Posted by admin on September 14, 2008 under Politics, news | 
Hundreds and perhaps as many as a thousand people lined the street across from the library in Anchorage Alaska, demonstrating against Sarah Palin’s far Right policies and her selection as John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate.
The protesters carried signs with slogans including, “Bush In A Skirt” “Palin: She Be Failin’” “Jesus Was a Community Organizer” “Smearing Alaska’s Good Name One Scandal @ a Time” and the brilliant, “Candidate To Nowhere” and “I’m Bailin’ on Palin.”
“The whole thing grew out of frustration. Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit a nerve and started a movement.” – Charla Sterne, one of the protest organizers (Source)
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The protest took on almost a festival atmosphere, with one protester in a Polar Bear suit carrying a sign that read “Polar Bear Moms Say No to Palin” referring to Palins opposition to placing the Polar Bear on the endangered species list, because it could pose an obstacle to offshore drilling. (Source)
Looks like the bloom is already fading on the Palin rose.
Posted by admin on September 2, 2008 under Crime, Election 08, Politics |
McCain’s pick for vice president, Sarah Palin, is being represented by an attorney to defend her in a scandal known in Alaska as Troopergate.
According to reports, Palin, the governor of Alaska, insisted that a state trooper named Mike Wooten be fired. Wooten had divorced Palin’s sister. The man who had the power to fire Trooper Wooten, Walt Monegan, wouldn’t do it, and Palin ended up firing Monegan. (Source)
The Alaskan state legislature is investigating Palin to see if she abused her powers in this incident which seems likely based on the reporting of James Grimaldi of the Washington Post, excerpted below:
Monegan, 57, a respected former chief of the Anchorage Police Department, said on Friday that the governor (Palin) repeatedly brought up the topic of her ex-brother-in-law, Michael Wooten, after Monegan became the state’s commissioner of public safety in December 2006. Palin’s husband, Todd, met with Monegan and presented a dossier of information about Wooten, who was going through a bitter custody battle with Palin’s sister, Molly.
Monegan also said Sarah Palin sent him e-mails on the subject, but Monegan declined to disclose them, saying he planned to give them to a legislative investigator looking into the matter. (Source)
In what is probably damage control, McCain has dispatched a team of 12 public relations professionals to Alaska (Source) to try to minimize any more scandals from his VP pick, Palin, or find out what other skeletons may be lurking in her closet.
Posted by javavoodoo on July 29, 2008 under Election 08, Politics |
Disgraced Alaskan Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens has been formally indicted, and faces serious jail time, for taking $250,000 in graft gifts from Big Oil and not reporting it.
The 84 year old Senator, the longest serving Republican in history, faces serious charges:
The indictment charges Stevens with failing to report on his financial disclosure forms $250,000 in “things of value” including remodeling work on his home, a Viking grill and a sweetheart deal on a Land Rover.
The indictment further alleges that “during the same time he was concealing his continued receipt of these things of value from VECO and [VECO executive Bill J.] Allen,” that Stevens “received solicitations for official actions from Allen and other VECO employees, and that Sen. Stevens used his position and office on behalf of VECO during that same time period.”
In exchange, according to the indictment, the oil services company asked Stevens for help with company projects in Pakistan and Russia, as well as a National Science Foundation grant to a VECO subsidiary. – Source
But the trouble with Ted extends beyond Alaska, into the GOP congressional campaign, and possibly even McCain’s presidential aspirations.
“This is very bad for the party,” a retiring Senate Republican told Politico as news of Ted Stevens’ indictment echoed across Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “The timing on this couldn’t be worse.” – Source
