Palin Almost Recalled As Mayor »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 2 months ago in News
back as Mayor of Wasilla, Palin was nearly recalled, for firing the Police Chief and Library Director for not supporting her in her 1996 race for Mayor. Yes, that's right. Hack n' Sack Sarah didn't even try to hide it. she fired them for "not fully supporting her efforts to govern" (i.e., not endorsing her for Mayor).
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injest1 year, 2 months ago
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It seems that in 1997, she almost got recalled as mayor of Wasilla?
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A recall of Mayor Sarah Palin is off the table, at least for now, according to a group calling itself Concerned Citizens for Wasilla. The group of about 60 residents was formed Friday in response to Palin's controversial firing of Police Chief Irl Stambaugh. Members say they're concerned about the direction taken by Palin since her election last fall, and discussed a recall. But members of the group decided instead they first want to hear Palin's explanations
blahahaahaha omg
Obama’s desperate again!
If were to give credence to every nutcase group that calls for a recall no ELECTED pol would pass.
Wasilla population
5469 3632 18 and over (voting age)
So lets see 60 out of 3632 voters wanted her recalled.
1.6% wanted her recalled and 98.4% didn’t?
Almost got recalled? Are you really this mathematically challenged?
And you think revelations like this will help Obama?
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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The more one learns about Sarah Palin, the uglier and more incompetent she looks.
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The Ugliness of Sarah Palin's Character
Sarah Palin, during a radio interview laughs at Alaskan Senate President and cancer survivor, Lyda Green, being called a "cancer", "bitch".
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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She is also a serial liar.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Palin lied about visiting Ireland as part of her foreign policy experience
She didn't visit Ireland, which is what the McCain-Palin campaign claimed to Politico's Ben Smith on Saturday. She had a short refueling stopover, which means at best her extensive Irish diplomacy amounted to buying a sweater and a beer mug in the Shannon airport....
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/palin-lied-abou...
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chuck-the-canuck1 year, 2 months ago
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 2 months ago
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nikkibabe1 year, 2 months ago
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Looks like she and her family fits right in to Bush, Cheney, Rowe & McCain group. Agenda item #1 for the debates:
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. It is OK to have unprotected sex. If you get HIV, blame the disease. If you get a baby, thank GOD.
. It is OK to have children while still in school. It is after all, American. It is GOD's gift.
. It is OK if you have to spend more time caring for the baby and screw the studies.
. If you come out with failing or sub standard grades and cannot get a job that has been shipped overseas, blame the H1 visa and India. Thank GOD, you have a baby.
GOD BLESS THE REPUBLICANS!-
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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Well let's look at a highly industrialized and heavily taxed area with a huge sex education program called "Human Growth and Development." When originally designed the first 7 to 8 years was supposed to be a basic health class. But all things MPS, Milwaukee Public Schools, we needed to have Planned Parenthood re-work the committee's original plan. I know the original plan, I was a student adviser on the project. Milwaukee has the highest dropout and teen pregnancy rate of all major cities. The same teachers that can't teach students the basics, reading writing and math are also failing at teaching them about sex. This is really the parents job. But then again, when did a Democrat ever support the concepts of personal responsibility. We all know the job of the government is to take care of our kids from the womb to the tomb.
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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If you're so concerned with this election why would you guy run a guy with more baggage than Hillary yet less experience then anyone in American history?
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As to God, I'm sorry your party removed his influence from your party several years ago.
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lloydm651 year, 2 months ago
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How refreshing maybe she just might be what we need.I am so tired elected officials act like the laws they pass have become mere suggestions.when it suits them they enforce them,if they don't they don't.A young couple,married only a few days,was killed by a drunk driver,with 4 prior D W I's.Evidently The judge, The DA, and the whole court system in Dallas takes the DWI law as good suggestions,but not serious
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
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I need more information. What was the judges formal ruling on her firing of the police chief? Who were the people doing the recall, what were their specific complaints, and why did they drop it? And where are the seasoned investigative reporters on all this? Do have any investigative reporters left?
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RedstateLib1 year, 2 months ago
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I am with you Jordan. If the Obama supporters would spend half as much time discussing why John McCains policies are bad for America as they do attacking Gov. Palin they might actually sway some undecided voters. Instead they are just re-enforcing what many already suspect, they are sexist. It may not be true for some f them but you couldn't prove that by their words or deeds.
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Mdiar1 year, 2 months ago
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Jordan11, I believe that the judge's ruling (I read about this a few days ago) basically said that it was legal to fire someone for political reasons if you were Mayor. Essentially, no legal protection actually existed for the job.
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Charlson1 year, 2 months ago
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BB641 year, 2 months ago
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This is hardly an honest or non-biased posting. In the first line about vetting, that's what we said about Barry. I could go on about hanging out with guys like Rexko, Wright or Ayers but I think for a change, I address this poor excuse for a story.
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First on the firing of her former brother-in-law. There were so many examples of his abuse of power while an officer, it's amazing she had to fire him. Between charges of abuse by prisoners and his tazering of his own son would have removed a normal police officer what did him in finally was the recorded death threats he made to the mayor's family during the divorce. Threatening the life an elected official is still a crime. On the other claims, it's been clearly documented that she's a law & order type of person. When it comes to change, she's taken on all forms of crime. One of her biggest fights was with Big Oil and rights. She won that fight or perhaps I should say the people of Alaska won.
I think the left bloggers here realize Obama has a very good chance of losing this election to a gun wielding, bible carrying, conservative female. Dumped Hillary because he doesn't like her and picked a pasty faced liberal plagiarist to be his running mate. Who knew McCain would pull this one off.-
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pcknowledge1 year, 2 months ago
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"I think the left bloggers here realize Obama has a very good chance of losing this election to a gun wielding, bible carrying, conservative female."
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That will indeed be a very sad day for America, if Obama looses the election to a gun wielding, bible carrying, conservative female who believes in abstract science, home schooling, and wants to take away a women's right to choose in dire circumstances. When asked what Palin thinks about the Iraq war, she said :"I haven't focused on it yet." Palin is pro life no matter what the circumstances, and hasn't focused on a war that killed thousands of people on both sides. And continues to kill hundreds.
Palin, and the ultra conservative Republican leaders will take our country back to the stoneages.
This is America, the greatest country in the world. We are supposed to be the best in technological advancement, science, education and medical advancements. Go Obama! Move our country forward and help us be the best we can be again! -
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ind061 year, 2 months ago
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"it's amazing she had to fire him."
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As governor it was not her position to fire him, that was the position of his boss who was only going by the suspension already handed down. To fire Wooten would have been an entirely inappropriate misuse of governmental powers.
And Wooten has not been fired. His boss Walt Monegan has, for refusing to fire Wooten for politically motivated reasons. Governor Palin's firing of Monegan because he wouldn't give in to pressure to fire Wooten who had already been suspended is doubly inappropriate. It doesn't matter what you or I or Governor Palin thinks of Mr. Wooten, or what we think his punishment should be. The fact remains that he was punished, the procedure of punishment is completed. The governor does not get to decide punishments basded on personal feelings, nor carry out vendettas on citizens she does not care for. Nor should you want her to.
We depend on our elected officials not to misuse their governmental authority for personal reasons. We call it an abuse of power and it is VERY important that we can feel safe from it
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vor1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain certainly has changed. In 2000 he was an entirely different candidate. Now he is the neocons whipping boy. His near selection of Lieberman as VP shows this. But they even knew this would not fly with the electorate. But after doing some research I have to wonder if Palin won't behave like **** Cheney in a skirt!
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Wake up America! You are actually considering re-living the last 8 years. How many of you truly benefitted from the economy during that time? And how many of you have kids that will be affected by the debt we created?
Approx. 1 Triilion spent in Iraq! As Fareed Zakaria recently pointed out, that amount would replace every school, highway, and bridge in America. The day we pull back and see the "true new face of Iraq" it will become obvious what a folly this has been...as if it wasn't obvious enough already! -
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pcknowledge1 year, 2 months ago
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:In an interview with Alaska Business Monthly shortly after she took office in 2007, Palin was asked about the upcoming surge. She said she hadn't thought about it. "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq," she said. "I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe."
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Palin supports Bush & McCain said he wants to keep our troops there for the next 100 years. Which one of them is going to develop an exit plan?-
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pcknowledge1 year, 2 months ago
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No, the US and Iraqi officials are not planning strategy. It was Obama who first said that we should pull our troops out of Iraq, and let the Iraqis govern their own country. Both, Bush & McCain gave speeches ridiculing Obama's ideas to opt for a phased withdrawal.
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Several months later, Maliki announced he wanted our troops to leave Iraq, that's when Bush & McCain flip flopped and addopted Obama's idea for a long term phased withdrawal.
Anyone who believes Bush/McCain are constantly planning strategy in Iraq, hasn't actually been to Iraq. The war has been a complete failure. Iraq is completly destroyed, thousands of innocents on both sides are dead and still dying due to this war. There is no way to distinguish between Al Qaeda, Sunnis, Shiites and McCain doesn't know the difference anyways. Our military is fighting a nameless, faceless, enemy in Iraq. -
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mbruny1 year, 2 months ago
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hey moron..she didn't fire them for not supporting her for mayor..she fired them because of the way they managed their jobs...she put the right people in thats part of governing..but you wouldnt know about that if your following obama like little sheep...more taxes, more government involvement, and more giveaways...yea that will work...move to cuba for a month and you will see obama presidency in action...tax the people who have it and give to the people who dont want to work...
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toph19731 year, 2 months ago
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Problem is She did all of that. She raised taxes, by cutting them then raising the sales tax. She supported the bridge to nowhere, then said she opposed it. Where Mrs Palin then did the 200 some odd million go for that? She went begging for earmarks for her state. She's done a heckuva job.
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most_reasonable1 year, 2 months ago
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Just as the Litmus test for the incompetents we sent to Iraq to help with the rebuilding the Litmus test of Rowe vs. Wade is still the measure of acceptability within the GOP. A candidate, one weak heartbeat away from the presidency who is being touted because she was president of the local PTA is being swooned over by the right wing pundits.
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McCain is showing the competency of himself and his staff who never vetted his VP choice. Pveig to his contributors that his base is so stupid that they could get anything they desired.-
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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talk about heartbeats:
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Senator Biden did not return to the Senate until September 8th, seven months after the initial diagnosis, after suffering a pulmonary embolus (blood clot in the lungs), requiring another surgery between his two brain operations. (New York Times, September 8, 1988)
Joe Biden's two cerebral aneurysm repairs appear to have been entirely successful and those areas are essentially better than new. The issue here is an assurance to the voting public that the man who is a heartbeat away from the most powerful office on earth has the best possible chance of surviving his term.
Patients with a history of brain aneurysms can sometimes develop new ones.In this case, the answer can be obtained easily and without risk. A CT Angiogram of the cerebral blood vessels can (and should) be performed prior to the election (if the clip is metallic, an MRI is precluded).
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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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pcknowledge You should be embarrassed at putting up only a partial quote that really biases the statement. How about honesty??
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Alaska Business Monthly: We've lost a lot of Alaska's military members to the war in Iraq. How do you feel about sending more troops into battle, as President Bush is suggesting?
Palin: I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration,
I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe.
Every life lost is such a tragedy. I am very, very proud of the troops we have in Alaska, those fighting overseas for our freedoms, and the families here who are making so many sacrifices. -
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pcknowledge1 year, 2 months ago
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Klarissa
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I posted the entire quote yesterday, partial today. Thanks for posting, the entire quote gets my point across much stronger.
Palin hasn't focused much on the Iraq war, she wants to know we have an exit plan in place. She wants assurances that we can keep our troops safe. While she supports our President, Condolezza Rice and the Administration, who have all said our troops need to be in Iraq indefinetly while they lack sufficient resources and face multiple redeployments. They only flip flopped, after Maliki said he wants our troops to leave.
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questionseverything1 year, 2 months ago
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palin doesnt believe in birth control or science...i feel so sorry for her eldest daughter having to start a family so young simply because her parents dont believe in birth control,refused to educate her beyond abstenience
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sen obama said,families should be off limits but this isnt just about the pallin family,this is about rnc policys that destroy young peoples lives around the world
sarah if u want to have babies into ur fifteys,thats ur choice but DO NOT TRY AND FORCE THE REST OF US and shame on u for not educating ur daughter-
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