ABC: Record Refutes Palin’s Sudan Claim-Palin Against Sudan Divestment Before She Was For It

[kpete]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5948944&page=1

Record Refutes Palin’s Sudan Claim
Palin Administration Against Sudan Divestment Before It Was For It, Documents Show

By JUSTIN ROOD
October 3, 2008—

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country’s brutal regime from the state’s multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday’s vice presidential debate.

Not quite, according to a review of the public record and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a measure to divest Alaskan holdings in Sudan-linked investments.

”The PALIN administration killed our bill,” said Alaska state representative Les Gara, D-Anchorage. Gara and state Rep. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, co-sponsored a resolution early this year to force the Alaska Permanent Fund a $40 billion investment fund, a portion of whose dividends are distributed annually to state residents to divest millions of dollars in holdings tied to the Sudanese government.

[chelsea0011]

1. She has a problem understanding her record as Governor

[Beaverhausen]

2. My god- she lied about this?

[bunnies]

3. wow. This is so sick and twisted that I can hardly wrap my head around it.

If anyone ever thought this woman had a heart, this should set them straight.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. It appears that she is always for something before she is against it...DUH.

[Windy]

5. Why does ANYONEgive this woman credit for knowing ANYTHING

she has NO grasp whatsoever of any issue. She only reads from a script.

My high school senior is more versed in the ways of the world, government and the political system than she is.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. Typical Puke: Just make up shit on the fly. It's true because I say it is. nt