Some Alaska Senators watched John McCain on MSNBC the other night,

.....and when McCain, (in a tenuous, but ultimately false bid to justify Palin's qualifications by pushing that 'executive experience' angle), said that Sarah Palin watched over 24,000 state employees, and Sarah looked on nodding agreement with that statement, those Alaska Senators got to thinking.....

There are 15,000 employees known to be working for the State of Alaska.

...those Senators are currently looking for where Sarah has stashed those extra 9,000 shadow workers.