[Vision2020] On Sarah Palin

[Love America]

Adding Sarah will neutralize the experience argument which is a dumb
argument anyway because only a first term president running for a second
term can claim experience and that sure as to heck did not qualify Bush...

Character is what is important.  All those folks who waived aside Bush's
youthful and adult problems with alcohol and drug abuse were fools.

Sarah is a reformer and has done a lot for this state (including vetoing a
bill that would have banned same sex partners from receiving state
benefits).  She pulled Exxon's permits for Point Thompson, find me among
Biden, Obama, or McCain one instance where they stood up to Exxon, only
Sarah has.   She is working hard to impliment alternative energy projects
and baceked with with a $200 million state program to do so.  She is working
hard to adjust Alaska to the realities of climate change.  I have on my desk
a comprehensive Greenhouse gas emissions study for the Fairbanks area (and
far more detailed than the crap I have seen publised by the EPA).

She is a tough fighter, young, yes.  Inexperienced at national politics,
yep.  But passionate about America and the future..you bet you.  I must
admit that I am finally excited about this campaign.
Chris

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> 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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