Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

[VietCowboy]

Obviously one-sided, but this is going to be in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes


WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html?inline=nyt-per) lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.
And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.
“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”


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[Rack Bauer]

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes


OMG!!!


She should be kicked out of the country ASAP. Cuz no other politician (or person for that matter) has ever hired a friend and lashed out at a foe.


:rolleyes:

[ZB9]

dont think many people take the NYtimes seriously anymore as being anywhere close to objective.

they are writing mainly to their base of readers in Manhattan...but regardless, they could make their agenda a little less obvious.

[dbair1967]

Obviously one-sided, but this is going to be in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes


WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html?inline=nyt-per) lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.
And four months ago, a Wasilla blogger, Sherry Whitstine, who chronicles the governor’s career with an astringent eye, answered her phone to hear an assistant to the governor on the line, she said.
“You should be ashamed!” Ivy Frye, the assistant, told her. “Stop blogging. Stop blogging right now!”


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It's 5 pages long, so if you want to read the rest press the link.

80%+ approval rating.

Your crusade against Palin is getting old

[burmafrd]

This poster has already admitted bias and hatred for Palin. Why should anyone take anything posted by this poster as anything but a pathetic joke?

[ScipioCowboy]

This poster has already admitted bias and hatred for Palin. Why should anyone take anything posted by this poster as anything but a pathetic joke?

Although I don't view Vietcowboy as a pathetic joke, I do view the NYT in a highly favorable light. It's a Leftist rage absent of any redeeming qualities.

[ScipioCowboy]

Has she ever hired anybody solely for purposes of lashing him or her?:p:

[Rack Bauer]

Has she ever hired anybody solely for purposes of lashing him or her?:p:

Is it bad that I just got "dirty" thoughts in my head after reading this post?


Someone hired just to get "lashed"... hmmm...

[Danny White]

If I were ever elected to office, I would also try to surround myself with people I know and trust, and I would try to get rid of people who I thought might undermine my work or stab me in the back.

I think most smart people would do the same.

[ZB9]

I guess she should have hired foes and fired friends?

leadership 101, surround yourself with people that you can trust

[VietCowboy]

so she's self-serving? how is that a reformer.

[burmafrd]

Only the admitted liberals and those that hate palin like Viet keep posting the drivel.

[poke]

sounds like she would have fit in perfectly with the Bush administration.

[jrumann59]

sounds like she would have fit in perfectly with the Bush administration.

Or the Clinton Administration, or the Reagan Administrations, or the Carter one or Ford or Nixon

[ThaBigP]

Or the Clinton Administration, or the Reagan Administrations, or the Carter one or Ford or Nixon

...or Johnson, or Kennedy, or Eisenhower, or Truman, or Rosevelt, or...yeah, I guess we all get the point :rolleyes:

[Maikeru-sama]

Hmmm...so somebody wins an election and rewards friends and punishes the opposition?

Tell me what is wrong with that again?

[VietCowboy]

Hmmm...so somebody wins an election and rewards friends and punishes the opposition?

Tell me what is wrong with that again?

you don't see anything wrong with punishing? alright...

It is one thing to return loyalty to those who supported you by rewarding them, it is quite another to lash out at those who didn't support you. She fired people who her supporters didn't like, her aide verbally reprimanded someone for expressing their freedom of speech, she tried to fire a freaking librarian after she refused to say she would ban any books, and she tried to make a professor pay half a million just to "process a request" to see the emails from scientists related to polar bears which she blatantly lied about, and you think that's right??

[iceberg]

OMG!!!

She should be kicked out of the country ASAP. Cuz no other politician (or person for that matter) has ever hired a friend and lashed out at a foe.

:rolleyes:

agreed rack. i can take the discussions that get heated when they make sense but when the things griped about and "pointed out" are so "blazay" why? do you really hope people buy into something so simple and don't realize it's just BAU (business as usual)?

i can't take the cheerleaders anymore from either side.

[Chief]

The New York Times has become a sad joke.

[ConcordCowboy]

If you are elected and surround yourself with qualified people that are friends or whatever then OK.

But when you are running your campaign like your the Maverick and the Change candidate and you aren't going to do things like Washington does and then goes out and gives a $95,000 job to run a 2 million dollar agency and that persons qualification is a childhood love of cows...well, that's exactly like Washington and your going to get questions about it and rightfully so.

[iceberg]

so she's self-serving? how is that a reformer.

she's human. you're trying to make it something else it would seem.

[JBond]

If I were ever elected to office, I would also try to surround myself with people I know and trust, and I would try to get rid of people who I thought might undermine my work or stab me in the back.

I think most smart people would do the same.

Same here. All politicians do this. This is a non story.

[JBond]

If you are elected and surround yourself with qualified people that are friends or whatever then OK.

But when you are running your campaign like your the Maverick and the Change candidate and you aren't going to do things like Washington does and then goes out and gives a $95,000 job to run a 2 million dollar agency and that persons qualification is a childhood love of cows...well, that's exactly like Washington and your going to get questions about it and rightfully so.

Kinda like the travel office under Clinton, right?

[ConcordCowboy]

Kinda like the travel office under Clinton, right?

I didn't vote for Clinton...try again.

What she did is what she's saying she's against and obviously you agree with me.