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She’s taken down a few head honchos, too. As a member of Alaska??s oil and gas commission, she investigated the state Republican Party chairman for doing party work on government time , and launched an ethics probe against the Republican state attorney general . Both men resigned. After defeating incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski for the GOP nomination and winning the general election, Palin sold the gubernatorial jet and ditched the complimentary chef , boosting her approval rating to a high of 93 percent...
...pipeline revenue, she proved her pastor right: “I can do my job [in Anchorage] in developing our natural resources, doing things like getting the roads paved…but really all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska??s heart isn’t right with God. And that’s gonna be your job…to be out there reaching the people and converting the people of Alaska.” This was last year...
...example, by a reduction in taxes on income and/or capital. We could institute a purchase tax on gas-guzzlers offset by a subsidy for fuel-efficient vehicles. Again, political will is lacking. Will it take another oil crisis to prompt action? The solution is not to drill in Alaska??at best this would be a temporary band-aid—but to reduce our consumption of oil, foreign and domestic...
Gonzales enlisted in the Air Force after completing high school, and he was sent to the Point Barrow base on Alaska??s Arctic coast...
This summer, I was dismayed to learn that the Bush administration proposed leasing the rights over some nine million acres of land in the Western Arctic Reserve of Alaska??an area 23.5 million acres large located in the northwest corner of Alaska??for oil development. At the start, I could not see how the government could justify developing one of the few unspoiled ecosystems left on the planet. I thought at the time that the Western Arctic Reserve (not the same as the better known Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—ANWR) would be worth more...