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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...
...career in Juneau mirrors McCain’s tenure in Washington. McCain pilloried former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s military strategy in Iraq , scrutinized lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with Indian tribes , and railed against the pork barrel projects approved by a Republican Congress . While Palin scraped the pork barrel for federal dollars herself, she also line-item-vetoed $268 million worth of hometown projects from the state budget, or about 10 percent of state spending. These political victories have enabled the McCain campaign to sell her as a bull moose, not as a culture...
...couple who married in the United States but grew up hiding in the jungle and living in refugee camps before emigrating to America. Portraits also included a famous musician, several Hollywood actors, a Puerto Rican delegate, a farmer from Nebraska with a PhD from Yale, and a gay former Republican operative ousted from his party and now working for Obama. Never before has the Democratic Party stood for so many—and so many at once...
...PAUL, Minn.—Harvard affiliates came out of the Republican National Convention last week enthusiastic about the week's events...
...most memorable moment at the RNC was watching Governor Palin's speech from the floor," said Caleb L. Weatherl '10, immediate past president of the Harvard Republican Club. "As Governor Palin began speaking, the excitement and energy in the room started to build among the crowd, and by the end of her speech, the atmosphere in the convention center was truly electric...