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I don't think anyone has a problem with "your freedom of speech" or "your love for God".  I think people have a problem with your hypocrisy as a "So Called Christian".  People like you fight to keep the un-born safe, taking away others freedoms and yet you donate thousands, even millions to hate groups like "kill the gays".  People have a problem with those who fight for an un-born life but support through their words and contributions the killing of those who are alive and already exist..

For Those Who Missed It! (video)

I ordered my book yesterday!  I have stood behind my assessment of Palin since day one and I am glad to see the media finally taking someone serious on the matter of Sarah Palin. (At least willing to report it because I feel the media is scared to death of  backlash from this vindictive woman)   The truth about this woman is important to me because I am not a religious person but I am spiritual and it really chaps my butt when someone lies, hates and get's rich in the name of God!  God doesn't know the Palins and that's a fact.  I think he even said so himself in scripture. I knew you not!

I am not at all surprised that Sarah has sent Todd to defend her and demanded her "followers" be out in full force to scream at anyone who dare suggest this book is the real Sarah Palin.  In true Palin form, anyone who attempts to tell the truth about Sarah or any of the Palins are automatically painted as perverts and must be obsessed with the Ice Queen!-Mem

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Perhaps This Is Why Sarah Doesn't Seem To Have Strong Emotional Ties To Trig Palin (Poll)

Okay, that is just a guess on my part and I don't even know if this story is true and have not read it but some say they got it right.  But I have long speculated that one of the reasons that Sarah does not act like a doting mother to Trig is the simple fact that she is not his mother.  I have, along with many people speculated that she is in fact his grandmother.  I have also thrown out the "what if" to friends throughout the Palin saga that Trig is in fact Todd's baby and the Palin's agreed to raise him.  (Sarah of course only agreed for political reasons and with stipulations that real mother never comes forth)

"We eat, therefore we hunt." —Sarah Palin

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You open your mouth Sarah so therefore you lie...a lot!  I get the feeling that Sarah and the rest of the Palins have never felt that the law was written for them and if they get caught just plead stupidity which is pretty understandable since it comes so natural to them.-Mem

Sarah Palin's History: Lifelong Unlicensed Hunter and Fisher
by Abe Sauer on March 21st, 2011

Flash Back To The Famous Wizard Of Oz....

and the Wicked Witch Of The West....."I'm fading....I'm fading..." 

Now with that being said I think that this has more to do with the Shailey Tripp incident then it does running for President.  I have been convinced for months that Sarah has been living in AZ and not in their home in Alaska.

Do you think Todd misses carrying Sarah's purse?

This is an article that Regina had posted on Palingates a while back and I wanted to make sure that it was in my scrapbook.  It's very informative and points out some things about Sarah's work experience that everyone needs to keep in mind just in case the Ice Snookie still doesn't get it!  She's NOT Presidential material, among other things I won't say...biting my tongue now! -Mem

Saturday, 19 February 2011
Sarah Palin's qualifications and work experience

Sarah Palin has ambitions for 2012:

Just how many "Personalities" does Sarah Palin have and how long will the religious right fall for the "Divine Calling" line?

I LIKE Me!

I know that many blogs were given orders to cease and desist but I am a scrapbook blog and will post what I deem worthy of being a part of our history!-Mem            

More Juicy Bits From the Sarah Palin Tell-All

Shushannah Walshe Shushannah Walshe – Wed Feb 23, 10:48 pm ET

NEW YORK – From fissures in the Palin marriage ("We don't talk") to giggles over a doctored nude photo and the governor in an open bathrobe, Shushannah Walshe unearths more gems from the ex-Sarah Palin aide's leaked manuscript. Plus, more tidbits about Bristol, Troopergate, and other Palin scoops.

Team Artic Has A Not So Convincing Moment!

Sarah whispers "I hope you win Todd because I'm taking you for everything"

Many people are talking about the missing children and why only Sarah, Bristol and Piper were there to send  Todd Palin off in the Iron Dog.

I for one think that their body language tells it all as well as confirms my

suspicions that Todd and Sarah Palin have been separated for some time.  (At least since after Christmas and the Shailey Tripp incident in my opinion)

Someone pulled their finger out of the dike and Sarah Palin may drown in her own lies and corruption!

Update: 2-212-11-Lawrence O'Donnell just did a segment about this book.   People want to know the Truth about Sarah Palin!     

Update: 2-22-11- News from Palingates explains why this book may not have been picked up by a publisher and as far as I'm concerned may never happen now.  I just hope that this "move" hasn't made it impossible now for the truth to ever come out. All of this legal bull from Bailys team as well as Mother Jones/MSNBC could now stop any emails, etc. from being made known to the public which is disturbing to say the least. Now I'm having to change my whole assessment of this as well.  Doesn't look like anyone has done those of us who want to know the truth any favors and I can see this being the plug that stops the emails from being released as well in May as planned. I hope this does not bring a halt to everything and Sarah Palin walks free one more time!

I just walked away for a few minutes and I have to ask myself now, could the move on Mother Jones and MSNBC actually be a good thing?  If in fact a previous employee cannot release emails, etc. then the book/emails should belong to the public considering they were suppose to be released along time ago from the state of Alaska..  My point would be that the letter to Cease & Desist should no longer apply to anyone as it is public material.  Am I wrong about this?-Mem

The Interview We Have All Been Waiting For!

I think it is fantastic that this woman has the courage to go up against the Palins because it's quite obvious that most people (especially republican men) and the media do not have the courage to call Sarah Palin out!-Mem

 
Shailey Tripp interview by Jesse Gryphen Or you can get info straight from Shailey Tripp herself.
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Trick OR Treat?

One writer started this whole thing of "lets have a month of silence about Sarah Palin."  Well, I think not!  Yes, Sarah's silence has been like sweet music to my ears and indeed has been a treat!

With that said I have some advice for the media.  Take this time to talk about the real Sarah Palin, instead of the Rock Star you have turned her into with your  incestuous need for train wrecks and ratings. (see updates)

So we all knew that First Dude did more then just carry the pitt bulls purse for her....

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Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that the first gentleman, Todd Palin,  exchanged with state officials draw a picture of his influence on policy in the Sarah Palin administration. Other e-mails are still being withheld by the state of Alaska.

Although this is an older article I thought it worth posting since apparently the Palins or State of Alaska has requested another 4 months and are still holding up the release of these emails.  I think people should start demanding that these emails be released!

Isn't it time the media starts giving equal time to Palin's buddy list of anti-American bombers and other radical associates?

I think since Sarah Palin is still on the road questioning the President and the first ladies love for this Country, it is time the Country takes a long hard look at the Palin's love for the AIP who hated America! (Especially since Sarah Palin keeps hinting that she will run in 2012)  If the media won't do their jobs then the people need to.  I hope all viewers will share and make this topic go viral!-Mem

Article from the elections in 2008:

Digging up bones....

It seems to me that Alaska has it's own terrorist.  Looking from afar you wonder just how many bones are buried in Alaska?  If you really pay attention and are not star struck by the fame and riches of the Palins (who got that way from their loyal fans who are struggling to put food on their tables)

Palin, False Prophet For Profit?

by Mem

Two Types Of False Prophets

Those outside the church, who are really no grave danger to believers; and those inside the church, "wolves in sheep clothing." Paul told the Ephesian elders that men would rise up from their own midst and draw men away with false doctrines (Acts 20:29,30). It's these angels of light the church must beware and be able to identify before they wreak unprecedented havoc.

By Their Fruit

In Matt. 7:20-23, Jesus taught that even if a prophet could do miracles, it meant nothing if his life did not bear the right fruit. Often times Paul identifies false prophets by this condition (2 Tim 3:1-5). In Acts 20:29,30 false prophets were the ones who drew disciples to themselves. How the church today is inundated with such individuals! The prophets of old were not media celebrities who relentlessly pleaded with people for their financial offerings payable directly to their bank accounts. False prophets were the ones greedy for filthy lucre (1 Tim. 6:3-7). They may even fabricate lies and false testimonies just to hoodwink the gullible who cannot search truth for themselves (2 Pet. 2:3). In 1 Cor. 11, Paul cites his sacrificial life as evidence of authentic apostleship. As you read it, you’ll realize that the sacrifice Paul talked about was not waking a few late nights or preaching 3 sermons a week. It is unlikely false prophets would sacrifice the very comfort of their lives because that would be counterproductive to their selfish goals.

I have also been in communication with the minister from the Assembly Of God Church in Wasilla because I know that many people from the religious right support Palin because of their affiliation with the Church. The minister informed me that Palin's have not been a member of this church for about 8 years now.

Palin's Movement Urges 'Godly' To 'Plunder' Wealth Of The 'Godless' (so does she consider all of her supporters who are losing their homes, health and jobs and yet donating to her, Godless?) I believe that Palin uses God and Religion for profit and does this through invoking fear.

She is not intelligent and yet she is able to excite the mob! (Sound familiar? I bet Jesus would say "Yes, it does") She has the ability to invoke hate, fear, racism and violence and that is the "key" to her success. She preaches "Patriotism" and "Real Americans" while supporting the AIP whom her husband Todd belonged to for years. AIP's creation was inspired by the rabidly violent anti-Americanism of its founding father Joe Vogler.

Vogler was murdered in 1993 during an illegal sale of plastic explosives that went bad. The prior year, he had renounced his allegiance to the United States explaining that, "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government." He cursed the stars and stripes, promising, "I won't be buried under their damned flag...when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home." Palin has never denounced Vogler or his detestable anti-Americanism. Palin's husband Todd remained an AIP party member from 1995 to 2002.

Article by Bruce Wilson was posted November 1, 2008 and I thought it was a good time to take another look at it. ~Mem

Sarah Palin endorser Bishop Thomas Muthee, in a speech he gave before blessing and anointing Sarah Palin as a political leader, on October 16, 2005 at the Wasilla Assembly of God, laid out the current agenda of the New Apostolic Reformation - how "God's kingdom" needed to "infiltrate" seven sectors of society. Muthee listed most of them: business and finance, schools and education, media and entertainment, politics and government.

Muthee also stated "The Bible says the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. Sarah Palin was in the audience. Minutes later, she was anointed, and blessed, with the laying on of hands.

Thomas Muthee is an internationally known celebrity in the New Apostolic Reformation and a personal friend of the movement's head, C. Peter Wagner. In June 2006 Wagner proclaimed that "God has declared through His prophets that the wealth of the wicked will be released to the Kingdom of God," and declared, threateningly, "the enemies' camp will be plundered." Read More...

I Was Told CNN Pulled This 2 Minutes Before Air?

If This Is True, Good for Rick Sanchez for doing this interview! Shame on CNN for not airing it!

TODD PALIN'S SECURITY CLEARANCE COULD BE A PROBLEM

Jan. 04-2011
I have brought this article back because it seems as though this was shoved under the rug by the McCain campaign and the media at the time.  Now that Sarah Palin has strongly indicated that she will be running for the Presidency in 2012 I think this should be addressed.  Not only was Todd a member but Sarah was very supportive of the AIP as well and some members of the group even suggest that Sarah herself was a member at one time.  You will find these suggestions as well as support in various videos on You-tube that are available to anyone or browse through my blog.-Mem

Frank Naif-Huff
10-15-08

Todd Palin’s past political associations a likely security clearance dis qualifier.

Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing pals

Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is.

Editor’s note: Research support provided by the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. For Salon’s complete coverage of Sarah Palin, click here.

By Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert
Oct. 10, 2008 PALMER, Alaska — | On the afternoon of Sept. 24 in downtown Palmer, Alaska, as the sun began to sink behind the snowcapped mountains that flank the picturesque Mat-Su Valley, 51-year-old Mark Chryson sat for an hour on a park bench, reveling in tales of his days as chairman of the Alaska Independence Party. The stocky, gray-haired computer technician waxed nostalgic about quixotic battles to eliminate taxes, support the “traditional family” and secede from the United States.

So long as Alaska remained under the boot of the federal government, said Chryson, the AIP had to stand on guard to stymie a New World Order. He invited a Salon reporter to see a few items inside his pickup truck that were intended for his personal protection. “This here is my attack dog,” he said with a chuckle, handing the reporter an exuberant 8-pound papillon from his passenger seat. “Her name is Suzy.” Then he pulled a 9-millimeter Makarov PM pistol — once the standard-issue sidearm for Soviet cops — out of his glove compartment. “I’ve got enough weaponry to raise a small army in my basement,” he said, clutching the gun in his palm. “Then again, so do most Alaskans.” But Chryson added a message of reassurance to residents of that faraway place some Alaskans call “the 48.” “We want to go our separate ways,” he said, “but we are not going to kill you.”

Though Chryson belongs to a fringe political party, one that advocates the secession of Alaska from the Union, and that organizes with other like-minded secessionist movements from Canada to the Deep South, he is not without peculiar influence in state politics, especially the rise of Sarah Palin. An obscure figure outside of Alaska, Chryson has been a political fixture in the hometown of the Republican vice-presidential nominee for over a decade. During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin’s campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory.
Palin backed Chryson as he successfully advanced a host of anti-tax, pro-gun initiatives, including one that altered the state Constitution’s language to better facilitate the formation of anti-government militias. She joined in their vendetta against several local officials they disliked, and listened to their advice about hiring. She attempted to name Stoll, a John Birch Society activist known in the Mat-Su Valley as “Black Helicopter Steve,” to an empty Wasilla City Council seat. “Every time I showed up her door was open,” said Chryson. “And that policy continued when she became governor.”

When Chryson first met Sarah Palin, however, he didn’t really trust her politically. It was the early 1990s, when he was a member of a local libertarian pressure group called SAGE, or Standing Against Government Excess. (SAGE’s founder, Tammy McGraw, was Palin’s birth coach.) Palin was a leader in a pro-sales-tax citizens group called WOW, or Watch Over Wasilla, earning a political credential before her 1992 campaign for City Council. Though he was impressed by her interpersonal skills, Chryson greeted Palin’s election warily, thinking she was too close to the Democrats on the council and too pro-tax.

But soon, Palin and Chryson discovered they could be useful to each other. Palin would be running for mayor, while Chryson was about to take over the chairmanship of the Alaska Independence Party, which at its peak in 1990 had managed to elect a governor.

The AIP was born of the vision of “Old Joe” Vogler, a hard-bitten former gold miner who hated the government of the United States almost as much as he hated wolves and environmentalists. His resentment peaked during the early 1970s when the federal government began installing Alaska’s oil and gas pipeline. Fueled by raw rage — “The United States has made a colony of Alaska,” he told author John McPhee in 1977 — Vogler declared a maverick candidacy for the governorship in 1982. Though he lost, Old Joe became a force to be reckoned with, as well as a constant source of amusement for Alaska’s political class. During a gubernatorial debate in 1982, Vogler proposed using nuclear weapons to obliterate the glaciers blocking roadways to Juneau. “There’s gold under there!” he exclaimed.

Vogler made another failed run for the governor’s mansion in 1986. But the AIP’s fortunes shifted suddenly four years later when Vogler convinced Richard Nixon’s former interior secretary, Wally Hickel, to run for governor under his party’s banner. Hickel coasted to victory, outflanking a moderate Republican and a centrist Democrat. An archconservative Republican running under the AIP candidate, Jack Coghill, was elected lieutenant governor.

Hickel’s subsequent failure as governor to press for a vote on Alaskan independence rankled Old Joe. With sponsorship from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Vogler was scheduled to present his case for Alaskan secession before the United Nations General Assembly in the late spring of 1993. But before he could, Old Joe’s long, strange political career ended tragically that May when he was murdered by a fellow secessionist.

Hickel rejoined the Republican Party the year after Vogler’s death and didn’t run for reelection. Lt. Gov. Coghill’s campaign to succeed him as the AIP candidate for governor ended in disaster; he peeled away just enough votes from the Republican, Jim Campbell, to throw the gubernatorial election to Democrat Tony Knowles.

Despite the disaster, Coghill hung on as AIP chairman for three more years. When he was asked to resign in 1997, Mark Chryson replaced him. Chryson pursued a dual policy of cozying up to secessionist and right-wing groups in Alaska and elsewhere while also attempting to replicate the AIP’s success with Hickel in infiltrating the mainstream.

Unlike some radical right-wingers, Chryson doesn’t put forward his ideas freighted with anger or paranoia. And in a state where defense of gun and property rights often takes on a real religious fervor, Chryson was able to present himself as a typical Alaskan.

He rose through party ranks by reducing the AIP’s platform to a single page that “90 percent of Alaskans could agree with.” This meant scrubbing the old platform of what Chryson called “racist language” while accommodating the state’s growing Christian right movement by emphasizing the AIP’s commitment to the “traditional family.”

“The AIP is very family-oriented,” Chryson explained. “We’re for the traditional family — daddy, mommy, kids — because we all know that it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. And we don’t care if Heather has two mommies. That’s not a traditional family.”

Chryson further streamlined the AIP’s platform by softening its secessionist language. Instead of calling for immediate separation from the United States, the platform now demands a vote on independence.

Yet Chryson maintains that his party remains committed to full independence. “The Alaskan Independence Party has got links to almost every independence-minded movement in the world,” Chryson exclaimed. “And Alaska is not the only place that’s about separation. There’s at least 30 different states that are talking about some type of separation from the United States.”

This has meant rubbing shoulders and forging alliances with outright white supremacists and far-right theocrats, particularly those who dominate the proceedings at such gatherings as the North American Secessionist conventions, which AIP delegates have attended in recent years. The AIP’s affiliation with neo-Confederate organizations is motivated as much by ideological affinity as by organizational convenience. Indeed, Chryson makes no secret of his sympathy for the Lost Cause. “Should the Confederate states have been allowed to separate and go their peaceful ways?” Chryson asked rhetorically. “Yes. The War of Northern Aggression, or the Civil War, or the War Between the States — however you want to refer to it — was not about slavery, it was about states’ rights.”

Another far-right organization with whom the AIP has long been aligned is Howard Phillips’ militia-minded Constitution Party. The AIP has been listed as the Constitution Party’s state affiliate since the late 1990s, and it has endorsed the Constitution Party’s presidential candidates (Michael Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin) in the past two elections.

The Constitution Party boasts an openly theocratic platform that reads, “It is our goal to limit the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, Constitutional functions and to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.” In its 1990s incarnation as the U.S. Taxpayers Party, it was on the front lines in promoting the “militia” movement, and a significant portion of its membership comprises former and current militia members.

At its 1992 convention, the AIP hosted both Phillips — the USTP’s presidential candidate — and militia-movement leader Col. James “Bo” Gritz, who was campaigning for president under the banner of the far-right Populist Party. According to Chryson, AIP regulars heavily supported Gritz, but the party deferred to Phillips’ presence and issued no official endorsements.

In Wasilla, the AIP became powerful by proxy — because of Chryson and Stoll’s alliance with Sarah Palin. Chryson and Stoll had found themselves in constant opposition to policies of Wasilla’s Democratic mayor, who started his three-term, nine-year tenure in 1987. By 1992, Chryson and Stoll had begun convening regular protests outside City Council. Their demonstrations invariably involved grievances against any and all forms of “socialist government,” from city planning to public education. Stoll shared Chryson’s conspiratorial views: “The rumor was that he had wrapped his guns in plastic and buried them in his yard so he could get them after the New World Order took over,” Stein told a reporter.

Chryson did not trust Palin when she joined the City Council in 1992. He claimed that she was handpicked by Democratic City Council leaders and by Wasilla’s Democratic mayor, John Stein, to rubber-stamp their tax hike proposals. “When I first met her,” he said, “I thought she was extremely left. But I’ve watched her slowly as she’s become more pronounced in her conservative ideology.”

Palin was well aware of Chryson’s views. “She knew my beliefs,” Chryson said. “The entire state knew my beliefs. I wasn’t afraid of being on the news, on camera speaking my views.”

But Chryson believes she trusted his judgment because he accurately predicted what life on the City Council would be like. “We were telling her, ‘This is probably what’s going to happen,’” he said. “‘The city is going to give this many people raises, they’re going to pave everybody’s roads, and they’re going to pave the City Council members’ roads.’ We couldn’t have scripted it better because everything we predicted came true.”

After intense evangelizing by Chryson and his allies, they claimed Palin as a convert. “When she started taking her job seriously,” Chryson said, “the people who put her in as the rubber stamp found out the hard way that she was not going to go their way.” In 1994, Sarah Palin attended the AIP’s statewide convention. In 1995, her husband, Todd, changed his voter registration to AIP. Except for an interruption of a few months, he would remain registered was an AIP member until 2002, when he changed his registration to undeclared.

In 1996, Palin decided to run against John Stein as the Republican candidate for mayor of Wasilla. While Palin pushed back against Stein’s policies, particularly those related to funding public works, Chryson said he and Steve Stoll prepared the groundwork for her mayoral campaign.

Chryson and Stoll viewed Palin’s ascendancy as a vehicle for their own political ambitions. “She got support from these guys,” Stein remarked. “I think smart politicians never utter those kind of radical things, but they let other people do it for them. I never recall Sarah saying she supported the militia or taking a public stand like that. But these guys were definitely behind Sarah, thinking she was the more conservative choice.”

“They worked behind the scenes,” said Stein. “I think they had a lot of influence in terms of helping with the back-scatter negative campaigning.”

Indeed, Chryson boasted that he and his allies urged Palin to focus her campaign on slashing character-based attacks. For instance, Chryson advised Palin to paint Stein as a sexist who had told her “to just sit there and look pretty” while she served on Wasilla’s City Council. Though Palin never made this accusation, her 1996 campaign for mayor was the most negative Wasilla residents had ever witnessed.

While Palin played up her total opposition to the sales tax and gun control — the two hobgoblins of the AIP — mailers spread throughout the town portraying her as “the Christian candidate,” a subtle suggestion that Stein, who is Lutheran, might be Jewish. “I watched that campaign unfold, bringing a level of slime our community hadn’t seen until then,” recalled Phil Munger, a local music teacher who counts himself as a close friend of Stein.

“This same group [Stoll and Chryson] also [publicly] challenged me on whether my wife and I were married because she had kept her maiden name,” Stein bitterly recalled. “So we literally had to produce a marriage certificate. And as I recall, they said, ‘Well, you could have forged that.’”

When Palin won the election, the men who had once shouted anti-government slogans outside City Hall now had a foothold inside the mayor’s office. Palin attempted to pay back her newfound pals during her first City Council meeting as mayor. In that meeting, on Oct. 14, 1996, she appointed Stoll to one of the City Council’s two newly vacant seats. But Palin was blocked by the single vote of then-Councilman Nick Carney, who had endured countless rancorous confrontations with Stoll and considered him a “violent” influence on local politics. Though Palin considered consulting attorneys about finding another means of placing Stoll on the council, she was ultimately forced to back down and accept a compromise candidate.

Emboldened by his nomination by Mayor Palin, Stoll later demanded she fire Wasilla’s museum director, John Cooper, a personal enemy he longed to sabotage. Palin obliged, eliminating Cooper’s position in short order. “Gotcha, Cooper!” Stoll told the deposed museum director after his termination, as Cooper told a reporter for the New York Times. “And it only cost me a campaign contribution.” Stoll, who donated $1,000 to Palin’s mayoral campaign, did not respond to numerous requests for an interview. Palin has blamed budget concerns for Cooper’s departure.
The following year, when Carney proposed a local gun-control measure, Palin organized with Chryson to smother the nascent plan in its cradle. Carney’s proposed ordinance would have prohibited residents from carrying guns into schools, bars, hospitals, government offices and playgrounds. Infuriated by the proposal that Carney viewed as a common-sense public-safety measure, Chryson and seven allies stormed a July 1997 council meeting.

With the bill still in its formative stages, Carney was not even ready to present it to the council, let alone conduct public hearings on it. He and other council members objected to the ad-hoc hearing as “a waste of time.” But Palin — in plain violation of council rules and norms — insisted that Chryson testify, stating, according to the minutes, that “she invites the public to speak on any issue at any time.”

When Carney tried later in the meeting to have the ordinance discussed officially at the following regular council meeting, he couldn’t even get a second. His proposal died that night, thanks to Palin and her extremist allies.

“A lot of it was the ultra-conservative far right that is against everything in government, including taxes,” recalled Carney. “A lot of it was a personal attack on me as being anti-gun, and a personal attack on anybody who deigned to threaten their authority to carry a loaded firearm wherever they pleased. That was the tenor of it. And it was being choreographed by Steve Stoll and the mayor.”

Asked if he thought it was Palin who had instigated the turnout, he replied: “I know it was.”

By Chryson’s account, he and Palin also worked hand-in-glove to slash property taxes and block a state proposal that would have taken money for public programs from the Permanent Fund Dividend, or the oil and gas fund that doles out annual payments to citizens of Alaska. Palin endorsed Chryson’s unsuccessful initiative to move the state Legislature from Juneau to Wasilla. She also lent her support to Chryson’s crusade to alter the Alaska Constitution’s language on gun rights so cities and counties could not impose their own restrictions. “It took over 10 years to get that language written in,” Chryson said. “But Sarah [Palin] was there supporting it.”

“With Sarah as a mayor,” said Chryson, “there were a number of times when I just showed up at City Hall and said, ‘Hey, Sarah, we need help.’ I think there was only one time when I wasn’t able to talk to her and that was because she was in a meeting.”

Chryson says the door remains open now that Palin is governor. (Palin’s office did not respond to Salon’s request for an interview.) While Palin has been more circumspect in her dealings with groups like the AIP as she has risen through the political ranks, she has stayed in touch.

When Palin ran for governor in 2006, marketing herself as a fresh-faced reformer determined to crush the GOP’s ossified power structure, she made certain to appear at the AIP’s state convention. To burnish her maverick image, she also tapped one-time AIP member and born-again Republican Walter Hickel as her campaign co-chair. Hickel barnstormed the state for Palin, hailing her support for an “all-Alaska” liquefied gas pipeline, a project first promoted in 2002 by an AIP gubernatorial candidate named Nels Anderson. When Palin delivered her victory speech on election night, Hickel stood beaming by her side. “I made her governor,” he boasted afterward. Two years later, Hickel has endorsed Palin’s bid for vice president.

Just months before Palin burst onto the national stage as McCain’s vice-presidential nominee, she delivered a videotaped address to the AIP’s annual convention. Her message was scrupulously free of secessionist rhetoric, but complementary nonetheless. “I share your party’s vision of upholding the Constitution of our great state,” Palin told the assembly of AIP delegates. “My administration remains focused on reining in government growth so individual liberty can expand. I know you agree with that … Keep up the good work and God bless you.”

When Palin became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, her attendance of the 1994 and 2006 AIP conventions and her husband’s membership in the party (as well as Palin’s videotaped welcome to the AIP’s 2008 convention) generated a minor controversy. Chryson claimed, however, that Sarah and Todd Palin never even played a minor role in his party’s internal affairs. “Sarah’s never been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party,” Chryson insisted. “Todd has, but most of rural Alaska has too. I never saw him at a meeting. They were at one meeting I was at. Sarah said hello, but I didn’t pay attention because I was taking care of business.”

But whether the Palins participated directly in shaping the AIP’s program is less relevant than the extent to which they will implement that program. Chryson and his allies have demonstrated just as much interest in grooming major party candidates as they have in putting forward their own people. At a national convention of secessionist groups in 2007, AIP vice chairman Dexter Carter announced that his party would seek to “infiltrate” the Democratic and Republican parties with candidates sympathetic to its hard-right, secessionist agenda. “You should use that tactic. You should infiltrate,” Carter told his audience of neo-Confederates, theocrats and libertarians. “Whichever party you think in that area you can get something done, get into that party. Even though that party has its problems, right now that is the only avenue.”

Carter pointed to Palin’s political career as the model of a successful infiltration. “There’s a lot of talk of her moving up,” Carter said of Palin. “She was a member [of the AIP] when she was mayor of a small town, that was a nonpartisan job. But to get along and to go along she switched to the Republican Party … She is pretty well sympathetic because of her membership.”

Carter’s assertion that Palin was once a card-carrying AIP member was swiftly discredited by the McCain campaign, which produced records showing she had been a registered Republican since 1988. But then why would Carter make such a statement? Why did he seem confident that Palin was a true-blue AIP activist burrowing within the Republican Party? The most salient answer is that Palin was once so thoroughly embedded with AIP figures like Chryson and Stoll and seemed so enthusiastic about their agenda, Carter may have simply assumed she belonged to his party.

Now, Palin is a household name and her every move is scrutinized by the Washington press corps. She can no longer afford to kibitz with secessionists, however instrumental they may have been to her meteoric ascendancy. This does not trouble her old AIP allies. Indeed, Chryson is hopeful that Palin’s inauguration will also represent the start of a new infiltration.

“I’ve had my issues but she’s still staying true to her core values,” Chryson concluded. “Sarah’s friends don’t all agree with her, but do they respect her? Do they respect her ideology and her values? Definitely.”

Todd's Deposition: Leaked To The Press

by Andrew Halcro-blogger from Alaska

After complaining for the last five weeks about how politics and the media had taken over the intended bi-partisan investigation into Governor Palin's firing of former Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, Todd Palin's deposition was leaked to the media on the same day it was delivered to special investigator Steve Branchflower.

Apparently the first dude was trying to get out in front of a fast moving train.

In his 25 page response, Palin covers old ground about his concerns about State Trooper Mike Wooten and events that occurred years before his wife was elected governor. In fact what Palin's deposition shows is a guy who isn't concerned about the safety of his family, it's about a guy who is trying to get even and trying to use the power of his wife's office to accomplish the task.

We've broken down some of the more curious responses and half truths in his depositions, many of which we written about over the last few months.

Page 1, Line 17: "(Wooten) illegally shot a cow moose without a permit"

Palin of course leaves out the fact that his entire family knew the moose was shot illegally in 2003 but that didn't stop him and his family from butchering and eating the meat, only to file the complaint two years later when Wooten was divorcing Sarah's sister.

Page 2, Line 16: "In 2005 and 2006, State Trooper Mike Wooten was the subject of a court ordered domestic violence protective order."

Palin of course leaves out the fact that the order was granted while Wooten was out of state taking his step son to Portland. While he was away, Sarah Palin and her sister went before a judge in Palmer and convinced the judge to grant the order without any evidence of domestic violence. Upon his return, Anchorage Judge John Suddock questioned Palin's sister and immediately revoked the order, calling it an egregious abuse of the legal system.

Page 3, Line 1: "Threats against a public official, and his or her family, fall within the responsibilities of the Department of Public Safety."

True. But the last complaint of any threat occurred over a year before Governor Palin was elected.

In fact, once the divorce was final in early 2006, there were no more complaints or concerns voiced officially against Trooper Wooten.

By the time Palin was elected governor, the Wooten issue was all over except for Todd's obsession.

Page 3, Line 13: "I was not aware of the Grimes report until July 2008, after Monegan left the government."

This is a blatant untruth. Monegan made it very clear that Wooten had already been punished and that is why he couldn't take any further action unless Wooten made another mistake. This is exactly why Monegan kept pushing back when pressured because he legally couldn't take any retro-active action against an employee who had already been punished because it would have violated Wooten's employee rights.

Page 4, Line 3: "I had hundreds of conversations and communications about Trooper Wooten over the last several years with my family, friends, with colleagues, just about everyone I could including government officials."

In a July 18, 2008 press release, Governor Palin stated; “To allege that I, or any member of my family....directed disciplinary action be taken against any employee of the Department of Public Safety, is, quite simply, outrageous.

But yet according to Todd Palin's deposition he complained about Trooper Mike Wooten to Mike Tibbles, Randy Ruaro, Ivey Frye, Frank Bailey, Mike Nizich, John Bitney, John Glass and Audie Holloway.

In addition, during an interview with former Legislative Liason John Bitney last July, he said, "People don't know just how much weight Todd's words have. When Todd Palin makes a suggestion, it's not really a suggestion."

Having this many conversations, over two years after the last interaction with Wooten shows a pattern of Palin's obsession with getting even with Wooten.

Page 5, Line 3: "I make no apologies for wanting to protect my family and wanting to publicize the injustice of a violent Trooper keeping his badge."

This comment makes no sense when considered in the scope of his actions.

First, his family was never in danger. In fact a few months ago Governor Palin felt safe enough on her own to become the first governor to ever discontinue her security detail. Does that really sound like someone who is concerned about a rogue trooper patrolling the neighborhood?

Second, Todd Palin didn't publicize anything. In fact this didn't even become public until Monegan got fired and we broke the story on this blog.

If this really was a case of a "violent trooper keeping his badge", why in the world hasn't the governor done anything to protect the public? Why didn't she hold a press conference and talk about the need to protect the public's safety or introduce legislation or even offer an amendment to any number of suitable pieces of legislation that were making their way through the legislative process?

Why didn't Governor Palin do something, anything, to change the way Trooper's investigate their own to protect the public against future rogue troopers?

The answer is simple; this wasn't about the public being at risk, it was about the Palin's getting even.

Page 5, Line 18: "It is tragic that because Trooper Wooten told a false story to a blogger who repeated it, the legislature has allocated over $100,000 of public money to harass me and numerous other innocents."

Other innocents? Like Frank Bailey who in a recorded phone call to State Trooper Rodney Dial was trying to get Trooper Wooten fired and inferred he was calling on behalf of Todd and Sarah Palin?

In a taped interview with Anchorage Daily News Reporter Kyle Hopkins on August 14, Governor Palin stated unequivocally that Frank Bailey acted completely on his own.

"No one ever directed him to make any calls, he never disclosed he made any calls," Governor Palin said.

However this turned out to be not true.

On February 29, an email was sent from Frank Bailey to Ivy Frye just after Bailey's recorded phone call to Trooper Dial.

"Leaving pretty quick for the airport...call me though I need to give you a heads up. Spoke to Rodney and he doesn't get that kind of stuff since he's a Lieutenant, but he'd definitely pass it on."

Not only that, but Palin also told Hopkins that "Todd never told Frank Bailey or suggest he take on this mission to call a trooper."

However according to state phone logs, Todd Palin called Ivy Frye three times between 1:45pm and 3:50pm on the afternoon of February 28, the day before Bailey's call to Dial.

This set off a flurry of emails which included Todd Palin in the loop and only ended a little more than an hour after Bailey called to try and get Wooten fired.

Then, after all this, Bailey reportedly has testified that the confidential information he received regarding Wooten's personnel file that he passed along to Trooper Dial came from none other than Todd Palin.

Page 12, Lines 1 through 14, Palin talked about how he and the governor were frustrated with Monegan because whenever they need to use the Department of Public Safety King Air, it was always busy.

"We were concerned that the Department of Public Safety was retaliating against Sarah for selling the Murkowski jet that Department of Public Safety officials enjoyed using."

Just one big problem with this assertion; the jet was put on the block before any of Palin's Public Safety Officials could use it. Ironically, Palin has been using the sale of the jet to promote her fiscal prowess on the national stage, telling Americans she sold it on ebay because the department and Alaska didn't need it.

Page 12, Lines 22 to 25: There was an email on June 30, 2008 from Monegan that had the annual AST 2007 report. I was aware that Sarah was not happy with the report. Sarah was having difficulty finding out who had authored it and who was going to take responsibility for it."

The report, which outlined the state crime statistics for 2007 was compiled by the public safety department. In an interview with the Anchorage Daily News in August, Monegan spoke about delivering the annual DPS crime report to Governor Palin where she replied, "This makes me look bad."

It's understandable why according to Todd, "Sarah was not happy with the report", it showed crime was increasing significantly in Alaska under her watch as governor.

The fact that Todd states that she wanted to know who authored it and who was going to take responsibility for it shows just how out of touch she is as governor.

As governor, the buck is stops with her. She is ultimately responsible for the rising rates of crime in Alaska, especially since she has made a fuss about trying to cut the budget at DPS.

This again makes the point that some have made for two years; this administration has been focused more on public relations than public policy....or in this case, public safety.

PALIN RELATE TO SMALL TOWN PEOPLE? JOE SIX-PACK?

POLITICOL NEWS-OCT. 2, 2008
PALIN'S INCOME SECRETS REVEALED

Palin the Millionairess, is not just a Hockey Mom.

Palin benefits from living in the Governor's Mansion all expenses paid

Newly released personal financial statements just released indicate Sarah Palin and Todd Palin are not your average American income earners.

Although Sarah Palin’s tax returns have yet not been released it would be interesting to see if she declared the taxable benefits she received which were paid at taxpayers’ expense for her to be sleeping in her own home. Palin dinged the taxpayers for over $17,000.00 for per diem expenses where she was supposedly staying in a hotel, but was actually sleeping in her own home.

Another gross expense for the taxpayer is her billing for over $ 43,490.00 for her families travel expenses. Todd Palin also put in for travel expenses while on unrelated business at snowmobile events.

Total income for the Palins’ which includes:
Governors Salary $ 125,000.00
Todd Palin Oil Production $ 46,790.00
T. Palin Fishing Income 46,265.00
T. Palin Snowmobile Winnings 10,500.00
S. Palin Per Diem Charges 17,000.00
(Payable by taxpayers)
Family Travel Expenses 43,490.00
(Payable by taxpayers)
Oil Royalties Family 11,578.00
Total Income $ 312,201.00

Other assets include the house valued at 1,200,000.00, Commercial fishing rights $50,000.00, 5 lots at Safari Lake $30,000.00, Cabin on Iditaod Trail $55,000.00, Plane estimated at $ 55,000.00, Coffee Point Shoreline leases $ 30,000.00, and Set Net site $ 20,000.00 for a total net worth in assets known as $1,440,000.00.

Not your average American income and assets when the average American has a total average debt of $ 9,840.00 in credit debt while Sarah Palin enjoys no credit card debt at all.

The average American voter will be putting utilities and food on their credit cards as a method to live with today’s high prices of food and other household expenses.

Although she is not as rich as John McCain her income totals his income for 2007 which was reported as $ 400,000.00 for McCain not including his wife Cindy McCain’s income.

What we see is a woman who has no understanding of the hardships of American women although she claims to be a “common everyday hockey mom”. What is equally disturbing about Sarah Palin is her excessively billing the taxpayers for her lifestyle and her deceptiveness in her billing the taxpayer for per diem expenses when she was actually staying in her own home. This does not speak well for Sarah Palin as a rich Republican who takes advantage of her position when she has an above average income for her family. Sarah Palin is a very rich woman presenting herself as a poor hockey mom.

The public is still waiting for her to release her tax returns for the previous years and whether she did claim the per diem expenses as a taxable benefit, which means she would have to report these as taxable income.

We hope the voters get to know these facts before Election Day, if Palin gets around to releasing them as Obama has done.