In the call, Bailey complained about Wooten and said the Palin family didn't know he still had a job.

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Sontag said he disappeared so often that he had a neighbor call him whenever Bailey returned.

MSN: 'He started tearing up. I started tearing up.'

Palin had just called a press conference to discuss the latest twist a tape-recorded phone call from Frank Bailey, one of her closest aides, who could be heard trying to influence an officer to sack Trooper Wooten.

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Earlier this month, Palin revealed a phone call made by her boards and commissions director, Frank Bailey, to a trooper lieutenant.

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Mr. BAILEY: At any one given time, we'll have about 450, 000 what we call active names.

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