Posted on 10/17/2009 11:43:04 PM PDT by American Dream 246
Some things you may not know about Palin:
What A Fisherman Says About Sarah Palin by Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman
As posted in comments on Greta Van Susteren’s article referencing the MoveOn.org ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re thinking, I’ll continue.
2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”. Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.
3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning-I imagine-that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.
4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.
5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.
6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona . Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.
By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers..
And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.
I am in the energy business and I support Sarah Palin.
Dewie Whetsell, Alaska
Thanks for making my day!
Thought you might like this, SCP
Thanks for the notice!
Looking for to reading Sarah’s book when it comes out next month.
Thanks!
YES! BTTT
Thank you for this article.
How can you Back To The Top an article?
And you all, if you could email this to everybody you know, that would be nice. Thanks :-) We need to fight for her non stop.
Hey Eska, I hope your cabin made it all right and your pet wolverine is doing well.
This has been around for almost a year!
Put the cursor at the top of the vertical slider and hold the left button for about one second.
Oh..ahah..thanks. I meant have an article going back up in the listings on FR. Bump?
Sometimes I think some articles are so important that they should go up again at the top - here is so many articles posted by the minutes - which is great of course - but sometime I am afraid a major one would not be read the day after.
But thanks for the reply :-)
Any post goes to the top anyway.
Are you that new here?
They pay a royalty to the govt., not the entire price of oil. Sometimes a private individual gets the royalty, because the government doesn't own everything (yet). Without profit there is no motive to participate. Also, have you ever heard of a dry hole? You don't just stick a straw in the ground anywhere and suck out oil. Some wells are great, some are stinkers, and some are dry.
I'm in the energy industry, and I support Sarah Palin.
rwrcpa1 wrote: “They pay a royalty to the govt., not the entire price of oil. Sometimes a private individual gets the royalty, because the government doesn’t own everything (yet). Without profit there is no motive to participate. Also, have you ever heard of a dry hole? You don’t just stick a straw in the ground anywhere and suck out oil. Some wells are great, some are stinkers, and some are dry.
I’m in the energy industry, and I support Sarah Palin.”
..... I understand your arguments and they make perfect sense. My thought however is that, since the US government owns gigantic tracts of territory in the US and controls offshore waters, they probably by inference control a large fraction of untapped US oil reserves. What’s the fair market value of that oil? For an oil company, I’m guessing it’s the OPEC market price minus the cost of exploration, extraction, and whatever infrastructure investments might be required (roads, pipelines, etc). Better that such money land in the coffers of any US government account than in the hands of Saudi Arabia or Venezuela. And it’s no secret that federal and state governments are in dire need of revenue.
BTTT
Yes, but you don’t pay that money before you find anything. And you have to give the oil companies leeway to profit, or they are just not going to do the deal. There is just too much risk. What you are proposing sounds just like the estate tax. “Oh, thank you so much for growing your business for us. We’re taking 45% of it.”
But I agree with you, we need to drill, baby, drill!
I agree that the oil companies should pay only for what comes out of the ground AND they should get allowances (discounts, tax credits, etc) to defray their exploration, development and extraction costs.
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