Palin And The Saloon Interest

[Orange_Juice]

Standng up to the special interests?

HA HA, Change we can believe in! Mother's Against Drunk Driving will not be pleased.

*DAMM, will be please

Sarah Palin's opposition to bar crackdown surprised some -- chicagotribune.com

In her debate with Democratic counterpart Joe Biden Thursday, Palin spoke forcefully of the need to export the reality of "Wasilla Main Street" to Washington. But one of the realities to this day is that Wasilla remains a town with near round-the-clock bars and a serious drunken-driving problem.

The bar flap represents a pivotal interlude in the political development of Palin, who sided with local saloon keepers and cast the deciding vote against a measure to reset pub closing times to 2:30 a.m. weekdays and 3 a.m. weekends. Tavern owners then rallied around Palin's successful challenge to Wasilla's longtime mayor, with campaign records showing that two of them alone provided 15 percent of the campaign cash she took in from supporters.

Within months of taking office, Palin fired veteran Wasilla Police Chief Irl Stambaugh, the author of the bar hour reduction plan.

Palin "voted with the majority on an issue that ultimately would have negatively impacted the local economy," a representative for the vice presidential candidate said in explaining Palin's vote.

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Yet Stambaugh argued that drunken-driving arrests were "exceptionally large" for such a small place—averaging more than one every other day in 1994. He backed up those statistics with more numbers showing half those nabbed were caught between 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. and most had blood alcohol levels at least double the legal limit, which at the time was more generous than in Illinois and other states.

The chief's submission included letters from social service agencies, Straatmeyer's ministerial alliances and the local district attorney. Some argued that Wasilla had become a magnet for problem drinkers from Anchorage an hour to the south where bars closed earlier.

*Drunks Against Mad Mothers

 

[Missourian]

For crap sake....

 

[Chris]

Palin was pro drunk and pro rape in Wasilla.

Maybe that explains Bristol....

 

[DiamondDave]

Palin was pro drunk and pro rape in Wasilla.

Maybe that explains Bristol....

As if you did not seem like an idiot before.... you just continue to keep topping yourself

 

[Chris]

As if you did not seem like an idiot before.... you just continue to keep topping yourself

Fuck you, asshole.