Sarah Palin: Fiscal Conservative?

On the heels of the final, historic 2008 presidential debate, the Wasilla Project releases Part 3 of our series, where we examine Palin's record as a fiscal conservative. Clearly, the economy has emerged as the dominant issue of the 2008 presidential campaign and we hope that this video will be a useful contribution in understanding some of the history of Palins public service in Alaska.

After 8 years of a Republican White House, there still seems to be a reality distortion field around the concept of Fiscal Conservative. Governor Palin presents herself as a fiscal conservative who has a record of helping taxpayers in her state. The reality has often been quite different.

Its surprising that someone who came into office as mayor to cut wasteful spending and lower property taxes, actually left office with Wasilla over $20 million in debt, when records show that she entered office with city debt at one million or less.

Some $14-15 million of that debt was due to a hockey rink she built while in office, land for which Wasilla negotiated the purchase for $145,000. They eventually paid out nearly $1.5 million for the land, not counting legal fees, due to Palin moving forward on the project before the city had clear title to the land. This echoes in significant ways Palins later negotiations as governor on the Alaskan pipeline, where she committed $500 million in taxpayer money, without assurances that a Canadian company would even build the pipeline.

As the economy worsens in the United States, markets around the world are crashing and people are losing their homes and pensions, its irresponsible not to question the economic positions and records of the candidates. In the case of Palin, her record has been extremely troubling and reflects part of the reason that she has lost credibility with so many Alaskans in recent weeks.

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[beanchar]

Alaska, you have my sympathies. It's a shame that this worthless woman will be your governor for two more years.

I recommend you start a recall effort on November 5th, right after she and John McShame are defeated.

[NotSoOldHippy]

She's a violently insane Creationist cultist. She hates America for our rights, freedoms, and liberties, with the insane criminal trying to ban books. She steals money from the tax payers and tells them go to fuck themselves. She is PERFECT for the Republinazi terrorist Party that has committed war crime atrocities and treason against the world and agtainst us. Her religious occultism drives her insanity, her crimes, and her treason.

[snorp73]

It's a little humoring after all this, the guy at the end concludes that if McCain/Palin would have won, he feared we'd end up in worse shape than we were then.

Amazingly, we are 20 times worse than we were then. But Sarah Palin didn't do it my friends, Barack Obama did.

[ryukXsayu27]

When I went to Alaska, I remember that the tour guides were all anti-Obama, extremely anti-Clinton, right-wing conservatives and they DEPLORED Sarah Palin.

[dodadagohuhsgi]

She'd make a fairly good cocktail waitress.--Tom Reilly

[daardvark]

Nice vocabulary

[megaswenson]

That was my reaction, tbmagis. Surely, more than 35,000 people saw this.

[tbmagis]

Think about the millions of people (everyone) that should spend 5 minutes learning about what went down... then sadly see it has 35,000 hits. :/

[hotnuke]

How anyone could watch these four videos and STILL support that lying, lowlife, Right-Wing, Neo-Fascist Cunt is beyond me.

Sarah Palin is like the fucking POSTER CHILD for what a political candidate should NOT be. It's a fucking joke that the Repuglican Party even thought they could pass her off as a legitimate candidate.

I just hope to fucking god they are stupid enough to throw her up there as their candidate in 2012. It'll be a slaughter of EPIC proportions...lol

[qwertisdirty]

isn't that what bush said about his presidency? he said he could do what he wanted, real change mccain, real great change

[rileymayhem20]

call me when you come up with something that relevant

[hplover09]

Well, this is America and you're allowed to have your own opinion and I'm allowed to have mine.