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Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« on: September 05, 2008, 10:26:16 AM »
I don't know who this Anne Kilenny woman is or if she even exist, but apparently there are people not impressed with Ms.Palin. Anne claims to be from Ms. Palin's home town and is a political opponent to one degree or another. Here is her letter and take on the Wonder Woman, Sara Palin. She sheds some light on experience, budget/fiscal handling, taxes, and her methods....not all glowing as media has reported the imagery to be. If you're smitten by Ms. Palin you won't like this too much. Me, I'm not smitten by any politician no matter how cute and folksy the image.......FYI____   TM7:

Dear friends,

So many people have asked me about what I know about Sarah Palin in the last 2 days that I decided to write something up . . .

Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common:  their gender and their good looks.  :)

You have my permission to forward this to your friends/email contacts with my name and email address attached, but please do not post it on any websites, as there are too many kooks out there . . .

Thanks,
Anne


ABOUT SARAH PALIN

I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska.  I have known Sarah since 1992.   Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools.   Her father was my child's favorite substitute teacher.   I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law.  I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city.

She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school.  Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe". 

**It is astonishing and almost scary how well she can keep a secret.  She kept her most recent pregnancy a secret from her children and parents for seven months.

She is "pro-life".  She recently gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby.  There is no cover-up involved, here; Trig is her baby. 

She is energetic and hardworking.  She regularly worked out at the gym.

She is savvy.  She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit.

Her husband works a union job on the North Slope for BP and is a champion snowmobile racer.  Todd Palin's kind of job is highly sought-after because of the schedule and high pay.  He arranges his work schedule so he can fish for salmon in Bristol Bay for a month or so in summer, but by no stretch of the imagination is fishing their major source of income.  Nor has her life-style ever been anything like that of native Alaskans.

Sarah and her whole family are avid hunters.

She's smart.

Her experience is as mayor of a city with a population of about 5,000 (at the time), and less than 2 years as governor of a state with about 670,000 residents. 

During her mayoral administration most of the actual work of running this small city was turned over to an administrator.   She had been pushed to hire this administrator by party power-brokers after she had gotten herself into some trouble over precipitous firings which had given rise to a recall campaign.

Sarah campaigned in Wasilla as a "fiscal conservative". During her 6 years as Mayor, she increased general government expenditures by over 33%. During those same 6 years the amount of taxes collected by the City increased by 38%. This was during a period of low inflation (1996-2002).    She reduced progressive property taxes and increased a regressive sales tax which taxed even food.  The tax cuts that she promoted benefited large corporate property owners way more than they benefited residents.

The huge increases in tax revenues during her mayoral administration weren't enough to fund everything on her wish list though, borrowed money was needed, too. She inherited a city with zero debt, but left it with indebtedness of over $22 million. What did Mayor Palin encourage the voters to borrow money for? Was it the infrastructure that she said she supported? The sewage treatment plant that the city lacked?  or a new library? No. $1m for a park. $15m-plus for construction of a multi-use sports complex which she rushed through to build on a piece of property that the City didn't even have clear title to, that was still in litigation 7 yrs later--to the delight of the lawyers involved!  The sports complex itself is a nice addition to the community but a huge money pit, not the profit-generator she claimed it would be.  She also supported bonds for $5.5m for road projects that could have been done in 5-7 yrs without any borrowing. 

While Mayor, City Hall was extensively remodeled and her office redecorated more than once.

These are small numbers, but Wasilla is a very small city.

As an oil producer, the high price of oil has created a budget surplus in Alaska.  Rather than invest this surplus in technology that will make us energy independent and increase efficiency, as Governor she proposed distribution of this surplus to every individual in the state.

**In this time of record state revenues and budget surpluses, she recommended that the state borrow/bond for road projects, even while she proposed distribution of surplus state revenues: spend today's surplus, borrow for needs.

She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise.  As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren't generated by her or her staff.  **Ideas weren't evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them.

While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed.  City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin's attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter.  People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.

Sarah complained about the "old boy's club" when she first ran for Mayor, so what did she bring Wasilla? A new set of "old boys".  Palin fired most of the experienced staff she inherited.(uncommon in small towns)  At the City and as Governor she hired or elevated new, inexperienced, obscure people, creating a staff totally dependent on her for their jobs and eternally grateful and fiercely loyal--loyal to the point of abusing their power to further her personal agenda, as she has acknowledged happened in the case of pressuring the State's top cop (see  below).

As Mayor, Sarah fired Wasilla's Police Chief because he "intimidated" her, she told the press. As Governor, her recent firing of Alaska's top cop has the ring of familiarity about it.  He served at her pleasure and she had every legal right to fire him, but it's pretty clear that an important factor in her decision to fire him was because he wouldn't fire her sister's ex-husband, a State Trooper.   Under investigation for abuse of power, she has had to admit that more than 2 dozen contacts were made between her staff and family to the person that she later fired, pressuring him to fire her ex-brother-in-law. She tried to replace the man she fired with a man who she knew had been reprimanded for sexual harassment; when this caused a public furor, she withdrew her support.

She has bitten the hand of every person who extended theirs to her in help. The City Council person who personally escorted her around town introducing her to voters when she first ran for Wasilla City Council became one of her first targets when she was later elected Mayor.  She abruptly fired her loyal City Administrator; even people who didn't like the guy were stunned by this ruthlessness.   

Fear of retribution has kept all of these people from saying anything publicly about her.

When then-Governor Murkowski was handing out political plums, Sarah got the best, Chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission: one of the few jobs not in Juneau and one of the best paid.   She had no background in oil & gas issues.  Within months of scoring this great job which paid $122,400/yr, she was complaining in the press about the high salary. I was told that she hated that job:  the commute, the structured hours, the work. Sarah became aware that a member of this Commission (who was also the State Chair of the Republican Party) engaged in unethical behavior on the job.    ***In a gutsy move which some undoubtedly cautioned her could be political suicide, Sarah solved all her problems in one fell swoop: got out of the job she hated and garnered gobs of media attention as the patron saint of ethics and as a gutsy fighter against the "old boys' club" when she dramatically quit, exposing this man's ethics violations (for which he was fined).

As Mayor, she had her hand stuck out as far as anyone for pork from Senator Ted Stevens.   Lately, she has castigated his pork-barrel politics and publicly humiliated him.  She only opposed the "bridge to nowhere" after it became clear that it would be unwise not to.

As Governor, she gave the Legislature no direction and budget guidelines, then made a big grandstand display of line-item vetoing projects, calling them pork.  Public outcry and further legislative action restored most of these projects--which had been vetoed simply because she was not aware of their importance--but with the unobservant she had gained a reputation as "anti-pork".

She is solidly Republican:  no political maverick. The State party leaders hate her because she has bit them in the back and humiliated them.  Other members of the party object to her self-description as a fiscal conservative.

Around Wasilla there are people who went to high school with Sarah. They call her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her unbridled ambition and predatory ruthlessness.  Before she became so powerful, very ugly stories circulated around town about shenanigans she pulled to be made point guard on the high school basketball team.  When Sarah's mother-in-law, a highly respected member of the community and experienced manager, ran for Mayor, Sarah refused to endorse her.
As Governor, she stepped outside of the box and put together of package of legislation known as "AGIA" that forced the oil companies to march to the beat of her drum. 

Like most Alaskans, she favors drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.    She has questioned if the loss of sea ice is linked to global warming.  She campaigned "as a private citizen" against a state initiaitive that would have either a) protected salmon streams from pollution from mines, or b) tied up in the courts all mining in the state (depending on who you listen to).  She has pushed the State's lawsuit against the Dept. of the Interior's decision to list polar bears as threatened species.

McCain is the oldest person to ever run for President; Sarah will be a heartbeat away from being President.

There has to be literally millions of Americans who are more knowledgeable and experienced than she.

However, there's a lot of people who have underestimated her and are regretting it.


CLAIM VS FACT
•"Hockey mom":  true for a few years
•"PTA mom":  true years ago when her first-born was in elementary school, not since
•"NRA supporter":  absolutely true
•social conservative:  mixed.  Opposes gay marriage, BUT vetoed a bill that would have denied benefits to employees in same-sex relationships (said she did this because it was unconsitutional).
•pro-creationism:  mixed.  Supports it, BUT did nothing as Governor to promote it.
•"Pro-life":  mixed.  Knowingly gave birth to a Down's syndrome baby BUT declined to call a special legislative session on some pro-life legislation
•"Experienced":  Some high schools have more students than Wasilla has residents.  Many cities have more residents than the state of Alaska.  No legislative experience other than City Council.  Little hands-on supervisory or managerial experience; needed help of a city administrator to run town of about 5,000.
•political maverick: not at all
•gutsy:  absolutely! 
•open & transparent:  ???  Good at keeping secrets.  Not good at explaining actions.
•has a developed philosophy of public policy:  no
•"a Greenie":  no.  Turned Wasilla into a wasteland of big box stores and disconnected parking lots.  Is pro-drilling off-shore and in ANWR. 
fiscal conservative:  not by my definition!
•pro-infrastructure:  No.  Promoted a sports complex and park in a city without a sewage treatment plant or storm drainage system.  Built streets to early 20th century standards.
•pro-tax relief:  Lowered taxes for businesses, increased tax burden on residents
•pro-small government:  No. Oversaw greatest expansion of city government in Wasilla's history.
•pro-labor/pro-union.  No.  Just because her husband works union doesn't make her pro-labor.  I have seen nothing to support any claim that she is pro-labor/pro-union. 

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt.  But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future:  that's life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

CAVEATS
I am not a statistician.  I developed the numbers for the increase in spending & taxation 2 years ago (when Palin was running for Governor) from information supplied to me by the Finance Director of the City of Wasilla, and I can't recall exactly what I adjusted for:  did I adjust for inflation?  for population increases?   Right now, it is impossible for a private person to get any info out of City Hall--they are swamped.   So I can't verify my numbers. 

You may have noticed that there are various numbers circulating for the population of Wasilla, ranging from my "about 5,000", up to 9,000.  The day Palin's selection was announced a city official told me that the current population is about 7,000.  The official 2000 census count was 5,460.  I have used about 5,000 because Palin was Mayor from 1996 to 2002, and the city was growing rapidly in the mid-90's.

Anne Kilkenny

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2008, 10:44:10 AM »
"Basically, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have only 2 things in common:  their gender and their good looks."

It appears this "story" starts out with a complete bold faced lie. The good looks thing is definitly false about Mrs Kankle Hilary, and I am suspicious about the gender part being true for Hitlary also.   :D :D :D
 
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2008, 12:27:11 PM »
Yup when you start out with such a clear lie it's hard to believe any of what follows. You state she is a political opponent yet expect us to take at face value what she says? Gimme a break.


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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2008, 01:45:37 PM »
Explain to me exactly, how this is any different than all the emails about Obama that has been circulating for around two years?  The only difference is that this one at least has a name of the author, which still could be false, but at least it is a name!  Why so quick to believe that Obama is a secret Muslim, but not to believe this?

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2008, 01:52:40 PM »
Wow, she does really exist and DID send that email!!!!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/kilkenny.asp

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2008, 02:06:21 PM »
It is going to be interesting to see how Caribou Barbie stands up to the media onslaught. Politics might be the world's toughest sport.

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2008, 03:11:33 PM »
Dakot, what you have seemed to miss is that the writer starts out with the outright lies about the 2 things Sarah and Hitlary have in common, the good looks is definitly a lie, and Hildebeasts gender is questionable. :D :D
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2008, 04:01:37 PM »
I don't know who this person is, but I personally will say that this is a bunch of Lies.  Talk to anyone from the city of Wasilla, they will tell you Sara Palin got the city out of debt, she stopped the high property taxes.  And as for a sales tax?  The only two towns in Alaska (at least on the road system)  that have sales taxes are Soldotna, and North Pole, and all Alaskans know that.  Therefore nobody shops in Soldotna and North Pole.  I have never paid a sales tax in Wasilla, and we go down there two or three times a year.  When we go down there my wife always does a lot of shopping so if they had a sales tax I would know about it.  Therefore it is appearant the person writing this article is not from Alaska.  Just more trash being made up to discredit Sara Palin.

As for the Hocky thing, I've seen her and Todd at hockey games.  My son played high school hockey so we went to the hockey games both down south (Anchorage and Wasilla area) and here in Fairbanks.  Sara, Todd, and the kids, all attended Hockey games.

Wasilla is the fastest growing town in Alaska.  Yes they have gotten big box stores there in the last 10 years, but also lots of small businesses as well.  They have the best sports complex in the state, wish we had something like it here in Fairbanks.  The population is exploding down there. 

Todd Palins job:  he works on the slope as a production worker, a blue coller job.  As for it being highly coveted, na!  They have offered those jobs to me several times, I decided no HXXl no.  I would like the hours, which are rather nice.  Some are two weeks on one week off, others are three weeks on, two weeks off.  that part is nice, but I don't want to go the the North Slope where it is 60 below week in and week out, with winds that you can hardly stand in.  No sunshine, darkness for three months straight.  No thank you I'll stay where I am.     

I googled her name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska) and came up with about 10 sites, all anti some one, and a few anti Palin.  But at the one site where her letter is posted there is a disclamer at the top that says the interviewer does not know if this person really exist.  Imagine that.

Some of those web sites look like this person is taking on the world, Anne v Jessicia, Anne v Sonja,  Anne v Charmain  If this person is real, then they are what I consider a professional blogger.  Someone who is in it either for hate or the money.
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2008, 04:45:40 PM »
This letter was circulating around the net very shortly after she was annouced to be the VP pick.  Saw it on one of the city talk forums.  Have no idea where it came from...but I figure the news has come up with false documents and everything else...so hey...I take it with a truck full of salt.

One thing is true for sure...she has political enemies.   Good.  I would imagine running against a politician and then doing things like putting his State jet on Ebay...would have made some enemies forever.  I read this jet thing back in 2006...that news article is still out there somewhere I bet.  Somewhere else I think I read where she took pics of herself standing in front of it with a sign...that said jet for sale or something...don't know if that is true or not, but rubbing it in would be fun too eh? Anyways, the Ebay thing was a real news article.

you can bet people are going to try to get her...and it will get pretty bad. 

Just wish I coulda done something like that...like I wish I could take Granholm's (Michigan) job and put her stuff on Ebay...




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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2008, 08:31:54 PM »
Sourdough, and others:

Sarah did indeed help Wasilla property owners, but there is a sales tax.  In fact, all three Mat-Su cities have a sales tax ranging from 2% in Houston to 3% in Palmer, with Wasilla in the middle at 2.5%.  Sales tax is capped in that it is only levied on the first $500 in Wasilla and Houston or the first $1000 of sales in Palmer.  No one is hit very hard, and Wasilla has been able to set the property tax rate to 0.00 for at least the past 3 years I've been here because the sales tax generates enough revenue to fund the city.

This sounds good to me, and I wish it were true for the rest of the borough.  If you don't believe me, look up the codes of the 3 cities.  They are all online.  I shop in Wasilla several times a week and helped to write the Houston sales tax code.

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« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2008, 09:22:23 PM »
muskeg13:  I'll take your word for it, but it is a total surprise for me.  The last three times we went down we did not stop in Wasilla except to eat.  We did all our shopping in Anchorage.  The games were in Anchorage.  Wow you just blew me out of the water.  For years I have been telling the tourist that the only sales tax in the state was in Soldotna and North Pole.  And it was for many years.  I sure was not aware of that change.

OK guys I stand corrected, Wasilla, Palmer, and Houston, have sales tax.  My mistake.
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« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2008, 07:01:25 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2008, 07:24:24 AM »
Dakot, what you have seemed to miss is that the writer starts out with the outright lies about the 2 things Sarah and Hitlary have in common, the good looks is definitly a lie, and Hildebeasts gender is questionable. :D :D

 ;D ;D ;D  Dude, I can't argue that one with you!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2008, 07:45:13 AM »
do you notice how closely Anne Kilkenny and TM7's style and attitude seem to match? ??? Take a little dirt or even no dirt and put the right spin on it so it seems soooooo deceitful. 
Then again, maybe Anne Kilkenny is one of Michelle's pen names.  :D

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2008, 09:55:22 AM »
Could be a case of sour grapes too.  Some quotes from her letter.

"Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.
Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable."   And "She is enormously popular; in every way she's like the most popular girl in middle school.  Even men who think she is a poor choice and won't vote for her can't quit smiling when talking about her because she is a "babe".

Plus the writer contradicts herself first saying that she doesn't make her own decisions ..."She doesn't take positions; she just "puts things out there" and if they prove to be popular, then she takes credit." Then goes on to say Palin is bull headed and does not listen to others opinions..."She's not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise."   So which is it?

80% of Alaskan's think highly of her the other 20% may have had their toes stepped on by her.

Just a thought.

 



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« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2008, 10:14:12 AM »
Brett you are right.  The 20% that don't like her are oil company people, members of the teachers union, and Sour Grapes that she defeated so badly during the election.  My brother lives in Dallas Texas.  He asked me about Sara, because his new neighbor is from Anchorage.  Her husband is a teacher, and due to Sara's policies on education they hate her.  The woman will not elaborate as to why, but we Alaskans feel our teachers are over paid and under qualified to be teachers.  We have made Sara well aware of that.  Sara does support Home Schooling, and the teachers union feels very threatened by that.
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2008, 10:18:20 AM »
I would agree that there are people who don't like her, don't agree with her,  and don't agree with her views...obviously,  look at how many people are divided these days.  The Ebay thing is true...it was on there,  they say it didn't sell...so they sold it another way...I'm thinking she put it on there to twist the knife...LOL...who knows why.  I only now I read a news article from 2006 on it.  If we never met her, we only have reputation to go by, I've heard of her a handfull of times over the past few years, and it was very favorable, before she got picked for VP that is.  
I do know this...if you have that many tax payers liking you, there would have to be both dems and reps in an approval rating that big.  Somebody must have been doing something right, or shook something up.  I doubt if there will be a candidate for president or VP that makes 100 % of the people all warm and fuzy, too many views out there. I'll take anything fresh for a change, if there is something in the record that proves they did something for the people, it's more than usual.  It's not like we have a lot to choose from...but there is always worse.  Much worse.  I'm an independent, no party loyalty here,  I'm getting taxed to death for no apparent reason. Got people in politics telling me they will "fix" that...no, please don't fix it again...just give me my own money back,  that will take care of a bunch of "issues"...that eveybody seems to be all hung up on.  Enough taxes come out of my paychecks each month to make a house payment...bout 900 bucks a month...not including property tax, and a bunch of others.  I can solve the issues.  Give me 70 percent of what you steal from me back you just took care of Affordable housing, retirement, the economy, plus the added bonus of ciculating all that money is that it gets taxes a bunch more times before it gets all the way back...so even the government makes out.  You also don't have as many people saying they need a wage increase, cause hey, guess what, I guesss I do make pretty good monay after all...if they stop confiscating so much of it.  That gives your business a break too if the people that work for them are making enough money...and nobody is taking it all.  Give the businesses a break too while they are at it.

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2008, 10:38:03 AM »
One thing that is very important to Alaskans, energy!!!!!!!!!!  We heat with heating oil.  Everyone outside of Anchorage, uses either furl oil or propane.  The price of heating oil has jumped to $8.00 a gallon in the rural areas.  It is well over $4.00 a gallon here in Fairbanks.  Our electricity is also produced by fuel oil, that runs the price of electricity up to where many people are turning off the main breaker at night.  Many of us are using wood and coal for supplemental heating, not because we want to, but because we have to.  We don't have the money  for a full tank of oil every two or three months.  At $4.30 a gallon that is $2150.00 a tank.  And when the temp drops to 50 or 65 below you have to have heat, and lots of it.

Sara has come up with a plan to give us back some of the excess oil money the state receives from the sale of our oil.  All Alaskans will get $1200.00 on the 12th of Sept to help with heating our homes this winter.  Maybe this will save some people's home this winter.  It's pretty bad when you run out of oil, and don't have the money to buy more.  In three to five hours your house will freeze, and once that happens in some cases it is lost till spring.
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« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2008, 10:43:44 AM »
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #19 on: September 06, 2008, 02:38:25 PM »
One thing that is very important to Alaskans, energy!!!!!!!!!!  We heat with heating oil. 

Why heating oil?  I only thought that was popular in the New England states...

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #20 on: September 06, 2008, 03:45:58 PM »
let the character assissins come.   america sees them for what they are.  they more they smear her, the more america will embrace and love her.  the liberals hate her because they know their goose is cooked.   ;)

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #21 on: September 06, 2008, 04:35:47 PM »
Dakota:  With the exception of Anchorage and some people on the Kenai and Southeastern, almost all Alaskans use heating oil to heat their homes.  our electrical plants also burn oil to produce electricity.  Without it we go dark and freeze.  The North eastern states don't use nothing near the volume we use.  It's not that it's popular, it's the only thing we have.  We would love to have Natural Gas, big oil has been sitting on it for over 30 years.  Sara Palin has finally got something going to get us Natural Gas here in the Interior.   
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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #22 on: September 07, 2008, 12:01:00 PM »
Anne Kilkenny is real.  The Anchorage Daily News ran an article on her today.  Suprise, surprise, she turns out to be a long time democrat supporter.

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #23 on: September 07, 2008, 12:21:57 PM »
Has anyone other than me noticed that when something is written about a conservative putting them in a bad light it's always a fair and balanced report per our resident liberals but when the same happens to a liberal they are just picking on the liberal and telling lies. Strange how that works with our resident liberals on here. That's the way the ALWAYS see it.


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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #24 on: September 07, 2008, 02:36:39 PM »
one has to take it for what it is....and everyone who wants to know what it is, knows it is just smearing. 

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #25 on: September 07, 2008, 02:47:34 PM »
Anne Kilkenny is real.  The Anchorage Daily News ran an article on her today.  Suprise, surprise, she turns out to be a long time democrat supporter.

http://www.adn.com/politics/story/518490.html



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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #26 on: September 07, 2008, 04:05:38 PM »
Has anyone other than me noticed that when something is written about a conservative putting them in a bad light it's always a fair and balanced report per our resident liberals but when the same happens to a liberal they are just picking on the liberal and telling lies. Strange how that works with our resident liberals on here. That's the way the ALWAYS see it.

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Re: Fair and Balanced...Letter from Alaska on Ms. Palin
« Reply #27 on: September 07, 2008, 06:00:59 PM »
no one ever takes the time to write a "fair and balanced" letter about any politican. why would they?
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« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2008, 03:45:29 AM »
and how much biting can she do as the VP ??
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« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2008, 05:38:10 AM »
as VP I would presume she will back up the Presz so it would be up to him to keep her on the leash.
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