http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/rove-plain-ready/Earlier this month, Karl Rove repeatedly argued that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) would not be “capable” of being Vice President. He complained that “he’s been a governor for three years” and said Kaine was mayor of only the “the 105th largest city in America,” referring to Kaine’s tenure as mayor of Richmond, VA. “It’s not a big town,” he quipped.
Yesterday, however, Rove argued just the opposite with regard to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). He explained on Fox News that Palin was a good choice as McCain’s vice presidential nominee because she was “mayor of the second largest city in Alaska”:
ROVE: She’s a populist, she’s an economic and a social conservative, she’s a reformer, she took on the incumbent governor of the state Frank Murkowski — Republican — beat him in the primary, won an upset in the general election. She’s a former mayor. She’s the mayor of, I think, the second largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor.
Watch it:
Kaine was indeed mayor of the ‘the 105th largest city in America.’ While there, he governed nearly 200,000 people and managed a bureaucracy of over 8,000 employees. By contrast, Palin was mayor of Wasilla, AK, a town of just over 8,000 people that currently employs just over 100 individuals and — contrary to Rove’s claim — didn’t even make it into the 10 largest cities in AK while she was mayor.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/rove-plain-ready/Anchorage, AK
Population: 260,283 (US Census 2000)
Juneau, AK
Population: 30,711 (US Census 2000)
Fairbanks, AK
Population: 30,224 (US Census 2000)
College, AK
Population: 11,402 (US Census 2000)
Sitka, AK
Population: 8,835 (US Census 2000)
Ketchikan, AK
Population: 7,922 (US Census 2000)
Knik, AK
Population: 7,049 (US Census 2000)
Kenai, AK
Population: 6,942 (US Census 2000)
Lakes, AK
Population: 6,706 (US Census 2000)
Kodiak, AK
Population: 6,334 (US Census 2000)
http://www.theus50.com/alaska/cities.php