s sommer – So… you got your info from the the Alaska Press? That would be the MainStream Media (MSM), right? No wonder you don’t think well of her… but her constituents do. That would be a clue. Forget what the press says. Just look at the results.
As mayor, she balanced the budget AND reduced porperty taxes. Soliciting earmarks, she got lots of infrastructure built. Wasilla is the fastest growing town in Alaska still, because of the infrastructure and policies put in place. In her 6 years there, the town grew 50%. That is good management, no matter what anyone says about her. She had no special training for the job.
When she headed the extremely important oil and gas commission, she earned $118k/yr… more than hubby. She quit in protest of unethical behavior by the others and blew the whistle. She walked away from a job that paid more than half her family’s combined income and it should have scuttled her political career. She stood on principle. Could you have done that? Many of those others are now in jail. Good on her.
As Governor, she took an axe to government waste. In two years, she used the lone-item veto to cut a half Billion(!) dollars in waste. She fired all kinds of people who wouldn’t get on board with the changes because they insisted in continuing to try to feed at the government trough. Whack, whack, whack. Ethics probe? Monegan was clearly one of those pigs who wouldn’t stop trying to feed at the trough. Changed his story when he had a chance to get back at her. Whom do you believe: Monegan; or the woman who walked away from a high-paying job on principle? More good on her for all this.
She upped the rate oil companies pay for mining the resources. She gave the money to the people in an added bonus to prepare for the high winter costs that seemed to be coming. The negotiations were done in public, instead of a crooked backroom deal as before. She then finally got the pipeline project going that had ostensibly been in the works for 30 years, with no progress made. More good on her.
She accomplished all this in relatively short time with no special training; just a strong sense of right and wrong. Nevermind all the wordsmiths. The towering accomplishments speak for themselves. They stand there like a great truth, unassailable, a light for all to see.
Good on her.
