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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837918,00.html
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/030805/sta_20050308002.shtml
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2008/09/sarah-palin-ban.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/sarah-palins-churches-and_b_124611...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/4/14299/35653/215/586596
Four years later, she took on her former workout buddy in a race that quickly became contentious. In Stein's view, Palin's main transgression was injecting big-time politics into a small-town local race. "It was always a nonpartisan job," he says. "But with her, the state GOP came in and started affecting the race." While Palin often describes that race as having been a fight against the old boys' club, Stein says she made sure the campaign hinged on issues like gun owners' rights and her opposition to abortion (Stein is pro-choice). "It got to the extent that — I don't remember who it was now — but some national antiabortion outfit sent little pink cards to voters in Wasilla endorsing her," he says.Governing was no less contentious than campaigning, at least to begin with. Palin ended up dismissing almost all the city department heads who had been loyal to Stein, including a few who had been instrumental in getting her into politics to begin with. Some saw it as a betrayal. Stambaugh, the police chief and a member of Palin's step-aerobics class, filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, alleging that Palin terminated him in part at the behest of the National Rifle Association, because he had opposed a concealed-gun law that the NRA supported. He eventually lost the suit. The animosity spawned some talk of a recall attempt, but eventually Palin's opponents in the city council opted for a more conciliatory route. At some point in those fractious first days, Palin told the department heads they needed her permission to talk to reporters. "She put a gag order on those people, something that you'd expect to find in the big city, not here," says Naegele. "She flew in there like a big-city gal, which she's not. It was a strange time, and [the Frontiersman] came out very harshly against her."
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
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The real heroes are the librarians and others who care about truth and freedom who stand in the way of the theocrats who want to start a new Dark Age.
TheNewRenaissance 1 year ago
You are absolutely right!
haostrom 1 year ago
she's not an isult to women, she's an insult to humanity.
cadonus 1 year ago
LOL!! That's for sure.
haostrom 1 year ago