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Here's a good article -- scroll down -- on McCain's pick as VP on his ticket.
Kansas Republican Assembly Newsletter
August 29, 2008
Palin a Knockout Choice for McCain
Special Release from the Kansas Federalist
Today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was chosen as John McCain's running mate. Palin's selection surprised many Republican officials who had speculated about other candidates, amongst such as Minnesota Governor
Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, United States Senator Joseph Lieberman, and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge . Governor Palin is
an excellent choice and the Kansas Federalist endorses this great conservative Federalist for Vice President.
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964)
is the current Governor of Alaska , and the presumptive 2008 Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States.[1] She will be the second female Vice Presidential nominee representing one of the two major American political parties. Born in Idaho and raised in Alaska , Palin played point guard on her high school's championship basketball team. She was the 1984 runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, receiving a scholarship that
allowed her to attend the University of Idaho , where she received a degree in journalism.
After working as a sports reporter at an Anchorage television station, Palin served two terms on the Wasilla, Alaska , City Council from 1992 to 1996, was elected mayor of Wasilla (population 5,470 in 2000) in 1996, and ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor in 2002. After charging ethical
violations by state Republican Party leaders, she won election in 2006 by first defeating incumbent governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary, then former Democratic Alaskan governor Tony Knowles in the general election.
Palin was born in Sandpoint , Idaho , the daughter
of Charles and Sally (Sheeran) Heath. Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. Charles Heath was a science teacher and track coach.[5] The Heaths were
avid outdoors enthusiasts; Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m.to hunt moose before school, and the family regularly ran 5k and 10k races.
Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla , Alaska , when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play.[5] She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in
her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds.[5] Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.[5]
In 1984, after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier
that year, Palin finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant which won her a scholarship to help pay her way through college.[5] In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality. Palin holds a bachelor's
degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. Her husband, Todd, is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo.[5] Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on Alaska 's North Slope [6] and is a
champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times.[5]
The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated from college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street.[5] The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about
40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.[7]
On September 11, 2007, the Palins eighteen-year-old son
Track, eldest of five, joined the Army.[7] He now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September 2008. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17; Willow, 13; and Piper, 7.[8] On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to
her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome.[9] She returned to the office three days after giving birth.[10] Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm
looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"[10]
Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her
political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane.[11][12] Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association.
Palin served two terms on the Wasilla City Council from
1992 to 1996. In 1996, she challenged the incumbent mayor, criticizing wasteful spending and high taxes.[5] The ex-mayor and sheriff tried to organize a recall campaign, but failed.[5] Palin kept her campaign promises, reducing her own salary, as well as reducing property taxes by 60%.[5] She ran for
reelection against the former mayor in 1999, winning by an even larger margin.[5][14] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[8] In 2002, Palin made an unsuccessful bid for Lieutenant Governor, coming in second to
Loren Leman in a four-way race.
After Frank Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in mid-term to become governor, Palin interviewed to be his possible successor. Instead, Murkowski appointed his daughter, then-Alaska State Representative Lisa Murkowski.[5]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner
of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[15] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistle blowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[5] After she
resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[16] Palin
filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[5]
Governorship
Governor Palin visits a wounded soldier in Landstuhl,
Germany, July 2007 In 2006, Palin, running on a clean-government campaign, executed an upset victory over then-Gov. Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[5] Despite the lack of support from party leaders and being outspent by her Democratic opponent, she went on to win the general
election in November 2006, defeating former Governor Tony Knowles.[5]
Palin said in 2006 that education, public safety, and transportation would be three cornerstones of her administration.[13] When elected, Palin became the first woman to be Alaska 's governor, and the youngest governor in Alaskan history at 42 years of age upon taking office. Palin was also the first Alaskan governor born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood. She was also the first Alaskan governor not to
be inaugurated in Juneau , instead choosing to hold her inauguration ceremony in Fairbanks . She took office on December 4, 2006.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrelprojects
supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[10][17] " Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[11]
She has challenged the state's Republican leaders,
helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[18] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[10]
In 2007, Palin had an approval rating often in the 90s.[11] A poll published by Hays Research on July 28, 2008 showed
Palin's approval rating at 80%.[19]
Energy policies
Palin's tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development.[11][10] Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.[20]
Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded thirty-five
appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration, including the appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.[21][22] Clark later pled guilty to
conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[23]
In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline
Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope. [24] Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure,[25] and in June Palin signed it into law.[26]
[27] On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian
company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[28][29] In response to high oil and gas prices, and in
response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates.[30] She
subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.[31][32]
Social issues
Palin is strongly pro-life. She opposes same-sex
marriage, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is
receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination.[13] While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court
order and signed them into law.[33] She disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling[34] and supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.[35] Alaska was one of
the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[36] Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.[13]
Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that
would have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska 's attorney
general on the constitutionality of the legislation.[34]
Budget
In the first days of her administration, Palin followed
through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for
$2.7 million.[41] Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled a contract for construction on an 11-mile (18-kilometer) gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine. This reversed a decision made in the closing days or hours of the
Murkowski Administration.[42]
In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion
operating budget "the largest in Alaska 's history.[43] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to nearly $1.6 billion.[44]
Senator McCain's first pick as a presidential leader
with Palin, shows that his future picks for office will consist of good strict constructionists. If McCain is elected President the evidence now points to a continuation of Palin type appointees.
Sheriff (Ret) Currie Myers, PhD, MBA
Editor and Publisher
The Kansas Federalist E-Newsline
Footnotes available upon request [editor's note: email software didn't translate
them correctly for us to copy here]
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