Posted on 01/06/2009 5:42:23 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
Levi Johnston, the boyfriend of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to work in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said Monday.
Johnston, 18, began working this fall in the Milne Point oil field with ASRC Energy Services Inc., a major Slope contractor.
In a Sunday newspaper column, Anchorage radio talk show host Dan Fagan questioned how Johnston could take part in ASRC's apprenticeship program without a high school diploma.
Fagan said he understood federal regulations require all members of apprenticeship programs to have a diploma. He also questioned whether the governor might have had a hand in getting Johnston into the program.
Palin adamantly denied that Monday.
Johnston's father, Keith Johnston, said the governor had nothing to do with getting Levi the Slope job. Keith Johnston said his own position as an ASRC construction engineer accounts for any help his son received in landing work.
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This is from the Ancorage Daily News Dec. 30. There has been NOTHING in the news since then about Bristol and Levi receiving any money for pictures.
I agree. The rules were made before he got the job. Why should he get preferential treatment over other drop outs? I don’t see how this has anything to do with liberals. Not smart in the present economy to drop out of high school.
Ancorage = Anchorage
Yep! The article fails to mention the COMMUNIST Media Express Train roaring down the the tracks. Is it such a big surprise the company officials, Levi's dad, and Levi are jumping off the track Levi's learning to working on?
If the COMMUNIST Media Express Train hits that company it will hit **everything** in that company. The communists will take a good long time picking through every splinter.
That's what's missing here! No one wants to talk about the Marxist left’s thuggish, take no prisoners, tactics!
Smart girl! Good for her!
Of course it is! Our nation's communists want her destroyed.
Again I repeat Sarah and Todd would be in a concentration camp or re-education camp right now if Obama could pull that off. Give Obama a few years-he’ll dismantle the Constitution and then claim that Sarah is public enemy number 1. He’ll trump up charges. Am I being fantastic? I hope so, but I think not. Obama equals Hitler or Stalin. Get used to it or defeat him in 2012. It’s up to the bloggers at FR and the voters of America.
Im sorry something happened to you in school to cause a phobia. Perhaps if you went back to the third grade where you left off you would begin to see things differently.
Throwing the terms communist and marxist around in every argument doesnt make your point more valid it just serves to dilute the appearance of intelligence in your opinion.
Not true. MSNBC made it up and People magazine refuted it.
“Federal regulations require members of apprectice programs, either union or non-union, to have a high school degree or the equivilent. It’s not up to the company.”
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“In a written statement, the company said its electrical apprenticeship program eligibility requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, “but this is not a requirement mandated by the federal government.”
The statement also says, “The information provided by the applicant to the company is relied upon to be true and correct.”
Next......
“We would never have known about Monica Lewinski if Drudge hadnt pushed it. Is that a conservative “tactic”?”
Wow. Bizarre. Your handle fits you.
However, yeah, the national media coverage is CERTAINLY because of Gov Palin and some people will probably expect her to resign over this.
Sigh.
The story about the baby pictures and $300,000 was planted by the MSM to make Levi and Bristol out to be evil, greedy young people exploiting their child. So when the MSM sets out to destroy them the public will not previously have seen them in a favorable light. The set-up is even more important than the actual attack.
Fixed it for ya.
You betcha.
^^^^^^^^
You betcha! :)
This is like dodge ball or running the gauntlet. Sarah is in the middle and being attacked from all sides and from all angles: the arrows of pointed criticism coming at different times and in different forms, often from multiple sources.It will not stop until Sarah is destroyed or DEAD. Sure politics is a bloodsport, but to Obama and the MSM it’s life and death: their life and the death of Sarah and Reagan conservatism.
bttt
In today’s world, the kid needs a diploma, that’s just the way it is. And if Palin want’s to have any chance of being elected to national office, The kid will need to get one.
There are plenty of folks out there who are smart enough to do the job and only went through the 5th grade(and smarter than today’s college grads); The time when that was overlooked has long passed.
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