Message-ID: <BDD0B04CCAE2420FBE171F9602D08F5E@uwec7nyqnsifeg> From: "Mary Weil" <mw2085@charter.net> Subject: Re: Today's Garvey Blog Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:29:55 -0500
Info below about Palin from Factcheck.org. If anyone has proven that
Factcheck.org is incorrect, let's pass around the info.
Factcheck.org has done some legwork on the Palin rumors flying around
the Internet. Here's the start of their report, with a link to their
analysis: We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about
dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about
McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely
false, or misleading.
a.. Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by
62 percent. She didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil
funding over just three years.
b.. She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library.
Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at
the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but
the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
c.. She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group
that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the
United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
d.. Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She
once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesty" when he visited Wasilla,
but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of
Steve Forbes in the state.
e.. Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools.
She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of
the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to
be part of the curriculum."
----- Original Message -----
From: John & Liz Webster
To: sfpj@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Today's Garvey Blog
GARVEYBLOG
September 9, 2008
Try harder!
By Ed Garvey
A member of the Wasilla Library Board sent a list of books and authors
Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the library. Vonnegut, Twain,
Harper Lee, Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Solzhenitsyn, J.K. Rowling,
Faulkner (White House Named Desire) and, sit down before reading, Maya
Angelou's I know Why the Caged Bird Sings. (Somehow my mind sees Palin
with a shotgun, ready to shoot the uncaged bird.) Truly nutty.
Palin's church is on God's far-right. She prayed for a gas pipeline
and her church is sponsoring a prayer confab for gay conversion to the
heterosexual life. "Pray away the gay!" How about a mention of climate
change?
The good news? All you have to do is tell the truth about Governor
Palin.
She won't meet the press other than People magazine. (Who knew it was
still being published?) But she will talk with good-time Charlie Gibson.
A real treat in store.
Generous: I announced at Fighting Bob Fest that we needed $7,500 to
meet expenses and the biggest crowd yet put $17,000 in the buckets.
Thank you!
Dick Leinenkugel is Doyle's most recent Republican appointment;
Secretary of Commerce. Another opening, another Republican. Well, it is
okay to find talent on both sides of the imaginary isle, but did anyone
ask his view of unions? One report has it he dislikes all unions but one
in particular. Someone should ask.