Meanwhile, a series of new revelations about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, has raised questions about how well the McCain campaign vetted the Alaskan governor. The Washington Post revealed that Palin once ran a 527 group for Republican Senator Ted Stevens designed to raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. Stevens was recently indicted on corruption charges. Palin served as a director of Stevens’ 527 from 2003 and 2005. It was also announced that a private lawyer had recently been hired to represent Palin in a state investigation into her firing of the state’s public safety commissioner. And Palin disclosed on Monday that her unmarried seventeen-year-old daughter was five months pregnant. McCain aides said the announcement about the pregnancy of Palin’s daughter, Bristol, was aimed at rebutting internet rumors that Palin’s own youngest son, born in April, was actually the daughter’s. Both McCain and Palin have opposed funding sexual education programs in schools. In 2006, McCain voted against a Senate Democratic proposal to send $100 million to communities for teen-pregnancy prevention programs that would have included sex education about contraceptives.