Posted on 08/21/2010 11:37:03 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Here's an interesting little quiz about the accomplishments of one of America's best known contemporary governors. See if you know the identity of this individual from the following facts:
* This governor challenged a corrupt incumbent of the same political party and won a come-from-behind victory nobody saw coming.
* This governor then challenged the now-former governor's cronies, who were informally organized in a group known as the CBC, or "Corrupt Bastards Club." Several of the latter now reside at public expense at isolated locations where they can't do any more harm.
* This governor forced the Big Oil companies to share their immense profits with state residents.
* This governor conceived and oversaw the largest private construction project in North America.
* This governor forced one of the Big Oil giants to either do something it had been refusing to do for three decades or leave the state.
No idea which governor was responsible for these five accomplishments. You will find the answer here. No endorsement, I'm just sayin' .
http://marionsword.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1B80DAF0A76159D5!451.entry
Alaskan Fisherman talks about Sarah Palin
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
As posted in comments on Greta’s artical referncing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin
by Dewey Whetsell
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning—I imagine—that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
“Who is Sarah Palin”. I’ll take BadAss Governors for $400, Alex.
Ping!
The Washington chattering Class is slowly beginning to scrutinize Palin’s record (rather than listening to the LSM spin) and are finding it pretty impressive. I believe this original article was posted over a year ago but it merits reposting for the benefit of new members of the Palin Ping list.
Enjoy (especially the last sentence, which has proved to be prophetic)
That’s an awesome list of accomplishments. I wonder why she hasn’t “taken on” John McCain? That’s a mystery to me, and the only logical answer I can come up with is that she genuinely agrees with him.
And JUST WAIT until Our Sarah gets to the White House!!!!!!Past Is Prologue!!!!!!
“I wonder why she hasn’t “taken on” John McCain? That’s a mystery to me, and the only logical answer I can come up with is that she genuinely agrees with him.”
PDS morphs into MDS. Please. The McCain thing is getting old.
Regan endorsed a GOP liberal, Sen Charles Percy, that makes McCain look like Jesse Helms in 1978. Percy was teh 1978 equivalent of Dede Scozzafava. Phyllis Sclafly was ready to primary him but the Gipper would not support her. Unlike Palin, Reagan owed Percy nothing. Percy had viciously attacked him in the 1976 primaries.
I didn’t like the Percy endorsement but it was not that big a deal. I liked Reagan a lot more, and I realized that I would not agree with him on everything. I put it in perpective.
"This governor conceived and oversaw the largest private construction project in North America."
And you forgot.....Which governor quit halfway through the first term?
But, but, but... she's a quitter....
Palin/Bachmann 2010.
But, but, but... she's a quitter....
Palin/Bachmann 2010.
wow, she did all that in 1/2 a term?
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Are you predicting that she would quit in 2014?
Ping!
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