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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Oh you dirty capitolist pigs! GIFTS AND BRIBES TO PUBLIC OFFICIALS!!! BOOO HISSSS GET THE ROPE!! /sarc
What a sad state our country is in. But I have to tell you, that if I didn’t believe in the Bible I might just start....since it says that in the last days, ‘right will be called wrong, and wrong will be called right’
Don’t forget the kethup queen and her hubby John
Why doesn’t McCain do some straight talk on Barney Frank?
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