Posted on 09/29/2008 6:36:28 AM PDT by Josh Painter
The Left, including its mainstream-news sources, are alleging that Palin, as governor of Alaska, “slashed” funding for Special Olympics — as well as a myriad of other notable charitable causes — from the Alaska budget. The strategy is to frame Palin as a hypocrite, one who chose life for her own son, and claims to support government funding for special-needs programs, but as a state official worked to do just the opposite.
As far as we can tell, the Special Olympics claim was first made in the September 6 edition of the bible of the Left, the New York Times, where Jennifer Steinhauer and Amy Harmon reported, “According to state documents, she cut the state’s Special Olympics budget in half.” Then came an Associated Press piece on September 9, in which a writer in the Atlanta bureau wrote, “During her few years as governor, she vetoed $275,000 for Alaska’s Special Olympics — half the amount being sought.” From there, the story became more twisted and mangled...
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Last year, the state of Alaska gave the Special Olympics $250,000. This year, the Alaska legislature requested $550,000 for Special Olympics, which would have constituted a 120 percent increase...
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Gov. Palin denied the request, but not completely: She reduced it to a 10-percent raise, approving a gift of $275,000. A 10 percent raise during tough times is very good, as any employee in America would quickly attest. For most employees, a raise of 3 to 4 percent is a good raise.
In other words, not only did Palin not cut funding, she actually raised it — just not as much as some would have liked.
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What is sick is how the political biases of American journalists have corrupted their ability to do their job.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Same BS that the left ALWAYS puts forth -
if you don’t give us as much as we demanded, it’s a cut.
This article seems to buy into the presumption, that slashing government spending of taxpayer money, is a bad thing.
This is the problem. Too many Republicans are surrendering to Democrats the idea, government should be our nanny.
Yeah, the Left has been doing that for years. I’d like to see Republicans calling them on the lie. “The original budget was $250,000 — I raised it to $275,000. You just told these people that I cut the budget. You’re a liar.”
She needs to get out there and explain “I’m responsible for my own children, not other people’s”.
As far as I could tell, the article didn't convey any opinion on whether funding was right or wrong. It just expressed the opinion that a ten percent increase was certainly generous enough.
The premise it did clearly support was that the media should not lie about funding decisions. That way we can decide whether or not we support them on our own.
ding, ding, ding ... we have a winner.
Don Pardo, tell ClearCase what he's won
same crap happened in MI, republicans wanted to veto all the spending increases being demanded by the gov, and were being accused of “slashing budgets.” she finally got her way and got her increases, then turns around and blames republicans for the new “deficit.”
Special Olympics is NOT government’s job!
It will do just fine with private funding (in “red” areas, anyway; the “blues” always want someone else’s money paying the freight).
Always bs from the clowns. It is getting comical to see what they can come up with next.
What a great idea! /s
As a Special Olympics volunteer and a big fan of the program, I agree 100%. I'm all in favor of schools allowing Special Olympics to use their track for free. Beyond that use of facilities, I see no need for tax dollars to support even as worthy a charity as SO. Supporting them is what my charitable donations are for!
the left and their twisted distortion of the truth. Base-line Budgeting = Lies, lies and more lies.
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