Posted on 12/07/2010 7:38:52 PM PST by pissant
In her latest Facebook posting, former Gov. Sarah Palin continues to blame the Alaska Legislature for accepting stimulus funds, while neglecting to mention her decision to approve 97 percent of the money.
If the $900 million she approved amounted to a "federal bribe with fat strings attached" that she wanted no part of, she should have vetoed it.
Then, had the Legislature overridden her veto, she could logically back up her current comments about the events of 2009.
As it is, her Facebook posting is an attempt to rewrite history and distort the operational structure of our state government. The governor has the upper hand on the budget.
Here is how Palin begins her latest entry:
Do insolvent states actually believe other states should bail them out? In June 2009, I was invited to introduce Michael Reagan at an event in Anchorage. In my remarks as Governor of Alaska, I warned against President Obama’s debt-ridden stimulus bill and its effect on all our state budgets. I believed that the bill’s benefits would be limited because government would grow exponentially, and I warned that the package was equivalent to a federal bribe with fat strings attached that created new unfunded mandates for state governments. At the time, most state legislatures, including Alaska’s, chose to ignore that warning. I predicted that states like California would soon be coming to the federal government asking for a bailout. After I gave that speech, I remember the mocking I received for predicting California and other big government states would continue to spend recklessly and yet expect others to bail them out. The naysayers in the media went a bit wild in their condemnation of my sounding that alarm.
• Palin is also attempting to rewrite history
(Excerpt) Read more at newsminer.com ...
I think I’ll wait for further discussion by those familiar with the details. The Fairbanks Daily News is kind of like the NY Times of the North.
I do know that Sarah made quite a few cuts of pork boondoggles, but that she had some trouble with the Republican Corrupt Bastards Club, or at least those of those left after the FBI had put their leaders away.
Isn’t June of 2009 about when she resigned her office? Did Parnell actually sign those bills? I wouldn’t blame her for not vetoing a bill that she wasn’t in office to veto.
I believe she made herself pretty clearly heard at the time.
Are you serious?
Sarah Palin is now “Big Brother?”
The federal economic stimulus appropriation bill, HB 199, was signed, and as previously announced, the governor did not accept the $28.6 million for energy funds. The funds are tied to building codes that the state would be required to entice local communities to adopt. The [G]overnor noted that if legislators disagree with her decision, they can express that through a veto override (Appropriations Bills, 2009, ¶11).So in at least one case, she DID veto the spending from the economic stimuls bill that included strings.“Alaskans and our communities have a long history of independence and opposing many mandates from Washington, D.C.,” said Governor Palin. “The question of whether or not to adopt energy building codes is best determined by local governments, not Washington, D.C. Alaskans across the state are actively working to reduce energy costs. A federal government mandate is essentially another tax on Alaskans building or renovating a structure, thus increasing costs” (Appropriations Bills, 2009, ¶12)
I had a customer today that was the spittin' image of Sarah...right down to her glasses, hair and athletic wear.
How a woman who looks like Sarah manages to survive in 'The People's Republic of Madistan' (Think, 'Berkeley Lite') impresses the h#ll outta me, LOL!
They have RAT newspapers in AK? Is that your point?
For the snarky writer: THE LEGISLATURE OVERRODE SARAH’S VETO!!!! That’s enough to discredit any breath he takes.
http://www.adn.com/2009/08/10/893955/legislature-overrides-palins-stimulus.html
Your right
FWIW
Thanks. I thought I had read something like that. Sarah did NOT say that she vetoed all the government stimulus money. She said that she vetoed all the government stimulus money that came WITH STRINGS ATTACHED. Money that required onerous future commitments from the state.
That’s what your excerpts suggest, and that’s what I recall her saying.
Palin Vetoes include some stimulus:
State legislators and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, immediately criticized Palin for turning down the $28.6 million.
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Palin announced her decision Thursday while signing the state budgets into law. The governor made few other spending vetoes, in contrast with previous years, and accepted the rest of the $930 million in stimulus money that Alaska is eligible for.
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The governor had initially balked at taking nearly a third of the available stimulus money -- calling it an "unsustainable, debt ridden package of funds" -- before agreeing to take all but 3 percent of it after the Legislature rejected her concerns.
Fairbanks Pravda PING!!!
You have the best tag-line I’ve read in a while. The lips aren’t bad, either.
whats sick is the media attempt to rewrite Palin’s history, not the other way around. Palin stopped the Bridge to Nowhere, but they now claim she did not.
Don't you love how he sows discord and hate amongst conservatives by posting liberal talking points from liberal sources?
He must be a relative of Grima Wormtongue.
What a monster he's become.
So Palin approved $900 million but vetoed $28 billion.
Interesting.
Thats how I remember it as well. I remember the media made a big deal about it as well - attack her for playing politics, so I’m sure if you go back you’ll find articles on this. Now they pretend that didn’t happen
she signed on for 97% of the Obama $$. Which makes this guy’s story accurate.
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