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> Subject: What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin
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> by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
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> As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about
> Sarah Palin
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> by Dewey Whetsell
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> The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in
> Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national
> politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the
> Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's
> about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that
> I'm about to mention here.
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> 1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because
> as soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and
> tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt
> Bastards Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State
> housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping
> around the yard, throwing confetti and singing "la la la la" (well, you
> know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done
> anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue.
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> 2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect
> the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new
> system of splitting the oil profits called "ACES". Exxon (the biggest
> corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them "don't let the
> door hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents
> went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other
> huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the
> name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
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> 3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is
> she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as
> "pork". She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the
> "when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need
> something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could
> use the money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was
> extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the
> governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving
> back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a
> car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning-I
> imagine-that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the
> names of those other governors.
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> 4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also
> managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas
> pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in
> the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If
> that doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed
> while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies
> with her other hand.
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> 5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place
> called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't
> start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No
> governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told
> them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and
> threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the
> way to the court house. Alaska won again.
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> 6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for
> electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan
> for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can
> give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona.
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> Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, and look cool. But that's just a
> cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other
> governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I
> won't be holding my breath.
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> By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election
> and go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent
> screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what
> happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning,
> it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
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