Sarah Palin has been touting herself as fiscal watchdog throughout her political career. But Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was characterized by waste, cronyism and incompetence, according to government officials in the Matanuska Valley, where she began her fairy-tale political rise.
"Executive abilities? She doesn't have any," said former Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney, who selected and groomed Palin for her first political race in 1992 and served with her after her election to the City Council.
Four years later, the ambitious Palin won the Wasilla mayor's office -- after scorching the "tax and spend mentality" of her incumbent opponent. But Carney, Palin's estranged former mentor, and others in city hall were astounded when they found out about a lavish expenditure of Palin's own after her 1996 election. According to Carney, the newly elected mayor spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office, without the council's authorization.
"I thought it was an outrageous expense, especially for someone who had run as a budget cutter," said Carney. "It was also illegal, because Sarah had not received the council's approval."
According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello."
Although Carney says he no longer has documentation of the expenditures, in his recollection Palin paid for the office face-lift with money from a city highway fund that was used to plow snow, grade roads and fill potholes -- essential municipal services, particularly in weather-battered Alaska.
Carney confronted Mayor Palin at a City Council hearing, and was shocked by her response.
"I braced her about it," he said. "I told her it was against the law to make such a large expenditure without the council taking a vote. She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'"
When I was breaking bread with my fellow Alaska bloggers on Sunday, I made the observation that Sarah Palin was essentially "George Bush with a vagina".
Even though the get together was predominantly female, nobody took any offence at my crude remark. As a matter of fact all of them seemed to concur with my observation.
But perhaps I was incorrect. I have always believed that George Bush was merely a simpleton who was easily shaped by the neo-cons into an instrument of destruction to move forward their plan for world domination. But the above article seems to demonstrate that Sarah Palin is much more then simply an empty vessel waiting to be filled with the kind of evil that allows somebody to lie about a war and send thousands to their unnecessary deaths.
No Sarah Palin, the Alaska Ice Queen, seems to have already invited the darkness into her soul years before having any inclination of what the Republican demonic forces had planned for her.
She charged rape victims for the rape kits that would assist in bringing their assailants to justice, she cut funding for the mentally ill, and now we learn she spent money that Alaskans desperately needed for snow removal to buy knick knacks for her office.
The woman is pure evil! And we must defeat her at all cost!
She's on the back nine and is all out of balls if you'll pardon a gold metaphor. I just did a little search of conservative anti-palin remarks and ended up having to edit quite a bit. The sine os off this apple and its worms are starting to show. check it out :
ReplyDeletehttp://justice4claire.blogspot.com/2008/09/see-what-her-own-people-are-saying.html
i apologize for self promo but it's good reading and 'splains where this thing is headed...
Hi from the other side of the planet! I am not too familiar with the US political system. But I wonder if there might be a "Plan B". All the McCain camp need to do, is to sit on the various Palin scandals until after the election. If they win, then they can let the scandals run wild, eventually forcing Palin to resign. Then McCain can propose Lieberman as VP - who he apparently wanted in the first place. I assume that this would have to be confirmed in Congress/Senate, but the Democrat majority would go along with an ex-Dem as VP (cf "West Wing"!), and the religious right could not veto this... Is this situation achievable? I find it interesting that many of the players managing the Palin scandals are Republicans, who McCain would know well (Stevens etc)...
ReplyDeleteSomewhat askance of the topic but it pertains to the McCain't/Palin crowd:
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McCandy is Dick Cheney with a vagina.
ReplyDeleteThis broad is a dangerous neocon and she can't be allowed anywhere near the White House or the halls of power.
She needs to stay home and care for her special needs baby (if Trig really is her child) and get the fuck off the national stage.
Cavitation, it doesn't really work that way here. McCain, as much as he hates it, cannot keep Palin's ever-increasing blunders, and fiascoes from hitting the press, thanks in large part to bloggers like Gryphen (the man who writes this blog).
ReplyDeleteMcCain is 72 and has had cancer 3 times already. He is on at least 10 different medications related to health problems that often affect our senior citizens here. Over a thousand dermatologist and other physicians (and growing) have so far signed a formal petition demanding release of the records, because the American people deserve to know if they he will be able to serve the full 4 years. If he even has to undergo treatment for his cancer again while in office, he will be incapacitated for an unspecified period of time while he recovers.
Palin, especially for someone with only 6 years in government, has committed a huge number of political misdeeds. There seem to be more revealed almost daily. And she seems to share many qualities with our current warlord, President Bush.
Americans do not want another George Bush. We want to know the whole truth about Palin before the election.
Sorry, when I wrote "records", I meant "McCain's medical records"
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