Seattle Times: 3 boxes of records from Palin's time as mayor

[rainbow4321]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html


Six years of her executive experience came as mayor of Wasilla, a city north of Anchorage that had about 5,000 residents when she took over. As much of Palin's hometown rallies with pride around her, 1,400 miles away — in a National Archives warehouse in Seattle — three boxes of documents help capture the quality of her mayoral experience.

These records, from a federal wrongful-termination lawsuit, include the minutiae of municipal governance, with memos to administrators and personnel records stamped "confidential." The documents, combined with accounts from her hometown newspaper, show how Palin's first year as mayor could easily have been her last.

She became embroiled in personnel challenges, a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council and a standoff with her local newspaper. Her first months were so contentious and polarizing that critics started talking recall.

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Palin tried to fill two vacancies on the City Council herself, even though an ordinance said that wasn't her prerogative. It was the council's. After the city attorney stopped Palin, the mayor said she'd merely engaged in a ploy. "It was brilliant maneuvering I had to do to deal with the impasse," she told the Frontiersman.

[speedoo]

1. K&R. Thanks for posting this. Must read. nt

[annabanana]

2. my my my my. . .Sarah Sarah. . .

Apparently she took office with NO IDEA what the Mayor's job was and just started doing whatever she wanted.

Yeah.. THAT'S what we want a heartbeat away..

[nc4bo]

3. oh she is a piece of work and uses her vagina as a shield.

I hope her ass is raked over the coals of justice because after reading that, I get the strong feeling there is a lot of red meat in Palin's freezers.

geezus.

ETA - What bad judgment on the part of John Mccain and his campaign to let this woman be named as a candidate for VOTUS.

Terrible judgment.

[Mabus]

5. Right you are

I hate to say it but when I see her all I can think about calling her is "The Vagina Monologue" because she'll talk but she won't answer questions.

[krkaufman]

11. Ok, *that's* hilarious. Thanks. n/t

[young_at_heart]

7. Thank you fellow NC resident for cheering me up

I've been in funk all day because of the poll numbers and the horrible feeling that I no longer see myself "belonging" in much of American society. To read that many of our citizens think Palin would be "cool" as president has literally given me a bellyache!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. the female condom becomes semi-popular, eh?

[NashVegas]

4. I've Been Saying She's Like Dick Cheney In Furs

But part of me wonders if it's not more like Eliot Spitzer.

[MadMaddie]

6. We should all be leary of anyone that is so arrogant and so

full of themselves...she compliments herself, there is not humbleness about this woman. She is dangerous.

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"It was brilliant maneuvering I had to do to deal with the impasse," she told the Frontiersman.
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[intheflow]

8. You are really kicking Palin ass finding all these articles, r4321!

:toast:

And k&r, or course.

[grasswire]

9. K&R to read later

keep it up, keep it up!!

We are the new media.

[malik flavors]

12. K&R

[krkaufman]

13. Relatively decent article but misses a couple key points...

- Palin's partisan education under Gingrich (explaining her bringing Republican hyper-partisan politics to small town Alaska)

- Being forced to hire a city manager in her first term, after the early controversies

... among others.

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. No wonder the GOP thugs think she's perfect. She's mini-Bush with Rove's brain! n/t