by Bob Sommer, Midwest Voices 2008
While John McCain's running-mate, Sarah Palin, has used much of her stump time to make incendiary claims about Barack Obama--all of which are easily discredited, though that hasn't stopped her--little has been said about her own background with the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) and some of its unsavory, if not dangerous, operatives.
Investigative reporters Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert have just published an expose of this group and Todd and Sarah Palin's ties to it. These are people on the ultra right-wing fringe of the right wing. Among the issues Sarah Palin supported on their behalf was a bill to allow guns in the schools of Wasilla, Alaska.
Her connections to the AIP are long and continuous.
"In 1994," write Blumenthal and Neiwert, "Sarah Palin attended the AIP's statewide convention. In 1995, her husband, Todd, changed his voter registration to AIP. Except for an interruption of a few months, he would remain registered as an AIP member until 2002, when he changed his registration to undeclared."
As recently as 2006, Palin addressed the AIP's state convention. Key figures from this party were instrumental in her election as mayor of Wasilla, among them Mark Chryson, who said, "With Sarah as a mayor, there were a number of times when I just showed up at City Hall and said, 'Hey, Sarah, we need help.' I think there was only one time when I wasn't able to talk to her and that was because she was in a meeting."
Is this really who Americans want a heartbeat away from the presidency? And why haven't the media given these connections more attention until now? It's little wonder that Palin doesn't want to speak to Americans through the "filter" of the press.
You can read the full article here.
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YAWN....if Obamaites will not question Barack's association (read fund raising, mentoring and posisble ghost writing) with a domestic terrorist, a racist pastor who hates white people, jews and America and a convicted felon land dealer who pretty much gave him a nice house then you cannot question what a bunch of Alaskans do and what party they play around with.
Ethic violation: Tell you what go out on the street and ask 100 random people about the real story. Her former brother-in-law the cop alledgedly beat her sister, tasered his own son, threatened the life of her father and her as well as was found to have been drinking on the job and illegal hunting practices. So when she got into the governor's chair she inquired about firing this officer. The person directly under her rebuffed the request. He later RESIGNED and has said he was not fired for this. The cop is still on the job. Is this wrong?
I will guarantee you 90% of the people could careless. Now if say she had outright fired the commissioner and replaced him with her husband or sister just to make the cops life hell that would be wrong. We hear so much about politicans funneling money to their friends and family it's nice to hear of someone trying to get rid of a bad state employees.
All in all had the economic downturn not happened. Obama would be losing big time by running against Sarah Palin. The average American likes her and could care less about the rest.
The value of Sarah's questionnable ethics.
$25,367 worth of gifts received to-date as governor, over one quarter coming from mining lobbyists. Received after Sarah proposed a crackdown on gifts for government employees. Not reported on her tax returns.
$14,000 in "travel expenses" received to take her family to church & religious events. Not reported on tax returns.
$17,000 in per diem for working from home for 300 days of her governorship. Not reported on her tax returns.
$43,000+ in travel expenses for carting her husband & kids around to events. Not reported on her tax returns.
So many "business expenses" deducted from Todd Palin's income for his "snowmobiling business", which everyone else thought was a "hobby"...in the end Todd reported a "$9,000 loss" against all his earned income. Requires IRS investigation.
10 years' tax returns were requested - all other candidates provided 10 years, Palin only coughed up two years - any guesses as to why?
Now, who built and paid for Palin's $552,000 home on the water in Wasilla is the big question, with some saying it was the contractors who were building the nearby Wasilla Sports Complex at exactly the same time. Todd Palin said he and his buddies built the 3,500 sq ft house (at the same time he was running a fishing business, working on oil fields, snomobile racing , traveling and campaigning with his wife??). Indeed, the sub contractors on the sports complex were all friends of the Palin's. Since as mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the city, there is no public record of who Todd's "buddies" were, and her tax returns for the period are needed for details of the land purchase and financing of the building. Spenard Builders Supply supplied the materials for the house - same company that worked on Senator Stevens Alaska house at the center of the Veco scandal. It just may be that there's a "Palin scandal" lurking here and another investigation on the horizon.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/the-book-of-sarah/5
Alaskans seeking impeachment/recall of Sarah Palin
I guess you're so busy yawning...that you're not been reading the Alaskan dailies, and have missed reading about the movement to secure enough ballots to have Palin recalled and a new election for governor of Alaska. So, that 90% do care a little more than you think.
Here's what one Alaskan had to say in the Anchorage Daily News about Palin's AIP connections - guess she just hasn't been honest with American voters about her ties to the AIP secessionist party...Alaskans have noticed though:
"During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. before, during and after her victory.
In Wasilla, the AIP became powerful by proxy — because of Chryson and Stoll’s alliance with Sarah Palin. Chryson and Stoll had found themselves in constant opposition to policies of Wasilla’s Democratic mayor, who started his three-term, nine-year tenure in 1987. By 1992, Chryson and Stoll begun convening regular protests outside City Council. THEIR DEMONSTRATIONS INVARIABLY INVOLVED GRIEVANCES AGAINST ANY AND ALL FORMS OF “SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT,” FROM CITY PLANNING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION. Palin backed Chryson as he successfully advanced a host of anti-tax, pro-gun initiatives, including one that altered the state Constitution’s language to better facilitate the formation of anti-government militias.
She joined in their vendetta against several local officials they disliked, and listened to their advice about hiring. She attempted to name Stoll, a John Birch Society activist known in the Mat-Su Valley as “Black Helicopter Steve,” to an empty Wasilla City Council seat. “Every time I showed up her door was open,” said Chryson. “And that policy continued when she became governor.”
Emboldened by his nomination by Mayor Palin, Stoll later demanded she fire Wasilla’s museum director, John Cooper, a personal enemy he longed to sabotage. Palin obliged, eliminating Cooper’s position in short order. “Gotcha, Cooper!” Stoll told the deposed museum director after his termination, as Cooper told a reporter for the New York Times. “And it only cost me a campaign contribution.” Stoll, who donated $1,000 to Palin’s mayoral campaign, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview.
INDEED, CHRYSON BOASTED THAT HE AND HIS ALLIES URGED PALIN TO FOCUS HER CAMPAIGN ON SLASHING CHARACTER-BASED ATTACKS."
Now, about Palin's ethics? Oh...and the average American likes her - - must be why the latest poll has her favorability tanking at 36% and unfavorability rocketed to 52% (worst numbers of all 4 candidates).
The problem is Joe Sixpack
Denise Tiller, Midwest Voices 2008 Panelist
Like I said, John McCain is a craps shooter. He didn't do his homework on Palin. The Ethics violations are horrible enough, and the AIP business should be enough to sink any presidential hopeful in a primary season. The problem is Joe sixpack doesn't care. She's attracting an ugly mob and they really need to rein her in before some one is hurt. I suspect if guys showed up in white sheets, she would welcome them.
Denise Tiller, Midwest Voices 2008 Panelist
Plastic Explosives? Iranian funds? Yawn...
MY GOVERNMENT IS MY WORST ENEMY. I'M GOING TO FIGHT THEM WITH ANY MEANS AT HAND.
THE QUOTE IS FROM JOE VOGLER, the raging anti-American who founded the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY, the very same SECESSIONIST party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for SEVEN YEARS and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier THIS year.
PALIN SAID TO AIP: "Keep up the good work, and God bless you."
SARAH PALIN WANTS OUR FLAG TO HAVE 49 STARS? WTF is WRONG with Republicans??? Are Republicans just about winning at any cost? This is the political party gave us EIGHT YEARS of BUSH and they are back for MORE.
Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, was a member the Alaskan Independence Party working for Alaska to secede from the United States. Todd Palin registered in 1995 until 2002 when he registered as "undeclared" while his wife ran for office. She sleeps with a man who is committed to the idea of destroying the unity of the United States.
Sarah Palin and 'first dudes' have a political alliance with a TERRORIST WHO WAS MURDERED IN 1993 DURING "A PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES SALE GONE BAD."
Todd Palin joined this political party two years later.
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government… And I won’t be buried under their damn flag," - Joe Vogler in 1991, Founder of the Alaska Independence Party.
ALASKA FIRST! ALASKA ALWAYS!
"Rockslide" and others on this forum may ignore that Sarah and Todd Palin support radical separationists, but I don't believe that most patriotic Americans want to see someone in the Whitehouse that joins an organization who's founder was murdered buying plastic explosives.
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT, FINE. LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF.
Country First? You BETCHA!!
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During a campaign event in Ohio, Obama was peppered with questions from a local plumber who asked, "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" The plumber was complaining (as I often do) that he is "being taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream."
Obama's response? He gave the plumber a classic dose of socialism:
"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Spread the wealth around? This is America, isn't it? Redistributing the "wealth" is a classic tenant of Marxist philosophy. Communist China, the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and so on.... they all believe in government ownership of basically everything. Hard work, initiative, expertise... none of that is rewarded. Instead, the efforts of the talented and the hard-working are taken from them and given to those who don't work as hard. The result is a decrease in productivity, not to mention the self-fulfillment that comes from being rewarded for a job well done. And this is exactly what Barack Obama wants to do!
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Bridge to where? Jet sold where?
A pathological liar?
The thanks but no thanks for the bridge was BS. Congress funded it but said, spend the money elsewhere if you want to. Then Palin kept the money (so much for saving earmark money) and did not build the bridge. Keeping the money means "thanks but thanks".
She "sold the jet on ebay for a profit"? Um no. That is a flat out lie.
So far, Palin has failed to fulfill being a Marxist...
Damn. America has no hope with her.
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Is Sarah Palin A Pathological Liar?
Did we all read that the troopergate report indicated that Sarah Palin had abused her power and violated the State Ethics Act?
Let me help you out here...yes, we did.
They said, while it was legal for her to fire who she wanted, this particular firing represented an abuse of power and was branded as a violation of ethics.
So, how can Palin repeatedly make the claim that she was not found guilty of ethics violations? It's one thing to say that the commission said she didn't break the law, but those are 2 separate things.
The Washington Post fact checker had a field day and gave her its lowest rating. It's the mark you give somebody who blatantly lies.
For the link to the report, and the highlighting of the choicest comment from it, go to:
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-is-sarah-palin-lying-about.html