Rick Scott May Not Want to Emulate Public Records Siege of Sarah Palin

Bad as public records delays are in the Florida governor's office, imagine if you were looking for an e-mail in the Alaska governor's office of Sarah Palin back in 2008.

You could have died waiting.

On Friday morning, when the office of the Alaska chief executive releases the 24,199 pages of Palin records requested by msnbc.com, 997 days will have passed. That's one day longer than Mama Grizzly was governor.

Expect plenty of TV coverage. The records due out include the e-mails that zipped between the Yahoo accounts of Sarah and husband Todd and four dozen state officials as the 2008 presidential campaign was souping up.

Luckily, Alaska reduced the $15 million price as first quoted. Considerably. The Alaska governor's office is dumping the records for a bargain 3 cents a page -- seeing as how Sarah isn't vice president, nor is she an announced candidate for any office. Yet.

Unless Gov. Rick Scott is looking for Palin-style celebrity in Florida, he might want to start walking in another direction.