Palin left her small town millions of dollars in debt.

[yardwork]

This is something that we need to spread around, because a lot of people don't know it. My boss was saying that, although she herself is a Democrat and supports Obama, the one thing that impresses her about Palin is her management experience.

Palin's management experience is one of destroying the economy of a small town, graft, and corruption. We need to get the word out.

[billyoc]

1. She couldn't make money with 43 meth labs and and oil well?

Executive experience, my ass.

[KingFlorez]

2. A town that size should not have anywhere close to that much debt

She was doing some serious mismanagement.

[Bucky]

3. In her defense, a lot of small towns suffered in the shitty Republican economy of the 2000s

[yardwork]

5. Alaska is running a huge surplus due to oil prices!

Palin left her town with tens of millions in debt because she insisted on borrowing tens of millions to build a sport complex on land the town doesn't even own.

[Igel]

7. The bond-issue referendum was also important.

It passed muster with the voters.

"Didn't even own" is correct; reports are they got title to it not long after ground breaking.

It'll be paid off before the 2012 electionsl; 2011, they hope. A new ballot measure for this fall is for $20 million--the same as the bond measure under discussion--for a new library.

They announced Palin; 2 hours later I was at the Wasilla website, reviewing budgets and the like.

[yardwork]

8. My understanding is that the land's ownership is still in question - still tied up in the courts.

[Mariana]

4. Let's be accurate. It was TENS of millions. nt

[yardwork]

6. Welcome to DU!