Here's Robert kennedy Jr on Palin: Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --She poses as a fiscal watchdog, but when Palin was mayor, she > grabbed city funds to give her office a pricey $50,000 "bordello" > makeover-- > > > Sept. 17, 2008 | WASILLA, Alaska -- 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. > > Carney confronted Mayor Palin at a City Council hearing, and was > shocked by her response. > > "I braced her about it," he said. "I told her it was against the law > to make such a large expenditure without the council taking a vote. > She said, 'I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts > tell me I can't.'" > > "I'll never forget it -- it's one of the few times in my life I've > been speechless," Carney added. "It would have been easier for her to > finesse it. She had the votes on the council by then, she controlled > it. But she just pushed forward. That's Sarah. She just has no respect > for rules and regulations." > > "I thought it was an outrageous expense, especially for someone who > had run as a budget cutter," said Carney. "It was also illegal, > because Sarah had not received the council's approval." > > According to Carney, Palin's office makeover included flocked, red > wallpaper. "It looked like a bordello." ... > > ~~ Full story: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/ > > or, http://tinyurl.com/5fwh93 >
