Chuck Heath and his wife, Sally, react in their home in Wasilla as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain announces that he selected their daughter, Gov. Sarah Palin, to be his vice presidential running mate Friday Aug 29, 2008.
Posted on 08/30/2008 12:50:21 PM PDT by rawhide
WASILLA -- Charles and Sally Heath were in their garage Friday afternoon trying to unpack from a gold mining excursion turned back by a flooding creek.
The work was going slow because the phone kept ringing from people all over the state, nation and the world wanting to know about their daughter, Gov. Sarah Palin, who had just been tapped by Sen. John McCain as his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
Friends called to offer congratulations.
"We knew nothing about it until 4 this morning," Chuck Heath said Friday afternoon. "A friend from Atlanta called and said, 'You better turn on Fox News.' "
If that creek hadn't flooded, Sally and Chuck Heath would've been at their remote mining camp. The only way word of their daughter's rise in the political world would've come on Caribou Clatter, Heath said, referring to a Bush radio-message system.
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Heath said the McCain campaign has made accommodations for Sally and him to attend the Republican Convention that starts Monday.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing," Heath said. "But it sure raises hell with my hunting trip. I was going out for the first 10 days it opens."
Meat in the freezer will have to wait.
And instead of watching their daughter speak on television Tuesday night at the convention, now the Heaths will be in St. Paul to see her as she moves deeper into the lineup.
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Chuck Heath and his wife, Sally, react in their home in Wasilla as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain announces that he selected their daughter, Gov. Sarah Palin, to be his vice presidential running mate Friday Aug 29, 2008.
She even has good parents.
I am ecstatic over this VP pick. Even if (G--d forbid) she and Sen. McCain don't make it this time, I'm confident that our beautiful Sarah will in the next 8-16 years be the first woman President of the United States.
They had to cut short a gold mining excursion??? Only in Alaska. Seems like a very nice family. And dad is postponing a hunting trip to go to Minneapolis. The NRA is going to love that.
Dad is sweet. Tears of joy for his daughter.
God bless them, they’re in my prayers.
If I knew how to shoot, I’d gladly volunteer to fill in one day for him.
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