Legitimate Political Dirt on Palin

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"Critics in the state complained that Ms. Palin had undercut her clean-government image by appointing as her chief adviser on the pipeline a former lobbyist for TransCanada. The adviser, Marty Rutherford, her deputy commissioner of natural resources, earned about $40,000 lobbying the state government for a TransCanada subsidiary in 2003."

<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30palin.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=2&adxnnlx=1220083660-atSasrsb/VgqWVn++0lyWg>

One month ago Palin pushed through a half billion dollar subsidy to TransCanada to build a gas pipeline, and a contract granting TransCanada exclusive rights to the project rather than allow BP and Conoco, who own the rights to the gas, to compete for the contract. The subsidy was granted before the U.S. and Canada had given the necessary regulatory approval to build the pipeline.

<http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:rVCavgACBW4J:www.rigzone.com/NEWS/article.asp%3Fa_id%3D64567+TransCanada+%22gas+pipeline%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us>

I would love to see an investigator from the Obama campaign look into whether there was compensation for her favoratism. Of course, it could have been a strictly verbal promise of a much better job for her husband when she left office, without incriminating emails or money trail.

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1. Link to the League of Conservation Voters Press Release on Palin

<http://www.lcv.org/newsroom/press-releases/choice-of-palin-promises-failed-energy-policies-of-the-past.html>

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2. There's a nasty bit about abuse of power and a custody battle

Reminds me of what happens damn near every time a fundy takes office.

There's a pattern in it- if anyone wants to look.

Plus- it's chock full of "interesting" personal dynamics.

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3. Like She Bullies the State Legislature? n/t

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4. Like there might be some lurid matters going on

The kind people watch on Cable TV in the lower 48- or anywhere else TV shows like to make a buck.

That one's a bonanza.