newsminer.com - 3/19/2009
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JUNEAU — Protesting federal "strings," attached to stimulus funding, Gov. Sarah Palin said she doesn't want nearly half the estimated $930 million Alaska is eligible for.
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adn.com - 3/21/2009
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Gov. Sarah Palin owes more than a half
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defended her against ethics complaints, and she may create a legal fund to pay the bill, she said Friday.
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Palin to Reject Huge Chunk of Stimulus $$$: 'Will We Chart Our Own Course, Or Will Washington Engineer It For Us?'
JammieWearingFool —
That's my girl . Stick it to DC. Protesting federal "strings," attached to stimulus funding, Gov. Sarah Palin said she doesn't want nearly half the estimated $930million Alaska is eligible for. "Will we chart our own course, or will Washington (D.C.) engineer it for us?" Palin said. She expected to file an appropriations bill this afternoon accepting about $251.5 million in stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, coupled with allocations of $262.6 million already requested for transportation and aviation projects for a total state take of about $514.1 ...
Palin rejects nearly half of state’s stimulus funds meant for education, health care, and labor.
Think Progress —
... announcing her decision, Palin asked, “Will we chart our own course, or will Washington (D.C.) engineer it for us?” She also quoted Thomas Jefferson and complained about “the strings attached” to the stimulus funds. “What we think we need is kind of a time-out, where we back up, we pause, and we really think about what we’re doing here,” Palin said. ...
Sarah Palin Doesn’t Want Your Money
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... Sarah Palin is turning down about half of her state’s stimulus money, complaining that Washington is trying to engineer a bigger Alaskan government with funding for health care, energy programs and schools. Schools? How dare you, Washington? ...
Alaskans Unhappy With Palin's Choice To Reject Some Stimulus Funds
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... One Republican state rep has already put forth a bill that calls for Governor Palin to accept and distribute all the stimulus money, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. ...
Alaskans Unhappy With Palin's Choice To Reject Some Stimulus Funds
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... One Republican state rep has already put forth a bill that calls for Governor Palin to accept and distribute all the stimulus money, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. ...
Blow From Barbour’s Education Cuts Lessened Because Of Federal Stimulus Package
Think Progress —
... . Palin turned down $160 million for education because she believed the state should “chart our own course.” Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) also wanted to ...
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Palin rejects nearly 30 percent of stimulus funds
news.yahoo.com 3/20/2009 — JUNEAU, Alaska It's up to the Alaska Legislature to request hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds from the federal government. Gov. Sarah Palin said Thursday that she would accept only 69 percent of the estimated $930 million ...
Protesters tell Palin take stimulus funds
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Reports of Sarah Palin Career Death Greatly Exaggerated
news.aol.com 4/14/2009 — I've visited this theme before , but it is becoming clearer and clearer to me that the GOP is out to destroy Sarah Palin. The reason for this is simple: None of them want to run against her in 2012. Republicans in her state want to grab power for ...
Anything they can do, Palin can do dumber
washingtonmonthly.com 3/20/2009 — ANYTHING THEY CAN DO, PALIN CAN DO DUMBER.... If there's one thing elected officials in Alaska know how to do, perhaps better than anyone else in the country, it's accepting federal dollars for state programs. It was curious, then, to...
Palin Under Fire. As Usual
poligazette.com 5/4/2009 — ‘Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s life has changed in a myriad of ways since she became the Republican vice presidential nominee last August, but one aspect of her newfound fame has been more bracing than the others: Since entering the national ...
Sarah Palin, The Smartest Republican?
newshoggers.com 3/7/2009 — Commentary By Ron Beasley
Sarah Palin had a rough introduction to prime time politics - she wasn't ready for prime time. But she has taken a sabbatical from the front and center politics - one can only hope she is brushing up on geography etc. ...
Female leaders, first lady head to DC schools —
CNN Political Ticker 3/19/2009
Michelle Obama spoke to students at Anacostia High School in Washington, DC Thursday.
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