The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXIX: Firing Bitney

Again from Purdum:

Only weeks after Palin praised John Bitney for doing so much to make her first legislative session a success, she summarily fired himbecause, he says, he had had the bad luck to fall in love with the wife of one of the Palins’ best friends (a woman he has since married). At the time, Palin’s office cited what it called “personal” reasons for an “amicable” departure. But when The Wall Street Journal called Palin’s office during last fall’s presidential campaign to ask about the case, a spokeswoman for Palin said that Bitney had been “dismissed because of his poor job performance,” and refused to elaborate.