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I like how she is touted as not being politics as usual....
but as soon as she becomes Mayor of Wasilla, she asks about banning books and she fires or makes anyone resign that worked for the former mayor she
ran against...
Once in office, Ms. Palin asked many of Mr. Stein’s backers to resign — something virtually unheard of in Wasilla in past elections. The
public works director, city planner, museum director and others were forced out. The police chief, Irl Stambaugh, was later fired outright.
Those museum directors are a real political threat ya know.
And Stambaugh was the person who helped her get into politics to begin with, when they cooperated on getting the police department together for
Wasilla, that he ended up being police chief of.
Seems like she won't let anybody get in her way.
Mr. Stambaugh lost a wrongful termination lawsuit against Ms. Palin. He did not respond to a request for an interview.
Town of 5,000k and she already had a suit brought against her.
Doesn't make troopergate seem so innocent and coincidental.
Ms. Palin also upended the town’s traditional ways with a surprise edict: No employee was to talk to the news media without her
permission.
There we go, Can't just censor the the library books.
Ms. Palin, her critics note, was not always the fiscal watchdog she has since boasted of being. In her second term as mayor, she pushed for a
half-cent raise in the local sales tax to pay for a $15 million sports complex. The complex is popular and a junior league hockey team plays there
now, but the city recently had to pay more than $1.3 million to settle an ownership dispute over the site
I am sure that a town of now 10k can afford 1.3 million.
Just as Ms. Palin terminated employees on her way into office, she also let some go on the way out, including Mr. Cramer. When Ms. Palin completed
her second and final term, in 2002, her stepmother-in-law, Faye Palin, was running to succeed her. It seemed like a good idea, except that Faye Palin
supported abortion rights and was registered as unaffiliated, not Republican, people who remember the race said. Sarah Palin sided instead with Dianne
M. Keller, a religious conservative and an ally on the City Council. Ms. Keller won.
Can't let our religious issues stand in the way of family.
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What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys as you go out throughout Alaska -- I can do my part in doing things like working really, really
hard to get a natural gas pipeline." Palin said. "Pray about that also. I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get
that gas line built, so pray for that. But I can do my job there, in developing our natural resources, and doing things like getting the roads paved,
making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded.But really, all of that
stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's hearts isn't right with God. And that's going to be your job," she said. "As I'm doing my
job, let's strike this deal. Your job is going to be: to be out there, reaching the people, (the) hurting people throughout Alaska, and we can work
together to make sure God's will be done here."
Since she took state office in late 2006, the governor and her family have spent more than $13,000 in taxpayer funds to attend at least 10
religious events and meetings with Christian pastors, including Franklin Graham, the son of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, records show.
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After that, Kalnins, standing next to Palin, says that Alaska is “one of the refuge states,” where thousands of people from the rest of the
U.S. will go in “in the last days,” a reference to end times and Armageddon. He says they have to be ready to minister to people from the “lower
48” who flee to Alaska:
Here is one for anyone who questions Obama's former church pastor:
Pastor of Palin's church said people who criticized Bush would go to hell, and that Jesus was in ‘war mode‘ and favored going to war in
Iraq
Palin “has maintained a friendship with Wasilla Assembly of God and has attended various conferences and special meetings here,” Kalnins’
office said in a statement reported by the Post.
It was so cool growing up in this church and getting saved here,‘’ Palin told the church audience in June, praising "the umbrella of this
church… God has sent me from underneath the umbrella of this church throughout this state.’’
Kalnins has preached that the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq are part of a “world war” over the Christian faith:
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So did God tell Palin to step down?
Yea, that isn't scarey.
