Being on the welfare dole does not actually make you a state employee.
On Sep 14, 3:31 am, mike532 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sarah Palin > In Anchorage, an Anti-Palin Protest > By Karl Vick > ANCHORAGE -- A couple of hours after Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the > Outside, as Alaskans call the Lower 48, her local critics swarmed an > Anchorage intersection to correct the widespread impression that the > whole of the Last Frontier endorses her candidacy. > > The midday protest outside a city library drew a crowd in the high > hundreds -- perhaps surging past a thousand -- from the city's > relatively liberal environs, who seemed very happy to see one another > and be reminded that they are not alone. > > "The whole thing grew out of frustration," said Charla Sterne, one of > the organizers, who like several people at the rally declined to say > where they worked (several said they were state employees and feared > retribution). > > "Last week this was just ten women sitting around talking about this > perception that all of Alaska supports Sarah Palin. We apparently hit > a nerve and started a movement," Sterne said. > > A sense of festival obtained. There was a woman in a polar bear suit > representing "Polar Bear Moms Say: No Palin." Drivers on 36th Avenue > saw a little girl waving a sign "Don't Ban My Books." > > Maia Nolan, 29, wore a sticker reading, "My Mom for V.P." > > "My mom is from Alaska. She's a working mother. She's good looking," > said Nolan. "So she seems to be qualified to be vice president." > > There were also a few score Palin supporters in the mix, most of them > alerted to the event by a conservative talk show host. > > Eddie Burke of KBYR-AM showed up in person, but while there was no > evident friction between the two camps, cheerful chants of "O-bam-ah" > effectively drowned out whatever he was saying to the cameras in the > center of a mini-media scrum. > > The din did not prevent reading the signs, pro and against: > Bush In A Skirt > Palin: She Be Failin' > I Love My Alaska Girl > Jesus Was a Community Organizer > We Luv Our Lady Guv > Palin: Thanks But No Thanks > Smearing Alaska's Good Name One Scandal @ a Time > Candidate To Nowhere > Rape Kits Should Be Free > Voted For Her Once: Never Again! > Community Organizers are the Real Patriots > Barbies for War > I Shall Not Be Pandered To > Give Palin Your Vote AND Your Draft Age Child > Sarah Palin: So Far Right She's Wrong > Sarah Palin Is My Hero > Alaska Is Not Frisco > Gun Rights > Coat Hangers for McCain > Sarah Palin, Undoing 150 Years of American Feminism > Hockey Mama for Obama (on a hockey stick) > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/13/in_anrchorage_a... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
