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To: carranza2 who wrote (263814)	8/29/2008 11:56:00 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793838

it seems Alaska politics are on the Louisiana level from an ethical standpoint Interesting that those happen to be the states that elected Palin and Jindal - two stars with apparently no skeletons in their closets. Younger generation - and... lookin' good... :)

To: carranza2 who wrote (263814)	8/29/2008 12:01:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 793838

I would have liked to see Romney from a preparedness point of view, but I think McCain managed to surprise everybody with this pick - and it didn't leak. I suspect Johnny Mac may be staying inside Obama's OODA loop. She hurts on the experience issue, though only from the Republican/attack side of it. (Obama could hardly attack her very well after all). She has no fp experience. But she helps on reform, gun rights, pro-life (this woman just turned down a chance to abort, for real), and drilling! hopefully she'll talk McCain around on ANWR. Her beauty will appeal to men and her sex to disgruntled Hillaryites.

To: carranza2 who wrote (263814)	8/29/2008 12:03:19 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793838

Please let me help you set your mind at rest with respect to Palin's ethics in government. From the Wikipedia piece on her: en.wikipedia.org Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,[7] where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.[4] After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail.[8] Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[4] ......... ......... ......... Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill, and also shelving pork-barrel projects supported by fellow Republicans. Palin successfully killed the Bridge to Nowhere project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark spending.[10][11] "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today."[12] She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young[13] and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings.[10] ..... ..... ..... Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration, including the appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.[16][17] Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski's re-election campaign.[18]