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AP Investigation:Palin got zoning aid, gifts (Another AP Front Page Non-Story Smear)
AP ^ | 9-28-2008 | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE

Posted on 09/28/2008 9:38:31 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

WASILLA, Alaska - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.

She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free "awesome facial" she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The "absolutely gorgeous flowers" she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home. She also stepped in to help friends or neighbors with City Hall dealings.

She asked the City Council to add a friend to the list of speakers at a 2002 meeting — and then the friend got up and asked them to give his radio station advertising business.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: ap; msmbias; palin; palinattacks; palinping; smear
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To: My Favorite Headache; Oldexpat

It would be funny if it weren’t so damn sad.


21 posted on 09/28/2008 9:46:35 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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To: My Favorite Headache

This guy is working awful hard to justify why AP sent him to Alaska. He’s already prepared his expense allowance voucher and this is his feeble attempt to justify it.


22 posted on 09/28/2008 9:46:45 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Mr. Blackledge, two can play this game.

Blakcledge once accepted a gift from his grandmother. This proves that he was “bought” by the AARP lobby.


23 posted on 09/28/2008 9:46:47 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: OnTheStraightTalkExpress

And yet the story has a 4 star rating by Yahoo users and its only been up for 35 mins.


24 posted on 09/28/2008 9:46:54 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Forget the 3AM phone call. Obama can not even answer the phone at 3PM.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

The dems claim to be for the little guy and the middle class yet mock them when they pull this kind of crap. jmho


25 posted on 09/28/2008 9:50:03 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Brett J. Blackledge==Let’s investigate him . I’m sending private detectives to check into his closets. And he BETTER be squeaky clean!


26 posted on 09/28/2008 9:50:04 AM PDT by timestax
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To: My Favorite Headache

What’s next?

Microscopic navel examination?


27 posted on 09/28/2008 9:50:30 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: My Favorite Headache

If I didn’t read the AP byline, I would swear this is straight out of The Onion.


28 posted on 09/28/2008 9:52:23 AM PDT by Wonderama Mama
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To: My Favorite Headache
Anyone see the above the fold front page story in the Sunday New York Slimes about McCain's "gambling ties?" How I wish they would spend half the time on Obama's "ties" as they do on McCain. Unfortunately, in the end we are all going to get what they deserve...
29 posted on 09/28/2008 9:53:00 AM PDT by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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To: Wonderama Mama

what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.


31 posted on 09/28/2008 9:54:40 AM PDT by Wonderama Mama
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To: Wonderama Mama

what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.


32 posted on 09/28/2008 9:55:28 AM PDT by Wonderama Mama
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To: My Favorite Headache

More Bravo Sierra.


33 posted on 09/28/2008 9:55:46 AM PDT by Allegra ( Call me if you need me. Unless it's above my pay grade.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Hey AP! Read my tagline!! Dumbass reporters. Wouldn’t know a story if it jumped up and bit ‘em on the ass.


34 posted on 09/28/2008 9:55:47 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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Well, then send our local mayor to jail, because my company has him to our plant once a year for lunch, which the company pays for.


35 posted on 09/28/2008 9:58:30 AM PDT by Madeleine Ward
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To: Bommer

She turned me into a NEWT!
(I got better...)


36 posted on 09/28/2008 9:58:33 AM PDT by astyanax (If you need to wear a mask when speaking your mind, it is probably best you remain silent...)
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To: CE2949BB

LMFAO


37 posted on 09/28/2008 10:01:29 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Forget the 3AM phone call. Obama can not even answer the phone at 3PM.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
And BARNEY FRANK slept with the head of FANNIE MAE (Herb Moses) FOR YEARS while blocking legistlation to regulate it!!!
38 posted on 09/28/2008 10:01:43 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: My Favorite Headache

Oh, no! That’s almost as bad as one of my clients giving me one of those plastic hummingbirds that would tip over and take a drink. Anyone remember those, lol?


39 posted on 09/28/2008 10:02:24 AM PDT by itsthejourney (Sarah-cuda IS the right reason)
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To: kcvl

Son of a B! can this be confirmed?


40 posted on 09/28/2008 10:05:58 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could be Farts)
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