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It's Palin
Sarah Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska, and a member of the Republican Party. She is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska. She is the Republican vice presidential candidate for the November 2008 election.[citation needed] Brought to statewide attention because of her whistleblowing on ethical violations by state Republican Party leaders,[1] she won election in 2006 by first defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary, then a former Democratic Alaskan governor in the general election.
On August 29, the Associated Press reported that "speculation [has] moved to [Palin as a] darkhorse" pick for the vice president running mate slot by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.[2] The CNBC news service is now reporting that Palin will in fact be the GOP vice-presidential nominee.[3] She is reported to be a possible choice for the Republican Party's nomination as Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. Formal announcement of the presumptive nominee will be made in Dayton, Ohio on August 29, 2008, by Presidential candidate John McCain. On 29 August, CNN confirmed that Palin was the running mate for Senator McCain.[4]
Family and personal background
Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[5] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[6] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[6] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[6]
Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[6] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[6] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[6]
In 1984, Palin was second-place in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[6] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[7][8] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[9]
Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics.
Her husban, Todd, is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[6] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[10] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[6] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[6] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[11]
She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[6] One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.[6]
On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[11] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[12] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[13] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[14] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[14]
Pre-gubernatorial political experience
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[6] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[6] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[6] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[6][15] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[12]
In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[6]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[16] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[6] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[17] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[6]
Governorship
Governor Palin visits a wounded soldier in Landstuhl, Germany, July 2007
In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[6] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.[6] Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[9]
When elected, Palin became the first woman to be Alaska's governor, and the youngest governor in Alaskan history at 42 years old upon taking office. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood. She was also the first Alaskan governor not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[14][18] "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[7]
She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[19] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[14] Palin supports holding occasional legislative sessions outside the state capital, and municipal revenue sharing to help local governments.[citation needed]
In 2007, Palin had an approval rating often in the 90s.[7] A poll published by Hays Research on July 28, 2008 showed Palin's approval rating at 80%.[20]
Energy policies
Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development.[7][14] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[21]
Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded an appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, one of thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration that she reversed.[22][23] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[24]
In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[25] Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[26] and in June Palin signed it into law.[27][28] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[29][30]
In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[31] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.[32][33]
Social issues
Palin is strongly pro-life and belongs to Feminists for Life.[9] She opposes same-sex marriage, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.[9] While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law.[34]
She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[35] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[36]
Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[37]
Matanuska Maid Dairy closure
When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the Dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin learned that only the Board of Agriculture and Conservation could appoint Creamery Board members, she simply replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.[7][38] The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close.[38] The new board approved milk price increases offered by the dairy in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices.[39] In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.[40][41]
Budget
In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.7 million.[42]
Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days or hours of the Murkowski Administration.[43]
In June 2007, Palin signed into law the largest operating budget in Alaska's history ($6.6 billion).[44] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The US$237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly US$1.6 billion.[45]
Commissioner dismissal
On July 11, 2008, Governor Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.[46][47] Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.[48] In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, and violating game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.[49]
Governor Palin asserts that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."[50] Palin acknowledges that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.[50] Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions.
In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time."[51] The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary.[52] The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.[50][53]
Wooten and the police union alleged that the governor had improperly released his employment files in his divorce case. However, McCann's attorney released a signed waiver from Wooten demonstrating that Wooten had authorized the release of his files through normal discovery procedures.[54][55]
Electoral history
Election results
2006 Gubernatorial Election, Alaska
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Sarah Palin 114,697 48.33 -7.6
Democratic Tony Knowles 97,238 40.97 +0.3
Independent Andrew Halcro 22,443 9.46 n/a
Alaskan Independence Don Wright 1,285 0.54 -0.4
Libertarian Billy Toien 682 0.29 -0.2
Green David Massie 593 0.25 -1.0
Write-ins 384 0.16 +0.1
Majority 17,459 7.36
Turnout 238,307 51.1
Republican hold Swing 4.0
Denise McNamara
Republican National Committee
Texas
On August 29, the Associated Press reported that "speculation [has] moved to [Palin as a] darkhorse" pick for the vice president running mate slot by presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.[2] The CNBC news service is now reporting that Palin will in fact be the GOP vice-presidential nominee.[3] She is reported to be a possible choice for the Republican Party's nomination as Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election. Formal announcement of the presumptive nominee will be made in Dayton, Ohio on August 29, 2008, by Presidential candidate John McCain. On 29 August, CNN confirmed that Palin was the running mate for Senator McCain.[4]
Family and personal background
Palin was born as Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath.[5] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant.[6] Charles Heath was a popular science teacher and coached track.[6] The Heaths were avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.[6]
Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[6] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[6] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[6]
In 1984, Palin was second-place in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[6] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[7][8] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.[9]
Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics.
Her husban, Todd, is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[6] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope[10] and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[6] The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[6] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[11]
She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart.[6] One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.[6]
On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children.[11] Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7.[12] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[13] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[14] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[14]
Pre-gubernatorial political experience
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[6] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[6] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes 60%.[6] She ran for reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[6][15] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[12]
In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[6]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[16] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[6] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[17] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[6]
Governorship
Governor Palin visits a wounded soldier in Landstuhl, Germany, July 2007
In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[6] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.[6] Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[9]
When elected, Palin became the first woman to be Alaska's governor, and the youngest governor in Alaskan history at 42 years old upon taking office. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood. She was also the first Alaskan governor not to be inaugurated in Juneau, instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks. She took office on December 4, 2006.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[14][18] "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[7]
She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[19] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[14] Palin supports holding occasional legislative sessions outside the state capital, and municipal revenue sharing to help local governments.[citation needed]
In 2007, Palin had an approval rating often in the 90s.[7] A poll published by Hays Research on July 28, 2008 showed Palin's approval rating at 80%.[20]
Energy policies
Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development.[7][14] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[21]
Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded an appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, one of thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration that she reversed.[22][23] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[24]
In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[25] Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[26] and in June Palin signed it into law.[27][28] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[29][30]
In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[31] She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.[32][33]
Social issues
Palin is strongly pro-life and belongs to Feminists for Life.[9] She opposes same-sex marriage, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.[9] While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law.[34]
She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[35] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[36]
Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[37]
Matanuska Maid Dairy closure
When the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the Dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin learned that only the Board of Agriculture and Conservation could appoint Creamery Board members, she simply replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.[7][38] The new board, led by businesswoman Kristan Cole, reversed the decision to close.[38] The new board approved milk price increases offered by the dairy in an attempt to control fiscal losses, even though milk from Washington was already offered in Alaskan stores at lower prices.[39] In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts but received no bids.[40][41]
Budget
In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.7 million.[42]
Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days or hours of the Murkowski Administration.[43]
In June 2007, Palin signed into law the largest operating budget in Alaska's history ($6.6 billion).[44] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The US$237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly US$1.6 billion.[45]
Commissioner dismissal
On July 11, 2008, Governor Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down.[46][47] Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an Alaska State Trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly McCann.[48] In 2006, before Palin was governor, Wooten was briefly suspended for ten days for threatening to kill McCann's (and Palin's) father, tasering his 11-year-old stepson, and violating game laws. After a union protest, the suspension was reduced to five days.[49]
Governor Palin asserts that her dismissal of Monegan was unrelated to the fact that he had not fired Wooten, and asserts that Monegan was instead dismissed for not adequately filling state trooper vacancies, and because he "did not turn out to be a team player on budgeting issues."[50] Palin acknowledges that a member of her administration, Frank Bailey, did contact the Department of Public Safety regarding Wooten, but both Palin and Bailey say that happened without her knowledge and was unrelated to her dismissal of Monegan.[50] Bailey was put on leave for two months for acting outside the scope of his authority as the Director of Boards and Commissions.
In response to Palin's statement that she had nothing to hide, in August 2008 the Alaska Legislature hired Steve Branchflower to investigate Palin and her staff for possible abuse of power surrounding the dismissal, though lawmakers acknowledge that "Monegan and other commissioners serve at will, meaning they can be fired by Palin at any time."[51] The investigation is being overseen by Democratic State Senator Hollis French, who says that the Palin administration has been cooperating and thus subpoenas are unnecessary.[52] The Palin administration itself was the first to release an audiotape of Bailey making inquiries about the status of the Wooten investigation.[50][53]
Wooten and the police union alleged that the governor had improperly released his employment files in his divorce case. However, McCann's attorney released a signed waiver from Wooten demonstrating that Wooten had authorized the release of his files through normal discovery procedures.[54][55]
Electoral history
Election results
2006 Gubernatorial Election, Alaska
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Sarah Palin 114,697 48.33 -7.6
Democratic Tony Knowles 97,238 40.97 +0.3
Independent Andrew Halcro 22,443 9.46 n/a
Alaskan Independence Don Wright 1,285 0.54 -0.4
Libertarian Billy Toien 682 0.29 -0.2
Green David Massie 593 0.25 -1.0
Write-ins 384 0.16 +0.1
Majority 17,459 7.36
Turnout 238,307 51.1
Republican hold Swing 4.0
Denise McNamara
Republican National Committee
Texas
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Obama Video
Click on the Title Link to watch the American Issues video that the media has been talking about.
What motivates the Democrat Party? Can you explain it?
What motivates the Democrat Party? Can you explain it?
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Resolution Thanking George Bush
Resolution Thanking President George W. Bush For His Service to Our Country Submitted by
Denise McNamara, Republican National Committeewoman, Texas
Denise McNamara is the Republican National Committeewoman of Texas.
Her blog, McNamaraBlog is a good site to check the perspective of the Texas voters.
Stay Informed and fight Socialism from the both the Left and the Right.
Denise McNamara, Republican National Committeewoman, Texas
Denise McNamara is the Republican National Committeewoman of Texas.
Her blog, McNamaraBlog is a good site to check the perspective of the Texas voters.
Stay Informed and fight Socialism from the both the Left and the Right.
Monday, August 25, 2008
That Is the Marketplace
Pelosi defends Pickens Investment by Jim Dimascio
Sen. Pelosi, like other Democrats that come to mind-John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer, can't seem to separate their role of Enforcing and Creating the Law, with using their Position too their advantage.
The real question is, will the Voters hold them accountable?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) answered questions from Tom Brokaw on “Meet the Press” this morning about yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article reporting that she and her husband have invested in former Swift boat ad financier and more recent alternative energy convert T. Boone Pickens’ Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
“It was between $50,000 and $100,000, and it’s part of an entrepreneurial package, a package we signed up for,” Pelosi said adding that it’s something she believes in.
When Brokaw pressed on her ability as a lawmaker to influence the prospects of Pickens’ endeavor, Pelosi said, “That is the marketplace.”
Sen. Pelosi, like other Democrats that come to mind-John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer, can't seem to separate their role of Enforcing and Creating the Law, with using their Position too their advantage.
The real question is, will the Voters hold them accountable?
Friday, August 22, 2008
Obama Must Watch Video
This video is a must watch about Obama Policies:
Obama Wants to Protect America
Better hurry before it's too late.
Obama Wants to Protect America
Better hurry before it's too late.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The Audacity of Socialism
If you don't believe the following editorials about Barack Obama are accurate, would you provide any supporting evidence you have to the contrary.
The Audacity of Socialism
Like Father, Like Son
Some very funny IBD Cartoons!
The Audacity of Socialism
Barack Obama has styled himself a centrist, but does his record support that claim?Start with Part Ten:
In this series, we (IBD Editorial) examine Senator Obama's past, his voting record and the people who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years. We'll show how the facts of Obama's actions and associations reveal a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.
Like Father, Like Son
Election '08: Barack Obama's economic blueprint sounds like one his communist father tried to foist on Kenya 40 years ago, with massive taxes and succor shrouded as "investments."
Some very funny IBD Cartoons!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Obama List--More Detail
It's difficult to counter Liberals. Facts aren't the issue as much as feelings. Facts frequently aren't chalanged, only the credibility of presenter or non issue topics.
HumanEvents.com provides more facts about B.H. Obama's Liberal Stand:
Day 4: Top 5 Liberal Stands by Obama
Day 5: Obama's Top 10 Liberal Stands
Voter should be aware that B.H. Obama campaigns on intangibles and feelings. He gets in trouble when he has to deal with real issues. Primarily because he doesn't have the necessary experience, and he can't tell the the voter what he actually believes, or would do. He might tell you what he thinks you want to hear- knowing that he will change later. (I once worked with a Salesman, that believed he could sell you anything, and you would buy it- at any time.)
His Government depends on a Class Society to operate. Government Controlled Taking from one Class and giving to another--rich-poor, black-white, sick-healthy, working-non working, educated-non educated, men-women, healthy-sick, gays-straight, moral-immoral, tax payer-non taxpayer, union-non union, and green-non green. Any Class division is an opportunity to advance government control.
America deserves Change, but Change in the Opposite Direction from B.H. Obama's, which are just an extreme view of most of the Democrat Party, and a growing number in the Republican Party.
Voter be very careful what you feel for, it might cost you, and your kids, more than you felt you were going to have to give.
Which Classes are you in?
Verification Link:
Democrats Offer Lesson in Misleading on Taxes: Kevin Hassett
HumanEvents.com provides more facts about B.H. Obama's Liberal Stand:
Barack Obama has consistently remained faithful to his left-wing principles despite his attempt to run as a moderate, everyman candidate. In David Freddoso’s new book The Case Against Barack Obama, he digs deep into Obama's record and exposes the leftist ideals Obama truly upholds.
Day 4: Top 5 Liberal Stands by Obama
Day 5: Obama's Top 10 Liberal Stands
Voter should be aware that B.H. Obama campaigns on intangibles and feelings. He gets in trouble when he has to deal with real issues. Primarily because he doesn't have the necessary experience, and he can't tell the the voter what he actually believes, or would do. He might tell you what he thinks you want to hear- knowing that he will change later. (I once worked with a Salesman, that believed he could sell you anything, and you would buy it- at any time.)
His Government depends on a Class Society to operate. Government Controlled Taking from one Class and giving to another--rich-poor, black-white, sick-healthy, working-non working, educated-non educated, men-women, healthy-sick, gays-straight, moral-immoral, tax payer-non taxpayer, union-non union, and green-non green. Any Class division is an opportunity to advance government control.
America deserves Change, but Change in the Opposite Direction from B.H. Obama's, which are just an extreme view of most of the Democrat Party, and a growing number in the Republican Party.
Voter be very careful what you feel for, it might cost you, and your kids, more than you felt you were going to have to give.
Which Classes are you in?
Verification Link:
Democrats Offer Lesson in Misleading on Taxes: Kevin Hassett
Friday, August 15, 2008
Obama List
The following list was submitted by a concerned voter as a topic of discussion for "Some of What Defines Barack Obama:"
Voters can review previous Obama postings on this blog. (Type Obama in search box at the top).
1.) He voted for partial birth abortion.Ok, all of you, here is an Obama list. Is it correct, do you agree with it, any comments?!?:)
2.) He voted no on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
3.) Supports affirmative action in Colleges and Government (quotas).
4.) In 2001 he questioned harsh penalties for drug dealing as being too severe.
5.) Says he will deal with street level drug dealing as minimum wage affair.
6.) Admitted his use of marijuana and cocaine in high school and in college.
7.) His religious convictions are very murky.
8.) He is willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jung Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
9.) Has said that one of his first goals after being elected would be to have a conference with all Muslim nations. Why?
10.) Opposed the Patriot Act.
11.) The first bill he signed that was ever passed was campaign finance reform.
12.) Voted to allow law suits against gun manufacturers.
13.) Supports universal health-care.
14.) Voted yes on providing habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees.
15.) Supports granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
16.) Supports extending welfare to illegal immigrants.
17.) Voted yes on comprehensive immigration reform.
18.) Voted yes on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.
19.) Wants to make the minimum wage a 'living wage'.
20.) Voted with Democratic Party 96 percent of 251 votes. (241 votes Demo, 10 votes Republican)
21.) Is a big believer in the separation of church and state.
22.) Opposed to any efforts to Privatize Social Security and instead supports increasing the amount of tax paid into Soc. Sec. (Tax Increase).
23.) He voted No on repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax which now hits middle income brackets. (Tax Increase).
24.) He voted No on repealing the 'Death' Tax. (Tax Increase).
25.) He wants to raise the Capital Gains Tax. (Tax Increase).
26.) Has repeatedly said the surge in Iraq has not succeeded...which is not true.
27.) He is ranked as the most liberal Senator in the Senate today and that takes some doing.
Voters can review previous Obama postings on this blog. (Type Obama in search box at the top).
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Transcript: Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO
ABCNEWS Charlie Gibson's Full Interview with Rex Tillerson
Facts from Interview that you might not know:
Facts from Interview that you might not know:
CHARLES GIBSON: We in the media have made a lot of the profits that ExxonMobil has made, particularly in the last couple of quarters -- more than $10 billion in profits first quarter this year; more than $11.5 billion in the second quarter of the year. When people, I don't know, complain about that to you or say how dare you? Those profits are obscene. What's your best -- in brief form -- what's your best justification?
REX TILLERSON: Well, I think it has to do with an ability to understand just the size of our business. Everything we do, the numbers are very large. I saw someone characterize our profits the other day in terms of $1,400 in profit per second. Well, they also need to understand we paid $4,000 a second in taxes, and we spent $15,000 a second in cost. We spend $1 billion a day just running our business. So this is a business where large numbers are just characteristic of it.
Very interesting interview.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Ethanol Debate
What Ethanol Debate?
Ethanol-Silly Senator, Corn is for Food
Ethanol advocates claim that the biofuel is a cheap, renewable energy source that reduces pollution and our dependence on foreign oil. It sounds too good to be true—and it is.
Don't confuse Congress with Facts, their mind is made up.
Link Reason.TV
Ethanol-Silly Senator, Corn is for Food
Ethanol advocates claim that the biofuel is a cheap, renewable energy source that reduces pollution and our dependence on foreign oil. It sounds too good to be true—and it is.
Don't confuse Congress with Facts, their mind is made up.
Link Reason.TV
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Energy Rhetoric vs Reality
The Informed Voter will want to review some details of Energy Rhetoric vs Reality.
Some of the energy rhetoric that are answered are as follows:
Oil Companies are to blame for the high price of gasoline.
Oil companies are demanding greater access..
We can't just drill our way to energy security..
Allowing oil companies to drill would ruin the environment..
We need to get off oil and use renewable and alternative energy..
U.S. oil companies have refused to invest..
It's time to end tax breaks for Big Oil..
Oil company and executives are profiting at expense..
Check the link for informed answers.
How do they compare with what you believe to be true?
Some of the energy rhetoric that are answered are as follows:
Oil Companies are to blame for the high price of gasoline.
Oil companies are demanding greater access..
We can't just drill our way to energy security..
Allowing oil companies to drill would ruin the environment..
We need to get off oil and use renewable and alternative energy..
U.S. oil companies have refused to invest..
It's time to end tax breaks for Big Oil..
Oil company and executives are profiting at expense..
Check the link for informed answers.
How do they compare with what you believe to be true?
Global Poverty Act
Have you heard of this Act now before Congress? You better check it out?
No one will believe this is happening to the U.S. Did you?
Dems Endorse Expansion of U.N. Power By Cliff Kincaid
the Global Poverty Act would force America to adopt the U.N.’s “Millennium Development Goals” as official U.S. policyObama Supports Global Tax from United Nations by Christine O'Donnell summarizes the Act currently under consideration in Congress.
No one will believe this is happening to the U.S. Did you?
Dems Endorse Expansion of U.N. Power By Cliff Kincaid
In another bow to the world organization, the platform indirectly endorses Senator Barack Obama's controversial pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act. "It is time to make the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015, America's goals as well," the document says. It leaves out the estimated cost-$845 billion over 13 years.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Military Voting Protection Act
"Most U.S. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan will not get a chance to vote this year because bureaucrats and politicians in Washington have done absolutely nothing to repair a systemic problem that literally stops most of our troops from voting.
Senate Bill to ensure military ballots are counted.
Check On The Issues to find your contacts.
Senate Bill to ensure military ballots are counted.
Check On The Issues to find your contacts.
Congress is the Problem, Not the Solution
This video, forwarded to me by concerned voters, points out the reason we have an Energy Problem which leads to a Bigger Financial Problem:
Congress In Action
Congress is the Problem, not the Solution. Is Congress That Stupid, or Is It Corrupt?
The 2008 Election needs to focus on electing Pro American candidates from Top to Bottom that will just Get Out of the Way and realize that Government is NOT the solution.
Congress In Action
Congress is the Problem, not the Solution. Is Congress That Stupid, or Is It Corrupt?
The 2008 Election needs to focus on electing Pro American candidates from Top to Bottom that will just Get Out of the Way and realize that Government is NOT the solution.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Obama Nation Interview by Mark Levin
This Interview of Jerome R. Corsi by Mark Levin is so revealing that you will not believe it.
Click on the speaker to listen.
If this information is true, as I believe it to be, an intelligent voter will have to wonder who is in control of America's Political System. Obama is not capable of mounting this effort without major support. Keep in mind this machine did beat the Clinton Machine in the primary.
Could it be that the Democrat Party is really controlled by pure Socialist?
Is Media in total control of the Democrat Party?
Are outside forces in total control of the Democrat Party?
Is money power in control of the Democrat Party?
Are foreign governments in control of the Democrat Party?
Is America doomed to Socialism, or Communism?
How do you explain it?
Supporting links:
The Mark Levin Show
The Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi
Click on the speaker to listen.
If this information is true, as I believe it to be, an intelligent voter will have to wonder who is in control of America's Political System. Obama is not capable of mounting this effort without major support. Keep in mind this machine did beat the Clinton Machine in the primary.
Could it be that the Democrat Party is really controlled by pure Socialist?
Is Media in total control of the Democrat Party?
Are outside forces in total control of the Democrat Party?
Is money power in control of the Democrat Party?
Are foreign governments in control of the Democrat Party?
Is America doomed to Socialism, or Communism?
How do you explain it?
Supporting links:
The Mark Levin Show
The Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
A Nation of Thieves
For my Aggie Friends, congratulations, and I hope you took his class.
Edgar K. Browning, professor of economics at Texas A&M University, has a new book aptly titled "Stealing from Each Other." Its subtitle, "How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit," goes to the heart of what the book is about.
The article, A Nation of Thieves, by Walter Williams, underscores some of the fundamental problems. It also points out that the Defense spending is not the problem.
Edgar K. Browning, professor of economics at Texas A&M University, has a new book aptly titled "Stealing from Each Other." Its subtitle, "How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit," goes to the heart of what the book is about.
The article, A Nation of Thieves, by Walter Williams, underscores some of the fundamental problems. It also points out that the Defense spending is not the problem.
A Message from Ireland
Thought you might enjoy this message that was forwarded to me:
A Message from Ireland
An email from Ireland to all of their brethren in the States...a point to ponder despite your political affiliation:
'We, in Ireland , can't figure out why you people are even
bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to
another lawyer who can't seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like the country her husband wants to run !
Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name
starts with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!
What in God's name are ya lads thinkin over in the colonies !
Sunday, August 3, 2008
DEMOCRAT DILEMMA
If the Democrat Party has selected a candidate they know can't win in November, What Will They Do?
An Informed Voter has time to decide between now and November, and it's up to you, and you alone. (Discounting Fraud, which isn't out of the question either)
Do you want to leave your children a country controlled by the Elite, as is illustrated by the House and Senate record? Or would you rather leave them a country controlled by the Rule of Law where each branch of government fulfills it's Constitutional duty for the good of The Country?
Will they stick behind the candidate and hope the Controlled Media can bail them out?Would you rather run on Pres. Bush's ratings and record, or run on Speaker Pelosi's and Sen. Reid's ratings and record? Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid represent Sen. Obama's Ideas just as much as Pres. Bush represents Sen. McCain's Ideas.
Will they attempt to misrepresent the polls?
Will they wreck the economy and blame the Republican Policy?
Will they lose a war, or two, and blame Pres. Bush?
Will they artificially raise gas and oil prices and blame Big Oil?
Will they promise utopia knowing it can't occur?
Will they select a new candidate at the convention and blame the Super Delegate Process?
Will they limit debates since they have debated themselves, or increase the number and risk even a larger defeat?
Will they cave in to Iran, and say that Bush started it?
Will they campaign overseas to win support of the U.N.?
Will they hold useless televised political hearings against the Current Administration and try to run against corruption again?
Will they try to dominate the media with Race and non issues instead of Policy?
Will they do all of the above, or
Will they realize their Politics can't win and start governing and campaigning for the good of the Country, and not just for the good of The Party?
An Informed Voter has time to decide between now and November, and it's up to you, and you alone. (Discounting Fraud, which isn't out of the question either)
Do you want to leave your children a country controlled by the Elite, as is illustrated by the House and Senate record? Or would you rather leave them a country controlled by the Rule of Law where each branch of government fulfills it's Constitutional duty for the good of The Country?
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