Palin Was a Director of Embattled Sen. Stevens's 527 Group

Source: Washington Post

ST. PAUL -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state's political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political organization organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

Palin's name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.

Palin's relationship with Alaska's senior senator may be one of the more complicated aspects of her new position as Sen. John McCain's running mate; Stevens was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption.

Palin, an anti-corruption crusader in Alaska, had called on Stevens to be open about the issues behind the investigation. But she also held a joint news conference with him in July, before he was indicted, to make clear she had not abandoned him politically.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/01/palin_was_a_director_of_embatt.html

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And she claims to be anti-corruption!

this truly shows her hypocricy!

But it won't be. Too hard for republicans to follow.

I hope The Colbert Report peruses these boards for interesting visuals of interest for the American people. <g>

That's a keeper fer shure

just like the girls in Alabama.

Palin is a mess! What DIDN'T she do??

The gifts just keep coming.

The woman has been on the national scene for all of four days and this is what, scandal number 6 for her?? 7?? Between her screw-ups and McCain's houses, the number 7 has taken on a whole new meaning this election.

Palin has fried McCain's already well-scrambled campaign. Back home, she'd be what we call a HAM, or "hot @ss mess."

I asked how do you like Sarah Palin? Her statement "She's scary". No elaboration as she got in her car and drove away. I love it!

:rofl:

This is the really good stuff.

She lied about the Bridge to Nowhere already.

Holy Katherine Harris! She was named on FRIDAY, it's only MONDAY, and Palin is a freakin' smorgasbord of fun that won't quit.

I wonder if it was worth it to them. :shrug:

Was it really worth it? Pretty soon, not even the Fundies will vote for her. One would hope, at least.

That really makes sense in a Rovian way--turn politics into an emotional roller coaster instead of an intellectual exercise.

It is all about manipulating emotions for politicians without reason to back their cause.

The left needs to address her Big Oil history. I suspect the whole corruption-fighter persona is a ruse to maintain control of North America's largest construction project, the Cheney-Young-Stevens-Palin gas pipeline.

She'll withdraw from consideration before the end of the week. Maybe even before the formal nomination!

This, on the heels of the investigation of her, as well as the two family pregnancies ("hers" and her now 17-year-old unmarried daughter) are just too much for the republicans to handle.

"think of this, when you go to vote, don't go to vote alone"!

Chicago: "vote early, vote often"

PS - where did he get that god-awful vest????

Looks like seal fur! Gross!

I hope that you have saved these videos somehwere safe, cuz you know that their going to get pulled from Youtube soon. they're scrubbing her past as fast as they can.

http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/2007/09/alaska_governor_is_more_than_just_new_face_of_gop.html

Palin: "attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects"

From a story at WA Post that is no longer available???? How soft was that opposition?

It was more like, "Aww foooey, we need to abandon this pork barrel because it won't happen anyway now." Or, in Palin's words:

"Much of the public's attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened," she said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092100790.html

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Her old Wiki page was scrubbed though.

way to power...she probably even sabotaged some of them..

Apparently she's left quite a trail of "bodies" in her wake.

having been on the tail end of it myself (actually thinking office management positions weren't worth fighting dirty over)

than waste time with office politics. Not wise, but I sleep nights.

She fired two employees while she was Mayor and almost got recalled.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6866260&mesg_id=6866260

Also dismissed the board of directors of a state run dairy farm that resulted in a disaster. Here's an exerpt from her pre-scrubbed
Wiki page:

When on June 6, 2007, the Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing Matanuska Maid Dairy, an unprofitable state-owned business, Palin objected, citing concern for the impact on dairy farmers and the fact that the dairy had just received $600,000 in state money. When Palin found out that the Board of Agriculture and Conservation appoints Creamery Board members, she replaced the entire membership of the Board of Agriculture and Conservation.<27><56> The new board reversed the decision to close the dairy, but later in 2007, with Palin's support, the unprofitable business was put up for sale. There were no offers in December 2007, when the minimum bid was set at $3.35 million,<57><58> and the dairy was closed that month. In August 2008, the Anchorage plant was purchased for $1.5 million, the new minimum bid; the purchaser plans to convert it into heated storage units.<59>

Pre-scrubbed Wiki page link:

http://209.85.215.104/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSarah_Palin

Try to figure out the competition for the GIANT project, and which oil companies won and lost.

What Palin, a Big Oil politico, did was prevent the Dems from taking over control of this process (defeating Murkowski)!

Palin took the primary and saved the final election from certain defeat to Republicans!

this just gets better and better

McCains soulmate.... gimme a break. Has it been a week yet?

:kick:

oil and gas all the way
George must be so proud, he probably can't wait to see that ass in person too

"an independent political organization"

and

"organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens."?

Now that is an oxymoron!

With the arguments that we have been making with one another at DU, I believe that our Democratic Party has a sufficient amount to criticize Gov. Palin, without insulting the Independent voters.

Gov. Palin:

Abuse of power with Trooper-gate
Worked for Ted Stevens 527 Group
Lacks real experience
Choice as VP seriously questions McSames judgement
Is a Far-Right Idealogue
Is Hypocritical about fighting Governmental corruption
Was for the bridge to no-where before she was against it

I bet there's a lot more coming!

It’s The Corruption, Stupid = Abramoff, McCain, Palin & the GOP... (update)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6870492

McCain couldn't have made a worse choice if he asked the Democratic Party to choose his running mate for him.

McCain is an absolute fool -- and there is no fool like an old fool.

"excellence" is hardly the word I'd use for any of those corrupt repukes in Alaska. Boggles the mind that McCranky would choose her without vetting her properly. I think he interviewed her in February, and the vetting stopped at that point because McCain was like... "okay, I made the Christian right happy by interviewing this person they want, but NO FUCKING WAY is she going on the ticket!" He wanted one of his friends... but when they saw the DNC convention Rove realized they had to do a Hail Mary, and at the urging of Bill Kristol (McCranky's PNAC Pal), and the Southern Baptist Convention, Caribou Barbie the VP was born.

Oh. .and I've seen stealth posters here making noises about how much money McCranky raised the day she was announced -- DUH, the christian right's political minions sent out fundraising letters because McCranky chose a "believer"

Priceless! :rofl:

:rofl:

thinker! Bwwwaaah!

She was willing to take his earmarks until it became politically unpalatable...

She was willing to work for his re-election, even though he supposedly represents the "bad" Republicans she's against...

She was happy to accept his endorsement, and used him in a campaign commerical (which has now mysteriously disappeared from herwebsite...

:rofl:

was she a member of the Corrupt Bastards Club too?

Did Sen. Ted Stevens rat out Dick Cheney? Oooophs!

Aug-25-08 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3856924

This is hilarious, from a former federal corruption prosecutor,

"prosecutors may not have had evidence that Stevens was behind Cheney's letter, before Stevens confirmed it to Newsweek."

Of course, the MSM will just ignore this.

...and who you didn't even vet.

This woman was a very dangerous choice for McCain and it's going to blow up right in his face.

Let's ask McCain and he can have his staff figure it out :rofl:

he needs the closet space.

I bet Colbert will really do this subject justice...

..Where do you start looking?

I was away from DU for two days and come back to see "scandal central". I think we should take bets on when Palin will withdraw from the nomination. Or maybe at the RNC convention there will be "Nays" in response to her nomination.

It basically says two politicians in the same party and from the same state suported each other - BIG FUCKING SHOCK.

527 isn't illegal, scummy, but not illegal.

Palin isn't link to Stevens in a way that shows she received illegal money or denied being in this group.

All this does is open a semantics debate.

But, it's a start, if the Post keeps digging this could have much more to it.

Palin was in Uncle Ted's hip pocket as recently as three years ago. So much for being a "reformer".

and he's a POW, so therefore must be taken at his word... after all, he spent 5 years in a Vietnamese jail.

I rub your back, you rub mine, or I screw up your life.

Wolf puppies.

I agree...the gift that keeps on giving for:dem:


Unbelievable . . . how many problems already and it hasn't been a week yet!:rofl:

I could hardly write any goofier scenarios.

this sleaze was just what he wanted to see!

Using donor lookup at opensecrets:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=palin&state=AK&zip=&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=A&capcode=kbkp9&submit=Submit

PALIN, SARAH WASILLA,AK 99654 NA/HOUSEWIFE 6/8/04 $328 Republican Party of Alaska (R)
PALIN, SARAH WASILLA,AK 99654 HOMEMAKER 7/22/04 $300 Miller, Mike (R)

Wasn't she mayor of Wasilla in 2004? I can understand being proud of being a homemaker and listing that as a profession (maybe it really was a bigger deal to run a family of four kids than to run a tiny little town like that), but was there a reason to conceal her paying profession? Can't a mayor (or anyone in politics) donate to candidates or to the Republican Party?

Extremely nice catch, BTW! :applause:

She served on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission until 2004, resigned to run for lietenant governor, and then lost that. So unless "Defeated Political Candidate" can be listed on contribution papers she was a homemaker.

Timeline from Wikipedia:
1992-1996 City Council
1996-2002 Mayor
2003-2004 Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
2006- Present - Governor

Yet they fall in love with her.

I want more dirt!...
She freakin` scares the hell outta me...
I want her to go away...
:thumbsdown: