GOP Alaska Gov: Corruption-Ridden State Must 'Grow Up'

[L. Coyote]

GOP Alaska Gov: Corruption-Ridden State Must 'Grow Up'
By Laura McGann - Oct9, 2007
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004412.php

Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), who's made a hobby of denouncing the corruption among Republicans in her state, recently told Newsweek it's time for her state to "grow up" in a feature on the nine women governors (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21162322/site/newsweek/page/0/) holding office across the country.

Palin, elected on an anti-corruption platform, has worked on tackling the "cozy relationship between the state's political elite and the energy industry that provides 85 percent of Alaska's tax revenues," Newsweek writes.

Some of her decisions, including canceling funding for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, has created an intra-party rift between her office and the all-Republican federal delegation. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) recently called relations between the two Alaskans "frosty" (http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004313.php)

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Relations may be "frosty" between Ted and Sarah

but she has an 85% approval rating (at least) in the state, so I think he loses. :evilgrin: