Here Sarah reveals her position on gay rights:
•Do you support the Alaska Supreme Court’s ruling that spousal benefits for state employees should be given to same-sex couples? Why or why not?
SP: No, I believe spousal benefits are reserved for married citizens as defined in our constitution.
Statement of Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon about Gov. Sarah Palin
"Alaska Governor Sarah Palin can help Sen. McCain win this election by appealing to independent and young voters. She’s a mainstream Republican who will unite the Party and serve John McCain well as Vice President. Gov. Palin is an inclusive Republican who will help Sen. McCain appeal to gay and lesbian voters
Hmmmm....
While running for governor in 2006, though, Palin backed federal funding for the infamous bridge, which McCain helped make it a symbol of pork barrel excess.
And as mayor of the small town of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002, Palin also hired a Washington lobbying firm that helped secure $8 million in congressionally directed spending projects, known as earmarks, according to public spending records compiled by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste and lobbying documents.
Wasilla's lobbying firm was headed by Steven Silver — a former chief of staff to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, a key proponent of the bridge project.
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U.S. Senate records show that Silver's firm began working for Palin in early 2000. Federal funds began flowing shortly thereafter.
In fiscal year 2000, Wasilla received a $1 million earmark, tucked into a transportation appropriations bill, for a rail and bus project in the town. And in the winter of 2000, Palin traveled to Capitol Hill to appear before the House and Senate appropriations committees to seek earmarks, according to a report in the Anchorage Daily News.
Palin and the Wasilla City Council increased Silver's fee from $24,000 to $36,000 a year by 2001, according to Senate records.
Soon after, the city benefited from additional earmarks: $500,000 for a mental health center, $500,000 for the purchase of federal lands and $450,000 to rehabilitate an agricultural processing facility. Then there was the $15 million rail project, intended to connect Wasilla with town of Girdwood, where Stevens has a home.
The Washington trip is now an annual affair for Wasilla officials.
Let's see...
Sarah Palin was really supporting the bridge to nowhere.
She really wasn't a reformer and went after earmarks.
She really doesn't know much about the history of her country and the pledge of allegiance. http://www.dailykos.com/...
She really isn't supportive of gay rights.
She was a member of a radical secessionist party AIP
http://www.dailykos.com/...
And all of this is only a few days.
Day by day, drip by drip, we are getting to know the REAL Sarah Palin.
Can't wait for next week. This is like a TV soap!