Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, was issued a speeding citation in her hometown of Wasilla,

The July 16 citation carries a potential fine of $154, and Palin has 30 days from the date of receiving the citation to respond to it.

Police pulled Palin over driving her black Toyota Tundra pickup bearing the license plate LOVUSA, the Alaska Dispatch News reported on Wednesday. She  was driving 63 miles per hour in a 45-mph speed zone while returning from a bikram hot yoga workout.

"I was thinking, I wasn't speeding, I was qualifying," Palin told the Dispatch News Try using that excuse the next time you get pulled over by any police department in the Hudson Valley, let's see where it get's you!

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