Palin Lies
This was written by a fellow Daily Gotham writer:
While Mayor of Wasilla:
The budget grew by 40% in 7 years -- after adjusting for inflation.
She raised taxes to build a stadium. When she became mayor, the city had no long-term debt; she left behind $19 million in debt.
She hired a lobbyist to bring in federal earmarks -- that lobbyist, Steven Silver, was a former chief of staff to Ted Stevens.
Among pork that McCain has found "objectionable": A 2001 earmark of $500,000 for a public transportation project in Wasilla; $450,000 for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla in 2002; In 2002, $1 million for an "emergency communications center" in Wasilla that local law enforcement said was redundant and confusing.
As Governor:
She supported the bridge to nowhere before she opposed it. Her support came while running for governor. There are actually two bridges to nowhere; she still supports one of them (the Knik Arm bridge).
Her "ethics reform" package would be laughed off the map in most of the country -- for example, campaign contributions uner $1,000 don't have to be reported.
She appointed Marty Rutherford, a former TransCanada (oil & gas co.) lobbyist, to run her gas pipeline project.
That ethics reform bill? It came because to Veco (an oil co.) executives were convicted of bribing lawmakers. Guess where she got a lot of campaign funding when running for Lt. Governor -- yup, Veco.
Since becoming governor, in just two years, Palin has asked for $589 million in federal pork. In July, the state legislature voted unanimously to fund an investigation into the abuse of power regarding her firing of the Public Safety Commissioner because he wouldn't fire her former brother-in-law.
She is in bed with Big Oil -- when running for governor in 2006, she took $13,000 from oil industry lobbyists (that's a lot in Alaska).
She has vetoed $20 million spending projects for wind energy -- twice.
Yeah -- she a politician all right.
While Mayor of Wasilla:
The budget grew by 40% in 7 years -- after adjusting for inflation.
She raised taxes to build a stadium. When she became mayor, the city had no long-term debt; she left behind $19 million in debt.
She hired a lobbyist to bring in federal earmarks -- that lobbyist, Steven Silver, was a former chief of staff to Ted Stevens.
Among pork that McCain has found "objectionable": A 2001 earmark of $500,000 for a public transportation project in Wasilla; $450,000 for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla in 2002; In 2002, $1 million for an "emergency communications center" in Wasilla that local law enforcement said was redundant and confusing.
As Governor:
She supported the bridge to nowhere before she opposed it. Her support came while running for governor. There are actually two bridges to nowhere; she still supports one of them (the Knik Arm bridge).
Her "ethics reform" package would be laughed off the map in most of the country -- for example, campaign contributions uner $1,000 don't have to be reported.
She appointed Marty Rutherford, a former TransCanada (oil & gas co.) lobbyist, to run her gas pipeline project.
That ethics reform bill? It came because to Veco (an oil co.) executives were convicted of bribing lawmakers. Guess where she got a lot of campaign funding when running for Lt. Governor -- yup, Veco.
Since becoming governor, in just two years, Palin has asked for $589 million in federal pork. In July, the state legislature voted unanimously to fund an investigation into the abuse of power regarding her firing of the Public Safety Commissioner because he wouldn't fire her former brother-in-law.
She is in bed with Big Oil -- when running for governor in 2006, she took $13,000 from oil industry lobbyists (that's a lot in Alaska).
She has vetoed $20 million spending projects for wind energy -- twice.
Yeah -- she a politician all right.
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