Palin is pro-life and is a member of Feminists for Life. She opposes same-sex marriage; but, she has stated that she has gay friends, and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination. While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law. She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.
Palin's first veto was used on legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples.
The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's Attorney General on the constitutionality of the legislation. In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet purchased on a state government credit account by the Murkowski administration.
The state placed the jet for sale on eBay three times. Shortly after becoming governor, Palin canceled an 11 mile 18 km gravel road outside of Juneau to a mine, reversing a decision made in the closing days or hours of the Murkowski Administration.
In July , Palin had an approval rating often in the 90s. Palin claimed that she fired Monegan so the Department could head in a "new direction" and noted that her ex-brother-in-law is still employed by the state. The legislature hired Steve Branchflower, a retired longtime Alaska assistant district attorney, to investigate Palin and her staff for possibly violating the state personnel act. The law department said that Attorney General Talis Colberg has a conflict of interest that prevents him from representing Palin.
Senator Hollis French, an Anchorage Democrat and former state prosecutor, instructed Branchflower not to comply with Van Flein's request for copies of all witness statements and documentary evidence.
Van Flein has argued that the investigation should be shifted to the state's personnel review board and not the legislature, which has a Republican majority. Matanuska Maid Dairy was a state-owned business. When the Alaska Dairy Board recommended closing the unprofitable business, Palin fired the board and appointed long-time Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska associates to replace the ousted boardmembers —including influential real estate businesswoman Kristan Cole.
In the end, the dairy was forced to close, and the state tried to sell the assets to pay off its debts, but no bids were received. Palin was the running mate of John McCain in the presidential election. They were defeated by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Other candidates that appeared on the ballot received less than 0.
Allen and Bradford Lyttle. On August 29, , Republican presidential candidate John McCain introduced Palin as his vice presidential candidate during a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio.
Joeseph Lieberman and former Pennsylvania Governor, Tom Ridge were also believed to be serious contenders for the running-mate position. Palin was considered to have similar policy positions to John McCain in some respects.
A possible consideration in Palin's selection was her appeal to former Hillary Clinton supporters in the contentious Democratic primary.
Alaska Republicans had mixed reactions to the news of Palin's selection. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?
It was an emotional thing to see the governor walk out with her family and I say, wow, I work for her. There was speculation back in October that Palin was seen as a possible choice of the vice presidency of John McCain's rival of the Republican presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Palin was the second U. The Palin campaign charged media bias from the onset of the campaign.
The popular political blog Daily Kos reported that year old daughter Bristol Palin was actually Trigg's birth mom. The blog claimed a photo [63] taken of the Palin family showed Bristol with a "baby bump" approximately 5 weeks before Trigg was born on April 18, It was later revealed that the photo was taken in when Bristol was 16 and published in the Anchorage Daily News.
After complaints from the press that journalists did not have appropriate access to Palin on the campaign trail, [64] Palin sat down with Charlie Gibson of ABC News for her first one-on-one interview since receiving the Vice Presidential nomination. The most publicized moment of the interview dealt with Palin's response to Gibson when he asked "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
Gibson also misquoted Palin about Iraq, contending that his quote was accurate when it was not. Barack Obama of Illinois on Sunday night," Seif wrote. By contrast, when Obama referred to his 'Muslim faith' on Sunday and did not correct himself, Stephanopoulos rushed in at once to help him and emphasize that the senator had really meant to say his Christian faith. Controversy arose when it was made public that Sarah Palin's entry at Wikipedia had been substantially edited by a single user within the 24 hours before Palin was announced as McCain's choice for running mate.
Some of the edits were considered biased and conflicting with Wikipedia's standards of neutrality. The user responsible for the edits went by the name "YoungTrigg," a possible reference to Palin's infant son, Trig. Prior to the announcement, YoungTrigg discussed the article with other Wikipedia editors, many of whom praised his work. YoungTrigg was listed as "retired" from Wikipedia as of August 31, Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Palin eloped with her high-school boyfriend, Todd Palin, on August 29, , when she was 24 years old. The family lives in Wasilla. The couple have five children: sons Track born and Trig born , and daughters Bristol born , Willow born , and Piper born Army on September 11, , subsequently joining an infantry brigade. Palin is a self-described "hockey mom" and mother of five.
Among her hobbies are hunting, ice fishing and riding snowmobiles; she has also run a marathon, and owns a floatplane. Palin is one of America's most popular leaders, whose powerful love of country and passion for the great outdoors is inspiring to millions and millions of people," said Gavin Harvey, CEO of the Sportsman Channel.
Palin was originally baptized as a Roman Catholic, but her parents switched to the Wasilla Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church, where she was rebaptized and attended under pastor Ed Kalnins until In June , Palin spoke at her former church.
On the topic of Iraq, she asked that people pray for the soldiers and that "there is a plan and that plan is God's plan. On August 17, , Palin was attending church services when David Brickner, executive director of Jews for Jesus, suggested in a sermon that terrorism against Israel is due to Judaism not recognizing Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Sarah Palin News Feed. What's on my ballot? Elections in How to vote How to run for office Ballot measures. Who represents me?
President U. Ballotpedia features , encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. With her election, Palin made history as the first female governor, as well as the youngest governor, of Alaska. She was also the state's first governor to be born after Alaska achieved statehood in Palin said the bridge was essential for local prosperity, but once she became governor she turned against it, citing rising costs and other priorities.
With an emphasis on ethics and openness in government, Palin's administration focused on education, public safety and transportation. As a conservative Protestant, she also served as an advocate for pro-life policies; expressed her disapproval of embryonic stem cell research; pushed the belief that creationism, the idea that life was created by a deity, should be taught in public schools alongside the evolution curriculum; and supported Alaska's decision to amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
On the energy front, Palin questioned the validity behind the idea that global warming is man-made. She intensely pursued a pipeline to deliver natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to market. While very popular— The Anchorage Daily News has called her "the Joan of Arc of Alaska politics" and " one of the most popular local politicians in America"—Palin did not serve without controversy.
While Palin had the authority to fire Monegan, the former commissioner claimed that Palin let him go because she was angry that he did not fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, Palin's former brother-in-law. Palin denied any wrongdoing, saying Monegan was "insubordinate" in disputes over budget issues, and that he engaged in "egregious rogue behavior.
The Branchflower Report, which was released in October , stated that Palin did not break the law, but did abuse her power as governor and violated the state's ethics act.
In November of that same year, after Palin gave her deposition, the State of Alaska Personnel Board reported that there was no cause to believe Palin had violated ethics standards. While embroiled in political scandal back home, Palin emerged as a national person of interest when John McCain picked the governor to be his vice presidential running mate on August 29, He formally introduced her during a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, and was nominated on September 4 at the Republican National Convention.
With her nomination, Palin became the second woman to run for vice president on a U. Addressing the party's convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 3, Palin depicted herself as "just your average hockey mom," joking that the "only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick.
In her first nationally televised interview after she was named as McCain's running mate, Palin told ABC's Charles Gibson that she didn't hesitate when asked to join the ticket, and she felt prepared to run the country if necessary. Palin's interview was placed under intense scrutiny, and the candidate received mixed reviews by political pundits. Of particular concern was Palin's foreign policy experience, and her ability to take over as president should anything happen to McCain.
The Washington Post found her comments "strikingly devoid of the diplomatic language generally used by U. The Los Angeles Times pointed out that Palin also reversed her stance on climate change, when she said "I believe that man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change Regardless of the reason for climate change, whether it's entirely, wholly caused by man's activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet—the warming and the cooling trends—regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it, and we have to make sure that we're doing all we can to cut down on pollution.
She cited her involvement in energy issues in oil-rich Alaska as a national security credential and added that she saw energy as a foundation of national security. But she appeared to do a sharp turn toward McCain's view on the role humans play in climate change. There was additional concern that she didn't know enough about government policies when she failed to understand a question about the Bush Doctrine, a phrase commonly used to describe the foreign policy of the Bush administration.
As she engaged in more interviews, the media—and the public—became more dubious of Paliln's credentials. Palin's performance in an interview with Katie Couric was widely criticized; publications such as The Huffington Post cited the candidate's inability to cite examples of John McCain's support for financial regulation. After this interview, Palin's poll numbers steeply declined, and many Republicans expressed concern that she was becoming a political liability for McCain.
In addition to her hurdles as a public speaker, Palin also faced a public image crisis when her teenage daughter, Bristol, announced that she was pregnant out of wedlock. Palin's pro-life stance made an example out of her daughter and, on September 1, , during the Republican National Convention, it was announced that Bristol was pregnant and engaged to the baby's father, Levi Johnston.
Johnston denied that he was pressured into the wedding, telling reporters that he and Bristol "were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid. Ten days later, Palin wrote to all the department heads, including Stambaugh, asking for letters of resignation. She said she would then decide which to accept.
Stambaugh was 6-foot-2, pounds. By early December, things had calmed down, and Stambaugh felt the threat of being fired had passed. Palin kept a jar with the names of Wasilla residents. Once a week she pulled a name from it and picked up the phone.
She wanted the police department to be just as friendly. On Dec. Please help with this. The day after Christmas, Palin sent a memo to Stambaugh and the other department heads. Stambaugh already provided daily reports. He already provided a monthly report. He already attended staff meetings with Palin and other department heads every second and fourth Tuesday at 10 a. But on Jan. The police chief also relayed two pieces of happy news.
Stambaugh kept the reports coming. Inside was a letter from Palin, saying Stambaugh, too, was fired. So the mayor listed examples. Although you eventually complied with my request, your response was disappointing.
For Palin, the firing of Stambaugh was only part of the drama that unfolded in her first months as mayor.
The Frontiersman and Anchorage Daily News wrote one story after another about the turmoil. After notifying the librarian that she was fired, Palin backtracked and decided to keep her on. Palin put in place what the local paper called a gag order, prohibiting top city employees from talking to reporters unless she cleared it first. After Stambaugh and the museum director were fired, two of the four remaining department heads quit.
One, the public-works director, accused Palin of undermining him by meeting secretly with contractors and employees.
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