The Alaskans Are Getting Restless....

this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on Campaign Trail in Georgia.

Alaska faces challenges that need attention now.

Anchorage - While Gov. Sarah Palin is out of state again, this time in Georgia campaigning for incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss on the eve of the runoff election, Alaska faces challenges including a lack of leadership from the Governor.

Palin will stump for Chambliss, the draft-evading incumbent Republican who waged a notoriously misleading campaign against a decorated war hero, at rallies Monday in Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah and Perry, Georgia. Palin has been back in Alaska at work for only a few days since running for vice president.

"Alaskans need our Governor here earning her salary and working on key problems facing Alaska families," said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Patti Higgins.

Alaska is facing significant challenges, Higgins said, including:

* Oil prices have dropped dramatically to about $45/bbl from the peak of $144/bbl in July, which threatens the state budget.
* Alaskans are paying some of the highest prices for gas in the nation, averaging $2.87 per gallon, while the national average is $1.91.
* The state's oil production continues to decline, due to falling prices and mature fields.
* The global credit crunch and falling natural gas prices threaten the Alaska gas line.
* The State is failing to meet its constitutional obligation to take care of public education as shown by the high drop out rates and the low graduation rates.
* Many Medicare patients cannot find doctors.
* There is continued flight from rural villages.
* Alaska faces the prospect of reduced federal dollars from Washington, D.C.

"Alaska's challenges are significant, and there is much that needs to be done right now. Our Governor should remember that her primary job is to work on behalf of the citizens of Alaska, not engage in partisan politics in other states," Higgins said. "Governing is more than creating photo ops. We'd like a commitment that the Governor is working, not just scheduling media appearances."

Enough is Enough! Someone needs to tell Sarah that SHE DIDN'T WIN. She has been paid for her governor job for months during a campaign. Show up or shut up.

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Comments

[labman57]

As I had predicted about a month ago, Palin may very well return to a much more hostile Alaska. She was riding on the coattails of an over-inflated price for a barrel of oil that delivered huge profits to her state. People were willing to give her a pass with respect to her management style so long as they shared a piece of the profit pie.

Well, the price of oil has plummeted and as a result, the Alaskan economy will suffer. Her statewide ratings have already dropped 20 points, and the increased scrutiny of her conduct while governor has given many Alaskans another perspective of her leadership. I suspect we have only seen the tip of her "mismanagement" and "abuse of power" iceberg.

By the next election cycle, Sarah Palin will very likely no longer have the positive image or clout to contend for the presidency. In fact, she may be lucky to get re-elected as governor.

[StephCaster]

You know, if Palin spends another year or so neglecting her duties as governor in pursuit of personal celebrity, she may come close to topping Mitt Romney's records as absentee governor of Massachusetts. Of course, to really top him, she'd have to change her position on ever issue she has previous campaigned on, and spend most of her time bad-mouthing Alaska.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

Maybe Alaskan's will learn from their mistakes..­...of voting her in in the first place.

[mandycat]

Oh, if only the Alaskan Independence Party could finally gets its wish. If Alaska were to secede, American would win in so very many ways. We could shut off the spigot on the Federal welfare pipeline that runs non-stop to Alaska. We could impose sanctions on Alaska as we do with other rogue nations like Liberia. We could deport Sarah Palin as a suspected security risk.

[K-Dog76]

What's she supposed to do, break out the duct tape?

[MysticMichael]

Please Alaska, take her back. And keep her there, will ya?

[mitsie]

Maybe she won't win another election there for anything

[LesserFool2]

I think Palin's alleged competence as governor was actually a case of being at the right place at the right time. Sort of like accidentally buy a dot.com stock on a rumor before it exploded in 1998. Pure luck.

But now that Black Gold ain't want it was, Palin may find herself actually having to work and think hard to find solutions that don't involve bending on her knee.

[Vixter]

I totally agree that she should GO HOME & do her job - or have her pay pro-rated for all of the days she hasn't been there. Don't forget that not only hasn't she been there for the citizens of AK, but she hasn't been there for her hubby; pregnant, unwed, teenage daughter; special needs son; and second grader who seems to be in need of maternal care. I say the last with the thought that Piper could really hurt herself if she fell while wearing high heels.

I thought that she couldn't wait to get back to the 'real America' - and Alaska PROMISED to take her back.

[AlFeldzamen]

It seemed a bit mysterious, why Governor Palin's health records were such a secret, and only released on the eve of the election.

She was adamantly determined to keep those personal health records from advanced public scrutiny, a most unusual stance for a candidate for such high office. What on earth was the lady hiding so grimly?

Could it be that, since the date of her first delivery is known and also the date of her marriage, being a public record, is also known . . . that her health records would reveal this first birth was not premature, but full term, and that it strongly indicated the conception occurred before her marriage?

And that is exactly what the medical record showed, that the birth of her first child was full "term," which means 9 months, plus or minus 2 weeks. Yet the lady gave birth only 8 months after her elopement marriage. Such marriages are often rushed, for pregnancy reasons, and that seems to have been the case here.

This certainly would have been damaging in the election for one who professes such fundamentalist views and such personal virtue as the Alaska governor. She, after all, has been an ardent promoter of premarital chastity and abstinence, and an equally ardent opponent of sex education.

Seems to make her a total hypocrite, no?

[ESerafina42]

I can't stand Palin, but given that she could cart her pregnant teenage daughter up on the stage with her in Minneapolis, and that she's alleged to have had an affair back in the 90s, HER getting pregnant before marriage REALLY wouldn't be the scandal you so fondly imagine that it would be.

[dsfrogger]

Go Home Palin! The majority of the lower 48 are sick of you! Now, if we can just get the media to leave her alone, she won't have any reason to be in our face constantly! Her Rove style of politics/agenda is not wanted anymore!
Indict Rove!

[JayinVegas]

Governor Palin will withdraw to the shadows of the media spotlight, because it takes more than one-liners and zingers to put you on the path to the highest office in the land. Speculatively, Gov. Palin might try to take on Sen. Murkowski for her (inherited) seat but not in time to be an effective candidate for 2012. Ted Stevens vacancy was her only chance at the big time, and we all know how that went. You might want to ask Uncle Rupert for your very own show like Huckabee or maybe hook up with Hannity for the meanest, fear mongering half-hour on TV.

[Vixter]

I think that SP will have to fight Elisabeth Hasselbeck (from The View) for that 'honor'.

[noamjunior]

if I lived in alaska I would be cool with Palin going to rallies in the lower 48- less damage she can do as guv

[youknowwhat]

If Palin wants to run for the White House and stump for neocon opportunist, she should give up that governing job, which the peope of Alaska elected her to do.

[MyGuyO]

Sarah Palin has bigger and better things in store for her future. "Forget Alaska" her motto.

[bubbuh]

Actually, the motto is "Forget Who?"

[Archivist1000]

You can't keep 'em on the farm when they've shopped at Saks!

www.palindeception.com

[benalbanach]

Shouldn't Alaskans ....well..­.y'know...­...Pray ?
That'll fix everything.