Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends

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More Bush style cronyism

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This article is by Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman and Michael Powell.

WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.

So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.

Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=2&ei=5065&oref=slogin&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

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