Much of the copious news coverage swirling around Sarah Palin, Republican John McCain’s surprise pick for vice president, has focused on the relative inexperience of the freshman governor of Alaska and former mayor of Wasilla, a suburb of less than 10,000 people outside Anchorage. However, the 44-year-old Palin had proven experience with one thing during her brief tenure in government: slashing museum funding. As mayor of Wasilla, Palin quickly moved to cut the budget of the Dorothy G. Page Museum, a city-run institution that teaches Alaskan history and includes exhibits about the Gold Rush and the Iditarod.
According to a 1997 report in the Anchorage Daily News, Palin summarily fired museum director John Cooper (along with many other city officials. Palin, known for injecting her religious beliefs into government, also reportedly pressured town librarian Mary Ellen Baker to ban books, and then tried to fire the woman when she refused). Palin cut $32,000 from the Page Museum’s $200,000 budget, provoking the three 15-year employees of the museum, Ann Meyers, Opal Toomey and Esther West, to resign en masse. 'They’d rather quit than continue working for a city that doesn’t want to preserve its history,' the Daily News reported. Wasilla was running a $4 million budget surplus at the time.
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this is debunked. you should (hold on, i gotta rub my nose), you should get your news from more credible soursed sir(squinting my eyes and rubbing my nose again)
Is there any kind of link or article that you can provide other than to simply say it is "debunked"? Are there more credible sources that I should look at in reference to this particular story? I'm certainly not suggesting Artnet is impartial. ( I'm sorry, but I don't consider Michelle Malkin to be a credible "sourced" [sic.] either. ) Was it necessary to interject whatever weird snarky dazed and confused reference that was supposed to be into it? I'm sorry if my posting this somehow hurt your feelings. This is not a political blog, but issues of censorship do touch on the topics I post about.
You're right and I'm wrong. The snarky comment was uncalled for an rude and you don't deserve that. This is your place and not mine.
You're also right, I spelled source wrong. Typos happen, but perhaps I should have proofread.
The problem with these times is that there is no such thing as a "fact" anymore. We're all forced to chose what sources to trust. I'll trust some that you do not and you'll trust some that I do not. It would be refreshing to just get the truth, but we're all drowning in spin.
Again, I humbly apologize for making that rude comment and I'll respectfully agree to believe the sources that debunked this article while respecting your right to believe them.
Best of luck.
If a I give you a link to the definition of the word fact, will you give me a link to the sources that debunked this article?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fact
I probably have some grammatical errors in this post, but most people would not recognize the errors or might chose to let it slide. Here is a good reference for some common errors.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
I just randomly guessed Michelle Malkin, because that was the same source that he was linking to over and over on his blog, and I'm assuming I was right now. You have to give him credit for de-escalating from playground taunts to semi-normal conversation, which is not something I expect from online discourse with neo-conservatives. Romano, apology accepted, and I'm sorry I bothered pointing out a typo, that was childish of me.
Admittedly it's from another blog, but one of the people who left some comments claims to have been one of the workers hired after the walkout to take care of the museum. Read the comments by a person named Geri McCann.
http://publichistorian.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/the-wasilla-museum-and-museum-politics/
I wish I could find a solid link to back her or you up, but due to my limited knowledge on this particular subject and the fact that Romano was right when he said "we're all drowning in spin", I'm afraid that I don't know where to look for one.
If indeed you are right on this fact, I am horrified that someone who has so little regard for our history could get so close to such an important position in our country where she could do the most damage. Hopefully if McCain/Palin does win the election, the fact that he is so old may cancel out her rampaging need to destroy history. I'm not the greatest at expressing myself, so I'm hoping that you understand what I'm trying to say.
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