Palin has been dipping in Alaska's Funds

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

yeah it's allllll the media's fault that they are reporting on stuff that they think we should know It's all the media's fault.. they are just pickin on her b/c she's a woman !!1!!

No, it's the lack of context.

Did the story mention that she billed about 450K less than her predecessor? That might be kind of important.

[awkward1]

Originally Posted by Kevin

No, it's the lack of context.

Did the story mention that she billed about 450K less than her predecessor? That might be kind of important.

Ditto. Not to mention that her official home as Governor of Alaska is the governors mansion in Juneau, so when she works out of the Anchorage office but commutes to her other home in Wasilla she is actually saving the state a whole lot of money on hotel and food expenses. It takes about 45 minutes to travel from Anch. to Wasilla without traffic, during rush hour obviously much more time. I'd say the per diem is fairly hers and I think that if there was a problem then Alaskans would be the first to speak up about it. Again, someone making a mountain out of a molehill. Also, kudos to the poster who got their geography right; Wasilla is NOT the 2nd largest city in Alaska, not even close. Perhaps the MatSu borough is the second largest borough in the state but I cannot swear to that, I am only guessing at how this 'fact' was arrived at.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by awkward1

Ditto. Not to mention that her official home as Governor of Alaska is the governors mansion in Juneau, so when she works out of the Anchorage office but commutes to her other home in Wasilla she is actually saving the state a whole lot of money on hotel and food expenses. It takes about 45 minutes to travel from Anch. to Wasilla without traffic, during rush hour obviously much more time. I'd say the per diem is fairly hers and I think that if there was a problem then Alaskans would be the first to speak up about it. Again, someone making a mountain out of a molehill. Also, kudos to the poster who got their geography right; Wasilla is NOT the 2nd largest city in Alaska, not even close. Perhaps the MatSu borough is the second largest borough in the state but I cannot swear to that, I am only guessing at how this 'fact' was arrived at.

Here's where I got my facts on population. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/02000.html

MatSu is not the second largest borough even, Anchorage is first, then Fairbanks North Star. The boroughs have changed from the 2000 census (I'm pretty sure they added a lot more), but that doesn't change the fact that Wasilla is a small town compared to others. I will give them props for having a Target built this summer, they got one roughly the same time as Anchorage.

I'm not even remotely interested in voting for Sarah Palin either, even though we're alumnae of the same University. I guess I'm just annoyed by poor fact checking and reporting considering Alaska is the focus of my graduate studies. I'm an Anthropologist, I can't vote for someone who discards the fossil record in a state where my work has contributed to said record.

[DaemonSeid]

one thing is for sure....she's got experience.....heh


it's one thing to have it...it's another for us to vote for it.......


I wana see how experienced a flip flopper, slip slider, and shucker ducker she is......so far it's not terribly impressive.

[bluefish81]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Just before the last election, the calls completely filled up my voicemails both at home (while at work) and at work (while at home) to the point that I couldn't receive messages that I needed to receive. THAT is annoying. Perhaps this is considerably worse in battleground states?

I am soooo happy I dumped my landline six months ago. No random dialer, pre-recorded political phone calls. They were calling you at work too? That's weird to me.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

It must be worse there. It's never happened here although I did get a bunch of calls before the Republican primary. I just deleted.

Do we have any current laws that limit when candidates can speak right now? I got the impression that you wouldn't expect them to be on TV, putting ads out, etc earlier than you noted.

In my ideal election, there would be no ads. If news sources chose to interview them and stuff, they'd be on TV, but ads cost money!

Originally Posted by bluefish81

I am soooo happy I dumped my landline six months ago. No random dialer, pre-recorded political phone calls. They were calling you at work too? That's weird to me.

Yeah, I get telemarketer calls at work too. I think my work line is in a residential pool of phone numbers or something. It makes me crazy.