Someone noted that Ms. Palin ought to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer - Pontius Pilate was a governor...j

The Underground Railroad

She took a town with $0 debt in 1996 and left it $22 million in the hole in 2002, mostly from the hockey rink/sports complex she shoved down their throats which never became the money generator she promised it would. Another white elephant from another white elephant.

Even with the stable Clinton economy during most of her mayoral tenure and Jack Abramoff's crony she hired to lobby Washington to help her now indicted buddy Ted Stevens ring up $27 million in federal pork for tiny Wasilla (pop. 5000 when she entered office) she still managed to leave the town swimming in debt. Three of her pork projects even made McCain's own wasteful spending list.

The following organization is the offshoot of President Reagan's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control started in 1984, also known as the Grace Commission. Definitely not a Dem friendly group. Check out that per capita pork. Alaska is America's welfare queen state.

Citizens Against Government Waste
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homePage

Rank    State      Pork   Population  Pork/Capita

2000 1 Alaska $394,514,000   619,500   636.83
2001 1 Alaska $480,297,000   626,932   766.11
2002 1 Alaska $451,334,278   634,892   710.88
2003 1 Alaska $393,346,750   643,786   610.99  
2004 1 Alaska $524,329,000   648,818   808.13
2005 1 Alaska $645,502,000   655,435   984.85
2006 1 Alaska $325,106,000   663,661   489.87
2007          not listed
2008 1 Alaska $379,699,715    683,478  555.54

As governor she is borrowing from Alaska's future while she wants to blow today's Alaskan windfall oil tax bonanza and the huge surpluses they've generated on bread and circuses tax giveaways.

Alaska gets 89% of it's operating budget from taxing oil coming out of the ground just like Arab kingdoms and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. They have no state income or sales tax up there. Instead of using that windfall to pay for all the profligate spending her Republican legislature keeps sending her she's issuing bonds to pay for it which Alaskans and US taxpayers will have to pay off in future years while she takes credit for tax "rebates" while she's governor.

Her fiscal policy is a disaster in the making which won't hit til she's left the governor's office. She'd be a disaster as Vice President especially to a President who despite his grevious wounds and type A personality is already past the age his father and grandfather died of sudden heart attacks.

She can put on all the lipstick she wants but her political record is for the dogs.

A phone number search for a number I got out of archives sent me to this dKos Diary by Ash Meerstrand... It appears he had the same lead I was on. The phone number:

The claim that the AIP held meetings in the town where Palin was mayor while her husband was a member can easily be confirmed using Internet Archive. Meeting information from that time (the first set is from 1998, the other 2000):

Wasilla ,Alaska

Country Kitchen Restaraunt,

411 W. Parks Highway, Wasilla

Tuesdays at 7:00 PM

Wasilla, Alaska

Nobody's Inn Restaraunt,

W. Parks Highway, Wasilla

Tuesdays at 7:00 PM

Call 376-8285

It's only 8pm in Wasilla, Alaska. Is it too late to investigate? Wasilla has only about 9,000 people, and about 5,500 people lived there in the year 2000, so maybe there could be someone there that would know if Todd or Sarah ever showed up.

Check out the other place I found it:
   

Web Alaska
    Wasilla
    376-8285
    mailto:web-ak@ak.net
   

I edited out the "image source" and formatting crap so you could see the plain email addy for the "same phone" number contact. I was unable to find another reference on a quick google of that eMail BUT I did on a search of "web-ak". Info on website addy for this site

Excerpted from the website description:

    Alaskan owned and operated, Web Alaska offers web services for Alaskans and outsiders alike. Compu Doc offers computer repair and services thoughout South Central Alaska.

edit Languages

English
edit Address

    2140 Wolverine Cir
    Wasilla AK 95654 US

edit Contact

    Mark Chryson
    +1 907 376 8285

Forget the phone number This from a Google search for "Chryson" and "Palin":

The following is a first hand account of a gentleman who has a story to tell about his experiences with Sarah Palin.  I am granting him this venue to say  what he has to say because firstly, it gives us another non-press view of a soon-to-be mainstream name, and secondly, the person giving this account is a Geek with Guns (and used to host this website for me when I needed his help).

"I just wanted to let you know ... Sarah Palin who McCain just picked as the next vice president is one of the most honest people I have known. I have known her for over 15 years, been in her house and have had numerous conversations with her, in person, on the phone both for personal issues as well as political issues.

"She is an excellent choice and this might have even saved McCain from going down in history as a loser in the presidential race. Sarah is one elected official that I can't say anything negative about. And after 15 years of knowing her if there was something that was bad I would have known it.

"This lady has contacted me personally to get help discovering how one of her co workers was abusing his state office because she didn't believe she could trust the states department of law. The guy later copped a plea, paid a hefty fine and lost his state job but this was after she quit her 2000 / week job and was forced to go public to expose his corruption. By the way he was/is the chairman of the state republican party
"She is VERY approachable which is going to make the insiders and secret service crazy."Wanted to let you know."

Mark Chryson
Wasilla, Alaska

If you would like to know more about the personal experiences of Mark in regards to Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, Mark has given us permission to present the following contact information for that purpose, and offered his phone number up for that purpose as well (which I will decline to provide here do to the GwG haters).

mark [at] web-ak.com - Email Mark Chryson by removing the [at]

Remember how she hacked computers to out republicans?
Now from Tapper at Political Punch:

But Fenumiai adds that Palin's husband Todd was a member of the AIP from October 1995 through July 2002, except for a few months in 2000. He is currently undeclared.

As part of their pushback against the charges of Lynette and Dexter Clark of the AIP, the McCain campaign says that Palin did not even attend the AIP convention in Wasilla in 1994.

But another former AIP official -- Mark Chryson, chairman of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 -- tells ABC News that "Palin was at the convention in 1994. She was there."

Was she a member?

Chryson can't say. "She may have been, I do not know," he says. Their records don't go back that far.

"Ask Sarah," he suggests.

I'd love to. But she hasn't exactly been making herself available to the press.

Former AKIP chairman Chryson, friend and neighbor of Palin for over 15 years.

He can't say if she was a member of AKIP? Or he won't say it knowing it would doom her politically.

Chryson's computer expertise coupled with Palin's inside access to computers brought down the Alaskan Republican Party Chairman leaving a power vacuum. I wonder how many AKIP connected people have since been elevated in the Alaskan GOP?

Palin sounds like a woman on a super-duper-double-secret mission to me. An AKIP mission, IMHO.

This may turn into the missing link if we dig enough... heh

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Clearly, selling the state jet must have been part of god's plan, even if it was at a loss.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin -SLB-

Well, she DID technically tell the truth. She didn't say she SOLD it.

Let's hold the ammo for things more substantial. This kind of exaggeration is not limited to a**hole Republicans.

Boo, a new one for ya: Congressman Westmoreland of Georgia has called Obama "uppity".

Classy, classy people.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

Actually, I'm shocked that she actually did list it on eBay.

I figured that one was another outright lie - a little wink to the CEO of eBay that spoke earlier in the day.  I don't even think I'd count that as an exaggeration - she said she "put it on eBay" and she did.  And when it didn't sell, they sold it some other way.

If they'd never listed it on eBay at all, or if they did and then put it into storage when it didn't sell, I'd call those lies or exaggerations.  This is positively truthful - especially compared to her whole "I was against the Ted Stevens Bridge" crap.

"She didn't Tell the truth"

Is not that the end all of the GOP's Mission Statement for the last 8 years?

Liars all. Palin is at home.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Among the lies she told, one which was not listed at that link but has been elsewhere:

Palin: "To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."

Sarah Palin might have changed her mind on this one recently. However, a comment here notes that Palin actually slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%. Budgets: FY 2007 (pre-Palin), 2008, 2009 (all pdfs).

A Progressive Christian perspective on I/P at Beyond Bethlehem

Lovely work and a great jump... now if we can nail her on the false patriotism, even the bible thumpers will throw up their hands.  "Alaska First!" might sway a few Confederate wanna-bes, but most Americans deep in the Heartland like being part of this country.