Palin Spent $50,000 In City Funds To Redecorate Mayor's Office, Ex-Colleague Says

Salon:

Sarah Palin has been touting herself as fiscal watchdog throughout her political career. But Palin's tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was characterized by waste, cronyism and incompetence, according to government officials in the Matanuska Valley, where she began her fairy-tale political rise.

"Executive abilities? She doesn't have any," said former Wasilla City Council member Nick Carney, who selected and groomed Palin for her first political race in 1992 and served with her after her election to the City Council.

Four years later, the ambitious Palin won the Wasilla mayor's office -- after scorching the "tax and spend mentality" of her incumbent opponent. But Carney, Palin's estranged former mentor, and others in city hall were astounded when they found out about a lavish expenditure of Palin's own after her 1996 election. According to Carney, the newly elected mayor spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office, without the council's authorization.

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Comments

[Angelic11]

Call in to right-winged talk radio shows and challenge their thinking; register new (younger voters);

I live in Detroit Michigan and there are 250,000 eligible/UN-REGISTERED VOTERS IN OUR CITY ALONE! I AM 50 PLUS AND I GET ON MY BIKE AND RIDE THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAILY TO REGISTER YOUNG FOLK, GET THEIR CELL PHONE NUMBERS SO I CAN FOLLOW-UP CALL ON ELECTION DAY.

Kathy Hughes claims to own Radio One has taken Al Sharpton, Warren Ballentine and a local known-to-support Obama host (Angelo Henderson) off of the air to replace them with bad gospel all day long. The only host left is Mildred Gaddis (6am-10:00am) and she only talks about the national election for five minutes before anyone here is really awake.

So I call (hard to get through...so be patient)
Rush,
Hannity,
Laura Ingraham
Dennis Prager
Dennis Miller
Michael Medved

and some of what I say gets through before they cut me off!

Don't give up! We can do this! We have to do this and it's a healthy fear that keeps me hacking away!

Peace and VICTORY IN '08 FOR OBAMA!

[franklin opt]

It's people like you, working behind the scenes and getting little or no recognition, who will correct the course of this country and keep it on target after the election. You inspire me. Thank you soooo much!

[4wehttam]

Yes, thank you Angelic11, it IS people like you that inspire the rest of us to get involved to better our country.

[jdw1981]

Of course Sarah decorated it to look like a bordello. She wanted all those Oil execs and Bush Interior Department appointees to feel at home when she hosted their "get-togethers."

Check this out:
http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=5107

Palin: "Drill now! Drill NOW!!!"

[sg096]

Gee, how big is her office?

[franklin opt]

Big enough for the moose trophy and the caribou, with full racks.

[KareninSac]

It's been 2-1/2 weeks since we've gotten to know Gov. Palin. That she's even still a viable candidate for VP of our nation is a demonstration of the incredibly bad judgment of Senator McCain, and the complete failure of our education system that has a nation thinking she's not such a bad idea. Is this really America at its best?

[patianneb]

CNN said last night her favorable numbers are down by 10% since Saturday....

[Whinger]

My name's Ma Baker, gimme all your money!

[Felicty]

Tracy Flick gone BERZERK.

[Bitsko]

I am looking forward to the John Waters flick.

[Felicty]

"Flocked, red wallpaper."

No surprises there!

[IndiePenDish]

And what's the difference between Bush and Palin?

[franklin opt]

Big hair.

[Bitsko]

Moose vs. Mousse?

[franklin opt]

Bush eats M&Ms. I get this from someone with relatives who work in DC.

[StandUpAmerica08]

McGimmick's second act of treason

FIRST it was giving up US secrets to save his behind
NOW it's 'selecting' a person who admits ALASKA is FIRST who clearly wears only the ALASKA pin to show her alignment with the API

McGimmick! SHOW ME THE HONOR! Come from behind that American Flag that you tainted and SHOW ME THE HONOR!

Your selection shows you're Just WORDS!

[nwmother]

What a person wears on their lapel is completely irrelevant, as are the stories spread around in 2000 by K Rove regarding mccain's pow experience.
We have too many real issues to focus on to be distracted by this kind of nonsense.
Taking the high road means sticking to pertinent issues of today.

[rocky786]

i dont give a $hit but i think that pin is meant for moms sending their kids to eye-raq or something...

[StandUpAmerica08]

This was/is pre blue pin.

She's running for President of Alaska!

A-L-A-S-K-A! That's the pin she wears and she makes it clear during her speeches, ALASKA is FIRST!

The COUNTRY of ALASKA is trying to take over the US and McGimmick will allow it becuase he's full of Gimmicks!

[BethStuart]

I suppose $50,000 would have paid for a lot of things the citizens of Wasilla could have really used.

It's good we can see what Palin's priorities were.

[rocky786]

rape kit perhaps?

[nwmother]

They didn't need it, they had $27 million in federal earmarks. Course, they could have used it to pay for rape kits, I guess.

[tel8034]

Jackie Kennedy raised funds and TASTEFULLY redecorated the White House.

Palin spends UNAUTHORIZED MONEY and creates a BORDELLO.

THERE ARE WOMEN AND THEN THERE ARE WOMEN ....................... SARAH IS NO JACKIE

[mike267]

Anyone else notice that on the (R) logo there is a yellow streak between the names?

McCain
--------------------*--------------------
Palin

Obama 08 or bust

[rocky786]

didn't get that $hit? lol

[southernfried]

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/All_50_States_of_the_Union_Voter_Registration_Information

[rocky786]

whats that $hit?!?

[DLSteinhardt]

Let's say it out loud: Gov. Sarah Palin is a crook: she spends money she's not authorized to spend, she thumbs her nose at the law, and she stiff-arms subpoenas, while holding a personal creed (let's not say "religion") that places allegiance to her faith above the oaths she takes for public office.

Put her in jail, but don't put her in the Vice Presidency.

[SwiftTiger]

Well...she IS born-again -- and she was Spiro Agnew in her previous incarnation. Let's hope that this time around she ends up resigning BEFORE she becomes VP...

[gfields1911]

People keep saying where's the proof to this story. Folks, this is very easy to prove. If the the city had to pay for it...then they should have a record of the expense. Go back and check the books for a $50,000 expense to remodel the mayor's office. Lets not make this harder than it needs to be.

[Bitsko]

The proof is in the pudding, in this case moose pudding.