Sarah Palin Mayor

Mayor Palin Left Wasilla To The Bears: Cut Funding For Animal Control, Children's Shelter, Rape Kits, More

Jacob Alperin-Sheriff | Posted 05.25.2011

Jacob Alperin-Sheriff

Palin's budget realignment saw funds aimed at benefiting Wasilla citizens moved to pay for city legal defense and government employee transportation, including an SUV for the mayor...

Palin Took Freebies, Help Selling House As Mayor

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 05.25.2011

WASILLA, Alaska — Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends rec...

Palin's Tenure As Mayor Criticized

Washington Post | Alec MacGillis | Posted 05.25.2011

On Sept. 24, 2001, Mayor Sarah Palin and the City Council held their first meeting after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penta...

Palin Hired Friends And Hit Critics While In Office

New York Times | Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell. | Posted 05.25.2011

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 Divisio...

Palin On Getting Earmarks As Mayor: "We Did Well!!!"

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Digging through Wasilla's municipal records is a lesson in the very essence of tedium. You've got pages of proposals to rename streets, assess sewers,...

Palin Almost Recalled As Mayor

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Eric Schmeltzer

Sarah Palin's emerging record as Mayor of Wasilla and as Governor are almost a complete mirror of Bush's eight years of cronyism (though closer to the Mayberry scale than leader of the free world).