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Originally Posted by pnwmdk
Nope. If you use google, the direct quote I gave you brings up the article in question (many other quotes and so on) from the source... On page 1 of a google search.
But, you won't do it... Because you DO NOT WANT TRUTH. You want to continue on your own ignorant way.
well there is this
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Alaska Democrats are campaigning to have former Gov. Sarah Palin's tax policy reinstated after Palin's successor, Gov. Sean Parnell, had it repealed this year, saying that it discouraged exploration.
Im honestly not sure why anyone was even responding to this BS thread.
Alaska's current governor is a Republican and Palin's former Lieutenant Governor . There legislature is controlled by Republicans 13 to 7 in the Senate, and 26 to 14 in the House), so any repeal of her policies would have had to have been supported by atleast 1/3rd of the republican Party and her former Lieutenant governor.
The thing that is even worse about your argument is the tax itself, the very link you probably used (Newmax) says it was a top heavy tax on oil companies.
Because Palin was a VERY good governor, and served the state's people very well. Whatever you think of Alaska's ownership of the oil and gas, by law and fact it is just that. So while Palin did get reform of both the process and prosecution of leases to the betterment of Alaska, she was doing what every good administrator does... Improve the process by finding weaknesses and fixing them.
Palin was an okay Governor. Not "VERY good" and not VERY bad either. She did a few things that were very popular with Alaskans, and a few things that really ticked off the legislature. She was elected during a time when both the Governor and the legislature were embroiled in corruption scandals. The FBI had just charged three legislators with accepting bribes in 2006.
Sarah Palin did make the AGIA process open and transparent, which was better than the way Murkowski dealt with the oil companies in secret. However, AGIA itself was a very bad idea and eventually went nowhere.
ACES was a complete bombshell, and she should have vetoed the legislation rather than sign it. However, due to the recent corruption in State government everyone was demanding an increase in the oil royalties. Many assumed that the State was allowing the oil companies to keep their profits because the State was corrupt, but that was not entirely the case.
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Originally Posted by pnwmdk
But the political process had become inbred, with insiders calling themselves the "corrupt bastards club", who openly took bribes and graft to make "deals" to favor this or that interest. Palin took it on, exposed the evil in HER party and reformed the process to make future dealings like this all but impossible via openness.
That part is certainly true, but she brought the ethics complaint against the leader of the Alaskan Republican Party, Randy Rudrick, long before she was elected Governor.
Of course Sarah Palin, her husband, and her children, were all demonized and degraded by the liberal media, repeatedly for years and still are today. One Democrat even set fire to her church, with children still inside. Only a complete idiot could think the Palins were not demonized and degraded by the liberal freaks.
Her governorship was also not "better than excellent." She held an 80% approval rating for two reasons: 1) She was not the corrupt Murkowski (the previous Governor) making backroom secret deals with the oil companies; and 2) She handed out a one-time $1,500 energy rebate to every Alaskan man, woman, and child as a publicity stunt in 2008.
The ACES legislation she signed into law (written by a Democrat no less) was the worst piece of legislation ever to be enacted in Alaska. Gov. Parnell has been trying to get ACES repealed since he took over for Palin in 2009. Alaska oil production is down because ACES increased the taxes on the oil companies from 20% to 25%. ACES slit Alaska's own throat, economically speaking, which is precisely what the Democrats had in mind. That was the biggest blunder of her career.
Her biggest achievement saved the State several hundred million dollars when she vetoed the entire Capital budget in 2007, forcing the legislature to override her veto where they could in order to get some of their pet projects funded. While popular with the public, unfortunately for Sarah it was the beginning of a deep hatred by the State legislature towards her, both Democrat and Republican alike.
Contrary to your belief, nobody in Alaska blames her for leaving her job. We agreed with her decision to leave. The completely bogus ethics complaints (18 within 6 months after the 2008 election) prevented her from doing her job as Governor and was costing her 5 times more than her annual salary (the State did not pay for her defense, she had to pay for it out of her own pocket).
She left for the good of the State, and everyone in Alaska agreed with that decision. Nobody blames her for leaving, and I seriously doubt she would have been reelected even is she had stayed in office.
To give you an idea how much the State legislature hated Sarah Palin, the day after she resigned the State legislature passed a law that would reimburse Governors if an ethics complaint proved to be frivolous, like the 18 against Sarah Palin were.
Over all, Sarah Palin was better than some of Alaska's Governors, and worse than others.
Sarah Palin is not eligible to run for any political office in Alaska. She has not been a resident of Alaska for at least two years, and she owns no property in Alaska any longer.
"Alaska...it's where I need to be. It's where I belong".
- Sarah Palin
I thought Palin's speech was quite good: well-written, well delivered. And, as I said earlier, I think she's a genuinely engaging person, and comes across very well. There were just a couple of problems. One, which I have seen people notice, but which I suspect won't be a big deal for a lot of voters, is that it had very little substance. The other, which the commenters I saw on TV for some reason neglected to mention, was that she told a lot of lies. A few that stood out for me, or that I spotted in my quick run-through of some blogs:
Palin: "To the families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House."
Sarah Palin might have changed her mind on this one recently. However, a comment here notes that Palin actually slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%.
Actually, the State legislature in 2008 moved the Special Academy out of special education management and became it's own separate program. The program's funding was increased by about $2.8 million (to $8,234,000 in FY08, from $5,449,300 in FY07).
Your deliberate lies have already been exposed a long time ago.
She is nothing but a typical know nothing RWNJ. Any kind of reality or truth is just plain and simply foreign to every cell in her body. She must think that everyone is as clueless is she is and everything she has done in public life is a secret. One story today , another tomorrow as if people have no memory, brains or any intellectual capacity whatsoever. She's like a twin to Michelle Bachmann, another nut job extraordinaire. the fact that these idiots can attain high levels in our governments is a sad comment on the state of our "Body politic". In case you just think I'm American bashing, we have them here too. Our entire federal government is full of Palinlike goofballs but Canadians are not so forgiving as Americans. Our goofs are sinking like the proverbial stone and thanks be for that.
The people that are more clueless and destructive than Sarah Palin are the liberal freaks.
If you think Democrats have party purity tests, you are mistaken. Any Democrat can voice his opinions as he chooses, even if others vehemently disagree. Democrats don't mind internal disagreements; it's a long party tradition.
However, if an Alaskan Republican would have said that, I'm sure we would be talking about it here now. Palin turned out to be the best friend Alaskan Democrats ever had.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Sarah Palin was hated equally by Democrats and Republicans alike in the legislature, while she enjoyed 80% popularity among the people.
I love how the right wingers here on CD are always starting new threads about the former half-term governor of Alaska, and then complain that us liberals are "obsessed" and "demonizing" her.
The truth is that most left wing voters aren't regarding Sarah Palin more than the dirt on the bottom of their shoes these days. The only people who even give her a thought these days are die hard Tea Party types.
You obviously are in denial. Just two weeks ago the liberal freaks in the media had this to say about Sarah Palin:
Im honestly not sure why anyone was even responding to this BS thread.
Alaska's current governor is a Republican and Palin's former Lieutenant Governor . There legislature is controlled by Republicans 13 to 7 in the Senate, and 26 to 14 in the House), so any repeal of her policies would have had to have been supported by atleast 1/3rd of the republican Party and her former Lieutenant governor.
The thing that is even worse about your argument is the tax itself, the very link you probably used (Newmax) says it was a top heavy tax on oil companies.
Are you Republicans against that ????
Actually, ACES was never Sarah Palin's policy. ACES was written by Hollis French, a hate-filled anti-American liberal freak who utterly despises Alaska and the US in general and would love to see both Alaska and the US completely destroyed.
Which is why ACES was a very bad law, and Sarah Palin's biggest mistake signing it. She should have vetoed it. The only morons who want to keep ACES are the State Democrats, as expected.
No, we have well established that you are the deliberate liar in this case. But that is not surprising coming from a Canadistani terrorist wannabe.
Well, sure! Anyone who doesn't worship at the feet of Simpleton Sarah, the Winking Wonder of Wasilla, Queen of the Perpetually Petulant and Perplexed, MUST be a terrorist!
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