[relictele]

The Tribune is losing money like mad and they waste two reporters and two expense accounts on this tripe?

[Krankor]

Apparently they left something out of the story. The reporters write:
John Hartrick, one of two council members at the time to back Stambaugh's initiative, said he was struck by the contrast between Palin's vote and the strong anti-drinking tenets of her Pentecostal denomination. It "just bugged the devil out of me," said Hartrick, who now lives in Salem, Ark.
According to Wikepedia, Hartrick is the man she defeated in 1992 when she first ran for the City Council