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_Click here: Ed Pilkington: Sarah Palin is on a mission from God | World
news | The Guardian_
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/06/uselections2008.sarahpalin)
Palin was revealed earlier this week to have attempted to censor Wasilla's
library. The idea is almost laughable when you see the library itself. Its
small collection of books includes a prominent section on hunting and fishing,
and no visible copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Yet in 1996, after parents
complained about a book their child had taken home, Palin took umbrage.
Frustratingly, no one can remember the volume concerned. What we do know is
that
Palin turned on the then librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, asking her in a council
meeting what she would do if she were told by the mayor to remove certain
books from the collection.
Local resident Anne Kilkenny was in the public gallery and heard the
librarian's reaction: "She sucked in her breath, and replied that the books in
the
library were all acquired in accordance with professional criteria and she
would resist completely."
Palin has since claimed her question was purely rhetorical. That is not how
Naegele and Kilkenny perceived it at the time. A few weeks later, Palin sent
Emmons a letter terminating her employment. "People in the town rose up in
anger," Kilkenny recalls. "The library is an important institution in our city,
as there's not a lot else to do here in the winter but sit by the fire with a
good book. There was real public pressure, and Sarah was forced to rescind
the letter."
Emmons survived. Others were less fortunate. The museum director, city
planner and public works director all quit within months of Palin's ascendancy,
and the police chief was sacked outright (he sued for wrongful dismissal but
lost). Palin said the turnover was needed to clean out the "old boys' club".
Others were not so sure.
Again, she was utterly in tune with the trajectory of her party. By the end
of the 1990s the Republican leadership had adopted a modus operandi that also
combined religious zealotry with managerial ruthlessness. Yet this
development was not without its detractors within the party. One of the
loudest critics
was the very man who has put Palin on the national stage: John McCain.
Paradoxically, it was partly his disdain for the grip that TV preachers came to
hold over the Republicans that earned him a reputation as a maverick.
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