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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"Enough is Enough! Someone needs to tell Sarah that SHE DIDN'T WIN."
Actually, she did win. She won among the Pithecanthropi all over this wonderful nation; also, she now has a whole lota' clothes she could have afforded but were given to her by the RNC; she has had and continues to have national exposure--the press continues to fall all over itself covering her every move; she doesn't have to lift a finger in order to stay in the Republican hierarchy because idiocy is their forte; she doesn't have to improve her reading or oratory skills, the Pithecanthropi love her the way she is; she made it through the campaign without being seriously questioned about her ties to witchcraft, Alaska secession, book burning, and every other perverse connection that the Pithecantrropi and the press really don't want to hear about.
"SHE DIDN'T WIN"? In this wonderful nation of ours, winners and losers are determined by constant exposure or lack of same. In the case of the Artic Queen from the North, there is no bad publicity.
"In the case of the Artic Queen"
Its ARCTIC
"Pithecanthropi." Now there's a word you won't see on any of those righty blogs. Nice work.
Pithecanthropi everywhere are getting as offended as the TV cavemen. Let's not tie them to Sarah.
alaska's HS droput rate: 2x the national average
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/134550
and Palin is apparently a HS graduate
I wondered how Alaska was faring in her absence...apparently not well
about the same when she was there
Huffpo, I hope you're keeping her here so there will be too much exposure and more people will get sick of her before 2012.
And for all you who wish she'd go way, let's keep her in the news. I can't stand her either but I do believe the first step in getting rid of her is Alaska getting rid of her as Governor, hopefully like CA did with Gray.
She won't go home as long as she's in the limelight.
I like the part about Alaska's high school drop out rate being that her daughter and future son-in-law have done just that.By the way--------- does he still have to marry her now?
I've been wondering the same thing... Probably so if she wants to run in 2012...
Shannyn..believe me, we sympathize BUT isn't there anyone in ALASKA that can tell her to get her big mouth home and back to the job that she WAS actually hired to do?
Pretty soon she will run out of little pockets of old, southern, white people...but in the meantime (since our ridiculous press continues to treat her like she is worth watching) she is driving the rest of us nuts.
Alaska, the stepping stone for Sarah... Only someone with dishonest streak would think the question of what you read, have read, then watched, would be a gotcha question. She could only think so if what she's 'readng' is inappropriate, like elite fashion and homes. My bet is on acquisition as Sarah's game.
Keep up the good work, Shannyn.
Given Alaska's falling oil revenues, it will be interesting to see whether she rejects all earmarks that the senators and congressman throw her way.
That is, was her "Thanks, but no thanks" a principled stance to which she will adhere come hell or high water, or just an opportunistic campaign point that will give way to economic realities?
Either way, let's hope Sarah challenges the Democratic incumbent in 2012, and 2016, and 2020, and 2024, and . . .
If she proved anything over the last several months it's that she has no principles.
Hell, no, she won't reject any earmarks she can still get. Federal money is Alaska's lifeline. If it weren't for the huge sums of Fed money, we would be either much worse off now, or we'd have been forced to use our oil income to fund the state's budget -- and many Alaskans would not be able to afford living in the state, without the annual cost-of-living adjustment called the PFD.
This is all according to plan, mind you. The PFD was set up specifically to supplement Alaskans' incomes so they could afford to stay in the state. Before the PFD, keeping residents was a real problem. Plenty of people in fishing season, but they couldn't afford to live here. Even normal travel costs a lot up here, so I view my PFD check as a transportation supplement.
Remember, she said 'thanks but no thanks' to the bridge to nowhere. However, she kept the money which was somewhere in the area of $230 million. Principles?? I don't think so.
Just curious anyone know what her approval ratings in Alaska are these days? When she was picked wasnt it in the 80 percentile? Well, these days even if she is down to the 50's still beats most Govenors, and we wont even talk about President Bush or Congress.
I would have a higher opinion of my governor if he cut a $1200 check for each person in my family, kids included.
Weeeeeeeeeeel maybe. I would probably be loving the money but cussing him for not using it to create even more revenue.
Oh I agree, kind of like the bail-out money being wasted, just give it to the people! Then again we are all getting another stimulous check soon anyway.
She's so full of herself she'd "Storm in and break down the door" if it were the size of a mouse hole.
Sarah, there are risks to overexposure, and there IS such a thing as too much publicity. It tends to make your target audience tired of you. We've just been t hrough a 2 year election cycle. We're not ready to start a 4 year cycle, thank you. So please shut up and go home. You have a wedding to plan, a state to run, and a special needs infant to care for. Saxby Chambliss can't possibly need you as much as they do.
Go back, roll up your sleeves and govern your state. It's still there and there are no mooses for you to field-dress in Washington D.C.
You betcha, there aren't.
P.S. You lost the election. It's now time for you to GET lost.
A wedding to plan ? Do not hold your breath on that one. Sister Sarah got the taste of the limelight and she now believes the news clippings that she is the star on the republican horizon.
If I lived in Alaska, I would be glad she was clear on the other side of the continent. However, I live in Colorado and I'd prefer to have her back in Alaska, stat.
are you marking me?
As if we had any say, in what the Governor does.
As if she would listen to anyone, about anything.
This is where it would be nice to have a European-style parlamentary system, where a legislator could introduce a vote of no-confidence, and the Governor (President?) would have to dissolve the government and call for new elections.
As it is, we have to wait until the next scheduled election, and let her have her fun in the meantime.
Alaskans... please take in charge
Alaskans... take action. We do not need her "claiming" expertise and not really was one...
I think that she wants to be in D.C. for a bailout - she shouldn't be getting any money from AK. BTW, I read that the pipeline wasn't going to go through because the Canadian Indian tribe refused to lease the land. What's up with that ?
Palin was supposedly told by Trans Canada early on that the native tribes there would be a problem and it could take years to litigate and negotiate to finally be able to lease the land. Even so, she still paid the company a half billion dollars just to think about the pipeline. Not to build it, mind you, to look into it. Real fiscal conservative, doncha know? It makes interesting reading, give it a google and see what you find out. Mudflats is a good place to go to as well.
Palin sure didn't talk about this 'conservative' crap during the election. Maybe Palin can get Tina Fey to 'fill in' for her as governor while she is on campaign duty.
Sarah has never seen a budget she didn't want to raid for her own ends. She indebted Wasilla for a new big-box store (probably due to fail any day now, due to the financial crisis!), she raided the record oil prices, for a timely hand-out to Alaskans, to keep them on her side through her disasterous VP campaign. She (said she) turned away funds for the Bridge to Gravina, but wanted to spend FAR more on a Bridge to Wasilla. She spent way too much of the GOP's "hard-earned" cash on clothes, in record time, before she got caught.
She could have been living in lala land, when she cobbled together the Trans Canada project exploration effort -- or she could have just been relying on her native ability to play the ball where it lies.
When you hunt moose, you don't know where the blood-trail will take you -- you just shoot when you get a shot, and pursue the wounded animal for another go. I think this is how she thinks of state priorities. Shoot when you get the shot, and clean up the mess later.
Deep thinker, that girl.
Let this be a lesson to all of the Palin supporters, actions speak louder than words. If she's "campaining" this hard after she lost, imagine if she won. She would be on the trail giving the same stump speeches for the next 4 years. For a real leader now would be the time to put the past behind them (yes you lost Sarah) and get the job done rather than jet-setting around the country. I'm so glad we elected the right people into office this time.
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