JUNEAU, Alaska – In the final months before she resigned as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustration over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers and their perceived efforts to “lame duck” her administration, along with outrage over ethics complaints that she felt frivolously targeted her and which prompted her to write: “I can’t take it any more.”

The details are included in more than 17,000 emails released Thursday by state officials — nearly three and half years after the records were first sought by The Associated Press and several other news organizations.

By the spring of 2009, the emails show, Palin was regularly butting heads with lawmakers of both parties over her absences from the Capitol and over her picks for vacancies in the state Senate and her own cabinet. The emails she sent to staff illustrate Palin’s growing suspicion that those legislators were seeking to undermine her administration by harping on how often she was away from Juneau, the state capital.

She asked her aides to tally how many days she was out of Alaska in 2008. The staff came up with 94 days, but 10 less if you count travel days when she was in the state part of the day; the absences included all of October and most of September while she was on the campaign trail as the GOP vice presidential candidate.

Palin also asked her aides to see if they could hold certain legislators’ “feet to the fire” and hold votes on her nominees.