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Posted on 09/30/2008 6:38:04 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Wasilla made rape victims pay October 1, 2008
ONE QUESTION that Sarah Palin should answer during tomorrow's debate is why, during her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, the town started charging rape victims or their insurers for hospital emergency-room rape kits and examinations.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Where is Obama’s truth squad when you need them? Oh thats right, obfuscating the truth is their job for Obama.
Telling the truth about the opponent doesn’t count.
Maybe this total scumballs need to, err, print actual facts rather than DU innuendos.
Oh no! This is horrible! I guess I’ll have to vote for Obama now. </sarc>
I wonder who the fags at the Globe think should pay for them? They aren’t free.
If I get shot while being robbed should the government pay for my health care?
The first of many coordinated stories to neutralize Palin in the debate on Thursday night. It’s gonna be a tough 48 hours.
And The Sheep will believe, for that is what The Sheep do.
To check out their allegations, we examined documents from the city and the Alaska Legislature and interviewed people in Wasilla, advocates for sexual assault victims and a former state legislator. We found the truth is murky. Although Wasilla had such a “rape kit” policy while Palin was mayor, there is no evidence that she explicitly endorsed the policy. But nor have we found any evidence that she opposed it.
The policy sought to have rape victims’ health insurance companies reimburse the city for the $500 to $1,200 cost of a forensic exam that is conducted after a sexual assault. Presumably, some of the cost might have been passed along to the victim through requirements for deductibles or co-payments, although victim advocates say they don’t know of anyone in the small town who had to pay such a fee.
The policy generated little if any controversy during the first four years after Palin became mayor in 1996. Anne Kilkenny, a civic activist in Wasilla who has written a widely circulated e-mail criticizing Palin, told PolitiFact she does not recall that the issue ever came up.
The policy came to light briefly in 2000 when the Alaska Legislature passed a law that required state and local law enforcement agencies pay the full cost of the exams.
“We would never bill the victim of a burglary for fingerprinting and photographing the crime scene, or for the cost of gathering other evidence,” then-Gov. Tony Knowles said when he signed the bill into law. “Nor should we bill rape victims just because the crime scene happens to be their bodies.”
Legislators and activists have said the law was prompted by Wasilla and several other communities with a similar policy.
But a search of the committee minutes for the bill found no mention of Wasilla or Palin. Nor could we find any indication that city officials spoke up about the bill until after it was passed, when Police Chief Charlie Fannon was quoted in the local newspaper The Frontiersman saying he opposed it.
“In the past we’ve charged the cost of exams to the victims’ insurance company when possible,” he told the newspaper. “I just don’t want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer.” He estimated the new law would cost his department $5,000 to $14,000 per year.
His comments suggest the city sought the money more from insurance companies than the victims themselves. The paper quoted him as saying that “ultimately, it is the criminal who should bear the burden of the added costs.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/sep/22/palin-rape-kit-controversy/
Nothing in that article say Palin made that decision.
If a gunshot victim goes in, who gets charged for the items used to remove the bullet to identify the weapon it came from?
IMO, Palin should briefly and succinctly take a few seconds during the debate to absolutely deny all the ‘rape kit’ charges that pertain to herself, and make sure to include a reference to the degenerate condition of today’s MSM that peddles lunatic fringe partisan fabrications without making any attempt to corroborate or refute the charges.
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The big problem is: there is no record ANYONE was actually charged for a rape kit while Palin was mayor.
The secondary problem is: victims are STILL being charged-indirectly- for those rape kits in just about every state of the union !
Most states now have “violent crimes compensation” boards, which allow victims to recover part of the costs incurred by them.Rape kits are charged directly against these funds-by prosecutors/DAs: making less money available to victims.
What would cause turmoil if done directly, is now being done indirectly - by the same people who criticize Palin !
reported this to palintruthsquad@johnmccain.com
Let it come up in the debate. Sarah can ask if Biden and Obama were successful in finding a rape victim to speak out in favor of abortion and found out her insurance was charged for the hospital rape kit exam. So, who is supposed to pay for it?
If a woman ready, finally, to become Vice President of our Nation, they see fit to slime her by saying she was against women who were the targets of the most brutal act that can happen to any woman.
Any of the PUMA's out there who might see this, I see your point. This is the most vile form of sexism ever heaped on a candidate. It isn't right. What they did to your candidate wasn't right either, I see that now.
If they are willing to do this to win an election, God help us, how will they govern?
We have to stop them.
This is a 100% lie. Moreover, in her entire time as mayor a SINGLE rape allegation was made, and that person was acquitted.
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