Sarah Palin Charged Taxpayers $13K to Attend Church - More Abuse of Power »
Posted By sisterstalk 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political NewsSince she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10 religious events and meetings with Christian pastors, including Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, records show.
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acidtongue2x4-468 months, 3 weeks ago
She'll be getting a check for that last kid she had also. Trigg, huh? That's one math class he won't have to worry about taking.
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Mustangman558 months, 3 weeks ago
I fail to see anything too sinister in Sarah Palin's charging the government for these trips. There may be missing information. Did she go to church in conjunction with a legitimate business trip? Meeting Franklin Graham and other religious people of his standing may be very beneficial for Alaska. Franklin Graham and Samaritan's Purse and other Christian ministries do great work with disadvantaged people. Would you object if she was meeting with Jesse Jackson? How about the Reverend Al Sharpton? They are Christian leaders and I am sure that the govenment officials who meet with them charge the taxpayers for their expenses.
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As far as I can tell, Sarah Palin's relationships are above board. She does not seem to spend a lot of time with the likes of Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, or William Ayers.
AcidTongue2X4-46, I think you are really insensitive considering the fact that Trigg has Downs Syndrome. He is not likely to be taking trigonometry. From the content of your post, I would deduce that you are not exactly the caliber of Einstein yourself. -
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hyperbola8 months, 3 weeks ago
This abuse of public funds is right in line with Palin's extremist anti-americanism.
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Sarah Palin used AK tax dollars to fund dominionist churches
Over the past few days, I've done reporting on Sarah Palin's extensive dominionist connections--including the attempt to run her as a "stealth" dominionist candidate and her connections to some scary dominionist groups including not just "Joel's Army" folks but a far-right Christian Reconstructionist political party linked to domestic terrorism.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/06/sarah-pa...
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Tcaros8 months, 3 weeks ago
"Since she was named as John McCain's running mate, Palin's deep faith and support for traditional moral values have rallied conservative voters who initially appeared reluctant to back his campaign."
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After reading this story it's become evident that the "extreme right wing" would like to co-mingle religion with government office.
I thought this violated the "separation of church and state." Talking about values differs from actually going to events and using them for public funding.
The reason we separate govenment office from personal religion is simple: you are free to believe what you want, but should not force your beliefs on others.-
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MajJohn8 months, 3 weeks ago
If anyone had bothered to research this post they'd have found her meetings were secular in nature to fulfill her duties as governor and explore faith based initiatives. I thought it amusing that the author began by saying she JUST discovered this when it's been out there for a long time and has been investigated by the good ol' boys she ran out of office. This is another weak attempt to try to ruin her reputation, a typical ploy by the leftists. God, help us, if she's elected we'll go through 4 more years of partisan back biting.
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most_reasonable8 months, 3 weeks ago
PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin i qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes. The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by
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mainstream media. It can influence undecided voters
in swing states.
Please do two things -- takes 20 seconds.
1) Click on link and vote yourself
Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
2) Then send this to every single Obama-Biden voter
you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.
The LAST thing we need is PBS saying their viewers
think Sarah Palin is qualified.
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miklkit8 months, 3 weeks ago
Palin also is one of just two governors who channeled federal money to support religious groups through a state agency, Alaska's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Palin has made it a priority to unite faith communities, local nonprofits and government to serve the needy, bringing her high marks — and $500,000 — from the Bush administration.
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I got this from a link in the story to another story.
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StillUnashamed8 months, 3 weeks ago
Documentation would have been nice. I mean, If Palin believes in tithing and she voluntarily donated 10% of her earinings to her church, (or any amount) one could technically say that she diverted tax-payers' money to a religious organization, never mind the fact that once she received the salary, it was no longer tax-payer's money but her own.
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FTA- I didn't know government officials could make taxpayers pay for their attendance at religious events. That seems like a blatant violation of the separation of church and state.
Maybe she should ask the experts like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the mega-expert Bill Clinton who as president often visited black churches at taxpayer expense.
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chevydog8 months, 3 weeks ago
This all gets silly after a while. The lady is a not-terribly experienced governor who happens to hold religious beliefs that some others don't like. If one doesn't like her, fine. That's anyone's privelege. But stories of this general ilk, which verge on paranoia, tend to make Rush Limbaugh sound like Little Miss Sunshine.
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IMHO, most Representitives, Senators, Governors are pretty honest. But one of these by every rule, interpretation, etc. simply doesn't exist.-
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ETproductions8 months, 3 weeks ago
Here's an AP story on this. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PALIN_CHURC...
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What's truly terrifying is what would become of this country should McCain win then be unable to serve out his term. We'd have a President who doesn't bother to read and firmly believes Noah took Dinosaurs on the ark with him. -
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saurabharya8 months, 3 weeks ago
her actions are evident she want the post at any cost..........whether its by charging the people
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hefaa18 months, 3 weeks ago
Those witch doctors Palin sends for are expensive. However, to his credit, he did make a house call.
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most_reasonable8 months, 3 weeks ago
Will Sarah be trick or treating as a witch, or go with her standard Wh*re of Babylon?
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"The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: ‘Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth’s abominations.’ "
http://www.catholic.com/library/*****_of_babylon.a...
Throw in square glasses and you have her in the flesh.
Do the Right wing zealots know who their new profit is?-
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most_reasonable8 months, 3 weeks ago
That should be prophet. The profit is in the Oil revenues.
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