My wife is union but is a conservative.
took profits from oil companies and gave them to citizens (isn’t that what Hugo Chavez does?),
No. Go do your research.
and is one of the biggest takers of earmarks.
No. Go do your research.
I have done research on the earmarks, and everything I can find says Alaska has the highest per capital earmarks of any state in the country, and that Wasilla didn’t receive earmarks until Palin became mayor and hired Ted Stevens’ lobbyist to secure earmarks for her city.
And I just saw another clip of her saying the she took profits from the oil companies and gave them to the people of Alaska.
Can you give me links that dispute the above? I can’t find anything that does.
The union thing is meant for those “Reagon Democrats”. And of course lots of Conservatives are union. Even though they may not like it - if they want to work in their trade they pretty much need to be union.
She renegotiated the oil contracts that were done awhile ago and under the earlier “good old” boys network with allegations of kickbacks, etc. In addition to the increased taxes, there were incentives to the companies for exploration and development, and also an opening of the rules to allow greater competition between the companies.
And in Alaska’s constitution (Article VIII) - the state (the “citizens”) own the mineral rights. In one interview awhile ago she said something like “Yes, ANWR is Federal land. But that is why we are trying to get congress to open up a fraction of it so we can get to the oil that is the citizens’ of Alaska.”
With regards to the biggest taker of earmarks, I believe on a per capita basis that is true.
Of course it costs way more to put in a road between two towns in Alaska than it does to put in a new road in the Lower 48. And that new road is in a state with a VERY small population. (And that road probably crosses Federal Land - 220,000,000 acres of Alaska is Federal land, almost the size of the entire state of Texas.