GET THE F*%# OUT OF MY STATE

[Blue_In_AK]

Shannyn Moore is PISSED OFF. This is a great rant. Please go to the link to read the whole thing.

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/

I’ve had it. Let me type slowly… GET THE F*%# OUT OF MY STATE! I didn’t vote for John McCain. I didn’t vote for Sarah Palin. I have called her my governor for almost two years. I have supported her when I thought it was best for Alaska, and criticized her when it wasn’t. ENOUGH! The McCain campaign is running and ruining Alaska. The “truthiness seminars” led by former news model Meg Stapleton and the New York based US Attorney Ed O’Callahan are reminiscent of a bad Saturday Night Live skit. Thousands of Alaskans have stood in solidarity on several occasions calling for truth, yet the lies just keep coming.

Several weeks ago, five Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit in state court to stop the investigation known as “Troopergate.” They charged the investigation was partisan. Well if that isn’t the pot calling the kettle black. Republicans Mike Kelly, Wes Keller, Bob Lynn, Fred Dyson and Tom Wagoner are absolute partisan tools for the McCain/Palin campaign. The allegation that Democratic Senators Hollis French, Bill Wielechowski, and Kim Elton were able to talk the 8 Republican committee members into unanimously voting for an investigation because they knew Governor Palin would be chosen as the VP nominee is pathetic.

The last time Alaska was a “Blue State” was during the Ice Age. The 2008 Democratic caucus in Anchorage grew by nearly 1700%. Three quarters of attendees caucused for Barack Obama. It was below zero, rush hour, stand still traffic, packed in a small school. People parked by the road up to two miles away and ran to have a voice in the process. I stood on a lunchroom table in the gym, wearing a blue hardhat, signing hundreds of voter registrations. This trend was reflected throughout the state. With redistricting coming up in 2010, Ted Stevens indicted, Don Young under investigation, the coat tails of Barack Obama seemed like a reasonable place for the Democratic leadership. They would have been crazy not to. The five Republicans who have filed to halt the investigation have not only endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket, Representative Bob Lynn WAS A DELEGATE TO THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE!!! (See photo. How’s that for a partisan endorsement.)


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[wvbygod]

1. Hey, a reverse secessionist

How quaint.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Do you think it's okay for these people to be here

interfering in a state matter? Did you read the whole thing?

[wvbygod]

8. Yes.

In cases involving judges and other officials above the law I want as much
oversight as possible. I don't care what side they are on.

Sit in jail on trumped up charges some time. And then only to have them all
all dropped yet your name is shit for life. Piss on that. Let the people decide.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I don't think you fully understand the issue here.

This investigation into the firing of DPS Commissioner Walt Monegan was initiated after a 12-0 bipartisan vote in Alaska's legislature, and Sarah Palin, before being picked by John McCain, had agreed that she and her staff would fully cooperate. It really is a rather minor investigation, and with her cooperation, probably would have been handled quickly. However, once she was picked as McCain's VP, these outside McCain people and lawyers from Dobson's Liberty Legal Institute came into our state to effectively shut down this BIPARTISAN investigation. Not knowing anything about the people in our state, they have held repeated press conferences to slander the good names of former DPS Commissioner Walt Monegan, former DA and victims' rights advocate Steve Branchflower (who is in charge of the investigation) and Palin's former allies in the legislature, Democrats Hollis French and Les Gara. I don't think you would appreciate this kind of thing in your state -- we're not talking about criminals sitting in jail cells being wrongly accused. I know about that, too -- I've worked in Alaska's legal system for 33 years. This is an entirely different set of circumstances.

Do you really think that right-wing hack lawyers (and this O'Callaghan, who has most recently been prosecuting terrorism suspects in New York) have any business insinuating themselves into what is purely an Alaskan issue?

[roguevalley]

14. I love shannyn. She can be heard at www.kudo1080.com

I would recommend it now that the courts have told the investigation and subpeonas to continue.

I agree, blue. they need to LEAVE!

Wagoner is my dunce here. i already told him what I thought of him about this.

[boobooday]

2. Wow, I do recommend reading the whole thing

Scary.

[asdjrocky]

4. Thanks!

It was a good read. I love her straight forward yet free wheeling style. Sometimes it sucks living in a reliably blue state like Ca because we get so little play from the candidates, but I could not imagine living in a state a red as Alaska. It's good to see all the efforts by the Dems up there.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Sarah's going to be lucky

if she doesn't get tarred and feathered when she comes back. This interference by the "God Warriors" is just unbelievable and, frankly, scary as hell.


ed. I should mention, too, that despite Sarah, Alaska is a decidedly UNreligious place. I believe I read a recent report that said Alaska has the smallest per capita church attendance of any state in the union. We really don't like this kind of thing at all. As governor, Sarah pretty much kept her religious stuff under wraps, because she knew she couldn't get away with pushing it on the rest of us ungodly folk ... but the McCain campaign sure doesn't seem to have any qualms.

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. Just understand one thing....

From what I am hearing, its not the McSame delegation....its the ROVE delegation. Rove has her locked down tighter than Jacks hatband. She does nothing without his taint on her...no pun intended.:evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Oh, absolutely they're Rovian

but they're calling themselves the McCain/Palin campaign, so that's what I'm going to call them, too. You saw my sign from our Hold Palin Accountable rally last Saturday?



Here's a nice shot of Shannyn Moore, by the way, for people who don't know her. She's our progressive Alaska hero.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. I guess, if you say so

In her debate she said she'd 'choose life' if her daughter were raped and make her have the kid. How is that 'keeping religious stuff under wraps'? She was very open about it, and her record as mayor is steeped in religionism.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. I mean as far as how she related to the state as a whole.

Of course, we all knew she had those kinds of wacky ideas, but she didn't take steps to codify any of that, for example, to outlaw abortions (much to the dismay of many of her supporters), and she didn't fight the Supreme Court's decision to allow benefits to same-sex couples employed by the state, although she disagreed with the decision. She had three main stated objectives as governor -- ethics reform, a revised oil tax plan and a natural gas pipeline -- and she cooperated with the Democrats in the legislature on all three of these issues. These heavily partisan Sarah Palin, the attack dog, was not seen here before John McCain picked her as VP. She was not a fan of his, and in fact had spoken favorably about Barack Obama.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. Yeah. Now you are honest.

You knew she was a theocatic religionist bigot, and voted for her anyway. Not you personally I assume, but the State did know who and what she was. To say she kept it under wraps is just not being honest. She ran as a Christian, even as mayor.
80% of Alaskans love her. If those are godless Pagans, I'm the Pope of Rome.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. To a degree.

A lot of us knew she was a theocratic bigot -- and we didn't vote for her for that and other reasons. Some people knew she was, and they voted for her because they hoped she'd promote their agenda (and they've been disappointed that she hasn't been more proactive in their pursuits). My guess is that the vast majority didn't really know or care about her religious beliefs and saw her as 1) a pretty face, certainly much prettier than Frank Murkowski; 2) a reformer because she had taken on the chair of the Alaska Republican Party and the rest of the "Corrupt Bastards"; and a likeable populist, which is how she came across in most of her appearances before the election.

People liked her afterwards because she was tenacious in overturning Frank Murkowski's oil-profit tax which basically had given Big Oil everything they wanted, she made progress towards getting an Alaska natural gas pipeline which is a project that many here have wanted for at least 30 years, and she passed ethics reform. She was successful in these things because she allied herself with legislative Democrats and moderate Republicans -- the same people McCain's campaign is now trash-talking at every opportunity.

[roguevalley]

16. so, you know that personally? are you from here? I have told a dozen

people here what we now know about her and they can hardly believe it. she didn't tell anyone and no one knew outside of wasilla. Daffy duck could have won the nom after what she did to Murkowski and his machine. 80% of Alaska DOESN'T love her but don't let me confuse you with facts.

[roguevalley]

15. the state didn't know. it would have had an impact if we had known.

[firedupdem]

17. I think it's horrible that the campaign has come into Alaska and

basically started to run the government there. Whether it's Rove or not, she would be there answering to this investigation had it not been for this VP crap. I agree with you 100%. When she gets back there in November, she's going to be in big trouble and I bet they won't stay there to help her out!