And look at some of her other issues in no particular order: Palin is pro-life </wiki/Pro-life>, pro-contraception, and a prominent member of Feminists for Life </wiki/Feminists_for_Life>.^ <#cite_note-36> While running for Governor of Alaska, Palin supported the open debate of creationism </wiki/Creationism> alongside evolution </wiki/Evolution> in schools; however, she noted that "creationism doesn't have to be part of the curriculum" and that she would not use "religion as a litmus test, or anybody's personal opinion on evolution or creationism" as criteria for selection to the school board.
Highlights of Governor Palin's tenure include a successful push for an ethics bill </w/index.php?title=House_Bill_109_%282007_Alaska_law%29&action=edit&redlink=1>, and also shelving pork-barrel </wiki/Pork_barrel> projects supported by fellow Republicans. After federal funding for the Gravina Island Bridge </wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge> project that had become a nationwide symbol of wasteful earmark </wiki/Earmark_%28politics%29> spending was lost, Palin decided against filling the over $200 million gap with state money. "Alaska needs to be self-sufficient, she says, instead of relying heavily on 'federal dollars,' as the state does today." She has challenged the state's Republican leaders, helping to launch a campaign by Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell </wiki/Sean_Parnell> to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young </wiki/Don_Young> and publicly challenging Senator Ted Stevens </wiki/Ted_Stevens> to come clean about the federal investigation into his financial dealings. Governor Murkowski appointed Palin Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she served from 2003 to 2004 until resigning in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Alaskan Republican </wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29> leaders, who ignored her whistleblowing complaints of legal violations and conflicts of interest.^ After she resigned, she exposed the state Republican Party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time, and supplying a lobbyist with a sensitive e-mail. Palin filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General </wiki/Attorney_General> Gregg Renkes, who both resigned; Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine. In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans $100-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers' rates. She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans $1,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax. In the first days of her administration, Palin followed through on a campaign promise </wiki/Campaign_promise> to sell the Westwind II </wiki/Westwind_II> jet purchased (on a state government credit account) by the Murkowski administration. The state placed the jet for sale on eBay </wiki/EBay> three times. In August 2007, the jet was sold for $2.1 million. So yeah, she is pro-life, but she is also for people practicing *responsible* sex, which if it were to ever take root would all but eliminate the need for pro-choice/pro-life debates since most of the abortions that are performed are by people practicing irresponsible sex. And yeah, she is a creationist, but she does not let her beliefs interferer with posting people on the school board. And she is against pork barrel spending. And she is against corrupt unethical politicians, even those in her own party. And she thinks that her constituents should be allowed to reap the benefits of a state budget surplus. And she showed that she can keep a campaign promise. I can go on, but I think that you get the point. Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > form the wikipedia article: > > Palin complied with an Alaskan state Supreme Court order and signed an > implementation of same-sex benefits into law under protest, stating > that legal options to avoid doing so had run out > > doesn't sound like she's really for it... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:267100 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
