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I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992.
Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.
Perhaps she can be made an honorary Armenian
Ani 17 weeks 21 hr ago
Certainly her political mafioso me-first style fits right into the Armenian Republican Party....
The muck is starting to get raked
Ani 17 weeks 1 hr ago
http://news.yahoo.com/story/ap/20080909/ap_on_el_pr/palin_travel_expense...
Report: Palin tapped travel allowance at home
Tue Sep 9, 12:43 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 nights spent at her home, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
An analysis of travel statements filed by the governor, now John McCain's Republican running mate, shows she claimed the per diem allowance on 312 occasions when she was home in Wasilla and that she billed taxpayers $43,490 for travel by her husband and children.
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GOP campaign downplays Palin book-banning inquiry
Ani 16 weeks 4 days ago
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/palin_librarian
WASILLA, Alaska – The McCain campaign is defending Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's much-criticized inquiry into banning books at her hometown library, saying her questions were only hypothetical.
Shortly after taking office in 1996 as mayor of Wasilla, a city of about 7,000 people, Palin asked the city's head librarian about banning books. Later, the librarian was notified by Palin that she was being fired, although Palin backed off under pressure.
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Recent outrage has been fueled by Wasilla housewife Anne Kilkenny, whose 2,400-word critique of Palin's legacy as mayor is widely posted on the Internet. Kilkenny described Palin's actions as "out-and-out censorship."
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The Rev. Howard Bess, a liberal Christian preacher in the nearby town of Palmer, said the church Palin and her family attended until 2002, the Wasilla Assembly of God, was pushing to remove his book from local bookstores.
Emmons told him that year that several copies of "Pastor I Am Gay" had disappeared from the library shelves, Bess said.
"Sarah brought pressure on the library about things she didn't like," Bess said. "To believe that my book was not targeted in this is a joke."
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Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
Ani 16 weeks 2 days ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?ref=us
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
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Gotta admire the audacity,
nazarian 15 weeks 6 days ago
Gotta admire the audacity, though.
None Will Testify in Troopergate Probe.
Bruce Tasker 15 weeks 6 days ago
Well, if anyone had any doubt about how dirty this would get, wonder no more.
The Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg (3rd in line for the Governor’s throne should Palin win the VP slot, and Lt. Governor Sean Parnell win the House seat) has announced that none of the 13 people state employees who were issued subpoenas in Palin’s ethics investigation into the “Troopergate” scandal will testify, unless there is a unanimous vote from the full Senate or the entire Legislature.
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/alaska-ag-says-none-will-testif...
Troopergate Investigation Continues!
Anonymous 15 weeks 3 days ago
The troopergate investigation lives to see another day.
So go get your big red Sharpie and circle October 10th on your calendar. That’s when Stephen Branchflower will wrap up the investigation, and we’ll be ready for the next chapter in the saga. The investigation will conclude before the election, with or without the cooperation of the governor, her husband, and the state employees who defied subpoenas. I’ll bet when Branchflower agreed to come back to the state and out of retirement to do this investigation, he never dreamed how things would turn out. None of us did.
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