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Sarah Palin
- Her Bio and Important Facts / Links / Positions
(A nice consolidation from
Time.com):
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Groundbreaking: Sarah Palin is
the first woman to run on a Republican Presidential ticket (and
the second woman, after 1984 Democratic candidate Geraldine
Ferraro, to run for Vice President for a major party), John
McCain's running mate Sarah Palin was also the first-ever female
governor of Alaska — and its youngest when she was sworn in at
age 42 in 2006. Born in Idaho, Palin's family moved her to
Alaska as an infant, where she grew up in Wasilla, a small town
of fewer than 9,000, located 45 miles north of Anchorage. She
first entered politics in 1992, winning a seat on the Wasilla
City Council, before going on to become the town's mayor four
years later at age 32. After two terms in office, she earned
statewide recognition by pursuing the nomination for lieutenant
governor — which she lost by only 2,000 votes. Palin has no
national experience and less than two years experience as
governor, but she is unabashed about that. "That's a healthy
thing," she told TIME. "That means my perspective is fresher."
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Conservative: Palin describes
herself as pro-life and against same-sex marriage, although she
claims to have good friends who are gay. In 2006 while running
for governor, she said she would support a ballot initiative
that denied benefits to same-sex couples, but her first veto as
governor shot down such a bill. (Palin said she vetoed it
because the Alaska Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional, not
because she supports gay-marriage rights.) She is Christian and
pro-life, but also a supporter of birth control: she's a member
of Feminists For Life (FFL), an anti-abortion, pro-contraception
organization. In 2002, she wrote a letter to FFL stating that
she had "adamantly supported our cause since I first understood,
as a child, the atrocity of abortion." She supports the teaching
of creationism in public schools, alongside evolution. She is
also a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association and
supports the constitutional right to bear arms.
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Oil Pipeline: On August 27,
Palin signed a bill to give a Canadian company a license and
$500 million in government subsidies to build a pipeline
connecting natural gas fields in Alaska's North Slope with
existing infrastructure in Canada and to the continental U.S.
Alaskans have been pushing for years for construction of the
pipeline, which, according to gas companies, could provide 7% of
all fuel used in the U.S. Major fuel companies operating in the
state — including BP and ConocoPhillips — oppose the plan,
however, saying they want to build their own line. Construction
could begin as early as next year, but the pipeline wouldn't be
completed until at least 2017 and still faces considerable
hurdles — including its massive cost, estimated to be at least
$30 billion, which could stymie the plan if fuel prices continue
to drop. Palin also supports natural-gas drilling in the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge — which McCain has opposed — but Palin
is not roundly loved by the energy industry. With Democratic
support, last fall she raised taxes on oil company profits.
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A Jock and a
Beauty Queen: Palin was born
in Idaho but grew up in Alaska, and her hobbies —
moose hunting,
ice fishing, hiking — indicate a typical Alaskan upbringing. But
it was her performance on the Wasilla High School basketball
team that earned her the nickname "Sarah Barracuda"— supposedly
because of her fiercely competitive nature. Palin, who played
point guard, was the team's captain her senior year, and scored
the final point — a free-throw — of the 1982 state championship
game that Wasilla won against Anchorage. Two years later, in
1984, Palin, then 20, entered a local beauty pageant to earn
college scholarship money. She was crowned Miss Wasilla — and
Miss Congeniality — and went on to compete in the Miss Alaska
contest, where she came in second. She graduated from the
University of Idaho in 1987 with a degree in journalism, and
worked briefly as a TV sportscaster in Anchorage and a
commercial fisherman before pursuing a career in politics.
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Married Her High-School Sweetheart:
Sarah and Todd Palin eloped in 1988, having dated since high
school, and reportedly used two residents of a nearby nursing
home as witnesses to their nuptials at the Palmer, Alaska,
courthouse. Todd, a Yup'ik Eskimo, works as a production
operator for British Petroleum on Alaska's North Slope. He took
an unpaid leave of absence when his wife became governor, but
returned to BP's payroll in 2007 amid whispers of possible
conflict of interest. "It's a blue-collar, in-the-field type
job, working in a facility as a production operator, separating
the oil, the gas and water. It's not a management position where
decisions are being made," said Gov. Palin, promising that her
husband's job would not affect her own. The "First Dude," as he
is called, is also a four-time winner of the Tesoro Iron Dog, a
2,000-mile snowmobile race. During the summer he works as a
fisherman at the Bristol Bay commercial salmon fishery.
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A Working Mom with Five (5!) Children:
What a role model! Palin and her husband, Todd, have five
children. Their three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 14, and
Piper, 7. Their two sons: Track, 19, and infant Trig, born in
April; the governor carried him to term knowing he had Down
Syndrome. Palin describes herself as a "hockey mom" and has a
hard-earned reputation as a dedicated working mother. She
returned to work just three days after Trig was born and, when
she was mayor of Wasilla, she reportedly brought her infant
daughter to the office regularly. The baby slept in a car seat
under her desk while Palin worked. The Palins' eldest son,
Track, enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and is preparing
to deploy to Iraq.
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Ethical and a Reformer: Despite
her own brewing ethics scandal — Palin has been accused of
abusing her power to try to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a
state trooper — she has built her political career, in part, on
ethics reform and whistle blowing. As mayor of Wasilla, she cut
her own salary, and was appointed
ethics commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission. She resigned from the post after complaining that
her fellow Commissioner, Republican Randy Ruerich, was raising
money for the state party from energy companies he was charged
with regulating. He later resigned from the commission and paid
a record fine for conflict of interest violations. Palin was
elected governor after campaigning as a reformer, and shortly
after taking office, she passed a sweeping ethics reform bill
regulating lobbyist activities and forcing more disclosure from
lawmakers. Palin has enjoyed approval ratings in Alaska as high
as 90%.
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Abuse of Power?: (This is
hardly credible and doesn't present an even-handed view of the
situation, but here it is). Earlier this month, a legislative
panel launched a $100,000 investigation to determine whether
Palin abused her influence by attempting to get her former
brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The panel is currently
questioning whether Palin dismissed the state's safety
commissioner, Walt Monegan, because he refused to fire her
ex-brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, whose marriage to Palin's sister
ended in a bitter divorce — and custody battle — in 2005. Palin
has denied the charges, and says she did not coordinate the
reported dozens of telephone calls placed by her husband and
administration to Wooten's bosses. Before Palin ran for
governor, she and her husband accused Wooten of drinking alcohol
on the job and illegal hunting. Wooten was briefly suspended
over the allegations in 2006 but never dismissed.
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A Pot Smoker...
who is honest, unlike Bill Clinton!: In 2003, the Alaska
Court of Appeals legalized the possession of small amounts —
four ounces or less — of marijuana in the home, making it the
only state in America to allow it. In 2006, then-governor Frank
Murkowski outlawed the ruling; the Superior Court, in turn,
struck down some of his restrictions (now Alaskans can possess
only one ounce). The battle over marijuana became a minor issue
during the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial race (which Palin won),
with Murkowski claiming he had never smoked pot and Palin
admitting that she had tried it. "I can't claim a Bill Clinton
and say that I never inhaled," she said at the time.
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