Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin Read Online Free Page B
Author: Frank Bailey
Murkowski broke that promise . . .
Iâm the only Republican candidate who stood up to Ruedrich and Murkowski . . . I did so at personal cost, including leaving a $124,000-year top-level state job.
While Sarah exaggerated the importance of the AOGCC (Alaska supplies not 20 percent but only about 2.4 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy), she displayed an early hyperbolic willingness to attack and defend.
In 2004 Richard Mauer reported in the
Anchorage Daily News
on the lengths to which Sarah went to uncover Ruedrichâs violation:
The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files . ..
Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders, many showing work Ruedrich had been doing for the Republican Party and others showing how closely he worked with at least one company he was supposed to be regulating.
With this widely reported and praised resignation for principle and antiestablishment rhetoric, Sarah branded herself the peopleâs champion. Sacrificing the arrogant party stalwarts to gain favor with true conservatives, she traded up.
Upon learning Sarah might take a run at unseating Frank Murkowski as governor in the 2006 election, I felt drawn to volunteer. I looked up the name Palin in the phone book. The Wasilla phone number was listed right there in the White Pages. (Donât forget, this is Alaska.)
âHi, is this Sarah?â
I explained about wanting her to run for governor and how the state, the party, and the people needed her. I said that Iâd do whatever I could to help her win.
My wife, Janeen (Neen), thought I was nuts. âYou just picked up the phone and called her like that, right out of the blue? Isnât that kind of weird?â I hadnât really thought about the implausibility, but, yeah, there was a certain amount of serendipity in what Iâd done. Certainly Frank Murkowski wasnât listed in the phone book, and I doubt heâd be interested in having Mr. Nobody do much more than write him a check.
Apparently my immediate follow-up email expressing disgust with Governor Murkowski struck a chord.
From: frank bailey
To: spalin
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Campaign Volunteer
Hi Sarah,
Once again . . . sorry about the odd phone call this afternoon. If you want a resume to see my skill set just let me know. I just decided that I wanted to get behind anything that could possibly make a positive change. I do know this . . . I will likely vote for a Democrat before I would vote for Murkowski again. His arrogance and his âslow to actâ style of addressing ethics issues have disappointed me. We are a better state then we have become.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Frank Bailey
Sarah responded, indicating that sheâd be in touch if she decided to run. More than three months later, in October, she officially announced her candidacy. I sent another email:
From: frank bailey
To: sarah palin
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Campaign Volunteer
Hi Sarah,
I caught you on Channel 2 tonight. You were AWESOME on TV. You spoke to the heart of most Alaskans . . . ethics, small government, practical experience vs a comfortable career politician.
Let me know if/how I can help in your campaign. My experience is fairly broad, but Iâm willing to clean toilets if thatâs what it is needed. I can send a resume so you can see my skill sets, but my involvement has been mostly management in the airline industry for the past 12 yrs . . . I . . . have done quite a bit with budgets (not huge budgets . . . 1mil/yr). Let me be clear though, I am not
Iâm the only Republican candidate who stood up to Ruedrich and Murkowski . . . I did so at personal cost, including leaving a $124,000-year top-level state job.
While Sarah exaggerated the importance of the AOGCC (Alaska supplies not 20 percent but only about 2.4 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy), she displayed an early hyperbolic willingness to attack and defend.
In 2004 Richard Mauer reported in the
Anchorage Daily News
on the lengths to which Sarah went to uncover Ruedrichâs violation:
The next week, when Palin went back to work at the AOGCC, she noticed that Ruedrich had removed his pictures from the walls and the personal effects from his desk. But as she and an AOGCC technician worked their way around his computer password at the behest of an assistant attorney general in Fairbanks, they found his cleanup had not extended to his electronic files . ..
Palin found dozens of e-mail messages and documents stacked up in trash folders, many showing work Ruedrich had been doing for the Republican Party and others showing how closely he worked with at least one company he was supposed to be regulating.
With this widely reported and praised resignation for principle and antiestablishment rhetoric, Sarah branded herself the peopleâs champion. Sacrificing the arrogant party stalwarts to gain favor with true conservatives, she traded up.
Upon learning Sarah might take a run at unseating Frank Murkowski as governor in the 2006 election, I felt drawn to volunteer. I looked up the name Palin in the phone book. The Wasilla phone number was listed right there in the White Pages. (Donât forget, this is Alaska.)
âHi, is this Sarah?â
I explained about wanting her to run for governor and how the state, the party, and the people needed her. I said that Iâd do whatever I could to help her win.
My wife, Janeen (Neen), thought I was nuts. âYou just picked up the phone and called her like that, right out of the blue? Isnât that kind of weird?â I hadnât really thought about the implausibility, but, yeah, there was a certain amount of serendipity in what Iâd done. Certainly Frank Murkowski wasnât listed in the phone book, and I doubt heâd be interested in having Mr. Nobody do much more than write him a check.
Apparently my immediate follow-up email expressing disgust with Governor Murkowski struck a chord.
From: frank bailey
To: spalin
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Campaign Volunteer
Hi Sarah,
Once again . . . sorry about the odd phone call this afternoon. If you want a resume to see my skill set just let me know. I just decided that I wanted to get behind anything that could possibly make a positive change. I do know this . . . I will likely vote for a Democrat before I would vote for Murkowski again. His arrogance and his âslow to actâ style of addressing ethics issues have disappointed me. We are a better state then we have become.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help. Frank Bailey
Sarah responded, indicating that sheâd be in touch if she decided to run. More than three months later, in October, she officially announced her candidacy. I sent another email:
From: frank bailey
To: sarah palin
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Campaign Volunteer
Hi Sarah,
I caught you on Channel 2 tonight. You were AWESOME on TV. You spoke to the heart of most Alaskans . . . ethics, small government, practical experience vs a comfortable career politician.
Let me know if/how I can help in your campaign. My experience is fairly broad, but Iâm willing to clean toilets if thatâs what it is needed. I can send a resume so you can see my skill sets, but my involvement has been mostly management in the airline industry for the past 12 yrs . . . I . . . have done quite a bit with budgets (not huge budgets . . . 1mil/yr). Let me be clear though, I am not
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