Palin Hired Friends And Hit Critics While In Office

Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she 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.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[imright606]

what?

[Wild West]

A go to source for progressive Alaskan coverage of the Sarah Palin saga
http://mudflats.wordpress.com, they do a good job.

[kav1]

dear desert light, if you're out there:

A bunch of people owning homes when they should never have been approved for mortgages is not an example of people and the economy doing well under Bush. Its more like a fundamental error that taxpayers are paying for, literally, right now with Freddie and Fannie, etc..

[AzRealProgressive]

Did you see where the fat cats who rand Freddie Mac/Fannie ended up? one of them is the head of the VP search committee for Obama. Made off with his millions. And I understand there are a few more of thos on the Obama staff. Care to comment? And Chris Dodd was #1 in money from tem, and guess who #2 was? Obama.

[Chicago48]

Unfortunately, no one wants to admit it but Palin is the real outsider running in this election and she has a record of reform and giving back to the people. As for her appointing her friends -- this is a non-story....somebody should mention that Pres. Clinton brought the whole state of Arkansas with him when he went to Washington. Everybody in his cabinet practically was from Arkansas. Stuff like that happens in all levels of politics.
I am still waiting for some real "meaty" expose' about this woman, something that she's done illegally. Ethically they have all done some things wrong including Mr. Obama who I support. But let's be real, the newspapers need to find something more damning than this.

[AzRealProgressive]

You make some good points about past candidates. Kennedy appointed his brother as attorney general. It seems the expose stuff keeps falling by the way side. What has happened is that more than one ideologue has stepped on themselves trying to discredit Palin, and one has really done it up by hacking the mail.

[ThePublicRecord]

http://www.pubrecord.org/politics/320-palin-says-she-has-broad-authority-to-look-at-private-state-files.html

Palin Says She Has Power To Peek At Private State Employee Files

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is maneuvering to stop an investigation into an alleged abuse of power, in part, by claiming that she has an unlimited right to pry into the personnel records of all state employees, including the state trooper who divorced her sister.

Palin"s new position was summed up in a Sept. 9 letter from Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg to the state legislature, which has authorized an independent counsel probe into whether Palin and her staff illegally accessed confidential personnel records of her ex-brother-in-law, state trooper Mike Wooten.

The probe also focuses on Palin"s firing of state Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan in July after he refused to fire Wooten.

Colberg"s argument is that Palin can access confidential files of any state employee she chooses and thus the allegation that she got unauthorized access to Wooten"s personnel records " by whatever means " is moot.

[AzRealProgressive]

Alaska has a public records law. Employee personnel files are considered public information. In most entities anyone at an executive level has the ability to access records.

[JungleRoses]

So how connected is Sarah Palin to Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from the state? Is Wal-Mart behind the scenes in the McCain/Palin ticket?

[optech007]

Funny how a woman who's is so secretive and vindictive has an 80% approval rating.

[AzRealProgressive]

Could it be that she is not?

[collima]

What are the Democrats thinking???? ;-)


McCain's Judgment "Make No Mistake!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpIfTDHG2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWUS0J9Pt9U

Some much FUBAR Challenges - McCain in support of bush policies

MUST SEE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y1qcma0Q4

We've Had ENOUGH!

[AdultFilmLegend]

"Personal Vendettas... Censorship... Cronyism...
Secrecy And Lying..."

Before I read the article I thought this was about the NYT, not an item inside of it.

[Chicago48]

LOL.
Just what I wrote above....she hasn't done anything that other local politicians haven't done as far as appointing friends and cronies.....just look at your local governments to see that.

The newspapers need to bring something more substantive about her. And isn't it something that we're still headlining PALIN instead of BIDEN and even OBAMA. She's still a big story.

[NoFences]

The story is: no one in my local government is running for V.P. - as should be the case with Palin. If you join the presidential campaign be ready for your life to be inspected.

[MaryT63]

Why are so many people surprised about gov palin's ideology and tactics. The conservatives have been pushing this conservative agenda for the past 40 years. They have patiently put all their ducks in a row over the years with their think tanks, right-wing communications networks, etc. Everything we hear have a conservative ring to it. Every question asked is from the conservative point of view. We are seeing and living the fruition of their efforts - wars, sleazy politics, financial systems crashing, corporate welfare, high cost of everything, flat line wages, God, guns, lies, coverups, privatizing government and military.
McBush and Palin represent what America how turned into, brought to us by 40 years of conservatives plotting, scheming, stealing elctions. They rule by bluster, misinformation, distortions, religiosity and propaganda. And they are good at it all. But will the america people buy the bull again.

[AzRealProgressive]

Nobody ever stole an election in the last 40 years. the last stolen election was JFK in 1960 when Daley handed him Illinois. Projection behavior.

[demfriend]

I had to check a couple of times to make sure the subject was Palin and not a Barack Obama Hate group get together and blog session! Moderators who are supposed to keep people on subject must be off doodling or something here. Anyway, people should be scared really scared at the amount of truth coming out about Palin. This stuff is on multiple sites so no lying done but yet people are not wanting to know she is like a bad nightmare of Bush/Cheney all rolled up into a youngish female. Why are people so willing to overlook all of this and believe anything the GOP has to say? But also how much time and effort should be paid to this woman who could care very little about you or me except to pander for a vote? Men will vote for her unfortunaely as they have in the past because she's a hunter/fisher/female and who cares about the rest? If anything to get to these guys and point out their own wife or daughter could be raped and she might charge them for the DNA test or make the abortion they need illegal so they might have to support the rapist's kid. Truth like that might wake some up.

[happyjoy]

Why aren't you saying anything on Barack Hussein Obama's record in Chicago.
Clearly, you know it is true, so there is nothing to defend.
She is the real thing.
I guess you believe the media sent to Alaska to find dirt on her life. Even Obama sent a whole division out there.
You may think it is news but they can't find anything.
They are just inventing stuff about who said what and then they said that.
Even the article above has no proof on anything.
She hired friends so what at least they are not friends like Obama's Bill Ayers.
That just says it all.

[reliant1]

the senators record is long and well recorded. there is no need for me to repeat it for a trollz.

the desperation is palpable amongst all of you.

that just says it all.

[Darkdonnie]

He has always surrounded himself with questionable people like George Soros, William Ayers and Bernadine D. self proclaimed terrorlst; rev Wright his raclst, American h@ting pastor for 20 plus years. Yea really smart! Bet he wishes he could take those decisions back. Except for Geo. who will probably be on his staff (with his hand in the sock puppet that is Obama)

[Darkdonnie]

He has always surrounded himself with questionable people like George Soros, William Ayers and Bernadine D. self proclaimed terrorist; rev Wright his racist, american h@ting pastor for 20 plus years. Yea really smart! Bet he wishes he could take those decisions back. Except for Geo. who will probably be on his staff (with his hand in the sock puppet that is Obama)

[happyjoy]

it is really amazing.
Here is a woman so real and awseome with tons of records.
There we have a community organizer who organized what.
Has anything changed in Chicago. More people died there in a month, than a year in Irak.
Clearly he failed to organize his own neighbourhood.
It is just a reality, sorry folks.

[reliant1]

your distractions will not work.

the tons of records show a failed executive.

a woman married to a tr ai tor.

so real and so awesome that you'll profess to sharing her tr eas on...that is the choice you make?

[Darkdonnie]

Obama cited Wright as his mentor, his spiritual father, and even titled his last book after a famous Wright sermon. Did Palin have that kind of relationship with Joe Vogel? How many years was she a member of aip? 0 years. Years O was a member of a raclst, antl-American church 20+ years. You know David Duke was a member of the Kl@n for fewer years and he denounced them to. How did that work out for him?

[reliant1]

no one wants to tell us what it's like to promote tr ea son and tr ai tors?

puma got your tongues?

[AzRealProgressive]

Traitors? I think you need to learn the definition, then get back to us. Usually by the 7th grade you should have a good handle on that.

[reliant1]

Yoo Hooooo

tr ai tors...

give us some answers.

buff up that chinese made flag pin stuck thru your nose and tell us how it feels to support real live

tr ai tors.

[Darkdonnie]

Obama cited Wright as his mentor, his spiritual father, and even titled his last book after a famous Wright sermon. Did Palin have that kind of relationship with Joe Vogel? How many years was she a member of aip? 0 years. Years O was a member of a raclst, antl-American church 20+ years. You know David Duke was a member of the Kl@n for fewer years and he denounced them to. How did that work out for him?

[Clemonc]

True McCain supporter!!!! Keep saying the same thing over and over

[Darkdonnie]

Coherent statement or question please!