[Vision2020] On Sarah Palin

[Tom Hansen]

As proud as I am to see a UI alum advance her career, Sarah Palin, outside 
of two years as Governor of Alaska and two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska, 
City Council, has not held any other elected position.

Now, what was McCain saying about Obama?

Sarah Palin's political experience as reflected in Wikipedia at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

"Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996. In 
1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending 
and high taxes. The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall 
campaign, but failed. Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own 
salary, as well as reducing property taxes by 60%. She ran for reelection 
against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin. Palin 
was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.

In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in 
second to Loren Leman in a four-way race. After Frank Murkowski resigned 
from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin 
interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his 
daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.

Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil 
and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004 until 
resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow 
Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of 
legal violations and conflicts of interest. After she resigned, she 
exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her 
fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the 
party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail. 
Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska 
Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record 
$12,000 fine."

It should be noted, owever, that Sarah Palin is responsibile for exposing 
(and subsequently cleaning up) poliotical corruption of Alaskan politics, 
which begs the question now that McCain has selected her as his VP 
runniing mate . . .

HUH?

Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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