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In Office, Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics (NY Slimes hit piece)
NY Slimes ^

Posted on 09/13/2008 1:35:41 PM PDT by Chet 99

WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.

When Ms. Palin had to cut the 2007 state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: demsmearcampaign; hatinpalin; ibtz; mccainpalin; palin; palinrecord; smearcampaign; wasilla
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To: DakotaRed
What next? Todd once peed in the snow?

Piper had overdue library books? Went out of the lines coloring? Had cavities at her last check-up?
61 posted on 09/13/2008 2:01:48 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: DakotaRed
What next? Todd once peed in the snow?

Worse, he misspelled Obama's name while doing so.

62 posted on 09/13/2008 2:02:32 PM PDT by jdub
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To: Chet 99

To the victor belongs the spoils. It’s not like Palin invented political appointments- that was Andrew Jackson, a good Democrat.


63 posted on 09/13/2008 2:03:18 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: DakotaRed
What next? Todd once peed in the snow?

Well, peeing in the snowy tundra is considered rude and uncouth ... however, a homeless peeing in the subway station near NYT headquarters is considered noble and worthy of our compassion for those poor unfortunates. Didn't you get the memo?

/sarc off

64 posted on 09/13/2008 2:04:34 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Mr_Moonlight
McCain's campaign should hire a guy JUST TO follow Obama’s 30 dirt diggers in Alaska and give daily progress reports- where they are staying who they are talking to...
65 posted on 09/13/2008 2:05:17 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: sageb1

Page unavailable error sageb1.

I don’t like cronyism...at all...however the women had a position at the AK Dept of Ag. and her performance was never questioned, and that to me is the bottom line on Cronyism.

Whether they could get the job done or not.


66 posted on 09/13/2008 2:05:24 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Chet 99
Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee,

If I remember correctly, and maybe the New York Times doesn't have the ability to check this, President Bill Clinton gave Hillary, his wife who was NOT a federal employee, complete control over the development of a health care program -- and had hundreds of federally paid employees REPORT TO HER.

67 posted on 09/13/2008 2:05:59 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Chet 99

Nothing but a pure, scathing hit piece. Sarah is no different than Hitler ‘living by a bunker mentality’.

They forget that if she truly tries to live a Christian life, then this would all be BS.


68 posted on 09/13/2008 2:06:16 PM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: Chet 99

They’re still firing blanks.

Next up: The Real Story of Sarah Palin’s Overdue 4th Grade Library books.


69 posted on 09/13/2008 2:06:35 PM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: Chet 99

What’s next from the media, a picture of Palin in bed with a moose? These ‘people’ if you can call them that, are are clearly suffer from PDS, as defined by hall of famer Howie Carr.


70 posted on 09/13/2008 2:07:37 PM PDT by mainerforglobalwarming
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To: padre35

Weird. I was just at that page in Google cache. I don’t know anything about the dairy industry and state contracts. That’s what the article I tried to post was about. I’ll see if I can locate it again.


71 posted on 09/13/2008 2:10:12 PM PDT by sageb1 (Feminism is dead. Long live Palinism!)
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To: 386wt
She is caught. Oh the humanity!


72 posted on 09/13/2008 2:12:44 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: B-Cause

The good Pastor is at it again, too bad his thinking is the exception to the rule in the inner city black communities.


73 posted on 09/13/2008 2:15:09 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (OBAMA, = Jimmah's big chance to get out of last place.)
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To: Chet 99
"In Office, Bill Clinton Hired Friends and Hit Critics"
74 posted on 09/13/2008 2:16:25 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Chet 99
When Ms. Palin had to cut the 2007 state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.

Sure glad Bill never let Hillary help make policy or personnel decisions.

75 posted on 09/13/2008 2:16:32 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Chet 99
Hey NYT, you know what? I don't give a rat's damn if she's hired everyone of her extended family on both sides of the marriage. I just don't care! I know all I need to know about Sarah and nothing you or anyone else will make a whit of a difference.

You (NYT) and your throwback leftist ilk can, in the words of the buxom Pamela Anderson, just "Suck it!"

76 posted on 09/13/2008 2:17:12 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: sageb1

Seems to me that this could help Palin get the support of dairy farmers nationwide.

www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/mat_maid/story/8982770p-8897080c.html

Palin vows to rescue dairy

‘Things are kind of a mess ... we’re going to clean it up,’ she pledges

By ANDREW WELLNER
awellner@adn.com

Published: June 16, 2007
Last Modified: June 16, 2007 at 02:14 AM

WASILLA — A shiny silver Matanuska Maid milk tanker on its regular run drove slowly past a crowd of more than 100 farmers, their friends and politicians Friday in the driveway of Havemeister Dairy Farm.

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Nicole Trytten, 20, who lives and works on a farm at Point MacKenzie, said that truck will roll by her family’s farm only nine more times. The final day for milk pickup is July 3.

After that the cows will produce milk but the farmers will either “dump it down the drains or spray it on the fields,” Trytten said. With no money to feed them or turn on the milking machines, the cows won’t last long.

The crowd gathered at the farm on the corner of Bogard and Trunk Roads to protest the decision to close the state-run Matanuska Maid dairy on July 7.

Protesters, one dressed as a cow, waved signs: “Save the Cows,” “Audit the Maid,” and “Thanks, Gov. Palin.” Gov. Sarah Palin, who Monday urged the Creamery Board to reconsider its decision to close the dairy, gave a short address.

“Things are kind of a mess right now with what’s happening with Mat Maid and we’re going to clean it up,” Palin said. “We can revitalize it and that’s what our commitment is.”

Creamery Board chairman Mac Carter, in a June 8 letter addressed “to the Palin administration” and posted on the dairy Web site, blamed the dairy closure on high shipping and fuel costs, Department of Homeland Security regulations and competition from Outside dairies. He wrote that Matanuska Maid lost $600,000 this year as of April and expected losses to grow to $2.4 million by December.

Carter said by phone Friday he was not answering questions from the media and gave instead a prepared statement saying he is trying reach Palin.

“It is time for us to stop talking through the media and start talking to each other,” he said. He said he hopes the governor can sit down with the Creamery Board soon and “see if we can’t come to an amicable decision on this.”

Bob Havemeister said he’s been farming his whole life and producing milk since the 1950s.

Matanuska Maid buys most of the 12,500 pounds of milk his 89 active milk cows produce every two days. If the dairy shuts down those cows will have to go to slaughter, he said. Fifty years of breeding will be lost.

As for his farm, “it might turn into a subdivision,” Havemeister said. “What else would I do?”

Asked what he wanted from Matanuska Maid or the state, he said, “I’m not asking for anything.”

Havemeister said he doesn’t want a handout.

“I just want a market for my milk,” he said.

A small bottling plant processing nothing but local milk would keep local dairy farmers in business, he said.

“I know people will buy it,” he said. Even if the milk costs more, people want to buy local, Havemeister said.

Though rumors circulated, official word only came down last week that the dairy would close, said Havemeister’s daughter-in-law, Franci Havemeister, who organized Friday’s rally.

Palin this week proposed limiting production at the dairy to Alaska milk. But Matanuska Maid officials said such a plan would not be feasible. It would utilize but a fraction of their facilities, which currently process milk mostly from the Lower 48.

Most of those gathered Friday said that closing Matanuska Maid would be the end of the dairy industry in Alaska. Four Valley farms and two in Delta Junction will have to close if they can’t sell their milk, the farmers said.

And with it will go the infrastructure and businesses that support farmers, like barley farmers and feed stores, said state Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Wasilla.

“If we lose what we’ve got today we’ll never get back to where we’re at,” Neuman told the crowd.

Craig Trytten, a Point MacKenzie dairy farmer and critic of the dairy closure, said the dairy industry in Alaska enjoys great support. Many of those in attendance had only heard about the rally the day before, he said.

“This is what you see after 20 hours of effort,” he said.

Some but not all were farmers, and not all of those were dairy farmers. Some were just concerned residents or friends of farmers. Others, Trytten said, were involved with a program his daughter Nicole runs selling shares of what’s called a “condo cow” to people who want to collect fresh milk.

But one group, he said, made him particularly proud. Members of the National Farmer’s Union, a family farmer advocacy group, were in Anchorage for a meeting.

Trytten is a member, he said, and he drove to Anchorage and asked them to come. They hopped on a tour bus and drove to Havemeister’s farm.

“I’ll just say that it’s vitally important that you keep the dairy industry here in Alaska,” Farmer’s Union president Tom Buis of Washington, D.C., told the crowd.


77 posted on 09/13/2008 2:19:20 PM PDT by sageb1 (Feminism is dead. Long live Palinism!)
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To: Chet 99
“her governing style raises a lot of hard questions.”

Dan Rather is that you? We know. It is the seriousness of the charge.

78 posted on 09/13/2008 2:24:11 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ronnie raygun
"What we see in Sarah the left does not. "

Oh, they see it...that's what has them scared out of their wits.

See, the elite leftists in this country pride themselves in being the most brilliant among us, it's just that they have an agenda [read: manifesto] that does not allow them to appreciate America and what it means to true Americans.

They are of the hoity-toity crowd who fly in circles far above mortal man. Actually, they are legends in their own minds, attaching themselves to thosw whom they feel are "enlightened" in some superficial way.

But, I digress...

"Sarah Palin bashing" is the adult version of the pre-pubescent teenage girl hating everyone who doesn't have acne like she does.

Of course they hate Sarah Palin...she is cleaning their clocks with style and grace. They wake up each day with but one thing on their programmed minds...attack Sarah Palin.

But, it will not work. Truth always wins and the lefties are not familiar with the term. If the truth would help them get elected, they'd use it all the time. But, with the democrats is all cloak and dagger. They have the all time "tell'em lies and feed'em candy" routine down pat.

Sarah is just lifting the liberal rugs and showing where the dem dirt has been swept under them.

Sarah is immune to the attacks because of something that our grandmothers used to teach us..."if you tell lies, soon you will be making up new lies, to cover the old lies, and before long you will forget what all those lies were, and you will be exposed.".

That's Hussein's problem...he keeps forgetting his last lie, and trips himself up everytime. The press calls them "Gaffes", I call them lies with short-term memory loss.

Charlie Gibson - that pompous ass from ABC news who wears the drugstore glasses on his nose - his attitude probably just gained thousands of new votes for Sarah. And the idiots keep on attacking her. They may as well be running a Republican voter registration drive.

Insofar as little Barry has never won an election without some dirty less-than-fair tactics, he could still pull this one off...but his friends in the press are doing their dead-level best to help obamamamam LOSE this election.
79 posted on 09/13/2008 2:24:31 PM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is communism, by the drink. O'Rourke)
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To: sageb1
Is this it?

Governor gets cool reception at Mat Maid plant

Author: S.J. KOMARNITSKY sjkomarnitsky@adn.com

Staff

Date: June 14, 2007

Publication: Anchorage Daily News (AK)

Page: A1

Word count: 816

tanuska Maid, the struggling state-owned dairy, spurned Gov. Sarah Palin twice Wednesday: First, the board that runs the dairy rejected her request to back off plans to close Mat Maid down.

And then the company refused to let her in the dairy's Anchorage building when she showed up for a tour.

They made her cool her heels in the lobby for an hour, waiting for permission from someone higher up the dairy chain, said Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton. The governor eventually [Read article (fee)]

If it's "state owned," she had ever right to deal with it. Or maybe you're talking about something else?

80 posted on 09/13/2008 2:24:49 PM PDT by hsalaw
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