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He was elected to the Wasilla city council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after failing to serve as lieutenant governor, he was appointed chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing state oil and gas. fields for safety and efficiency. He is the youngest person and the first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska.
Since his resignation as governor, he has supported and campaigned for the Tea Party movement as well as several candidates in a double election cycle, including Donald Trump for president in 2016. From 2010 to 2015, he made political comments for Fox News. On April 3, 2014, Palin aired her TV show, Amazing America with Sarah Palin , on the Sportsman Channel, which runs until February 12, 2015. On July 27, 2014, Palin launched an online news network called Sarah Channel Palin, which closed on July 4, 2015.
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Early life and family
Palin was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, the third child of four siblings (three daughters and one boy) from Sarah "Sally" Heath (nÃÆ' Â © e Sheeran), school secretary, and Charles R. "Chuck" Heath, a science teacher and track-and-field trainer. The Palin brothers are Chuck Jr., Heather, and Molly. Palin is of British, Irish and German descent.
When Palin was a few months old, her family moved to Skagway, Alaska, where her father took her teaching job. They moved to Eagle River in 1969 and eventually settled in Wasilla in 1972.
Palin plays the flute in a junior band and then attends Wasilla High School, where she is head of the Christian Athletic Guild and a member of the women's basketball team and cross-country team. During his senior year, he was the co-captain and point guard of the basketball team who won the 1982 state championship of Alaska, earning the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" for his appeal.
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest, then finishing third (as second runner-up) at the Miss Alaska contest, where she also earned the title "Miss Congeniality". He plays the flute in the talent section of the contest. One writer reports that he received the Miss Congeniality award in the Miss Wasilla contest (but this is disputed by other contestants and Palin classmates) and college scholarships.
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Higher Education
After graduating from high school in 1982, Palin enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Shortly after arriving in Hawaii, Palin was transferred to Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester in the fall of 1982 and then to North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene, for the spring and fall semester of 1983. She enrolled at the University of Idaho in Moscow for the academic year that began in August 1984 and then attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska in the fall of 1985. Palin returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986 and received a bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis on journalism in May 1987.
In June 2008, the North Idaho College Alumni Association awarded Palin the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
Early career and marriage
After graduating, he worked as a sports announcer for KTUU-TV and KTVA-TV in Anchorage and as a sports reporter for Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, fulfilling his initial ambitions.
In August 1988, he eloped with his girlfriend in high school, Todd Palin. After the birth of their first child in April 1989, he assisted in his husband's commercial fishing business.
early political career
City council
Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992, winning 530 votes to 310. During her tenure in the city council and the rest of her political career, Palin has been a Republican since applying in 1982.
Mayor Wasilla
Concerned that revenue from the new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely, Palin nominated the mayor of Wasilla in 1996, defeating the mayor John Stein 651 to 440 votes. His biographer describes his campaign as a wasteful and high tax expense target; his opponent, Stein, said that Palin introduced abortion, weapons rights and term limits as a campaign issue. The election was nonpartisan, although Republicans of the state were running ads for Palin. He ran for re-election against Stein in 1999 and won, 909 votes to 292. In 2002, he completed the second of two consecutive three-year periods permitted by the city charter. He was elected Alaska Mayor Conference in 1999.
First term
Palin has contretemps with Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, a local newspaper, and is reportedly involved in personnel challenges and "failed attempts to pack the City Council" during her first year at the office. Using the revenue generated by a 2% sales tax approved by Wasilla voters in October 1992, Palin cut property taxes by 75% and eliminated personal property taxes and business inventory taxes. Using local bonds, he makes improvements to roads and gullies and increases funding to the police department. He oversees the creation of new bike lanes and gets funds for rainwater treatment to protect freshwater resources. At the same time, he reduced the budget of the local museum and avoided talk of new libraries and town hall.
Immediately after taking office in October 1996, Palin abolished the position of the museum director and requested a renewed resume and letter of resignation from "the head of the city department loyal to Stein", including the police chief, director of public works, finance director and librarian. Palin stated the request was to know their intentions and whether they supported her. He is temporarily asked the head of the department to get his approval before talking to reporters, saying they must first get acquainted with his government policy. He created the position of city administrators and reduced his own $ 68,000 salary by 10%, although by mid-1998 it was reversed by the city council.
In October 1996, Palin asked the library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, whether she would object to the removal of books from the library if people wanted to remove the book. Emmons replied that he would, and the other as well. Palin stated that she does not propose censorship but has discussed many issues with her "rhetorical and realistic" staff. No attempt was made to remove books from the library during Palin's term as mayor.
Palin said she fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh because she did not fully support her efforts to govern the city. Stambaugh filed a lawsuit stating the wrongful cessation and violation of the right to free speech. The judge rejected Stambaugh's lawsuit, stating that the police chief served at the mayor's discretion and could be terminated for almost any reason, even political reasons, and ordered Stambaugh to pay Palin's legal fees.
Second term
During his second term as mayor, Palin proposed and promoted the construction of the city's sports center to be financed by a 0.5 percent sales tax increase and a $ 14.7 million bond issue. The voter approved the size with a 20-vote margin, and the Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex (later called the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center) was built on time and under budget. However, the city spent an additional $ 1.3 million due to a leading domain lawsuit caused by the city's failure to gain a clear ownership right before beginning construction. The city's long-term debt grew from about $ 1 million to $ 25 million due to spending $ 15 million for sports complexes, $ 5.5 million for road projects, and $ 3 million for water improvement projects. The Wall Street Journal marks the project as "financial chaos." A member of the city council defended an increase in spending as determined by the growth of the city during that time.
Palin also joins the nearest community in hiring Anchorage-based lobbying firms, Robertson, Monang & amp; Eastaugh lobbied for federal funds. The company earned nearly $ 8 million for the benefit of the Wasilla city government, including $ 500,000 for youth shelters, $ 1.9 million for transportation centers, and $ 900,000 for sewer repairs. In 2008, the mayor of Wasilla praised the property tax cuts and infrastructure improvements of 75 percent by bringing a "big shop" and 50,000 shoppers a day to Wasilla.
Country-level politics
In 2002, Palin ran for Republican nomination to become lieutenant governor, taking second place from Loren Leman on the Republican's five-party base. After his defeat, he campaigned across the state for the ticket of the famous Republican governor-lieutenant Frank Murkowski and Leman. Murkowski and Leman won and Murkowski resigned from the US Senatorial seat he held in December 2002 to take the post of governor. Palin is said to be on a "short list" of possible people appointed to US Senate seat Murkowski, but Murkowski eventually appointed his daughter, State Representative Lisa Murkowski, as his successor in the Senate.
Governor Murkowski offered Palin another job, and in February 2003 he received an appointment to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, which oversees Alaska's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. Although he has little background in the area, he says he wants to learn more about the oil industry and is appointed as chairman of the commission and ethics supervisor. In November 2003 he filed a non-public ethics complaint with state attorney general and governor against fellow commission member Randy Ruedrich, a former petroleum engineer and then state Republican chairman. He was forced to resign in November 2003. Palin resigned in January 2004 and placed his protest against Ruedrich's "lack of ethics" into the public arena by filing a public complaint against Ruedrich, who was later fined $ 12,000. He joined Democratic Party lawmaker Eric Croft with complaints that Gregg Renkes, Alaska's attorney general, had a conflict of interest in negotiating a coal export trade agreement. Renkes also resigned from his post.
From 2003 to June 2005, Palin served as one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a group of 527 designed to provide political training for Republicans in Alaska. In 2004, Palin told Anchorage Daily News that she had decided not to run for the US Senate that year against Republican spacecraft Lisa Murkowski, because her teenage son was against her. Palin said, "How can I become a team mum if I am a US Senator?"
Alaska Governor
In 2006, walking on a clean government platform, Palin defeated Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary governor. His partner is Sean Parnell.
In the November election, Palin was fired but won, beating former Democratic governor Tony Knowles by 48.3% to 40.9%. He became the first female governor of Alaska and, at age 42, the youngest governor in Alaska history, the state's first governor was born after Alaska reached US statehood, and the first was not inaugurated in Juneau (he chose to have a Ceremony held at Fairbanks as instead). He took office on December 4, 2006, and for the most part his tenure was very popular with Alaska voters. A poll taken in 2007 showed him with 93% and 89% popularity among all voters, who led some media to call him "the most popular governor in America." A poll conducted in late September 2008 after Palin was named for a national Republican ticket showed his popularity in Alaska at 68%. A poll conducted in May 2009 showed Palin's popularity among Alaskans was 54% positive and 41.6% negative.
Palin stated that the main priorities of his government are the development of resources, education and labor development, community health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development. He has championed ethical reform throughout his election campaign. His first legislative act after taking office was to push for a bipartisan ethical reform bill. He signed the law produced in July 2007, calling it a "first step" and stated that he remains determined to clean up Alaska politics.
Palin often broke out with the formation of the Alaska Republic. For example, he supported Parnell's efforts to overthrow the old US Representative in the state, Don Young, and he challenged the public at that time - the US. Senator Ted Stevens came clean about a federal investigation into his financial affairs. Shortly before the July 2008 indictment, he held a joint press conference with Stevens, described by The Washington Post as intended to "explain that he did not leave him politically." He promotes the development of oil and natural gas resources in Alaska, including drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The proposal to drill for oil in ANWR has sparked a national debate.
In 2006, Palin obtained a passport and in 2007 traveled for the first time outside North America en route to Kuwait. There he visited the Khawaari Alawazem Junction on the Kuwait-Iraq border and met with members of the Alaska National Guard at several bases. On his way home, he visits wounded soldiers in Germany.
Budget, spending, and federal funds
In June 2007, Palin signed a record $ 6.6 billion operating budget into law. At the same time, he used the veto to make the second largest capital budget cut in state history. The $ 237 million cut represents more than 300 local projects and reduced the capital budget to $ 1.6 billion.
In 2008, Palin vetoed $ 286 million, cutting or reducing funding for 350 projects from the FY09 capital budget.
Palin followed through a campaign pledge to sell the Westwind II jet, a purchase made by the Murkowski government for $ 2.7 million in 2005 against legislative desire. In August 2007, the jet was listed on eBay, but the sale failed, and the plane then sold for $ 2.1 million through a private brokerage firm.
Governor spending
Palin lives in Juneau during a legislative session and lives in Wasilla and works out of office in Anchorage for the rest of the year. Since the office in Anchorage was 565 miles from Juneau, while he worked there, state officials said he was allowed to claim $ 58 per diem of travel allowances, which he took (total $ 16,951), and reimbursement for hotels, which he did not, opting to drive 50 miles to his home in Wasilla. He chose not to use the ex-governor's private chef. Republicans and Democrats criticized Palin for taking daily cash and $ 43,490 in travel expenses at times when his family accompanied him in state business. Palin's staff responded that the practice was in line with state policy, that his governor's spending was 80% below Murkowski, his predecessor, and that "many of the hundreds of invitations Palin received include requests for him to bring his family, placing the definition of 'state business' with a party extending the invitation. "In February 2009, the State of Alaska reversed a policy that has treated payments as legitimate business expenses according to the Internal Revenue Code, deciding that per diems paid to state employees to stay in their own homes will be treated as taxable income and will to be included in the gross income of employees on their W-2 form. Palin herself has ordered a tax policy review.
In December 2008, an Alaska state commission recommended to raise the governor's annual salary from $ 125,000 to $ 150,000. Palin stated that she would not receive a raise. In response, the commission canceled the recommendation.
Federal funding
In a State of the State address on 17 January 2008, Palin stated that the people of Alaska "can and should continue to develop our economy, because we can not and should not be overly dependent on the federal government [funding]." Alaska federal congressional representatives reduced the demand for pork-barrel projects during Palin's time as governor; Nonetheless, in 2008 Alaska was still the largest per capita recipient of a federal warning, requesting nearly $ 750 million in special federal spending over a two-year period.
Although there are no state sales or income taxes in Alaska, royalty revenues from the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field (comprised mostly of state-owned land) have been funding large state budgets since 1980, with the right amount largely dependent on prevailing oil prices.. As a result, state revenues doubled to $ 10 billion in 2008. For the 2009 budget, Palin provided a list of 31 proposed federal proposals or a request for funding, totaling $ 197 million, to US Senator senior Senator Ted Stevens. Palin has stated that her declining support for federal funding is a source of disagreement between her and the state congress delegates; Palin asks for less in federal funding each year than her predecessor, Frank Murkowski, who was asked in her final year.
Bridge to Nowhere
In 2005, before Palin was elected governor, Congress passed an omnibus bill of $ 442 million earmark to build two Alaska bridges. The Gravina Island Bridge, intended to provide links between Ketchikan airport on Gravina Island and the town of Ketchikan at a cost of $ 233 million in federal grants, receives national attention as a symbol of pork-barrel expenditure. Since the island has only a population of 50 people, this bridge is known as the "Bridge to Nature." Public furore caused Congress to remove the traits, but retained the funds allocated to Alaska as part of public transportation funds.
In 2006, Palin ran for governor with a "building bridge" board on her podium, saying that she "does not allow spinmeisters to turn this project... into something very negative." Palin criticized the use of the word "wherever" as an affront to the locals and urged quick work to build infrastructure "while our congressional delegates are in a strong position to help."
As governor, Palin canceled Gravina Island Bridge in September 2007, saying that Congress "is a bit interested in spending more money" due to "inaccurate project portrayal." Alaska does not return $ 442 million in federal transportation funds.
In 2008, as a vice presidential candidate, Palin characterized her position as telling Congress "thank you, but no thanks, on that bridge everywhere." A number of Ketchikan residents said that the claim was wrong and betrayed previous Palin support for their community. Some critics say that his statement is misleading, as he expressed support for the expenditure project and saved the federal money after the project was canceled.
Palin was criticized for allowing the construction of a 3-mile access road, built with $ 25 million in federal transportation funds set aside as part of the original bridge project, to continue. A spokesman for the Alaska Department of Transport said Palin had the power to cancel the road project, but noted that the country is considering cheaper designs to complete the bridge project, and in any case, the road will open up surrounding land for development..
Gas pipe
In August 2008, Palin signed a bill authorizing the State of Alaska to provide TransCanada pipeline - the only bidder to meet state-licensed requirements to build and operate a pipeline to transport natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska to the American continent Country through Canada. The governor also pledged $ 500 million in seed money to support the project.
It is estimated that the project will cost $ 26 billion. Newsweek describes the project as "a major achievement of Sarah Palin's term as governor of Alaska." The pipeline also faces legal challenges from Canada's First Countries.
Predator control
In 2007, Palin supported the 2003 Alaskan Fish and Game Policy that allows wolf hunting from the air as part of a predatory control program intended to increase deer and caribou populations for other subsistence and hunter-gatherers. In March 2007, Palin's office announced that a prize of $ 150 per wolf would be paid to 180 pilots and volunteer shooters in five Alaska regions to offset fuel costs. In the preceding four years, 607 wolves have been killed. State biologists want 382 to 664 wolves killed at the end of the predatory-controlling season in April 2007. Wildlife activists are suing the country, and a state judge declares an illegal gift on the grounds that the gift should be offered by the state. Board of Game and not by the Department of Fish and Game. On August 26, 2008, Alaska voted against ending the country's predatory control program.
Abandonment of Public Security Commissioner
Palin fired Walt Monegan Public Security Commissioner on July 11, 2008, citing performance-related issues, such as not being a "team player in budgeting matters" and "horrible naughty behavior." Palin's lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, said the "last straw" was Monegan's planned trip to Washington, D.C., to raise funds for a new multimillion-dollar sexual assault initiative not yet approved by the governor. Monegan said that she has endured persistent pressure from Palin, her husband, and her staff, including the state Attorney General Talis J. Colberg, to dismiss Palin's former brother-in-law, Trooper Alaska State, Mike Wooten; Wooten was involved in a custody battle with Palin's sister after a bitter divorce that included death threats alleged against Palin's father. At one point, Sarah and Todd Palin hired a private detective to gather information, trying to get Wooten officially disciplined. Monegan stated that he studied an internal investigation had found all but two of the charges unproven, and Wooten had been disciplined for the other - illegal deer killing and her 11-year-old stepchild reportedly asked to be sewn. He told Palins that there was nothing he could do because the matter was closed. When contacted by the press to comment, Monegan first acknowledged the pressure to fire Wooten but said that he could not confirm that his own shots were related to the problem; He then confirmed that the dispute over Wooten was the main reason for his dismissal. Palin stated on July 17 that Monegan was not pressured to fire Wooten, or was fired for not doing so.
Monegan said Wooten's subject appeared when she invited Palin to a birthday party for her cousin, state senator Lyman Hoffman, in February 2007 during a Juneau legislative session. "As we walked down the stairs in the Parliament building, he wanted to talk to me about his ex-brother-in-law," Monegan said. "I said, 'Madam, I need to make you hang with this.I can not talk to you about it He says,' OK, that's a good idea. '"
Palin said there was "absolutely no pressure ever on Commissioner Monegan to hire or fire anyone, anytime." I'm not abusing the power of my office and I do not know how to be more honest and honest. â € On August 13, he admitted that half a dozen members of his government had made more than two dozen calls to the issue to various state officials. "I must now tell Alaska that such pressure can be thought of as existent, even though I am now aware of it," he said. Palin said, "Much of this investigation is absolutely correct, but the nature of contact can be regarded as a kind of pressure, probably towards me." Chuck Kopp, whom Palin has been appointed to replace Monegan as public safety commissioner, received a $ 10,000 state severance package after he resigned after just two weeks at work. Kopp, a former Kenai police chief, resigned on July 25 following the exposure of a 2005 sexual harassment complaint and a letter of reprimand against him. Monegan said that she did not receive any severance package from the state. Legislative investigation
On August 1, 2008, the Alaska Legislature hired an investigator, Stephen Branchflower, to review Monegan's dismissal. Legislators state that Palin has the legal authority to fire Monegan, but they want to know if her actions are motivated by anger at Monegan for not firing Wooten. The atmosphere is bipartisan and Palin promises to work together. Wooten remains employed as state police. He placed a maid in paid leave for a recording of a telephone conversation he considered inappropriate, where the aide, who appeared to act on his behalf, complained to a policeman that Wooten had not been fired.
A few weeks after the start of what the media referred to as "troopergate", Palin was chosen as vice president of John McCain. On September 1, Palin asked the legislature to drop the investigation, saying that the State Employment Agency has jurisdiction over ethical issues. The three-member Board members were first appointed by Palin's predecessor, and Palin was re-appointed one member in 2008. On September 19, Todd Palin and several state employees refused to honor the call of the court, the validity denied by Talis Colberg, appointed Palin as a lawyer Alaska Common. On October 2, the court rejected Colberg's challenge to a subpoena, and seven witnesses, excluding Todd Palin, finally testified.
Branchflower Report
On October 10, 2008, the Alaska Legislature Council unanimously voted to release, without endorsement, the Branch Flower Report, where investigator Stephen Branchflower found that Monegan's shooting was a legitimate and legitimate exercise of his constitutional and legal authority, "but Palin was abused. His powers as governor and violated the State Executive Branch's Ethics Act when his office pressed Monegan to fire Wooten. The report states that "Governor Palin deliberately allowed the situation to continue where unauthorized pressure was placed on some subordinates to advance the personal agenda, to: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired." The report also said that Palin "allowed Todd Palin to use the Governor's office [...] to keep in touch with subordinates of state officials in an effort to find ways to get Trooper Wooten fired."
On October 11, Palin's lawyers responded, cursing the Branchflower Report as "misleading and wrong on the law." One of Palin's lawyers, Thomas van Flein, said that it was an attempt to "obscure the Governor with satire." Later that day, Palin conducted a conference call interview with Alaska reporters, where she stated, "Well, I am very, very happy to be cleansed of legal mistakes... Any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. cleaned of it all. "
Alaska Board of Personnel investigation and report
The bipartisan Alaska State Council reviewed this issue at the request of Palin. On September 15, Anchorage Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & amp; Thorness put forward a "no probable cause" argument with the Board of Personnel on behalf of Palin. The Personnel Council retained the independent advice of Timothy Petumenos, a Democrat, as an investigator. On October 24, Palin gave three hours of deposition with the Personnel Council at St. Louis, Missouri. On 3 November 2008, the Alaska State Employment Agency reported that there was no reason possible to believe that Palin or any other state official had violated the country's ethical standards. The report further states that the Branchflower Report uses the wrong statute in reaching its conclusions, misinterpreted existing evidence and did not consider or obtain any material evidence necessary to reach the findings on the matter.
Job approval ratings
As the governor of Alaska, Palin's approval ratings range from a high of 93% in May 2007 to 54% in May 2009.
Resignation
On July 3, 2009, Palin announced that she would not run in the 2010 Alaska Gubernatorial election and would resign before the end of the month. In his announcement, Palin stated that since August 2008, both he and the state have spent "crazy" time ($ 2.5 million) in response to "opposition research," 150 FOIA requests and 15 "reckless" legal ethical complaints filed by "operations politics "against it. His decision not to seek re-election and to resign from office would allow him to avoid becoming a paralyzed duck politician. He said, "I did not put Alaska through it...". Contrary to most reports, it has been reported that his decision has been working for months, accelerating as it is clear that controversy and ethical investigation endlessly threaten to overshadow the legislative agenda. A source close to Palin said, "Attacks inside Alaska and largely invisible to the national media have paralyzed his government [and] he can no longer do the work he has chosen to do." Essentially, taxpayers pay Sarah to go to work every day and defensively. "Palin and her husband Todd personally spent more than $ 500,000 in legal fees defended against ethical allegations filed against him as governor despite all complaints being dismissed. Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell said that "it really has to be done heavily on him, his concerns over the cost of all ethical investigations and the like - a way that weighs him in his inability to simply move forward the Alaska agenda on behalf of Alaska people in the context of the current environment. "Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell became governor on July 26, 2009 during the opening ceremony at Fairbanks, after Palin's resignation came into effect.
In December 2010, the new rules governing the ethics of the Alaska executive branch, which came from Palin's term as governor, took effect. "This includes allowing the state to pay legal fees for officials cleared of ethical violations, (and) allowing family members of the governor or lieutenant governor to travel at the expense of the state in certain circumstances..."
vice president campaign 2008
Some conservative commentators met with Palin in the summer of 2007. Some of them, like Bill Kristol, then urged McCain to vote for Palin as a vice presidential candidate, arguing that his presence on the ticket would provide a boost in enthusiasm among Religious Rights. the Republican wing, while its status as unknown in the national arena will also be a positive factor.
On August 24, 2008, during a general strategy meeting, Steve Schmidt, and several other senior advisers for McCain's campaign, discussed the potential for vice presidential elections with consensus settling around Palin. The next day, the strategists advised McCain about their conclusions and he personally called Palin, who was at the Alaska State Fair.
On August 27, he visited McCain's vacation home near Sedona, Arizona, where he was offered the position of vice presidential candidate. According to Jill Hazelbaker, a spokeswoman for McCain, he had previously met Palin at a meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington in February 2008 and has come "amazingly impressed." Palin is the only candidate to have a face-to-face interview with McCain to discuss joining the ticket that week. Nevertheless, Palin's selection is a surprise to many because his main criticism of Obama is his lack of experience, and speculation is centered on other candidates, such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, US Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. On August 29, in Dayton, Ohio, McCain announced that he had chosen Palin as his partner, making him the first Alaskan and second woman to run on a US main party ticket.
Since Palin was largely unknown outside Alaska before his election by McCain, his personal life, his policy positions, and his political record attracted intense media attention. On September 1, 2008, Palin announced that her daughter Bristol was pregnant and that she would marry her father, Levi Johnston. During this period, some Republicans felt that Palin was unfairly attacked by the media. Timothy Noah from the Slate magazine predicted that Palin's acceptance speech would be "too betrayed" and might end speculation that he was not qualified for vice presidential work because the press had beaten him for "trivial shortcomings" and had lowered expectations for his speech.On September 3, 2008, Palin delivered a 40 minute reception speech at a well received Republican National Convention and watched by over 40 million people.
During the campaign, the controversy erupted on the alleged difference between Palin's position as a governor candidate and his position as a vice-presidential candidate. After McCain announced Palin as his partner, Newsweek and Time went to put Palin on the cover of their magazine, as some media alleged that McCain's campaign limited access to the press by allowing only three one- one and no press conference with him. Palin's first major interview, with Charles Gibson from ABC News, met with mixed reviews. The interview five days later with Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel went more smoothly and focused on many of the same questions from Gibson's interview. Palin's appearance in the third interview with Katie Couric, of CBS News, was widely criticized; his poll numbers declined, Republicans expressed concern that he was a political responsibility, and some conservative commentators called on Palin to resign from Presidential tickets. The other conservatives remained eager to support them for Palin, accusing the columnist of elitism. Following this interview, some Republicans, including Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol, questioned McCain's campaign strategy to protect Palin from unhurtful meetings with the press.
Palin is reportedly ready intensively for the October 2 vice-presidential debate with Democratic vice-president Joe Biden at the University of Washington at St. Louis. Some Republicans argue that Palin's performance in the interview will improve public perception of his debate performance by lowering expectations. Polls from CNN, Fox and CBS found that while Palin exceeded the expectations of most voters, they felt that Biden had won the debate.
After returning to the campaign trail after the preparation of his debate, Palin stepped up his attack on Democratic candidates for President, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. At the fundraiser, Palin explains her new aggressiveness, saying, "There comes a time when you have to take off the gloves and that time right now." Palin said that her first amendment right to "call Obama out on the association" was threatened by "attacks by mainstream media."
Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live ' s "Weekend Update" on October 18th. Before her performance, she has been parodied several times by Tina Fey, who is famous for her physical resemblance to the candidate. In the weeks leading up to the election, Palin was also the subject of an amateur parody posted on YouTube.
The controversy came after it was reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent $ 150,000 on campaign donations for clothes, hairstyles and makeup for Palin and his family in September 2008. A campaign spokesman claimed that the outfit would be used for charity after the election. Palin and some media blame gender bias for the controversy. At the end of the campaign, Palin returns her clothes to the RNC.
The election takes place on November 4, and Obama is projected as the winner at 11:00 pm local time. In his concessional address, McCain thanked Palin, calling him "one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reforms and principles that have always been our greatest strength." While the maids set up a teleprompter for McCain's speech, they found a concession speech written for Palin by George W. Bush's speech writer Matthew Scully. Two McCain staff members, Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, told Palin that there was no tradition of an election speech by his peers, and that he would not speak. Palin pleads with McCain, who agrees with his staff.
Political scientists have debated the effect Palin gets from the results of the 2008 presidential election. A 2010 study in the journal Electoral Studies found that "McCain's campaign performance costs just under 2% of the last voting share." However, a 2013 study in the Quarterly Political Research failed to find any adverse impact.
After the 2008 election
Palin was the first guest on the Fox News television show Glenn Beck on January 19, 2009, commenting on Barack Obama that he would become his president and that he would help in any way to bring progress to the nation without abandoning his conservative views.
In August 2009, he coined the term "death panel", to describe treatment rationing as part of the proposed health care reform. He stated that it would require Americans like his parents or his son with Down syndrome, "to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so that his bureaucrats can decide, based on subjective judgments of 'levels of productivity in society', whether they deserve health care. "This phrase is criticized by many Democrats and Politifact to name it" Lie of the Year 2009. " However, the conservatives deny it and defend the use of the term.
In March 2010, Palin started the show to air in a TLC called Alaska Sarah Palin . The show was produced by Mark Burnett. Five million viewers tuned in for the inaugural episode, a TLC record. Palin also secured a segment at Fox News. The two guests who were interviewed admitted that they had never met him. Guest LL Cool J and Toby Keith stated that the footage shown in the segment was actually taken from other interviews with others, but used in the Palin segment. Fox News and Palin ended this relationship in January 2013. But on June 13, 2013, Palin rejoined Fox News Channel as an analyst.
On December 8, 2010, it was reported that SarahPAC and Palin's personal credit card information was compromised through cyberattacks. Tim Palin believes that the attack was executed by Anonymous during Operation Payback. The report was greeted with skepticism in the blogosphere. Palin's email was hacked once before in 2008.
SarahPAC
On 27 January 2009, Palin formed a political action committee, SarahPAC. Michael Glassner, a former assistant of Palin, was appointed chief of staff of SarahPac. The organization, which describes itself as a supporter of energy independence, supports candidates for federal and state offices. After his resignation as governor, Palin announced his intention to campaign "on behalf of candidates who believe in the right things, regardless of their party's label or affiliation." It was reported that SarahPAC has collected nearly $ 1,000,000. Legal defense funds were set up to help Palin challenge ethical complaints, and have raised about $ 250,000 by mid-July 2009. In June 2010, Palin's defense fund was ruled illegal and was required to pay back $ 386,856 it collected in donations because Palin's position as governor was used to raise money for his personal gain. Palin then formed a new defense fund. In 2010 the cycle generated $ 5.6 million, spending $ 4.3 million, but only $ 509,000 given to candidates or political or party committees. In the 2016 election cycle, he spends $ 830,000 on the consultant but provides only $ 82,500 for the candidate, while spending $ 168,000 on travel and lodging, about double what is given to the candidates. He supports Donald Trump. Sarah PAC was discontinued on December 31, 2016.
After the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, January 8, 2011, Palin faces criticism as SarahPAC's website includes a political picture that includes a crosshair over Giffords district. Palin responded on her Facebook page to criticism, saying that "Horrific crime stories stand on their own, they start and end with the criminals who do them", equating the alleged role in shooting to "blood libel". The answer sparked a heated debate that drew support and criticism. The ABC News- Washington Post poll found that 46% of respondents rated Palin's response as unfavorable, 30% approved and 24% unanimous. Going Rogue and America by Heart
In November 2009, Palin released her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, where she detailed her personal and political career, including her resignation as Alaska Governor. Palin said she took the title of the phrase 'go naughty' used by McCain's staff to describe her behavior as she talked her thoughts about issues during the campaign. The subtitle, "An American Life," reflects Ronald Reagan's autobiography title 1990. Less than two weeks after its launch, the book's sales exceeded one million marks, with 300,000 copies sold on the first day. His bestseller ratings are comparable to memoirs by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
Palin traveled to 11 states on a bus, with her family accompanying her, to promote the book. He made a number of media appearances as well, including a widely publicized interview on November 16, 2009, with Oprah Winfrey. In November 2010 HarperCollins released Palin's second book, titled America by Heart . This book contains excerpts from Palin's favorite speeches, sermons and literature as well as portraits of people she admired, including some she met in rural America on her first book tour.
Tea Party Movement
On February 6, 2010, Palin became the keynote speaker at the first Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Palin said the Tea Party movement was "a political future in America." He criticized Obama for increasing deficits, and for "apologizing to America" ​​in speeches in other countries. Palin said Obama was weak in the War on Terror for allowing so-called Christmas bombers to board a plane bound for the United States.
On April 16, 2011, Palin was the keynote speaker at the annual tax day tea party event at the state-sponsored Washington State Welfare State House, a conservative political advocacy group headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
On Labor Day, September 5, 2011, Palin was the keynote speaker at the Tea Party Express meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire's Victory Park. He spoke to the enthusiastic crowd. Palin told the audience that it was time to grow the Tea Party movement and it was important for them to avoid an internal quarrel with Republican Establishment. He told the crowd, "The Tea Party movement is bigger than anyone and not about one candidate."
"Pink Elephant" and 2010 support
In mid-2010, Palin marked the launch of the new "Young Elephant Movement". He started supporting a number of female GOP candidates. His support helped Georgian Governor Karen Handel's candidate to lead in a campaign for Republican nomination, though Handel lost its primary. Palin supports several women candidates nationwide. Ryan Rudominer, campaign spokesperson for the DPRD campaign called his involvement in various US House campaigns "a great thing across the board". He spoke to a May 2010 fundraiser for Susan B. Anthony's List, a political advocacy group and a pro-life political action committee that supports pro-life women in politics, where he coined the term "mama grizzly". Palin endorsed Nikki Haley for a Republican nomination for the governor of South Carolina three weeks before the election. At the time of the ratification, Haley conducted the last poll among the Republicans; he eventually won the nominations and elections.
In the months leading up to the November 2010 election, Palin supported 64 Republican candidates, and was a significant fundraising asset for those campaigned during the main season. According to Polico , Palin's criteria for supporting candidates are whether they have the support of the Tea Party movement and support from Susan B. Anthony List. In terms of success, Palin is 7-2 for Senate support; 7-6 for House support; and 6-3 support candidates for governors in races considered 'competitive'. Palin's Support of Joe Miller on Aug. 24 Alaska's primary election for US Senators was identified as a pivotal moment in Miller's annoyance with the ruling Senator of the Republic, Lisa Murkowski. According to The Daily Beast reporter Shushannah Walshe, Christine O'Donnell's prospect of ruling out Republican candidate Mike Castle "changed overnight" due to Palin's support. O'Donnell defeated Castle on September 14th primer for the seat of former Senator Joe Biden in Delaware. His O'Donnell support further heightened the tension between Palin and the formation of the Republican Party: prominent conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer described the endorsement as "reckless and irresponsible"; party strategist Karl Rove argues that his support may hurt the GOP seat of the Delaware Senate; and commentators including Politico, Ben Smith, argued that Palin's support for O'Donnell contributed to encouraging Republicans' hope to regain control of the US Senate. Palin's influence over her predecessor continues to further heighten speculation that she will try to become a party candidate for the President in 2012, with political experts such as David Frum and Jonathan Chait identifying Palin as front-runner.
electoral cycle and candidate 2012 speculation
Beginning in November 2008, following Palin's high profile in the presidential campaign, the active "Draft Palin" movement began. On February 6, 2010, when asked about Fox News whether he will run for president in 2012, he replied, "I would be willing if I believed that was true for the state." He added, "I will not close a door that might be open to me in the future."
In November 2010 Palin confirmed that she was considering running for president, and "holding that discussion with my family". He said he realized his level of experience could cause problems by winning nominations, and criticized "lamestream media" for focusing on his personal life.
In March 2011, Palin and her husband toured India at the invitation of Indian Indian news magazine India , then visited Israel. During the tour he was asked about his candidacy in the future; he said, "I do not think there's a rush to get out of there as an announced candidate.This is a life-changing decision." In response to another question, he said, "It's time for a woman to be the president of the United States."
In 2011 Palin said the house he recently bought in Scottsdale, Arizona is not a full-time residence, and denies that he plans to run for the retired Senate Arizona seat of Jon Kyl. On October 5, 2011, Palin said she had decided not to seek a Republican nomination for the President.
Endorsement of 2014 Alaska Gubernatorial election
In October 2014, Palin supported the "union ticket" of Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Byron Mallott in the 2014 Alaska governor election, which opposes his successor and former lieutenant governor Sean Parnell. The approval was boosted by a tax cut by Parnell's oil and gas industry, which dismantled his government's "Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share" (ACES) plan. He previously backed a referendum to lift tax cuts, which narrowly lost in August 2014. Walker and Mallott made the lifting of tax cuts their campaign center. Walker and Mallott won the governorship in November 2014 elections.
Support for Donald Trump
In January 2016 Palin announced her support for Donald Trump. Trump's political campaign director, Michael Glassner, has been Palin's assistant when he became governor, as well as chief of staff of his political action committee, SarahPAC. Glassner helped win the support of Palin.
In a May 2016 interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Palin said he would work to defeat Republican Leader Paul Ryan. Palin mentions Ryan's reluctance to support Trump for the presidency.
2017 defamation suit
In June 2017, Palin filed a libel suit against The New York Times for an editorial who accused Palin of "political incitement" in shooting into the shooting of women's congress Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, and mistakenly claimed the relationship between the ads of Palin's political action committee - which showed a cross-examination against a congressional district held by 20 Democrats, including Giffords. The Times later issued a correction, stating that "no such link was established" between the advertisements and shootings, and explained that what was described in the viewfinder was "electoral districts, not individual Democrats. "The Times writes that the error does not" weaken or weaken the argument of the piece. " In subsequent testimony to a trial of proof, editorial editor James Bennet stated that the editorial was trying to make a statement about the heated political rhetoric, and was not meant to blame Palin for the attack on Giffords.
Palin's case was dismissed by US District Court for the Southern District of New York in August 2017. Judge Jed S. Rakoff ruled that Palin had failed to show envy, wrote: "What we have here is editorial, written and rewritten quickly on command to voice an opinion on an important event, which included some factual inaccuracies that were somewhat related to Mrs. Palin, who were very quickly corrected, this omission is possible, but public defamation is unclear. "
2017 support in the Republican preliminary election
Prior to the 2008 Republican National Convention, a Gallup poll found that most voters did not know Sarah Palin. During the campaign to become vice president, 39% said Palin was ready to serve as president if needed, 33% said Palin was not, and 29% had no opinion. This is "the lowest vote in voting for a vice-president candidate since George Bush selected Indiana-Dan Danquayle senator to join his ticket in 1988." Following the convention, his image is under strict media control, especially with regard to his religious perspective on public life, his socially conservative views, and his lack of experience. Palin's experience in foreign and domestic politics has come under fire from conservatives and liberals after his candidacy. At the same time, Palin became more popular than John McCain among Republicans.
One month after McCain announced Palin as his spouse, he was viewed better and unpleasant among voters than his opponent, Delaware Senator Joe Biden. A number of television viewers rated Biden's performance higher in the 2008 vice-president debate.
The media outlet reiterated Palin's statement that he "stood for Big Oil" when he resigned after 11 months as head of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, because the offenses he witnessed involved other Republican commissioners and their relationship with energy companies and energy lobbyists. , and again when he raised taxes on oil companies as governors. In turn, others say that Palin is a "Big Oil best friend" for advocating oil exploration and development including drilling at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the removal of polar bears as endangered species.
Palin was named one of America's "10 Most Fascinating People of 2008" by Barbara Walters for ABC's special event on December 4, 2008. In April 2010, she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine .
Personal life
Sarah and Todd Palin were married on August 29, 1988, and they had five children: the son of Track Cj (born 1989) and Trig Paxson Van (born 2008), and the daughters of Bristol Sheeran Marie (born 1990), Willow Bianca Faye (born 1994 ), and Piper Indy Grace (born 2001). The youngest child Palin, Trig, born 2008, was diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome.
Palin has four grandchildren, two by Bristol and two by Track.
Todd's husband works for BP's oil company as an oilfield production operator, retired in 2009, and owns a commercial fishing business.
Palin "baptized Catholic as a newborn" as her mother, Sally, has been raised Catholic. However, the Heath family "started going to non-denominational churches" afterwards. Later, his family joined the Assembly of God Wasilla, a Pentecostal church, which he attended until 2002. Palin then turned to Wasilla Bible Church. Several news reports were posted shortly after McCain named him as his deputy candidate calling him the first Pentecostal/charismatic person to perform on a large party ticket. Palin does not use the term "Pentecost" but says she is a "Bible-believing Christian."
Publications
- Going Rogue: An American Life (2009)
- America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag (2010)
- Wishing Like Heck (2011)
- Good News and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (2013)
- Sweet Freedom: A Reflection (2015)
See also
- List of female governors in the United States
References
External links
- SarahPAC (Political Action Committee Sarah Palin) (Official)
- Sarah Palin channel on YouTube
- Sarah Palin at IMDb
- Sarah Palin on Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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