Word: alaskans
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...address its members. On the other hand, the government plane she says she "put on eBay" was never actually sold there. She once supported the prizewinning piece of pork known as the "bridge to nowhere" that she claims to have opposed. And though it was legal under Alaskan law, some found it unseemly that she claimed thousands of dollars in per diem expenses as governor while living at home...
...setting? But the state troopers investigated all the allegations and let Wooten off with just a 10-day suspension (the police union eventually got it down to five). As of this July, the custody case was still unsettled. And the fact that Wooten served on the Alaskan equivalent of a SWAT team shows that at least his immediate supervisors trusted him. He has served as a state trooper without apparent incident for at least a couple of years since his suspension...
...announced that he would take on the state's only delegate to the House of Representatives, Don Young, in a GOP primary race. Young, one of the most entrenched members of Alaska's political establishment, is currently under investigation for taking money from the oil services company VECO. (Alaskan Ted Stevens, the Senate's longest-serving Republican, is scheduled to stand trial later this month on charges of lying about hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations he received from VECO. Both Young and Stevens have denied any wrongdoing...
...Staunchly anti-Palin, the blog includes a series called "Saradise Lost" - criticizing the governor's stances and alleged misdeeds in office - and posts from guest bloggers including Alaskan radio host Shannyn Moore...
...spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska's government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook...