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

[TullyMars]

... and the walls came down.

[westreal]

Sarah Palin as Mayor of Wasilla said... "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't."

Ding ding ding. That's the bell for America to wake up!

[marytny]

and then she cut the budget for Special Olympics....

She's a joke. Ignore her and she'll go away

[truthyguy]

Just another Palin lie. Why isn't someone doing a running list so the public can go to one source and be put wise to this pretender?

[HelloooCanada]

come on, now... who has that kind of bandwidth?

[Plank]

No wonder the first dude spent so much time in that office.

[jellinda]

two words, ully - KEATING FIVE

[PioneerKing]

Has anyone seen George W. Bush and Palin in the same place together side by side? NO

It all now makes sense why Bush was seen on stage not at the republican convention.

Bush is masquerading as an ultra conservative right wing woman - Palin.

There is no other explanation as to how Palin could have morphed into Bush and, now out Bushes John McCain.

It is simply uncanny and a whole lot scary, that everyday there is some new revelation that makes Palin look more like Bush than John McCain looks like Bush.

[Mort]

You may be on to something! But now you'll be under investigation.

[ensure]

Knowing what you know now, who do you believe can win the 2008 General Election?
http://www.sefermpost.com/sefermpost/polls.html

[Kay72403]

We keep receiving examples of what we can expect with Palin as a potential POTUS, disaster,waste,abuse of power, cronyism ad nauseum. So why are the polls so close? And Palin continues to rally the her base? What is wrong with US that we would even allow this farce to continue?

[muadibe]

The polls are close because rac_ism is obviously stronger than common sense.

[KarlaElisa]

Palin has given all her high school buddies jobs. She is the poster child for cronyism.

[MadasHellinATL]

Some tr0lls are "ully" stupid

Republicans have run the WH for the past 8 years
Republicans have run Congress for 12 out of the past 14 years

And they are going to bring reform and change...you've got to be joking or just "ully" stupid

[SekhmetHathor]

She's empty and egotistical. It is all about her. She's a superstar now.

[Biracial1]

And victims of rape had to pay for their own kits.

[jeffp26]

But not if they were her daughters, and they were "working."

[BethStuart]

I thought it couldn't get any weirder. I was wrong.

[Chapmanp2]

What a breath of fresh air...
Such a reformer.