Book Tour: Palin specifically asked for Sioux City stop

The Sioux City Journal's Brett Hayworth reveals on his Politically Speaking blog that when her book tour was being arranged, Sarah Palin requested that if she could have only one book signing event in Iowa, she wanted it to take place in Sioux City:

I’ve just wrapped a second-day piece on the announcement that 2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will bring her “Going Rogue” booksigning tour to Sioux City. It will be her only Iowa appearance, so many Siouxlanders are pumped to see Palin. I spoke with Barnes & Noble community relations manager Elisha Karr, who said she heard from up the chain that Palin specifically asked to come to Sioux City. Seems she’d been buoyed by a crowd of 4,500 people at West High School here in the last few days before the 2008 election. I was there, Palin was definitely embraced by the crowd that day.

Hayworth talked to Woodbury County GOP Chairman Brian Rosener, who said that he has requested an appearance by Palin on the trip. But Rosener realizes that former Governor Palin is "one of the most sought-after speakers in the U.S.", and that she has been swamped with appearance requests:

Karr said her understanding is that Palin will be heading a bus tour that day. Since she also has an appearance in Sioux Falls, S.D., 80 miles north, four hours after the Sioux City event starts, Karr said it would be hard for Palin to piggyback another non-booksigning event.

- JP