NY Times Hates Palin - That's Enough To Win My Vote

[GOBUCKS]

For two weeks, thirty democrat socialist lawyers and scores of democrat "jounalists" have been camping out in Alaska, carrying sacks of bribe money, trying to find something negative for their messiah (pbuh) to use against Sarah Palin.

After spending millions, this is what they come up with. She knew some of the people she hired. Governors should only hire people they know nothing about? Wouldn't that be like hiring a President who was educated in a muslim madrassa in Indonesia? The NY Times, like most democrats, is easy to scare.

edhopper  (1000+ posts)     Sat Sep-13-08 06:47 PM
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From the NY Times; This is one scary woman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.h...

"WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as one of her qualifications for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages..."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3993651

[delilahmused]

Don't most government jobs have pay scales with salaries decided and voted on by the legislature?

Cindie

[FlaGator]

Oh my Lord! Giving government jobs to friends! This is unheard of! No winning politician has ever given a job to friend or supporter before. We must nip this in the bud before it becomes a real crisis and all elected officials start doing it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

A two million dollar Ag Dept.?  Loving cows is more than enough qualification for that.  The Ag Dept. in AK is about as important to it as a Forestry Dept. in Australia's Nullarbor Plain or an Ocean Fisheries Dept. in Iowa.

[franksolich]

A two million dollar Ag Dept.?  Loving cows is more than enough qualification for that.  The Ag Dept. in AK is about as important to it as a Forestry Dept. in Australia's Nullarbor Plain or an Ocean Fisheries Dept. in Iowa.

You know, I dunno.

I was surprised.

According to people who've been to Alaska, there is apparently a thriving agriculture there, in some valleys or something just south and east of Anchorage; cattle ranches, dairy farms, vineyards, the whole bit.

Of course, the growing season is short, very short, but apparently it's good enough to raise all that.

To me, a state department of agriculture does a state, and humanity in general, much more good than other state agencies.  We're finally getting rid of that stupid "Commission on the Status of Women" agency here in Nebraska, and all the affirmative action agencies are probably going to evaporate after the November elections.

And we're talking about a whole lot more than just a couple million bucks here.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Frank, there is indeed "Some" agriculture in Alaska, but it is not a big factor or even especially significant factor in that great State's economy.  The budget says it all, 2 mil is in the ballpark of enough to pay a dozen to twenty employees and operate an office building and grounds per year, plus a handful of vehicles.

The growing season is not really much over 60 days, but they are days of very long sunlight hours which hastens the crop.  The problem with pastoral farming there is keeping the animals through the winter.  Due to the resulting high operating costs for animal operations, locally-produced meat isn't real economical compared to harvested game and the dairy products are only economic in comparison to flying the stuff in from southern BC, or OR/WA.   

[DixieBelle]

The salaries would be determined by the govt pay scale but that doesn't stop the Slimes from implying sweetheart deals from Palin to her friends. The other point is that it's a small community. What are the odds of everyone knowing everyone else? Pretty high.

The Slimes should come to D.C. where cronyism is elevated to an artform. Of course that doesn't fit PDS.

[GOBUCKS]

there is indeed "Some" agriculture in Alaska

Outside Fairbanks, there are several large popsicle ranches.

[DumbAss Tanker]

there is indeed "Some" agriculture in Alaska

Outside Fairbanks, there are several large popsicle ranches.

And the Sno-cone plantations, of course...

[BlueStateSaint]

there is indeed "Some" agriculture in Alaska

Outside Fairbanks, there are several large popsicle ranches.

And the Sno-cone plantations, of course...

Don't forget the dairy farms where ice cream comes directly from the cow!