tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41039123656460145752008-10-30T20:42:16.182-07:00Keep your eye on Sarah Palin! Half barracuda, half pitbull wearing lipstick, she's a tough talker with a hot body to match! But what about all those skeletons in her closet? Is she ready to be the President if McCain kicks the bucket?Leigh Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12267995700088997942leighann@kcweblinks.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4103912365646014575.post-44220254019319590842008-10-30T20:40:00.000-07:002008-10-30T20:42:16.194-07:00

This year in Alaska every man, woman, and child received a check for $3,269 from the state of Alaska. Governor Sarah Palin levied a high tax on the oil companies doing business there and distributed the money to every single one of the state's residents. This is what she said: "We can afford to share resource wealth with Alaskans and to temporarily suspend the state fuel tax." She also said, "

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AP INVESTIGATION: Palin Pipeline Terms Curbed Bids Source Excerpt: Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows. The leader of Palin's pipeline team had

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She's decided to go off-script and just speak to peoples' hearts about the important issues

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Palin's Makeup Artist Paid $22,800 for Two Weeks' Work NY Times Excerpt: Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain's presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain's chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member. It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by

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Palin charged state for children's travel, later amended expense reports Chicago Tribune Excerpt: Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin

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Republicans Spend $150,000 on Palin Family's Clothes Los Angeles Times Excerpt: Seems the RNC coughed up a whopping $150,000 to outfit/accessorize Palin and her family for the campaign trail. The tally included included a $75,062.63 visit to Neiman Marcus and two Saks Fifth Avenue pit shops totaling $49,425.74, according to Jeanne Cummings at Politico. That's a lot more than the $1,874 spent

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Palin Thinks Vice President is "In Charge of the United States Senate" Boston Globe Excerpt: An interviewer for KUSA-TV in Denver asked, "Brandon Garcia wants to know, 'What does the vice president do?"' Palin replied, "That's a great question, Brandon, and a vice president has a really great job, because not only are they there to support the president's agenda, they're like the team member,

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Probe Finds Palin Abused Power in Case of Trooper Washington Post Excerpt: An Alaska state legislative investigator found yesterday that Gov. Sarah Palin abused executive power when she and her husband engaged in a campaign to oust her former brother-in-law from the state police force. The 263-page report released in Anchorage also found that while Palin was well within her right to fire

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Palin stretches truth in campaign speeches (actual headline) AP via the San Jose Mercury News Excerpt: Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tells audiences the election is about the "truthfulness and judgment" needed to be president. But the Alaska governor often stretches the truth herself. She has exaggerated the nature of Barack Obama's personal ties to a former 1960s radical

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Join a Pinocchio Posse. From Pinnochio Politics.org: In the last few weeks John McCain and Sarah Palin have launched a barrage of negative attacks that many in the media flagged as gross distortions or outright lies. "Pinocchio Posses" are showing up at McCain-Palin events, leading "Lie-Ins," wearing pinocchio noses, and reciting the litany of McCain-Palin lies. Start your own now.They have

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Palin's Office Will Release Potentially Damaging Emails - For A Price The Public Record Excerpt: The office of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has told a state public employee union that if it wants to gain access to previously undisclosed emails from the Palin's office they’re going to have to pony up some serious cash. Palin's office wants $88,000 to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request

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Palins' Assets Are Worth Up to $2.1 Million Washington Post Excerpt: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, have assets worth up to $2.1 million, and they paid $24,738 in 2007 income taxes on total income of $166,495, which came from her salary as governor of Alaska and money he earned as an oil worker, fisherman and snowmachine racer, documents released by her

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Oil-Funded Research in Palin's Campaign against Protection for Polar Bear Guardian (UK) Excerpt: The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endangered species, the Guardian can disclose.

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AP Investitgation: Palin Got Zoning Aid, Gifts Associated Press Excerpt: Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the

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The Truth About Sarah Palin Rolling Stone "Sarah Palin's credentials as a "reformer" are nothing but spin. She has sided with Big Oil, lobbied to increase pork spending and abused her public power to carry out personal vendettas. Here's a guide to separating myth from fact. " Click Here for the Slide Show

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Why Won't Sarah Palin Release her Financial Information? Palin wins delay for financial disclosure Anchorage Daily News Excerpt: Sarah Palin requested and received an extension of the deadline for revealing her personal finances, until the day after her debate with Democrat Joe Biden. The Republican vice-presidential candidate received a four-day extension today from the Federal Election

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Sarah Palin Forced to Defend her Foreign Policy Credentials

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Palin Media Blackout Continues Fox News Excerpt: It has been widely reported that Sarah Palin has yet to give a news conference or even answer a few questions from the traveling press that follow her from city to city on her plane. But, today the Palin camp went to new lengths to control the media, which is covering the GOP Vice-Presidential nominee. It was decided by the campaign that today

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Palin's town charged women for rape exams CNN Excerpt: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000. Former state Rep. Eric Croft, a Democrat, sponsored a state law requiring cities to provide the examinations free of charge to victims. He said the only ongoing

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"McCain's Top Energy Expert In U.S. Babels Incoherently" That's the title of the video at YouTube. Judge for yourself.

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Todd Palin Refuses to Testify in Abuse of Power Probe USA Today Excerpt: The husband of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will ignore a subpoena and refuse to testify tomorrow in an abuse-of-power investigation into his wife, the Republican candidate for vice president. Todd Palin had been subpoenaed to appear before Alaska lawmakers to testify about whether Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan was

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Are YOU ready for Armageddon? Sarah Palin's Alaska is. Judge not lest ye be judged, but this is something all voters should see, and learn about the witch-hunting pastor she is talking about, Bishop Thomas Muthee. As the person who posted this clip commented, "Is this the kind of person we really want with her finger on the big red button?": She's talking about Bishop Thomas Munthee, a witch

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Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million Wall Street Journal Excerpt: Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects

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Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes New York Times Excerpt: ...So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency. Ms.

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Did Palin Really Go to Iraq or Ireland? Fox News Excerpt: In response to a Boston Globe article today, the Palin camp has been forced to clarify exactly where Sarah Palin traveled in her July 2007 trip to the Middle East to visit Alaskan National Guard troops Previously the campaign said she had traveled to Iraq to visit Alaskan soldiers, but the Globe reported today that it was just a border

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