expenditures, in his recollection Palin paid for the office face-lift with money from a city highway fund that was used to plow snow, grade roads and fill potholes -- essential municipal services, particularly in weather-battered Alaska.

"I braced her about it," he said. "I told her it was against the law to make such a large expenditure without the council taking a vote. She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'"

Great. A fucking Dick Cheney in lipstick. And then she'll shoot them in the face. And field-dress them.