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December 2, 2008 8:45:56 PM CST



Creamery Biz Milked Subsidies Under Palin

Posted Sep 16, 08 5:02 AM CDT in Business Politics 

(Newser) – Critics who say Sarah Palin is not as fiscally conservative as she claims are questioning extended subsidies paid to a state-run creamery, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Alaska Creamery Board recommended closing the operation in 2007 after it fell $1.5 million in the red. Palin instead fired the board and replaced it with one headed by a childhood friend.

The new board ordered the creamery to be kept open, only to close it six months later—after it had cost Alaska's taxpayers another $800,000. Some Alaskans charge that Palin was keeping her constituents happy at a high cost to the state's purse, while others say she was doing the prudent thing to give local dairy farmers more time to find new markets. The creamery was taken over by the state of Alaska after it declared bankruptcy in 1984.

Source Wall Street Journal

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Subsidies received by a state-run creamery under Sarah Palin's governorship have been the target of criticism.   (KRT Photos)
Sarah Palin signs a photo of herself for a supporter during a campaign rally in Golden, Colo., yesterday.   (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
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The governor got into this position because the farmers were her constituents
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