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UPDATED: Going to extremes for a dinner with Palin
Aaron Jansen illustration
"So Sarah, tell us about that pipeline of yours?"
UPDATED 8:20 p.m.: Joe McGinniss' $60,101.01 bid wasn't enough. According to The Associated Press, Cathy Maples of Huntsville, Ala., won today's Ebay auction with a $63,500 bid, earning the right to dine with Sarah Palin, likely in Alaska. More from the AP story: "Maples, who owns a defense contracting company, also says she's a 'big advocate' for Palin, and would love to see her as president." McGinniss, who is writing a book about Palin and had played up his Ebay bid to friends, bloggers and journalists, shared with Alaska Dispatch a congratulatory email he sent to Maples late Friday: Ms. Maples,As one of the underbidders, I salute you and congratulate you on winning the dinner with Sarah Palin. I'm pleased that my bids helped increase the total proceeds that will go to our wounded veterans through Ride2Recovery. I wish you the best for your forthcoming trip to Alaska. Although I would have enjoyed the opportunity for a frank exchange of views with Gov. Palin, I'm pleased that someone with your record of accomplishment will grace her table. Sincerely,
Joe McGinniss
Going to extremes for a dinner with Palin
 (8:45 a.m. Friday) We're crossing our fingers really hard today ... bestselling author Joe McGinniss is a strong contender to win the Ebay auction for a dinner with Sarah Palin.
McGinniss is among the top-two bidders in that now-famous Ebay auction for a foursome dinner date with Palin. He's bid $59,999.99 to dine with Our Lady of the North. The ecstatic subject line to an email McGinniss sent to AlaskaDispatch.com Thursday night read, "I'm going for the knockout blow! (mostly because I like the ‘FREE shipping' guarantee)." Winning the auction would be a boon to McGinniss, who says in his email, "I think such a dinner would be the perfect way to kick off the reporting for my new book: Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously. (To be published by Broadway/Random House in fall of 2011.)" McGinniss is best known to Alaskans for having written Going to Extremes, a 1980 book chronicling the madness and fast-dealing that gripped the Last Frontier during the 1970s oil-pipeline boom, a fantastic tale full of crusty characters like Halibut Cove czar Clem Tillion, then-oil flack and journalist Tom Brennan, and former Anchorage Daily News editor and McClatchy Co. executive Howard Weaver, then a young, idealistic journalist who was going to change the world with his weekly rag, the Alaska Advocate. Just as oil was the biggest story back then, so is Sarah Palin now.
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