Still, Palin continues to attract enthusiastic supporters. The sponsors of TeamSarah.org, a pro-Palin Web site hacked by Palin foes, say the Alaska governor stirs fear and loathing on the left chiefly because of her challenge to the established order.
The fascination for Palin is like rubber necking a truck-moose collision. Nobody really cares about the moose. The driver and the truck are the important things. Palin is the driver, and as usual she is refusing to be held accountable for the wreck, saying the moose just jumped out of nowhere. She thought she had passed the moose and they were behind her. Regardless, the truck (Alaska) took a real beating and it may be awhile before it can be back on the right road (2010). What happened to the moose you ask? Well ,the people of Alaska are a resilient bunch, we’ll survive. Even a drunk with power driver, trying to run us down, practically destroying the truck in the process, won’t keep Alaskans down. We have a bright future in spite of Palin’s best efforts.
I don’t believe anyone fears Palin, but she has done and said some loathsome things. Even so, the criticisms of Palin are completely justified. She keeps putting herself out there, giving interviews, saying really stupid things. She seems to love the attention, even if it’s negative attention.
Established order? The established order has been idiots. She is the epitome of politics as usual. She’s not the reformer she likes to pretend. She isn’t open and honest, nor is her administration transparent as she promised. Trying to hold her accountable is like filleting a Halibut with a butter knife, with enough time and effort, almost anything is possible.
So here’s a wink and a nod towards Queen P, in the hopes that her accidental election doesn’t total the truck and the moose will be able to walk away with minimal scarring.
Oh and TeamSarah.org, bite me. She is my Governor. Few of you mindless drones have ever even visited Alaska, never mind stayed a winter.
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN DOES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FOR “MEDIA MALPRACTICE” DOCUMENTARY
Subtitle – “Palin and GOP attempt to re-write history”.
Sarah Palin Exclusive Interview for “Media Malpractice”Documentary
So I won’t be accused of taking Queen P out of context, you can follow along with the video above.
0.00 – 0.44 Trig rumors
Where is the family photo including Trig and Tripp? This is a woman that never misses a photo opportunity. She drug her children all over the country parading them in front of crowds of people, and there isn’t a family photo with the two newest clan members? I’m not one that ever bought into the story, but if you want to stop the rumours then give us a picture. Her local newspaper would love to have that scoop. That would settle it once and for all.
0.45 – 1.03 Anonymous Bloggers
She doesn’t provide any examples of when anonymous bloggers were used as the sole source of information for a ‘hard news’ story. But even I know things don’t get into print or distribution without fact checking and confirmation. She can deny anything she wants, but unless she provides evidence to the contrary those rumors are going to persist. Just like they always have in barber shops, cafes and around the water cooler. The Internet just allows rumors to reach out to a wider audience, it’s a nice balance to the rabid right talk radio. I have an idea, why doesn’t Palin start her own blog? I’ll even set it up and host it for free here at AllAlaskans.Com
1.04 – 1.40 What drives people to believe the worst.
The lack of evidence to the contrary. No, it’s not sexist. No it’s not political. When you try to hide, cover-up and spin your way away from the situation instead of being open, honest and forthright with information, people are going to believe the worst, particularly when the explanations simply don’t make sense, or fit the facts. It’s doing things like saying there would be no public statement made about Palin’s grandson, and three days later there is a press release on the state website. It’s incompetence, inconsistency, and unbelievable that allows people to think the worst.
1.41 – 2.10 Family off limits.
The day that Palin announced that her unwed teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant is when Obama came out and made it clear that he didn’t want any of his supporters to go after Palin’s children, that they were off limits. He wasn’t talking about his family, he was making a gesture directly to the Palin family. If Palin had not used Bristol, Levi and her other children as campaign props perhaps they wouldn’t still be in the eye of the media and those meanie anonymous bloggers. It also has to be taken in context with her stands on contraception, sex education and ‘family values’. If you’re going to talk the talk, then you better walk the walk. If you’re going to use your family as campaign props then they better be prepared to be questioned as well.
2.11 – 2.20 Levi and Bristol Not Dropouts.
If your kids are not attending school, what should that be called? Levi left for an apprentice job on the slope that he ended up quiting when it was exposed he didn’t make the minimum qualifications. The story has changed several times about where Bristol was going to school, how or if she would graduate, or if she would just test for her GED. Again, she shouldn’t have brought the kids into the campaign the way she did if she didn’t want these questions. Here was a perfect opportunity for her to set the record straight and all she does is whine about the media not correcting what she believes is a misrepresentation of the facts.
2.21 – 3.27 The Couric Interview
So she knew day one that the Couric interview went poorly, so she didn’t want to do anymore. The ‘power brokers’ insisted so she went ahead and did them as instructed. Now how does that jive with her statements that she said she wished she could have done more interviews to get her message across. If she couldn’t handle the soft balls that Couric was lobing her way, she’d have no chance against tough interviewer like Brokaw or even Barbara Walters.
3.28 – 4.15 What news does she read.
She didn’t answer because “Couric isn’t the center of the universe”? She thought the question was does she read? Well, yeah, the way you talk, and your ignorance makes that a legitimate question. But finally she gets around to answering the question the way she should have in the first place, that she reads the local papers and the widely distributed newspapers. But she just can’t bring herself to admit that she simply whiffed on a softball.
4.16 – 5.04 SNL about Bristol
Yes you should be able to laugh at yourself. While I was one that spoke out saying “Leave those kids alone”, Sarah needs to accept some of the responsibility for it because of the way she used them in her campaign. You can’t have it both ways; Parading your kids around like show animals to further your image as a mother, then expect everyone to excuse your ‘children’. Children that are over 18 I should point out. Also, no word on the wedding date seems rather suspicious. Are they cohabiting now? You see if Sarah wasn’t so holier than thou, these wouldn’t even be questions.
5.05 – 5.49 Tina Fey and Katie Couric Exploiting Palin
What they were ‘exploiting’ was Sarah’s ignorance and the cartoon caricature that she presented every time she opened her mouth. And she continues to do so even in this documentary. For whatever reason, she simply refuses to take any responsibility for how she was perceived not just by those two, but the entire world. I believe the Late Night talk show hosts were all hoping for a Palin/McCain win, it would have provided non-stop jokes for the next four years. THAT would be job security, don’t know what they are going to do with Obama and Biden, I don’t think they’ll be nearly as funny.
5.50 – 6.23 Class Bias and Kennedy
If intelligence is a class, then there is a class bias towards intelligence. If there is an experience class, then yes there is a bias towards experience. Kennedy has done more, seen more, been more, than Palin can ever dream of doing. Take a look at Carolyn Kennedy’s background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy and you will quickly surmise that simply stated, Palin is not in the same class. As a Kennedy she has been under the microscope her entire life, she’ll fare just fine, a lot better than Palin.
6.24 – 7.41 If Palin was Obama’s choice for VP
No, it wouldn’t have been different, Palin would have still been stupid. And just for the record, Palin is NOT an energy expert, she did NOT clean up the Alaska GOP, Alaska media like most Alaskans are for responsible resource development. Palin is criticized for failing to live up to her own standards of being open, honest and accountable. It has nothing to do with being Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative, it’s about integrity and accountability, neither of which she has one iota of.
7.42 – 8.09 Why would you ever want to go through this again – good question.
The country may be in need of reform, but Palin has failed to show that she is capable of reform at the local or state level. What makes her think she is capable of bringing reform to the national level? She doesn’t even have an elementary grasp on how the federal government works nor where the reform needs to be made or how.
8.10 – 9.10 Look at my record.
Ok. Palin took her small town of Wasilla as mayor and put them 20 million dollars in debt for a sports facility that was built on land the city didn’t even own, and cost them millions to acquire. The operating budget of Alaska has grown 20% in her first two years, while she cut the capital budget that actually creates jobs. Her proposed budget this year is based on crude oil prices that are double of what most industry experts believe the price will be. Ethics reform? Yeah, signed the law then promptly broke it using private email addresses for public business. Open and transparent government? Nope, close the book on troopergate and lets move on. We don’t get to see what she told the personnel board investigating her abuse of office. What about the legislative finding that she did indeed abuse her office, should that be part of her record as well?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The more she talks the more people will dislike her. This constant whining and playing the victim is getting real old for a lot of us. She’s an embarrassment to us all.
It’s hard not to notice that people still have an intense interest in Sarah Palin. And others are still apoplectic about the government loan to GM. So in my mind, it was like chocolate and peanut butter coming together to make a delicious candy bar: Sarah Palin should be the next CEO of General Motors.
More from the ADN Politics Blog. Come on Palin supporters, where are you at? I know you’re visiting, don’t be shy, step up in defense of your Queen. Your silence is deafening. Post your comments here instead of sending me emails that you know I won’t make public. Unlike teamsarah.org, this blog welcomes opposing points of view.
@michigan ~”It seems that when Palin-haters have no answer for Palin defenders–they accuse us of being angry.To me, anger is when you constantly and consistently try to demean someone(Palin)for whatever reason.”
People here (ADN) have responded to every false and stupid claim of the Queen’s court. Those responses have been largely ignored by you and all the other of the Queen’s devotees. Pick any of my posts over the last couple of days and respond with something even close to intelligent to prove me wrong.
@michigan ~”maybe you libs should try to depend on yourselves for a change instead of expecting your Gov to clothe and feed you.”
What are you talking about? Where do you get the idea that Alaskans want Queen P to clothe and feed us? We’d be happy if she just worked with the oil industry to develop our resources to create jobs. She has done nothing other than alienate the most important industry in our state.
@michigan ~”maybe you can just vote her out in the next election. Hopefully you will not get someone worse.”
It’s hard for me to imagine anyone that could be worse. Hopefully Alaskans have learned their lesson and will vote for someone who is intelligent, a leader, and honest. We’ve already have had enough of the ignorant, populist, liar Palin.
@michigan ~”You have valuable resources in Alaska–she seems to know that–other politicians would rather not buy your natural gas and oil.”
Everyone knows we have valuable natural resources. That’s Alaska 101. What is required is a leader that can work with the leaseholders to develop those resources.
Since the change of software over at ADN, it’s clear that they are not interested in hosting discussions between posters. So in the interest of providing a venue for dialogue, I’ll host discussions here for those that are interested.
@steptoe ~ “Sarah bashers are just Desperate at this point.”
The only desperation I see is with Queen P and her deaf, dumb and blind legion of idiots. Desperate to be taken seriously. Desperate to be relevant. Desperate to be in the spotlight.
@steptoe ~”Created Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office”
Which cost how much? Who do they employ? What exactly have they accomplished?
@steptoe ~”Created Climate Change Subcabinet for Alaska.”
Which cost how much? Who do they employ? What exactly have they accomplished?
@steptoe ~”Overhauled the state’s ethics laws”
Then promptly ignored or broke them and continues to do so.
@steptoe ~”Developed a competitive process to construct a gas pipeline.”
She gave away a half a billion dollars to a foreign company without even a requirement to build a gasline. A company that doesn’t have any gas, financing or customers. A company that isn’t even likely to receive the necessary government licenses. A company that has close ties to Palin staffers.
@steptoe ~”Chaired the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.”
Which accomplished what exactly?
@stazec ~”..one of only a few current Governors in the country running a state surplus.
The state had a surplus when she took office. She got lucky with the high oil prices, let’s see how she does when prices and revenue aren’t so high. She is counting on prices to be almost double of what most forecasters are predicting for her 2009 budget.
@steptoe ~”libs know sarah is a powerful force, and that’s why the huff-post trolls have infested this site with lies, smears, and hopeful propaganda. nice try libs, but your zero class remarks will fail in the end.”
If anyone is an “infestation” here [ADN], it’s the idiot parade from teamsarah.org. Most of the posters here [ADN] that are and have been critical of Queen P came long before she was even a twinkle in the eye of McCain or any of the Paliban were even aware of her. Thankfully we only have to put up with her another two years as governor, and that will be the end of the story for her and her groupies.
@steptoe ~ “Palin/jindal 2012″
Also commonly known as Dumb/Dumber 2012.
@steptoe ~ “Sarah has a leadership aura. she is so engaged with everything, and brings that charismatic charm wherever she goes.”
Oh please stop. Sara ra ra has no clue about leadership. Ask her what leadership is and she’ll stutter and stammer for 15 minutes before finally saying “I’ll get back to you on that”
@steptoe ~”Sarah is all class. she loves all americans!”
No she doesn’t. She only loves “Real Americans” as SHE defines them.
@steptoe ~”She isn’t some liberal snob that try’s to control us.”
Really? She doesn’t want to control what women can do with there bodies? She doesn’t want to control who consenting adults can marry? She doesn’t want to control what people do in the privacy of their own homes? Yeah, she doesn’t want to control people the same way the Taliban doesn’t want to control people.
Team Sarah is a coalition of women dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process. Men welcome too!
So I just applied to join TeamSarah.org, what do you think my chances are of being accepted? None, since I was honest in my application and provided them a link back to this site. So why did I apply? To prove a point about Palin supporters in general, TeamSarah.org in particular and Palin herself specifically. They have no room for dissenting opinion. To them, everyone that doesn’t agree with Sarah, is a ‘hater’. They have no problem making personal attacks on others (Monegan), or swarming blogs with their comments (ADN Politics), while at the same time nobody is welcome in their inner sanctum that doesn’t genuflect in the direction of Queen P. You can’t even get past the front page of teamsarah.org without having your application accepted. Given the turnover in Palin’s administration, I think we can surmise that she doesn’t value or even tolerate dissenting opinion in her court either.
We need leaders that are willing to accept constructive criticism, embrace dissent and are capable of responding in a logical, intelligent and honest manner to questions or challenges. Palin is not that kind of leader. Those that support and defend her most remind me of those that are members of any cult.
In the past there have been critics of Palin in regards to her being a woman, being pregnant, and giving birth to her latest child Trig. The criticism has basically been that Palin should have been home with her children, that she should have disclosed her pregnancy earlier, that she should have resigned when Trig was born to devote herself to his special needs care. There were also some that criticized her for risking going to Texas while in the latest stages of her pregnancy putting herself and perhaps her unborn baby at risk.
In each case I argued against those critics because I don’t believe any of that has anything to do with Palin’s – or any woman’s – ability to do their job. I believe every woman should be able to decide for themselves what is right and appropriate for themselves and their families. I believe in equality for women. I believe in their right to privacy.
I defended Palin in spite of her views on such issues as abortion, birth control, and sex education in public schools.
Now that it’s public knowledge that her unwed 17 year old daughter is pregnant however, I think it’s fair to question her on her “abstinence only” education stance. If Palin can’t make that work in her own family, then what makes her believe it will work in ANY family.
However, we have to be careful in how we broach the subject because if people begin to feel as though Palin and her family are being ‘picked on unfairly’ it will most likely result in sympathy votes for the McCain/Palin ticket. The same thing happened in the Gubernatorial campaign when opponent Andrew Halcro routinely made Palin look like a bumbling hillbilly that had no clue about the issues affecting Alaska. Halcro lost ground, while Palin in spite of her ignorance, gained ground.
We should all sincerely wish the very best for Bristol, Levi and their baby. They are embarking on a rough road, but if they truly love each other and work hard at the task of being a family, they can succeed and be happy. I’m happy for them that they have a loving family that will help and support them, not all young adults in this situation are so fortunate. They have done nothing wrong to deserve media attention, negative or otherwise.
They do however illustrate that even in the best of families, sometimes our young people don’t always make the choices that we wish they would. That’s why we have to give them every tool available to keep them as safe as possible. We need to provide them as many alternatives as possible when they do make a bad choice or find themselves in a difficult situation.
Another concern is the trend for Palin to only disclose or come forward with information when absolutely forced to. She did it with her own pregnancy. She did it all through the “Trooper Gate” (and continues to in my opinion). It begs the question of what else is she hiding? Not only that, but now what else does McCain know that hasn’t been disclosed?
There are many questions that need to be asked and answered. I only hope that questions will be focused on issues and positions and not personal family matters. Let’s show a little class and decency.
*Note: I am not now, nor have I ever been, or likely ever be connected with the Obama campaign or Democratic Party. I’m pretty sure they are happy about that fact.
Now that McCain has selected Palin as his running mate it’s important to get out the real dope on her before she becomes one heart beat away from the Oval Office.
First of all take a look at her impressive resume from when she was a candidate for Governor of Alaska.*(see note) What should come to your attention is that she has never held a real job (outside of government). She has always been taken care of by her parents or her husband. She did some volunteer work and was elected mayor of a second class Alaska city. Not much more than a bedroom community of Anchorage. Even in that little fiefdom of hers, there were grumbling about her abuse of the office and misusing public resources for her personal gain.
So why would Alaskans elect such an obviously inexperienced, uneducated and ill-prepared candidate to be Governor you ask? It was a perfect storm of sorts that swept her into office, she didn’t even get the support of the majority of Alaskans.
In 2006 the corruption scandal was just getting public. It seemed like everyone (particularly Republicans) were either under investigation or under suspicion. The incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski had the lowest approval rating of any politician in the state. It would have been a major upset if he won the Republican primary. The ongoing battle with Exxon over the financial settlement for the devastating oil spill in 1989 along with a lack of progress of development of Alaska’s Natural Gas resources left Alaska looking for a fresh face untainted by the Oil Companies. The previous administration had negotiated a deal with the natural gas lease holders “behind closed doors”. A deal that many felt gave too much to the lease holders without requiring commitments from them to build the gas line. Those suspicions were confirmed with the conviction of Murkowski Chief of Staff Jim Clark. So Palin ran on the platform of “open and transparent” government and ethics. Even though throughout the campaign Palin showed a total lack of understanding of the issues, the media basically gave her a free ride. The more other candidates challenged her, the more sympathy she received from the voters. Anyone that was against Palin was characterized as being either in the pocket of “Big Oil” or accused of being a misogynist. Her “shucks, golly gee whiz” persona led to the highest approval rating of any Governor in the country. Alaskans were enamored with the small town girl who made the big time.
However there are cracks in the facade Palin presented to Alaskan voters . She is currently under investigation by the legislature for abuse of power involving the firing of her appointed Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. She’s backing away from her pledge of open and transparent government by saying that the public isn’t entitled to see emails concerning public business. She’s facing an ethics complaint from a former State employee. She has shown poor judgment by selecting a new Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety that had been reprimanded for sexual harassment in his previous position. He was forced to resign after two weeks in the position, but received $10,000.00 in severance pay. She is also well known for her favoritism and cronyism. During her campaign for Governor, Palin said to Alaskans “hold me accountable“, and yet no matter what happens in her administration she is never responsible, it’s always someone or something to blame, but never her.
Let me also dispel the myth that Palin is a fiscal conservative. Under her administration the operating budget has grown 23%. She gained some national press by cutting capital projects that would have put Alaskans to work on much needed community improvement. Looking at the cuts however shows she favored her home district or used the budget to punish or reward certain districts or legislators. While she is cutting community projects, she’s giving 500 million dollars to a Canadian firm to start a gas line to Canada but with no requirement to actually build the gas line. A gas line that will benefit and produce more jobs and industry to Canada than to Alaskans and the remainder of the US. Then to buy off Alaskans she appropriates an additional $1200 dollars to every Alaskan man, woman and child in addition the annual Permanent Fund Dividend.
She is however, a social conservative, which is most likely why McCain chose her. She will appeal to the radical far right Christian fundamentalists that believe the government should have the ability to coerce individuals to treat their bodies according to their closed minded dogma.
The national media should do a much better job of exposing Palin as nothing more than a small town hockey Mom that is in way over her head. The American people should do a better job getting past the phony “golly gee” facade Palin presents. She’s an empty vessel that will shatter when pressed for the hard answers if the media and voters do their jobs.
*Note: The Palin for Governor site that was hosted at http://www.palinforgovernor.com/ was taken down as I was writing this post. This is typical of Palin, the Murkowski documents regarding his gas line proposal was taken down when people started comparing her AGIA with the Murkowski proposal. This is more of what is apparently meant by her empty promise of “open and transparent” Government.
Update: Here is a 12/23/2006 archive of http://www.palinforgovernor.com/aboutSarah.html
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report to Congress said any applicant proposing to build a multibillion-dollar pipeline to carry North Slope gas to market ideally should have firm commitments from producers to ship the gas on the new pipeline.
Many predicted this exact scenario when AGIA was “debated”.
People said there would few if any qualifying offers. We got one
People said that it was going no where without commitments from producers to ship gas through the line.
People said that AGIA would only delay the process further and we would be no closer to the reality of a Gas Pipeline at the end of Palin’s term than we were at the beginning.
People warned that Palin was not going to bully the producers into making a deal that was too risky without a commitment on taxes.
Also, let’s applaud the one man in the legislature, Ralph Samuels, that had the courage of his convictions to vote against AGIA in the wake of the Veco scandal for this exact reason.
AGIA was a giant step backward. It didn’t produce the competition Palin promised. And yet she steadfastly refuses to consider the proposals of Conoco-Phillips or the Alaska Gasline Port Authority.
The fact is that Palin and her underlings have been wrong every step of the way. Each passing day we are further and further away from making the pipeline a reality.
You can find all of the supporting documents here.
There is no pipeline if there is no commitment to ship gas. There is no commitment to ship gas without stable long term agreement on costs to the producers. Nobody in their right mind would commit to hundreds of billions of dollars in any project without knowing the the long term costs. Nobody is going to bully the oil companies into making that kind of investment. Even with the bribe of 500 Million dollars the state was only able to get one “qualifying” offer. That alone should be enough to convince anyone how far off Palin is in her thinking.
I can’t fathom why these simple facts are so hard for some people to grasp.
Are we, as a State and people, willing to invest the billions of dollars and take all the risk to develop our vast resources? For instance, are we willing to invest the nearly 40 billion dollars in the Permanent Fund into developing and bringing our resources to market?
There is a good deal of empty rhetoric about how the resources are “ours” and we should dictate and control how and when they are developed. However, whether it is Oil, Gas, Fish, Timber or Minerals it’s private enterprises that take the risk, make the investments and provide the labor and expertise needed. What role should the State take other than landlord, and recipient of taxes, fees and royalties?
During the campaign our Good Queen P promised she would favor the Mat-Su Valley. Although it’s the only campaign promise she has kept to date, she has taken care of her Mat-Su Valley constituents, even if it is at the expense of the rest of the state.
Our first hint of her intention to follow through with her “Valley First” promise was when she replaced the Agriculture Board with all Valley residents with the exception of one token Anchorage member who just happened to be from the Valley.
Our Good Queen really out did herself with her vetoes on the 2008 Capital Budget. With the notable exception of the veto of spending from the Railbelt Energy Fund, the Mat-Su got off relatively unscathed. But more than just the obvious favoritism shown to Mat-Su Valley is the lack of any consistency.
She vetoed $1 million for the University of Alaska to design a new sports complex saying the should pay for it themselves, while approving $3 million for a meeting hall in Fairbanks and $630,000 for a new kitchen at the Wasilla Sports complex. She vetoed $1.5 million for deferred maintenance for Anchorage public facilities because it wasn’t a state’s responsibility, while approving $3.8 million for a new kitchen for the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
I’m not complaining about the bulk of the vetoes. This isn’t me whining about my ox getting gored, I just want everyone’s ox to be gored equally. It doesn’t appear to me that the cuts were made along philosophical lines, which I would respect even if I didn’t agree. It almost seems like she targeted particular areas or legislative districts to reward or punish.
All she had to do was use the same criteria for her vetoes regardless of their region or election district. If improvements to sports facilities are not a “State Responsibility” in Anchorage, then they shouldn’t be a “State Responsibility” in Wasilla. You want to talk about “bias”? The Queen’s photo should be next to the word in the dictionary. You don’t find a better definition of the term than our Good Queen P.
How she can call herself a fiscal conservative when the Operating Budget is larger than ever is beyond me. The fact is both the operating and the capital budgets came in at a combined $350 million higher than what she promised. A far cry from the “Bare Bones Budget” she promised while campaigning.
Speaking of broken promises, what ever happened with “open and transparent” government? Why were these cuts made behind closed doors without discussion with legislators or other government leaders? Why can’t we get access to the information hidden behind this password protected page? Why is the budget information not presented in the original format of a spreadsheet? It’s nearly impossible to do any serious analysis when it’s presented in a PDF format that you can’t sort and query. Is that done on purpose, just so those of us that are interested in doing so, can’t? Take a look at the options provided for the viewing the 2007 Budget and compare that to what the options are for the 2008 Budget. Is this really what we thought we were going to get with the Queen’s open and transparent government?
As if favoritism, inconsistency, hiding and obfuscation of the data wasn’t bad enough, the worst is the lack of leadership and vision provided from the Queen’s throne. Why wasn’t she working more closely with Legislators and communicating her vision? Why wasn’t she speaking up during the legislative process to lead rather than react? Why isn’t she out front on this now explaining the favoritisim and inconsistencies? It is almost as though our Good Queen set this situation up so she would be seen as the hero of the people. Why no comment on the ballooning cost of the State’s operating budget?
She has failed to deliver on her promise of a bare bones budget. She has failed to even begin to address the operating budget. She has failed to step up and take a leadership position or provide any vision for Alaska’s future. She has failed to deliver on the promise of transparency and openness in the State Government. She has failed to treat all Alaskans equally across regions.
From where I sit it looks as Queen P was ill-prepared to take office. As I feared without any experience at the state level. It’s too bad that the people of Alaska have to suffer through her on the job training. Perhaps the problem is that she hasn’t surrounded herself with competent people. Perhaps she is spending to much time making appearances and videos for late night TV, rather than working on the things that she was sent to do in Juneau… like being a leader, cutting the budget and making government open and transparent.
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