Sarah Palin has a penchant for sun tans

by Sanjay Jha | September 16, 2008 at 02:57 am

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Republican vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been under intense media scrutiny after being nominated. Sarah Palin has moved from a small town mayor, in a short span of two years to governor's office. She has varied interest from mooseburgers, cathich fish to calling herself as hockey mom. Now it has emerged that she has a strong penchant for sun tans as well.

Republican U.S vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had got a tanning bed installed at her gubernatorial residence in Juneau, Alaska, shortly after she declared May 2007 'Skin Cancer Awareness Month'.

The press materials at the time had proclaimed over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and tanning beds overwhelming causes of skin cancer.

Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska's Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, has revealed that Palin had got the tanning bed installed shortly after she became Alaska Governor.

"She did. She paid for it with her own money," Usmagazine.com quoted Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer of Alaska's Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, as saying.

"It was done shortly after she took office (in early 2007) and moved into the mansion," he told the Narco News.

Wetherell also revealed that the tanning bed was a second hand purchase from a health club.

Earlier, The Narco News Bulletin had reported Palin's penchant for a bronzed look.

Palin's running mate and presidential candidate John McCain battled skin cancer in 1993, and again in 2000.