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I keep hearing that she was for the bridge to nowhere and that she procured 23 million for her town of 5,000 by hiring a lobbyist tied to Stevens...
I keep hearing both of these statements but noone fleshes out the truth on this... nor are those making the comments corrected...
while Mayor of Wasilla, Palin oversaw the hiring of a lobbyist, Steven Silver a former chief of staff to now-indicted GOP senator Ted Stevens -- to help win federal earmarks for the city.
Yes.
Acting as a very small town Mayor she was quite the little K-Street networker.
But wait, there's more...
A town of 6.700 has a K-Street heavyweight on the payroll? Apparently Sarah (Earmarks the Spot) Palin did.
Unlike most of the farfetched complaints fielded about McCain or Palin, this connections to Abramoff really is significant.
This lady is McCain's selection for VP
A up and coming Republican insider, she has obviously mastered lobbying 101, and she has the sense to employ the likes of Silver, a former associate of the notorious insider the beltway corrupt lobbyist, Jack Abramoff to do the deed for her, too?
And she's a reformer?! This woman has more clouds hanging over her head than Dixie does at the moment.
This begs the question: did McCain's VP-select group bother with a vetting process, or what?
Yes.
Acting as a very small town Mayor she was quite the little K-Street networker.
But wait, there's more...
A town of 6.700 has a K-Street heavyweight on the payroll? Apparently Sarah (Earmarks the Spot) Palin did.
Unlike most of the farfetched complaints fielded about McCain or Palin, this connections to Abramoff really is significant.
This lady is McCain's selection for VP
A up and coming Republican insider, she has obviously mastered lobbying 101, and she has the sense to employ the likes of Silver, a former associate of the notorious insider the beltway corrupt lobbyist, Jack Abramoff to do the deed for her, too?
And she's a reformer?! This woman has more clouds hanging over her head than Dixie does at the moment.
This begs the question: did McCain's VP-select group bother with a vetting process, or what?
There was a good run down of it on NPR yesterday. Pretty ironic for someone that claims to be for reform and against pork, but keep in mind she is a Republican.I keep hearing that she was for the bridge to nowhere and that she procured 23 million for her town of 5,000 by hiring a lobbyist tied to Stevens...
I keep hearing both of these statements but noone fleshes out the truth on this... nor are those making the comments corrected...
shes a piker next to ObamaThere was a good run down of it on NPR yesterday. Pretty ironic for someone that claims to be for reform and against pork, but keep in mind she is a Republican.
and remember, shes not the top spotshes a piker next to Obama
shes a piker next to Obama
Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a fiscal conservative. During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%.
This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002). She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food. The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents. The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration werent enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million.
She can make the claim about being against the bridge to nowhere, because she was.
That was after she was for it.
She also:
Now, the conservative base may have every reason to be excited by her. She's pretty, she's strong, she has a big family. She is someone they instinctively relate to. I have felt that way about the odd politician now and then.
But, her record does not look to me to be a good match for what she runs on during campaigns.
I admired McCain for a lot of reasons, and he is still an honorable formidable candidate for president, but this choice was terribly disppointing. There were lots of wonderful republican women he could have chosen that would not have alienated the middle and the fiscal conservatives.
No substance to those clouds. They're as full of air as the people spinning and repeating them.
Really.. 47million... I seriously dont have a problem with that.. pork is what you send your people to congress to get.. you get pork for roads, bridges, infrastructure, research or to bring in foreign firms and whatnot...the money went to build roads and things of that nature, nothing she should be ashame of
exactlythe money went to build roads and things of that nature, nothing she should be ashame of
