packmule

Sep 14 2008, 05:34 AM

Here's an interesting article about Sarah Palin, which touches on her governing style: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691018

From the article:

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So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she(Sarah Palin) appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency

This smacks of cronyism to me.

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When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects

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Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials

My concerns about Sarah Palin as the VP of the United States have just become decidedly more acute.