Gov Sarah Palin - just another dirty politician (a screed by Jessica Teel, bear lover)

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[Coleus]

Gov Sarah Palin - just another dirty politician 

Barbarians for Sarah Palin (front center)!                                               

The top 11 things you should know about Sarah Palin: 

       1) She is presently under investigation http://www.ktva.com/ci_10026165 in Alaska for abuse of power http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/mccains_vp_pick_palin_facing_e.html

       2) She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)

       3) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools

       4) She is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest

       5) She has no federal or international experience.  Prior to being governor (for less than two years) she was only the mayor of a small Alaskan town and a beauty queen!

       6) She believes global warming is a farce and is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species

       7) She stands for everything that Hillary Clinton stood against

       8) She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and anywhere else big oil wants

      9) She supports Pebble Mine

http://video.on.nytimes.com?fr_story=e1fa907ca0fa1f0a6fc9489a3daef4b300a19c52

which will destroy the richest salmon run in the world

       10) She supports aerial shooting  http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/9253882p-9168881c.html

 

       11) She is pro-war

Sarah Palin is being investigated for abuse of power (7/08) after she fired the Dept. of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.  Palin pressured Monegan http://community.adn.com/adn/node/127318  to fire her sister's ex husband who is a state trooper. When Commissioner Monegan refused, Palin fired him.

 

 http://www.adn.com/politics/story/469135.html 

 

http://www.ktva.com/ci_9929780?source=most_viewed

 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/mccains_vp_pick_palin_facing_e.html

Sarah Palin - worse for the environment than even Bush and McCain

(Anchorage Daily News, September 2007)

Sarah Palin supports development of the Pebble Mine  http://video.on.nytimes.com?fr_story=e1fa907ca0fa1f0a6fc9489a3daef4b300a19c52  the largest open pit mine in North America.  Pebble mine jeopardizes the entire Bristol bay ecosystem which contains the largest sockeye salmon run in the world.  The mine would pollute an unprecedented number or rivers, lakes, and bays.  Although Palin claims that the mine would create jobs for Alaskans, it will effectively destroy the commercial and sport fishing industry in Bristol Bay - the main source of income for Alaskans in Bristol bay.  Pebble Mine's potential for pollution would make the Exxon Valdez oil spill look like a tiny grease stain.  Click here to watch the NY Times video story about the environmental destruction this mine would create. http://video.on.nytimes.com?fr_story=e1fa907ca0fa1f0a6fc9489a3daef4b300a19c52

Sarah Palin sues the federal government over listing polar bears as a threatened species.  Why?  Because it could restrict the oil industry that fills her pockets.  This is the same reason she wants to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. Read Governor Palin's ignorant op-ed piece here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/opinion/05palin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin    

Sarah Palin spent $400,000 of state money  http://dwb.adn.com/front/story/9253882p-9168881c.html to "educate" Alaskans about aerial hunting of wolves and bears.  State tax money was used to directly influence the outcome of proposition 2 which would have limited aerial shooting of predators.  Since Alaskans had previously voted twice to ban aerial shooting of predators, Palin used state tax money to buy support for aerial shooting. Proposition two was voted down on 8/26/08.

Read more about Governor Palin's "predator control" policies

http://www.akwildlife.org/content/view/121/61/

 

and the use of state money to slaughter bears and wolves.     

Sarah Palin for Vice-President of the United States?

I'm pretty shocked to hear that John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate.  I thought that given the fact that she is being investigated for abuse of power http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/mccains_vp_pick_palin_facing_e.html, that she was out of the running.  Obviously McCain is trying to court the women's vote.  

Sarah Palin is as bad for women's rights as Bush and McCain combined.  She is an ultra conservative politician dedicated to destroying the Alaskan ecosystem in the name of oil exploration and outdated wildlife management policy.  Palin has no federal or international experience.  Prior to being appointed governor, Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, AK - a town of only 5,469!  Her main "experience" before entering public office was holding the title of beauty queen in Wasilla!

Don't be fooled by her young age - Palin works side by side with the oil industry.  I'm guessing that's why she was really chosen - since the present administration is clearly controlled and driven by oil money.   Palin's policy record reflects someone who consistently destroys the environment, jeopardizes the commercial and sport fishing industry in Alaska, and actively cripples the booming bear viewing business in Alaska.

Sarah Palin's wildlife policies reflect junk science and cripple the eco-tourism industry

I think its obvious from the pictures above how Alaska Governor Sarah Palin feels about wildlife conservation.  Like many Alaskans, Palin believes that bears – and all Alaskan wildlife, exist for the sole purpose of serving humans. Sarah Palin, and the Alaska Board of Game whose members make decisions about most wildlife, are actively trying to cripple the bear viewing/eco-tourism industry in Alaska. This photograph (left) was published in the Anchorage Daily News amidst great controversy over the hunting of habituated bears around Katmai National Park and the McNeil River Sanctuary.  Several weeks before the controversial Katmai Preserve hunt, Palin posed deliberately next to a dead bear to a make a point – that she will do everything in her power to make sure bears and other wildlife are mercilessly shot for pleasure in Alaska.  Palin supports the aerial hunting of wolves and bears, and even spent $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign to try and convince Alaskans to support aerial shooting (even though Alaskans have voted against it, twice!).  In the past two years, bears habituated to bear viewing have reportedly been shot at bear viewing sites around the state – as a statement to bear advocates that Alaska is about shooting animals, not understanding them.

        The Alaskan government consistently ignores decades of scientific research that has proven that predators actually keep prey populations healthy.  The Alaskan government is wiping out entire populations of predators -using cruel practices such as baiting, trapping, and aerial shooting, in the name of boosting dwindling moose populations. This is just plain ignorant, since biologists have known since the 60’s that wolves and bears do not negatively impact prey species such as moose and caribou.  Anyone who has taken ecology or biology 101 knows this is established fact. What is threatening moose and other prey species is over hunting by humans, and a large number of yearly road-kill fatalities.  The impact of habitat destruction, climate change, and a decrease in predation also contributes.

       If you find Sarah Palin as ignorant and offensive as I do, LET HER KNOW.  The majority of people who visit Alaska do not support sport hunting and the destruction of wildlife!  Most tourists come to Alaska to view wildlife, not to slaughter it.  The best hope for Alaskan wildlife is for the tourists who fund the economy to make their wishes known loud and clear – that they do not support archaic policies which are destroying the Alaskan ecosystem. Alaska is the last place in the U.S. where humans have not gobbled up and destroyed the natural world.  This unique place on the planet needs to be protected, and not allowed to continue to be nothing but a place where animals are trapped, and shot and skinned, and stuffed, and hung on a wall, or used as a rug to wipe your dirty feet.  Tell Sarah Palin that the bears on this website are not a rug!

Contact Alaska Governor Sarah Palin  http://www.gov.state.ak.us

Tell Governor Sarah Palin that you oppose the slaughter of bears, wolves and other predators.  Mention that you oppose the hunting of habituated grizzly bears in the Katmai Preserve.  Tell her you support the abolishment of the Board of Game, which is comprised entirely of trophy hunters. These ignorant trophy hunters set most wildlife policies in Alaska.  

Even Katmai bears can be hunted!  Learn more here. http://www.npca.org/parks/katmai-national-park-and-preserve.html 

 

E-mail Jessica here

[devere]

Eventually one of those bears they love will have a bad day, and we will be rid of one or more of these insane Liberals. And it won’t be the first time that has happened.

[donnab]

About Jessica: In her own words...
“In my own words
I am 35 years old and live in a remote cabin 40 minutes outside of Homer, Alaska. As you can imagine, this lifestyle lends itself to reading and writing. I moved to Alaska to study grizzly bears, and you can read about my work in Katmai National Park at my website: www.grizzlybay.org”

Maybe Jessica needs to move closer to people and their daily problems and lives. She might be able to speak with authority about people then and not just bears.

[milford421]

The idiots on the left.

They have unwittingly given the name recognition that Gov. Palin needed....no more arguments about her being unknown.

The more they write, the more good is uncovered about her and her family...Obama hasn’t run so much as a hot dog stand....and he’s at the top of their ticket.

[ari-freedom]

well at least she lives in Alaska. Many of these liberals have never stepped foot in the west, let alone alaska, and they want to prevent alaska from drilling in ANWR.

[longtermmemmory]

Gustav has shut out the Obama hit machine so they are now tyring to use the internet.

too funy.

[infowarrior]

who is this person and why should I care what she says?

1. Nobody really knows who she is...

2. You shouldn't care what she thinks, as she is clearly incapable of rational thought to begin with...

the infowarrior

[BOBTHENAILER]

My email to Jessica:

My Dearest Darling Jessica,

Thank you so much for the hard hitting insight into Sarah Palin. Your hard work has given me more than 25 reasons to vote for McCain/Palin, the best ticket to hit the political scene since you wore diapers.

As I write this email, I have bear steak a sizzlin’ on the grill and my appetizer was a delicious poached salmon. I’ve never tasted baby seal stew, but I hear it’s quite scrumptious and look forward to trying some when I get to Alaska.

Keep up the good work,

Bobthenailer

[infowarrior]

Eventually one of those bears they love will have a bad day, and we will be rid of one or more of these insane Liberals. And it won’t be the first time that has happened.

Yes, just like that other goof, who was eaten by a grizzly...

the infowarrior

[Hugin]

hunting of habituated bears

IOW, bears that have lost all fear of humans due to not being hunted. The kind that are most likely to attack humans and have to be killed after they have already maimed or killed someone. Once they are hunted again, they will become "unhabituated" very quickly. Better for the bears and the humans.

[Coleus]

Dear MoveOn member,

Yesterday was John McCain's 72nd birthday. If elected, he'd be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for "inexperience," here's who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.  Huh?

Who is Sarah Palin? Here's some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska's governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.¹
  
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
  
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
  
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
  
• She's doesn't think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
  
• She's solidly in line with John McCain's "Big Oil first" energy policy. She's pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won't be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶
• How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.⁷

This is information the American people need to see. Please take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family.  We also asked Alaska MoveOn members what the rest of us should know about their governor. The response was striking. Here's a sample:

She is really just a mayor from a small town outside Anchorage who has been a governor for only 1.5 years, and has ZERO national and international experience. I shudder to think that she could be the person taking that 3AM call on the White House hotline, and the one who could potentially be charged with leading the US in the volatile international scene that exists today. —Rose M., Fairbanks, AK

She is VERY, VERY conservative, and far from perfect. She's a hunter and fisherwoman, but votes against the environment again and again. She ran on ethics reform, but is currently under investigation for several charges involving hiring and firing of state officials. She has NO experience beyond Alaska. —Christine B., Denali Park, AK

As an Alaskan and a feminist, I am beyond words at this announcement. Palin is not a feminist, and she is not the reformer she claims to be. —Karen L., Anchorage, AK

Alaskans, collectively, are just as stunned as the rest of the nation. She is doing well running our State, but is totally inexperienced on the national level, and very much unequipped to run the nation, if it came to that. She is as far right as one can get, which has already been communicated on the news. In our office of thirty employees (dems, republicans, and nonpartisans), not one person feels she is ready for the V.P. position.—Sherry C., Anchorage, AK

She's vehemently anti-choice and doesn't care about protecting our natural resources, even though she has worked as a fisherman. McCain chose her to pick up the Hillary voters, but Palin is no Hillary. —Marina L., Juneau, AK

I think she's far too inexperienced to be in this position. I'm all for a woman in the White House, but not one who hasn't done anything to deserve it. There are far many other women who have worked their way up and have much more experience that would have been better choices. This is a patronizing decision on John McCain's part- and insulting to females everywhere that he would assume he'll get our vote by putting "A Woman" in that position.—Jennifer M., Anchorage, AK

So Governor Palin is a staunch anti-choice religious conservative. She's a global warming denier who shares John McCain's commitment to Big Oil. And she's dramatically inexperienced.  In picking Sarah Palin, John McCain has made the religious right very happy. And he's made a very dangerous decision for our country. In the next few days, many Americans will be wondering what McCain's vice-presidential choice means. Please pass this information along to your friends and family.

Thanks for all you do.

–Ilyse, Noah, Justin, Karin and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Sarah Palin," Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
2. "McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate," NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=1
3. "Sarah Palin, Buchananite," The Nation, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=2
4. "'Creation science' enters the race," Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=3
5. "Palin buys climate denial PR spin—ignores science," Huffington Post, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17517&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=4
6. "McCain VP Pick Completes Shift to Bush Energy Policy," Sierra Club, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17518&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=5
"Choice of Palin Promises Failed Energy Policies of the Past," League of Conservation Voters, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17519&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=6
"Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor," The Times of London, May 23, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17520&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=7
7 "McCain met Palin once before yesterday," MSNBC, August 29, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=21119&id=13661-4902816-zIPo0px&t=8

[Son House]

2) She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)

omits the part about the folks in Alaska sharing in the revenue via Governor Palin

[eclecticEel]

In the past two years, bears habituated to bear viewing have reportedly been shot at bear viewing sites around the state

The idiot tourists who are habituating bears to their presence are the real villains here. It does no good for either the bears or the humans.

If you wanna catch an extremely good biopic about an envirowacko, check out Grizzly Man. The subject of the documentary (Timothy Treadwell) is not too different from many other far-out libs, except that he took his convictions to the extreme and sadly paid the ultimate price for it. One of the most telling scenes from the film comes near the end, a group of tourists come by on a boat, and seeing a bear they throw rocks at the animal to scare it away. Treadwell is practically in tears over the rock throwing - however, those tourists were doing the right thing not only for themselves but also for the bear in question, but the guy is too caught up in his delusions to realize it.

[Cyber Liberty]

Tell her you support the abolishment of the Board of Game....

Gee. No more Clue? Monopoly? Not even the game of Life? Board games are GREAT!

Oh, wait...never mind...

[UCANSEE2]

I heard that they had a bumper sticker in Alaska that says:

“Vegetarian in Eskimo means ‘lousy hunter’.

[MindBender26]

Vegetarian: Ancient Eskimo work meaning "Poor Hunter"

[BOBTHENAILER]

One very good bumper sticker.

[elpadre]

“I can't wait for Sarah to win, it will drive them crazy.”

Perhaps the world should be reminded that Obama and Biden are members of the worst Congress in history. (consistent single digit rating) Which says what about them??

Of course, McCain is too, but his one redeeming feature is that he has been a “maverick,” a thorn in the side of most all Senators. (and at times a thorn in my side too)

[river rat]

This is wonderful....

Palin is driving the Leftists and Obama worshipers insane!
They will squeal, lie, scream, slander and threaten —— then their freaking heads will explode...

Selecting Palin is perhaps the smartest, most respectable and worthwhile thing that dumb ass McCain has done during his entire terms of office.

Too bad we can’t reverse the order on the ticket...

[mabelkitty]

They are scared to death.
They should have bluffed and continued their ridicule and we never would have been the wiser.

[peggybac]

And the problem is??