Posted on 09/28/2008 9:38:31 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
WASILLA, Alaska - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.
She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free "awesome facial" she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The "absolutely gorgeous flowers" she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home. She also stepped in to help friends or neighbors with City Hall dealings.
She asked the City Council to add a friend to the list of speakers at a 2002 meeting — and then the friend got up and asked them to give his radio station advertising business.
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It would be funny if it weren’t so damn sad.
This guy is working awful hard to justify why AP sent him to Alaska. He’s already prepared his expense allowance voucher and this is his feeble attempt to justify it.
Mr. Blackledge, two can play this game.
Blakcledge once accepted a gift from his grandmother. This proves that he was “bought” by the AARP lobby.
And yet the story has a 4 star rating by Yahoo users and its only been up for 35 mins.
The dems claim to be for the little guy and the middle class yet mock them when they pull this kind of crap. jmho
Brett J. Blackledge==Let’s investigate him . I’m sending private detectives to check into his closets. And he BETTER be squeaky clean!
What’s next?
Microscopic navel examination?
If I didn’t read the AP byline, I would swear this is straight out of The Onion.
what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.
what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.
More Bravo Sierra.
Hey AP! Read my tagline!! Dumbass reporters. Wouldn’t know a story if it jumped up and bit ‘em on the ass.
Well, then send our local mayor to jail, because my company has him to our plant once a year for lunch, which the company pays for.
She turned me into a NEWT!
(I got better...)
LMFAO
Oh, no! That’s almost as bad as one of my clients giving me one of those plastic hummingbirds that would tip over and take a drink. Anyone remember those, lol?
Son of a B! can this be confirmed?
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