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By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:43:33 +0000

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By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:40:57 +0000

BoyScout, that would be rumor #87. As it notes, Carney is a formal political mentor of Palin, from the time before she started to challenge the party establishment in Alaska. I also note there that there appears to be no contemporaneous recognition of this, and in fact there are no stories about it except the very recent one, quoting Carney. I further note that since Wasilla has a total budget of about $12 million, he's suggesting that she managed to redirect about 4 percent of the city budget, without City Council approval or any notice in the press. So it's seems very unlikely; if you have other support for it than the Salon article, I'd love to see it.

By: BoyScout

BoyScout — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:27:33 +0000

I’d like to find out more about this quote from Nick Carney, a Palin political advisor. He states that he asked about redirecting funds from a highway project to redecorate her office: “When I braced her about that, her response, and I will never forget it, is ‘I’m the mayor and I can do anything I want until the courts say I can’t,’”

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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:21 +0000

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By: fsteele

fsteele — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:55:49 +0000

On the beauty contest, here’s a quote from the winner saying Sarah didn’t cheat.
http://www.zimbio.com/Miss+Alaska+1984/articles/21/Sarah+Palin+Pageant+Rival+Lives+GA

By: fsteele

fsteele — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:41 +0000

From an anonymous poster at
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/20/womens_group_condemns_now_endo.html

Palin Used Part of the City’s Funds from the Alaska Revenue Sharing Fund to Fund Anti-Abortion Center. In 1997, Palin signed an ordinance appropriating $2,354 in funds to the Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center from the State of Alaska Revenue Sharing fund. The Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center lists itself as an “abortion alternative” in the Yellow Pages. [Ordinance 97-23, 4/14/1997; AlaskaYellowPages.com]

By: whirlybob

whirlybob — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:10:38 +0000

I got this attack on Palin from a leftist friend who believes everything (bad) said about the Governor. From the Alaska Daily News blogsite
http://community.adn.com/node/130953 : “Palin has attacked Alaska Native Subsistence Fishing” and 3 other similar allegations. I have no idea as to the accuracy or the background to this story.

By: Bev OToole

Bev OToole — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:34 +0000

I saw an Inquirer headline today that states that Bristol was caught doing drugs. (well, I didn’t open the issue, so it may have been Willow)

I get furious over this kind of trash.

By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:33:48 +0000

Another Palin Rumor Bites the Dust . . ….

From Charlie’s masterful debunking of Palin rumors over at Observations, the truth about the “victims charged for rape kits” allegation: No, she didnt try to charge rape victims personally for rape kits. This is one of those complicated ones with….