So her daughter is pregnant, my nephew just got married and his wife was six months pregnant, big woopi. Happens to the best of families, been there done that myself about 40 years ago, so I can't say anything bad about it. We all make mistakes when we are young, just some are a little worse than others. At least now they can stop saying that Sara's baby Trig is really her Grand baby.
As for her raising Taxes, yes she raised taxes for the big oil companies, not for Alaskans. We benefit from those tax increases, that is what runs our state. That is where the money is coming from for the energy assistance we are getting the 12th of this month. Actually all she did was increase the taxes to where they should have been all along. Previous administrations had given big oil a huge tax break back during some hard times, and never got around to raising them back after the hard times were over (for like 10 or 12 years).
As for the bad things coming out of Anchorage, a very disgruntled opponent is creating a lot of it, especially about her Ex-brother-in-law. Sara hired a new Chief of public safety, with instructions to hire 50 new Troopers within two years. The new chief bowed to the union and did not hire the new troopers, giving out the money as overtime, a practice Sara wanted to stop. All this over time inflates the amount the trooper will receive in retirement. Another thing Sara wanted to slow down. When things did not go as she directed she fired the Chief, which was her prerogative.
When that happened this disgruntled opponent started making up stuff on blogs to discredit her. The trooper in question (Sara's Ex-brother-In-Law) should have been fired a long time ago. If you or I had done what he did we would have gone to prison, but again he was protected by the strong union. The union not only protected him, but was able to keep him on the force. Finally a member of Sara's staff got into the program and made some phone calls to get rid of this very bad apple after some of his antics came to light. Now all kind of rumors are flying and they are all a bunch of BS.
It does not matter who McCain picked the dems are going to make up all kinds of stuff. Like the one about Trig being Crystal's baby, simply because she was holding the baby during Sara's speach. Now we know that was a lie.
