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The
Real Sarah Palin Scandal: Story Of A
Bastard Child Birth |
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September 2, 2008 Labor Day brought us an
ugly media feeding frenzy when it surfaced
that Sarah Palin's teenage daughter is
pregnant. But the real scandal for John
McCain's V.P.-to-be is the flurry of stories
that as a politician in Alaska, Palin had a
voracious appetite for the very congressional
earmarks and pork barrel spending that John
McCain has made a signature issue of trying to
stamp out.
As mayor of Wasilla, a suburb of Anchorage,
Palin hired one of Alaska's most connected
lobbying firms to secure almost $27 million in
federal appropriations for her constituents,
according to the Washington Post.
Wasilla benefited mightily from Palin's
decision: federal earmarks for $900,000 in
municipal sewer repairs, $1.9 million for a
local transportation hub, and $15 million for
a rail link, among other pet projects.
For a town of just 6,700 people, this amounted
to thousands of dollars per resident in
federal largess. And the lobbying firm,
Robertson, Monagle, & Eastaugh, wasn't just
any band of wannabe legislators.
The firm is closely linked to Alaska's two
most notorious pork barrel Republicans,
Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Don
Young (Stevens was indicted this summer for
accepting and failing to report hundreds of
thousands of dollars in gifts from VECO, a
now-defunct oil services firm).
It gets worse. The McCain camp has made much
of Palin's supposedly principled decision as
governor to decline federal money to build the
"Bridge to Nowhere," a national symbol of pork
barrel spending run amok.
In her speech accepting the position as
McCain's running mate, Palin recalled: "I told
Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that
bridge to nowhere....'If our state wanted a
bridge,' I said, 'we'd build it ourselves.'"
Stirring stuff. But as USA Today reports,
Palin was actually for the Bridge to Nowhere
before she was against it. Campaigning for
governor in 2006, Palin trumpeted her support
for the $233 million bridge to reach an island
of just 50 inhabitants. And displaying an
unnerving understanding of how the dirty
appropriations game is played, she even urged
quick action to build the bridge while
Alaska's congressional delegation (i.e.,
Stevens and Young) was well-positioned to
secure the necessary federal tax dollars.
Only when the bridge became a public relations
debacle did Palin flip positions and declare
that Alaska didn't need it after all.
We've been told by the McCain camp to overlook
Palin's thin résumé because she's an insurgent
pork-busting reformer in the mold of John
McCain. We've been misled.
Palin was looking for federal handouts just
like every other self-interested politician
that John McCain excoriates. Take that card
away, and what does she really offer?
Story Of A Bastard Child
Birth
Sarah Palin's 17-year-old , unmarried daughter
is five months pregnant, the campaign has
announced. Hoping to quell internet rumors
about about her youngest son, Palin released
the news about her daughter Bristol earlier
today.
A statement released by the campaign said that
Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the
child's father. Bristol Palin is five months
pregnant, and the baby is due in late
December.
"Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us
with news that as parents we knew would make
her grow up faster than we had ever planned.
We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her
baby and even prouder to become grandparents,"
Sarah and Todd Palin said in the brief
statement.
"Bristol and the young man she will marry are
going to realize very quickly the difficulties
of raising a child, which is why they will
have the love and support of our entire
family," they added.
Fighting rumors, Palin mislead the press about
the pregnancy as late as Saturday.
When news broke, it had not yet been reported
by her home state papers, which have often
been the source for outside media for other
background on Palin.
When the Anchorage Daily News did report the
news today, it pointed out: "The Daily News
had asked Palin's press secretary, Bill
McAllister, over the weekend to address rumors
that Bristol was pregnant. 'I don't know. I
have no evidence that Bristol's pregnant,' he
said on Saturday."
The McCain team asserted that he knew about
the pregnancy when he selected Palin. She has
five children and now a grandchild coming as
she hits the campaign trail. |
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