Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes »
Posted By GregD 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsSo 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.
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Aidenag1 year, 2 months ago
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Finally a major paper starts doing in-depth looks at this candidate's past political history. Was starting to really get disturbed by how little the MSM was looking into her past, beyond the "she hunts moose" bs that had been getting so much attention.
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FairNBalanced1 year, 2 months ago
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Your little post left out the part about Palin having an 80% approval rating from the good folks there in Alaska.
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I could be wrong, butI think that is one of the highest approval ratings held by Governor.
Alaska's governor tops the approval rating charts
89-93 POLL RATINGS: Palin has pleased most voters by sticking to her promises.
OH WIAT, I am wrong, IT 89%-93%
JUNEAU -- With the latest poll showing her approval rating at 89 percent, Gov. Sarah Palin may now be the most popular governor in the nation.
A recent public opinion poll taken by Ivan Moore Research showed both Republicans and Democrats in favor of the state's first female governor. The poll comes just two weeks after a separate poll taken by Dittman Research gave Palin a 93 percent approval rating.
While political polling numbers can fluctuate week to week, Palin's numbers have consistently been extremely high, putting her near or at the top among the nation's governors, according to Jennifer Duffy, an analyst at the Cook Political Report, a Washington, D.C.-based research group that closely follows state politics.
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injest1 year, 2 months ago
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“Finally a major paper starts doing in-depth looks at this candidate's past political history. Was starting to really get disturbed by how little the MSM was looking into her past, beyond the "she hunts moose" bs that had been getting so much attention”.
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Aidenag, dude, are you really this naive?
Putting “your people” into jobs IS one of the perks that go with having the office.
At lest she put one into a vacancy, as opposed to Trump up charges of embezzlement.
Remember Travelgate?
Hilary wanted her people, Harry Thomason, third cousin Catherine Cornelius?
Billy Dale, that guy who offed himself?
Do you remember that?
Billy Dale? All charges dismissed after 2 whole hours of deliberation?
(they wanted the free lunch)
If ya have someone fired under trump up charges, that’s something.
Replacing people who work at the “pleaser of the office” like the 93 plus US Attorneys fired and replaced by Bill Clinton, is not illegal or unexpected.
Get a clue.
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TheVisionary1 year, 2 months ago
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Yeah this is quite a frightening report. She does seem to have good intentions and did achieve some reform, but her style of governance is not one that's conducive for running a country.
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As she assembled her cabinet and made other state appointments, those with insider credentials were now on the outs. But a new pattern became clear. She surrounded herself with people she has known since grade school and members of her church.
Mr. Parnell, the lieutenant governor, praised Ms. Palin’s appointments. “The people she hires are competent, qualified, top-notch people,” he said.
Ms. Palin chose Talis Colberg, a borough assemblyman from the Matanuska valley, as her attorney general, provoking a bewildered question from the legal community: “Who?” Mr. Colberg, who did not return calls, moved from a one-room building in the valley to one of the most powerful offices in the state, supervising some 500 people.
“I called him and asked, ‘Do you know how to supervise people?’ ” said a family friend, Kathy Wells. “He said, ‘No, but I think I’ll get some help.’ ”-
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Aidenag1 year, 2 months ago
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You got that right Visionary, her style of governance is pretty scary. Much like the Bush/Cheney version that gave us the hatch act violations of pretty much every department of the federal government. Hiring friends and political allies who have no experience or business being in the jobs given, or people who were picked with political litmus tests.
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It's the last thing this country needs is another leader big into cronyism and heavy partisan politics.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 2 months ago
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Unfortunately I am concerned that the majority of Americans are too gullible -- or stupid -- to see through the McPalin lies.
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After all, 51 percent believe Obama will raise taxes, and 15 percent think he's a muslim.
They hear something and believe it forever. That lipstick comment was way out of context, for example, and Mccain said the same thing.
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
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> “I said, ‘You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,’ ” Ms. Chase recalled. “She replied, ‘I want to be president.’ ”
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Geez, Palin makes Hillary Clinton look humble and diminutive! This lady is arrogant on top of having no clue whatsoever how to run govt or the meaning of accountability.
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 2 months ago
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NY Times—"Many lawmakers contend that Ms. Palin is overly reliant on a small inner circle that leaves her isolated. Democrats and Republicans alike describe her as often missing in action. Since taking office in 2007, Ms. Palin has spent 312 nights at her Wasilla home, some 600 miles to the north of the governor’s mansion in Juneau, records show.
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During the last legislative session, some lawmakers became so frustrated with her absences that they took to wearing “Where’s Sarah?” pins.
Many politicians say they typically learn of her initiatives — and vetoes — from news releases."
I'm sure in the coming weeks we'll all be asking the same thing..."Where's Sarah?"
That's because the media won't be able to talk with her, her friends, her fellow employees in the governor's office. They'll all be told to avoid talking with anyone the McCain people don't approve of.
All because she's afraid, and doesn't know her stuff...
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Lurch1 year, 2 months ago
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> Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Ms. Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, recalled the night the two women chatted about her ambitions.
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> “I said, ‘You know, Sarah, within 10 years you could be governor,’ ” Ms. Chase recalled. “She replied, ‘I want to be president.’ ”
Geez, Palin makes Hillary Clinton look humble and diminutive! This lady is arrogant on top of having no clue whatsoever how to run govt or the meaning of accountability.
She should scare the carp out of every american!-
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wtagg1 year, 2 months ago
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She believes she is carrying a sword of righteousness and that it is her destiny. Her success reinforces this belief. When something isn't the way she envisions it, she vigorously pursues it, like a crusader. This can be both a good and dangerous thing. She gets things done that she wants done. What she wants done may or may not be good for the citizenry.
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simonsez1 year, 2 months ago
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well Simon, I would say that someone who finances 'theocracy whacko' groups, even some of those with involvement in domestic terrorism, and who is associated with groups that advocate sending all american jews to palestine is pretty unamerican. Is that what you support?
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well simon, Palin is the candidate of the israel-first zioncons. Is that kind of treason what you want?
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Neoconservatives plan Project Sarah Palin to shape future American foreign policy
"neocons", whose standard bearer in government, VP Cheney, lost out in Washington power struggles to the more moderate defence secretary Robert Gates and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, last year are seeking to mould Mrs Palin to renew their influence.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/14/neoconse...
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PB1471 year, 2 months ago
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Klarissa you are not to bright. We were "supposed" to be in Afganistan. We were "supposed" to get Osama Bin Laden. Iraq was a Bush distraction. Now these Republicans will say that Obama is spending to much in Afghanistan if he is president. Their Hypocracy knows no ends.
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PB1471 year, 2 months ago
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Religious fundemental extremism is dangerous no matter what religion is supports. I don't see a difference between a Muslim Fundementalist and a Christian Fundementalist, they both want to burn books.
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Doen't this country have a separation of church and state? Anyone who says they are supported by God, raised up by God, or doing God's will are completely unfit for any position in Government. -
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