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Anti-Establishment Palin Gained Political Know-How Working on Stevens 527
The presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has made her albeit-short public service career on ending corruption and turning the Alaskan political establishment on its ear.
Palin has been vocal about not being more of the same in Alaskan poltics. "[Experience is] not what Alaska needed," Palin has said. "The state needed new blood in there. A candidate with new energy and new ideas."
But it looks like Palin got her experience working as a director at the 527 group from the oldest of Alaskan politicians, embattled Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK).
From the Washington Post:
Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.
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This is something the news media needs to know. How could John McCain have done a thorough vetting of the VP and not know this. There is so much that is coming out about Sarah Palin that I wonder what exactly happened to have her elected as VP. More importantly, why did he choose her.
September 1, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the best one yet. I mean this is getting ridiculous. At least we know why the campaign left the four year gap in her resume. She didn't run for Mayoral re-election in 2002, instead took a shot at the Lt. Governor job and was defeated. From there here resume was left blank until she won the Governorship in Nov 2006. So now we know in the interim from 2003-2006 she was director of Ted Stevens 527 group. And she said she was an anti-corruption reformer with a straight face?
And this does explain how a mayor of a town with less than 7000 people can take four years away from Politics and come back to win the Governorship. Dirty Ted Stevens pulled strings, got his machine behind her and returned the favor.
Sure she came out after the fact and encouraged Stevens to 'fess up. But that was after the fact, when the cat was already out of the bag with the FBI all over it. This woman lies so easily - look at troopergate, she flatly denies that anybody from her office pressured Monegan, and only after she learns there will be an investigation, does she launch her own and upon finding that there was evidence she pulls a 180 and admits that some from her office did contact and pressure Monegan.
September 1, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
More of the same Republican corruption . . . she's been trained by the best!
September 1, 2008 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey John M...nice vetting. very thorough. On to Russia!
September 1, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I expect she'll be announcing that she needs to "spend more time with her family" soon.
The episode makes it clear that John McCain promises another four years of shoot from the hip.
We don't need another cowboy.
September 1, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
He was reckless for offering her the job. She was equally reckless for accepting the offer. I think just a simple thank you and these reasons might have been acceptable reasons to decline:
1. Currently under investigation
2. A personal family matter that should not be played out in the media glare
3. Too much connection with indicted Senator Ted Stevens
September 1, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
She will take a quick graceful bow off the ticket, and with her all of the support Ronald McDonald gathered from the religious right with her selection. He will suffer finding anyone he did not offend when he passed over all those better qualified in the lower 48. This flaming train wreck will take a lot of press time.
I'm lovin it
September 1, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is priceless, she is a shill for the oil companies. And what did Stevens get the most angry about? When he didn't get the drilling in the Arctic refuge passed--he was a fuming. Besides Palin is disgusting to me the most for her advocacy of slaughtering wolves from airplanes-she is despicable.
September 2, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
From:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrusive-personal-questions-from-palin.html
Monday, September 01, 2008
"Intrusive Personal Questions" from the Palin Vetting Questionnaire
"Mr. McCain’s advisers said repeatedly on Monday that Ms. Palin was 'thoroughly vetted'"- The New York Times
Palin "responded to a 70-question form that included 'intrusive personal questions' a senior campaign aide said today."- The Washington Post
"Intrusive Personal Questions" from the Palin Vetting Questionnaire:
1) Did we forget anything?
2)Why are we choosing you if we discovered all of this?
3) Secession from your own country is
a) Patriotic
b) A qualification to be the potential leader of that country
c) Maverick-y!
d) None of the above
4) Did we forget anything?
5) Moose Burger : Abstinence as Moose Hunting :
a) Brother-in-law
b) 50 state flag
c) Bridge to Nowhere (after it was made impossible)
d) All of the above
6) Three Vice Presidential candidates are moving from three equidistant fixed points towards a podium. One, in his slightly glazed stare and awkwardly quasi-combative speech bears a faint resemblance to Dan Quayle; the next can only assist the ticket as we near closer to Rapture; the third seems to have stumbled out of one of Christopher Buckley's sharper efforts. Which one arrives at the podium first?
7) "Nothing that has come out did not come out in the vet." This sentence actually means:
a) Everything has come out and everything has been vetted
b) Everything that was vetted has come out
c) Everything that has come out was vetted
d) The vet came out and vetted the vets vetter than anything has ever been vetted. Really.
8) You are a right-wing, red-state conservative. During the Clinton Administration, you believed that President Clinton's behavior with Monica Lewinsky disqualified him from the Presidency on moral grounds; you fervently raised the terms "Lincoln Bedroom" and "Johnny Chung" to invoke notions of utter corruption, and regarded the "Travelgate" firings as an abuse of power. In the face of the recent revelations regarding Palin's directorship of Ted Stevens' 527, support of the Bridge to Nowhere, "Troopergate" imbroglio, and illegitimate pregnancy of her 16 year old daughter, you:
a) Blame George Soros
b) Talk about Bill Clinton instead of Palin
c) Hold your hands over your ears and loudly shout "La la la"
d) Try to change the subject
9) "Foreign policy experience" includes:
a) Being near another large nation
b) Seceding from your own country and then taking up residence in the new nation
c) Being close to "Nowhere" in your support for the Bridge to Nowhere, which is different than being "Somewhere"
d) Blame George Soros
10) If you were seeking to choose as your running mate someone who would please Evangelical Conservatives with very traditional values, who would be without taint of corruption or misuse of government power, and someone who, in line with your campaign's own slogan, would put "Country First", after thorough vetting and "intrusive personal questions", you would choose someone who:
a) Supported the Bridge to Nowhere
b) Supported the secession of Alaska from the U.S. (Slogan: "Alaska First!")
c) Was the subject of a state ethics investigation due to allegations that she had tried to have her brother-in-law fired and that she fired the state public safety commissioner due to his unwillingness to fire the brother-in-law
d) Would suffer from allegations that her 16 year old child had become pregnant illegitimately, despite her fervent support for abstinence only sex education
e) None of the above
Cite:
Head of State:
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/intrusive-personal-questions-from-palin.html
September 2, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think yall are engaged in an outbreak of wishful thinking if you believe she's gonna withdraw from the ticket. It's nice to imagine it, but really, that's all it is.
September 2, 2008 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
This gets better by the hour: Sullivan has a link to someone saying that she tried to fire the Wasilla librarian because the librarian refused to remove certain books from the library...
September 2, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink