During the VP debate Palin played up her foreign policy credentials by claiming credit for efforts to remove assets owned by the Sudanese government from the Alaskan multi-billion-dollar investment fund.
The truth is in fact very different
"The [Palin] administration killed our bill," said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, co-sponsored a resolution early this year to force the Alaska Permanent Fund – a $40 billion investment fund, a portion of whose dividends are distributed annually to state residents – to divest millions of dollars in holdings tied to the Sudanese government.
Read the full article here;
http://www.abcnews.go.com/...
Palin's team eventually dropped their opposition to the bill-but it was their forestalling which had prevented it being passed.
Like the bridge to nowhere-this is another prime example of Palin wanting to take full credit for a popular stance whilst banking on no one checking her past record.
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Conclusion-palin is rubbish! yes she is!
but enough about her! Get registering voters!
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small update;
kossack larichardson73 has written a far better diary here-
http://www.dailykos.com/...
maybe this story has got some legs:)
and the washington post has done a fact checker for this latest Palin Pork Pie
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/...
which concludes;
Sarah Palin is exaggerating her role in leading the Sudan divestment effort in Alaska. The legislative record shows that her administration was late in embracing the campaign to sell stock in companies that do business with Sudan, and initially opposed the divestment effort. The Alaska Permanent Fund still invests in companies blacklisted by the Save Darfur Coalition.