Sarah Palin told colleague 'I can't take it any more' before resignation

Palin also asked her aides to see if they could hold certain legislators' "feet to the fire" and hold votes on her nominees. She wrote words of encouragement to Wayne Anthony Ross, her nominee for Attorney General, telling him to "stay strong."

"Those who want to turn this into a kangaroo court will soon see you confirmed as Alaska's AG," Palin wrote.

Ross was not confirmed, the first ever cabinet level candidate rejected by the Alaska Legislature. Palin travelled to an anti-abortion rally in the state of Indiana the day he was defeated.

The emails are the last from her time as governor, according to Alaska state officials. Citizens and news organisations, including the AP, first requested Palin's emails in September 2008, as part of her vetting as the Republican vice presidential nominee. The state released a batch of the emails last June, a lag of nearly three years that was attributed to the sheer volume of the records and the flood of requests stemming from Palin's tenure.

Palin's frustration over a series of ethics complaints filed against her, one of the issues she cited when stepping down, emerges in a series of emails on March 24, 2009.

"These are the things that waste my time and money, and the state's time and money," she wrote to then-Lt. Gov. Parnell.

In an April 2009 email, she commiserated over a story indicating another ethics complaint was to be filed: "Unflippinbelievable ... I'm sending this because you can relate to the bullcrap continuation of the hell these people put the family through," she wrote to Ivy Frye, an aide during the first part of her term, and to Frank Bailey.

Later that day, in an email to her husband and two top aides, on the issue, she said: "I can't take it anymore."

The first batch of emails released last June, before she announced she would not run for president, showed that Palin was angling for the vice presidential slot months before McCain picked her to be his running mate. Those records produced no bombs! hells, w hile painting a picture of an image-conscious, driven leader, struggling with the gossip about her family and marriage, involved in the day-to-day duties of running the state and keeping tabs on the signature issues of her administration.

Source: AP