Ticket Replay: Just in time for 2009, Sarah Palin calendars

December 24, 2008 | 1:46 pm

From time to time in this holiday period, The Ticket is republishing some of our favorite items from the 4,000 we wrote in these past 18 months. This one originally appeared here Oct. 31, 2008:

Judy Patrick is a professional photographer. From Alaska. Wasilla, to be exact. Where she once served as deputy mayor. To the actual mayor. Sarah Palin.

Over the years Patrick's accumulated quite a collection of photographs of her friend, including a nice assortment from Palin's successful 2006 insurgent campaign for governor.

Patrick has noticed how eager the public is to follow the 44-year-old mother of five with the lifetime NRA membership and the blue-collar union member husband who races snow machines and fishes and the Army son in Iraq and the baby with the unusual name.

As The Ticket noted yesterday with videos, even Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey came away impressed.

So at her own expense Patrick has printed up a sizeable batch of 13-month 2009 Sarah Palin calendars, using her own Palin photo archives, minus some good shots she gave to Palin's '06 gubernatorial campaign.

The calendars are now available here for $15.95 and will soon be in Barnes & Noble as well. Judy has her own commercial website here.

To see two more monthly photos from the 2009 Sarah Palin calendar, click on the "Read more" line below.

For political fans, regardless of Tuesday's outcome, the calendar they'll really be eager to see is for 2012.

(UPDATE: Patrick reports brisk yearend sales have cut her inventory in half. Her Palin calendar is now the No. 1 office products seller on Amazon.com Buy one here if you want.)

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Photo credit: All photos courtesy of Judy Patrick