Bristol Palin: Political consultant

Is Sarah Palin's daughter serious about her new consulting firm, BSMP — or is it just a front for financial funny business?

Bristol Palin.
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Bristol Palin has reportedly set up her own political consultancy. As Rachel Maddow revealed on MSNBC, Sarah Palin's daughter, 19, is the sole employee of BSMP LLC, a new company that will provide “lobbying, public relations, and political consulting services"—and whose first client is the pro-abstinence group Candie's Foundation. Although Maddow quipped that BSMP's teenage sage — best known for getting pregnant out of wedlock — might be well equipped to advise her mother on a 2012 presidential campaign, other observers are taking Bristol Palin's apparent ambitions quite seriously. What's going on?

Sounds like another Palin family plan to outwit the IRS: BSMP sounds strangely similar to the LLC set up by Bristol's mother not too long ago, says Ryan Tate in Gawker. Pie Spy LLC nominally provided “shadowy” services for the “elderly and persons with disabilities,” but actually existed mainly to help the Palins “patriotically shield their income from taxes.” Seems like “Bristol's new whatever” will do the same thing.?

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