Palin's professional experience

[ps1074]

I visited her wiki page and found the following:

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho.

She married her high school sweetheart, Todd Palin, on August 29, 1988, and briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband.

Two terms on the Wasilla City Council from 1992 to 1996.

Mayor of Wasilla (I suppose) from 1996 till 2002.

Runs for Lieutenant Governor in 2002 and fails. Gov Murkowski appoints her Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004.

2006 - present - Gov of Alaska.

Anti abortion, supports death penalty and the teaching of creationism in schools.

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This just doesn't look real to me. Even in Alaska you can find a thousand people more qualified than her to be a VP.

[valerief]

1. Paris Hilton must have said no. nt

[Joanne98]

2. Teaching creationism is schools is HIGHLY unpopular.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

So is anti-choice...

[Beaverhausen]

3. you left out her beauty pageant experience

Palin (formerly Sarah Heath) was the runner-up in the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant which won her a scholarship to help pay her way through college. In the Wasilla pageant, the local beauty pageant where she was crowned Miss Wasilla, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

[Tesla]

4. She is a fundies wet dream

oh creationism, hard core christian,kill live people but not fetuses

[demo dutch]

5. You can ad this from Daily Kos - lost Lt Gov bid and see rest on link

http://openthread.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/29/1028/75815/281/578402

In 2002 Sarah Palin ran for Lt. Governor. She was a little known mayor of a small (but rapidly growing) Alaska town, Wasilla.

She lost.

However, Frank Murkowski did get the Governor seat that year and he cleaned out every Democrat from every state job he could, and that meant filling the vacant positions with Republicans.

Sarah Palin was hired to be on the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission. A job paying well over $100,000 a year and essential for the natural resource dependent state of Alaska. She had no education or training in this field.

But she wasn't the only politically based hire on the O&G commission. Randy Ruedrich was the Alaska GOP party chair and he was appointed too. Soon scandal struck. Randy was caught doing party business on state time and on state computers (sending out invites and fund raiser requests). Murkowski was already under an ethical cloud for appointing his daughter to his Senate seat as well as some ethical issues with the appointed AG. This scandal started to grow into the beginnings of Murkowski's massive unpopularity.

So Sarah Palin quit, She quit her job!

She did not propose ethical reform laws. She did not call upon party reform. She did not try to get Ruedrich removed as state party chair. SHE STILL HAS NOT REMOVED HIM AS CHAIR!!!

She did the typical Republican trick of talking the talk without walking the walk.

But it was enough for the conservatives in the state who were starved for any kind of ethical Republican.

She ran against Frank Murkowski in the primary in 2006 and won.

Because she quit a job.

So that's the story of Sarah Palin.