“Governor Palin’s credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama’s”
Wall Street Journal: “A Reform Ticket”
” GOVERNOR PALIN’S CREDENTIALS AS AN AGENT OF REFORM EXCEED BARACK OBAMA’S. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. MR. OBAMA SLID PAST THE KIND OF FORCES THAT MRS. PALIN TOOK HEAD-ON.”
[Read the incredible story of how she took on the powerful forces, and opposed corruption both in her own and in the opposing party, fought very hard against corruption and waste, and defeated those who deserved to have been defeated. Here’s a sample:]
“Shortly after joining the oil and gas commission, Mrs. Palin commenced an ethics probe of the state’s Republican party chairman, Randy Ruedrich, involving conflicts of interest with oil companies.The probe resulted in a $12,000 fine for the party chair.”
“She crossed party lines in 2004 to join a Democratic representative’s ethics complaint over an international trade deal against the Republican Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who had ties to the Murkowski machine. Mr. Renkes resigned.”
“In late 2005, Mrs. Palin announced her run for Governor BEFORE then-Governor Murkowski had announced his intention to stand for re-election. In a 3-way primary, Mrs. Palin got 51% to Mr. Morkowski’s 19%. At the center of this campaign was a debate over competing proposals to build a natural gas pipeline across Alaska.”
“These columns [WSJ] wrote about Gov. Murkowski’s smashing defeat by Mrs. Palin, noting that his pipeline proposal had been tainted by reports of sweetheart deals with energy companies…”
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“Against the odds, Mrs. Palin won that 2006 election against the state’s former Democratic governor Tony Knowles. Most recently, she promoted the effort of her GOP lieutenant governor to unseat U.S. Congressman Don Young, who with Senator Stevens created the earmark that sank the GOP, the notorious ‘bridge to nowhere.’ “