Laura Chase has a message for the world: “There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I hadn’t done my job so damned effectively.” The job in question was managing Palin’s successful campaign for mayor of Wasilla in 1996. Palin ousted three-term incumbent John Stein in a rough campaign; she secured the endorsement of the National Rifle Association and injected hot-button “wedge” issues like abortion into the race for what had previously been a non-partisan office, affixing to Stein the label Palin would later use so effectively statewide to bring down entrenched Republican pols – “Good Old Boy”.
Chase was born in Palo Alto and moved to Alaska before statehood. She, like Palin, holds a degree in communications from the University of Idaho. “She was viewed very positively,” Chase said, recalling Palin’s arrival on the Wasilla City Council. “First of all, she’s a really attractive young lady, and to get involved on the council, which was full of a bunch of old folks, was a real shake up.”
Palin later asked Chase to run her campaign for mayor, and after overcoming reservations about unseating “a good man” like Stein, she accepted. “She said that if she won she would hire me as the city administrator,” confides Chase, still incredulous, “and that the two of us would provide leadership for Wasilla. The second she won, she didn’t even remember who I was.” The fact that she remains crushed is clear.
“I’m still proud of Sarah,” Chase confessed to The New York Times, “but she scares the bejeebers out of me.” When I asked her to elaborate, she mentioned Palin’s effort to remove books from the public library, which Chase claims she witnessed first hand. “There’s no place in the world,” Chase says today, “for people who don’t believe what she believes.”
There was a knock at the door – and a reporter from American Media – publishers of quality supermarket checkout titles like Star and the National Enquirer – came in to take Chase’s picture. The reporter asked Chase if “she still had the letter,” but Chase told him it had been shredded. He quickly took his leave, and it was just us and the awkward silence.
After a few moments I asked about the mysterious letter. “Oh,” Chase sighed, “a week after she won the mayor’s job she dropped by my house and handed me a check for $1,000” – intended to compensate for the job that had failed to materialise. “I tore it up, handed it back, and told her she was lucky that Todd put up with her. A few days later I received a three-page hand written letter saying, ‘How dare you? You don’t know anything about mine and Todd’s relationship.”
Chase tells me she shredded the letter because “If I kept it I’d never be able to let it go. It’s kind of a love-hate thing, you know?” And I did know, because over the course of the hour I’d spent there, I was shown at least two hulking Palin scrapbooks that were still very much intact. If anything, I suspected, the letter was purged because it severed once and for all her connection to the warm fuzzy she clearly derived from the news clippings and other Palin campaign kitsch she so obviously prized. We found ourselves in silence again.
“She’s nothing like us!” she stammered, “she doesn’t know what it’s like to not be able to pay the bills, to not be able to get credit cards or health insurance for the kids. Not everyone has what they have; that image is a lie. And it’s not that she’s like us. We’d like to believe that. People are living vicariously through her. They feel they’re missing something in life. But she has that way where she can impact someone in that manner; its like you feel you’re living that life, and that’s why she can say ‘Oh, I’m just one of them,’ because we’re desperately trying to live vicariously through her energetic and determined lifestyle.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081003/REVIEW/565545479/-1/SPORTSarah Palin has already shown that she will get rid of anyone who opposes her. She has been shown to be a liar and a blood thirsty killer, hunting down endangered bears and shooting wolves from an airplane. How evil is that? These incidents show that she will do what she wants to do and any evidence showing her acts to be criminal or immoral are covered up or outright denied. Consider the report from Rick Steiner, a University of Alaska professor:
Her lust for power knows no bounds. Anyone that stands in her way will be disposed of. Perhaps this is the reason that McCain hides behind her, letting her take center stage. He already fears her. If this is the Repugnican's way of getting a woman in the Presidential office they sure chose the right one for the job. But, if they think they will be able to control her they are dead wrong," -politically
http://www.opednews.com/articles/BEWARE-SENATOR-MCCAIN-YO-by-Ginger-McClemons-080927-118.html"Their secrecy is off the charts,"- Mr. Steiner said.
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