Palin on being Mayor of Wasilla: "It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees."

[chascarrillo]

Palin on Running Wasilla: ‘It’s Not Rocket Science’
By LAURA MCGANN 9/2/08 7:08 PM

WASILLA, Alaska– I’m here at the Mat-Su Frontiersman’s offices flipping through their print archives. I was curious about what then-Mayor Sarah Palin said at the time about giving her top managers a loyalty test and eventually firing her chief of police.

I’m reading an article from October 1996, in which a reporter named Laura Mitchell Harris asks Palin about her intentions for a shake up. How would she effectively run a city without experienced leaders? "'It’s not rocket science,' Palin said, 'It’s $6 million and 53 employees."

(Only a little more here: http://www.washingtonindependent.com/4027/palin-on-running-wasilla-its-not-rocket-science - but McGann is up in AK going to the local newspaper archives and city council records to dig up stuff like this and posting it to her blog. We all owe her a beer or something.)

[FrenchieCat]

1. yep, yep...absolutely!

[kestrel91316]

2. Hell, her ADMINISTRATOR ran the city. She was just the pretty

lady to cut ribbons and cakes.

Oh, and she worked real hard at exacting vengeance against thos who displeased her. Revenge is REAL hard work.

[Mojambo]

3. And then she proceeded to leave the town 20 something million in debt.

Doesn't speak well to her math skills.

[chascarrillo]

4. Touche

[Colobo]

5. What a dummy.

[chascarrillo]

6. Bumping to refute this moron Governor of Hawaii.