While the intense media scrutiny of this quiet, sun-baked neighborhood has some of Palin’s potential neighbors on edge, others felt less harried by the attention - at least so far. Its Republican governor, Jan Brewer, has won a high profile of her own with support for policies aimed at discouraging illegal immigration from next-door Mexico. senator, the late Barry Goldwater, who was an unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 1964, to current Senator John McCain, who tapped Palin as his running mate for his losing effort against Obama in 2008. Its conservative and Republican roots stretch back at least to its long-time U.S.

It’s dangerous,” she said, her exasperation at the media clearly straining a natural courtesy.Īrizona not only is a more convenient base than Alaska geographically for campaigning in the Lower 48 states, it should be politically friendly territory for Tea Party movement favorite Palin. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate’s possible purchase of a home in the Lower 48 has stoked speculation she may shortly announce as a contender for her party’s nomination to run against President Barack Obama in 2012.įor days, Rahman says, the formerly quiet neighborhood has been buzzed by clattering news helicopters, while an influx of reporters has boosted traffic up and down the previously quiet roads, some of them unpaved and used as riding trails. it’s been empty for a while, and it’s nice to have a neighbor,” said Monica Rahman, the owner of a busy stable across a dirt road from the manse the former Alaska governor is reported to have bought.Ī company acting for an unnamed cash buyer ponied up $1.7 million for the sprawling 5-bedroom horse property in this saguaro-studded neighborhood northwest of Phoenix on May 13, and sources close to the deal have told some news outlets like the Wall Street Journal that Palin is the buyer. “I’m very happy that the house finally has someone living in it.

Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin (L) listens to an interviewer as she and her husband Todd Palin arrive at the embassy of Italy for an MSNBC after-party following the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington May 1, 2011.

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