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  • September 2008

    • Friend Fingers Stevens at Trial

      Associated Press  |  Sep 30, 08 4:37 PM CDT

      Friend Fingers Stevens at Trial

      (AP) - A longtime friend of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens crossed the powerful lawmaker and testified today as the star witness in the Republican senator's gift-giving trial. The fiercely loyal Stevens did not acknowledge Bill Allen when he entered the courtroom. The two men barely looked at each other as Allen prepared to testify that he gave the senator $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts. More »

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      Congress  • Alaska  • corruption  • trial  • Ted Stevens  • corruption charges  • gifts

    • Anti-Palin Screed Makes Wasilla Woman Many Friends

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 30, 08 4:24 PM CDT

      Anti-Palin Screed Makes Wasilla Woman Many Friends

      (Newser) - A Wasilla, Alaska, woman just wanted to share her Sarah Palin experiences with 40 friends, but the none-too-flattering email she wrote ended up on computer screens nationwide, the Los Angeles Times reports. Now Anne Kilkenny, who became involved in local politics while Palin was mayor because of a fight to pave her driveway, has been receiving hate mail for criticizing the popular vice presidential candidate.  More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • email  • Wasilla

    • Wrong, Lefties: Palin Didn't Cut Special Olympics Dollars

      National Review  |  Sep 29, 08 4:24 PM CDT

      Wrong, Lefties: Palin Didn't Cut Special Olympics Dollars

      (Newser) - Sarah Palin did not cut funding to the Special Olympics in Alaska, as many have said, professors Warren Throckmorton and Paul Kengor write in the National Review . In fact, this year she approved an increase in funding, from $250,000 to $275,000. Lawmakers had asked for $550,000, perhaps inspiring the liberal media to insinuate that Palin had cut, rather than denied, funding. More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • Keith Olbermann  • National Review

    • As Mayor, Palin Helped Herself to Perks

      Associated Press  |  Sep 28, 08 6:50 PM CDT

      As Mayor, Palin Helped Herself to Perks

      (Newser) - Sarah Palin vows to battle political boys' clubs, but her mayoral record shows that girls' clubs can be useful too, the AP reports. While mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin accepted gifts from merchants—even thanking one for an "awesome" facial—and argued for rulings that favored her family. Other examples abound: A waiver eased the sale of her house, and tax breaks helped a snow machine shop she co-owned with her husband. More »

    • Palin's Swimsuit Footage Surfaces

      New York Daily News  |  Sep 28, 08 12:37 PM CDT

      Palin's Swimsuit Footage Surfaces

      (Newser) - Footage has surfaced of the 1984 Miss Alaska competition, in which Sarah Heath—soon to become Palin—struts her stuff in the swimsuit competition, reports the New York Daily News . The blurry video captures an announcer explaining that "Sarah Heath says that she wants to prepare for a career in television broadcasting." Palin took third place. More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • beauty pageant  • swimsuit

    • Innocence, Bravado Are a Dangerous Mix

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  Sep 27, 08 12:32 PM CDT

      Innocence, Bravado Are a Dangerous Mix

      (Newser) - John McCain's choice of running mate invokes the one of our country's oldest and most seductive myths, the virtue of American innocence, Anthony Robinson writes in the Seattle P-I . Innocent of Old World wiles, Americans are thought to have "a combination of virtue, tenacity and practical knowledge that will allow them to prevail where others have failed." In this context, Sarah Palin's inexperience and frontier-state origins become a strength. More »

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      John McCain  • Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • running mate  • America  • innocent

    • Palin Grabbed $25K in Gifts

      Washington Post  |  Sep 26, 08 6:08 AM CDT

      Palin Grabbed $25K in Gifts

      (Newser) - Sarah Palin accepted gifts totaling over $25,000 during her 20 months as governor of Alaska, the Washington Post reports. The gifts to Palin, who made a crackdown on gift-giving a central plank of her reform agenda, included expensive artwork and free travel for a family member. Donors included industry execs and a cultural center whose board includes powerful mining industry officials. More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • Todd Palin  • lobbyist  • gifts

    • Stevens Used Oil Firm as 'Handyman': Prosecutors

      The Hill  |  Sep 25, 08 4:24 PM CDT

      Stevens Used Oil Firm as 'Handyman': Prosecutors

      (Newser) - Prosecutors say Republican Sen. Ted Stevens deliberately failed to disclose gifts from an Alaska oil company, including $240,000 in home renovations and a $2,700 massage chair, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Veco acted as his own personal handyman service,” the prosecution said in the opening arguments of Stevens’ corruption trial today in Washington. “If the defendant needed an electrician, he would contact Veco.” More »

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      Alaska  • Ted Stevens  • Veco

    • Enquirer Names Alleged Palin Lover, Bolsters Claim

      National Enquirer  |  Sep 24, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      Enquirer Names Alleged Palin Lover, Bolsters Claim

      (Newser) - The National Enquirer returns this week to its claim that Sarah Palin had an affair, this time naming the alleged lover as Brad Hanson, a city council member in Palmer (near Wasilla) and former partner of Todd Palin in a snowmobile business. To bolster the claim, the tab now says that "no less than three members of the man’s family including one by sworn affidavit" have reported knowledge of said affair.  More »

    • As Alaska Melts, Palin Plays Big Oil Denial Game

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 24, 08 10:13 AM CDT

      As Alaska Melts, Palin Plays Big Oil Denial Game

      (Newser) - Alaska is melting, but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe man’s to blame. Then again, McCain’s VP pick is also skeptical about evolution, “which is like not believing in gravity,” writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr in the LA Times. Kennedy recalls his childhood, when Virginia had ski slopes and uncle JFK would come toboggan in his top coat. More »

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      Election 2008  • Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • McCain-Palin  • oil industry  • Big Oil

    • Stevens Corruption Trial Begins

      KTUU  |  Sep 22, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Stevens Corruption Trial Begins

      (Newser) - Jury selection began today in the corruption trial of Ted Stevens, the first US senator in over 20 years to face a criminal trial, reports WTUU of Anchorage. The list of 200-plus possible witnesses at the Alaska Republican's trial, in federal court in Washington, DC, includes Colin Powell as well as Democrats Ted Kennedy, Daniel Inouye, and Patrick Leahy, the AP reports. More »

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      Alaska  • Ted Kennedy  • Ted Stevens  • Patrick Leahy  • Colin Powell  • Bill Allen  • Orrin Hatch  • Daniel Inouye

    • Line Between Public, Private Lost on Small-Town Palins

      Washington Post  |  Sep 22, 08 12:23 PM CDT

      Line Between Public, Private Lost on Small-Town Palins

      (Newser) - Todd and Sarah Palin’s small-town roots, and the everyone-knows-everyone nature of politics in Alaska, have led to some blurring of the lines between public and private in Todd Palin’s role in his wife’s administration, the Washington Post reports. After one supporter complained, Gov. Palin swiftly called him. “In Alaska, that’s the way it works,” he said. “Politics doesn’t stop at the front door.” More »

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      Sarah Palin  • Alaska  • Todd Palin