We don’t subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran in “Did Sarah Palin just ‘Pwn’ the media with divorce rumors?” The theory holds that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian-style setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin: It’s too pat, the pieces fit too nicely together (an “explanation” for why she resigned) not to raise | Read More »
If Sarah Palin had intended to make media heads collectively explode, she couldn’t have planned it better. She called a press conference on short notice, then announced that not only would she not seek a second term as Alaska’s governor, but she intended to resign later this month. All that would remain for her to do is pop some Orville’s, sit back and enjoy the | Read More »
From anchorage television station KTUU: WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. The governor gave no reason why she will resign, but there has been much speculation that she intends to run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. Update: A tweet from the governor: “We’ll soon attach | Read More »
The massive fallout over Dave Lecherman has all but obscured some other important news concerning Alaska’s governor. TransCanada, the company chosen to manage Alaska’s natural gas pipeline project to bring the clean-burning fuel from the North Slope to the lower 48, has concluded an agreement with ExxonMobil to cooperate on the endeavor. With ExxonMobil now on board, it’s a big positive for Gov. Palin.
In a story headlined “Alaskans concerned about North Korea’s missiles” the Associated Press continues in its Anti-Palin tradition. Mary Pemberton, who wrote the story, quoted several of Alaska’s citizens as well as “the state’s political leaders.” Among the latter, Pemberton included statements from Rep. Don Young and Sen. Mark Begich. Conspicuously absent from the article was any mention of Gov. Sarah Palin, who has been | Read More »
Gov. Sarah Palin’s promised op-ed has finally been published by the Anchorage Daily News. In the opinion piece, the governor gives a federalist explanation of why she vetoed $28.6 million of the Obama administration’s stimulus funds: “My record is clear. I support conserving energy through weatherization and I’m an advocate for harnessing renewable sources of energy. But conditions here required more ‘big brother’ government involvement than | Read More »
On May 20, the Anchorage Daily News ran a story with the headline: “Is Obama closing the Soldotna dealership?” Staff writer Sean Cockerman in Anchorage wrote the following: Gov. Sarah Palin’s new statement criticizing Barack Obama blames the president for the closure of a Soldotna car dealership. But the dealership tells me it’s not closing. Here’s the relevant part of the statement Palin put out | Read More »
The article, written by Amanda Coyne, is surprisingly almost balanced, or at least as balanced as we’re likely to see from such a leftist media outlet as Newsweek. However, there are a lot of facts that were not included in the piece…
The Sarah Palin Blog has broken the news that a Defense Fund for the Alaska governor is up and running: A defense fund to help Sarah Palin pay her mounting legal bills is now up on the web and operational… According to the organizer,the defense money raised will go directly to Thomas Van Flein, Governor Palin’s private attorney. The fund is managed by Clayton Paslay, | Read More »
Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she is proposing legislation which will allow Alaska to accept only a little more than half of the federal stimulus funds for which her state is eligible. Palin gave several examples that underlined her reasoning for wanting to reject the funds. In total, if the bill were passed, $515 million (55%) of the nearly $1 billion would be rejected by the | Read More »
Ashley Judd is the narrator of an ad for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund which portrays Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a heartless enemy of warm, furry critters. Actually, the ad is not a new one, but simply a refresh of a video which has long been used to attack Gov. Palin: Defenders of Wildlife launched similar attacks against Palin soon after she was selected | Read More »
The Juneau Empire’s blog is reporting that Gov. Sarah Palin sent the Alaska legislature a supplemental budget request today that slashes general fund spending by $268.6 million and asks for authorization to withdraw some funds from the state’s savings accounts to bring the budget into balance by the end of the fiscal year. The governor has already put a state hiring freeze into effect.
There are only 26 surviving members of the Alaska Territorial Guard, a unit composed of mostly Native militiamen which was established to guard the territory of Alaska from the threat of Japanese attack during World War II. The militia was deemed necessary because Japan had made incursions into the Aleutians and occupied some of the islands in 1942. Now the Army, in its bureaucratic wisdom, | Read More »
Governor Sarah Palin delivered her third State of the State address before the Alaska legislature Thursday night. She announced a hiring freeze for state jobs (exempting public safety) and restrictions on all non-essential state purchases, while urging the legislature to practice spending restraint: “These actions reduce the draw on savings as we monitor revenue for the rest of 2009,” Palin said. “For too long, Alaska’s economy has struggled with fluctuating | Read More »
Governor Sarah Palin will deliver her State of the State address at 7 p.m. Alaska time (10 p.m. CST) tonight. The ADN Political Blog says there were rumors around Juneau that the governor hired a professional speechwriter to draft what will be her third State of the State presentation. Palin communications director Bill McAllister says that is not the case, but some friends did volunteer some of | Read More »
The History Channel series ”Tougher in Alaska” is all about survival in an environment so harsh that most of us in the lower 48 can barely even imagine ourselves in some of the scenes the program brings to our television screens. The producers should do a segment on Alaska politics. While that particular activity takes place mostly indoors, out of the severely cold weather the 49th state | Read More »
When things get tough, what kind of budget decisions do governors make? That depends on the governor, his or her governing philosophy and what those philosophies have done for their respective states. In New York state, Gov. David Patterson wants the taxpayers to do the heavy lifting. His proposed $121 Billion budget for the coming year would increase state spending by 1.1 percent ($1.3 Billion) | Read More »
The drive-by media is at it again – Politico, in this instance, fanning the embers of resentment between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Lisa Murkowski, both of Alaska, and hoping to start a fire. Since Sarah defeated Frank Murkowski, the senator’s father, on her way to the governor’s mansion, there has been some bad blood between Palin and the Murkowski family. When asked in an | Read More »
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, it’s gas hydrate, natural gas in a frozen state. And it’s under the North Slope in abundance – 85.4 trillion cubic feet of frozen natural gas crystals. To put the new find in perspective, the total estimated U.S. reserves of conventional (gaseous) natural gas sources is just 30 trillion cubic feet. We’re talking about a domestic energy bonanza here, | Read More »
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), a non-partisan, non-profit organization on a mission to eliminate waste, mismanagement and inefficiency in the federal government, has published a background report on Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere” which finally clears the air surrounding what has become the poster child for federal pork projects.
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