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Palin: Won't cooperate with Alaska probe
Spin CycleUpdating Troopergate: The McCain campaign announces that Palin likely won't cooperate in an investigation by Alaska's bi-partisan Legislative Council of her firing of the state's public safety director, allegedly because he wouldn't do her bidding and...Tags: Government, Elections, Political Candidates, Safety of Citizens
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Palin: Hired fundamentalist after firing cop boss
Spin CycleSince her nomination, Gov. Palin has been dogged by questions about her firing of Walter Monegan, the state public safety director who had refused to ax a trooper who had been involved in a bad marriage with Palin's sister. Palin......Tags: Sarah Palin, Religion and Belief, Franklin Graham, Christianity
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Troopergate: An Anchorage take
Spin CycleSince her nomination, Palin has been trying to discredit the Alaska investigation into her firing of public safety director Walt Monegan, who had refused to fire a state trooper involved in a marital dispute with Palin's sister. This fairly digestible....... -
Photos: Looking like Sarah in AK
Spin CycleApparently, a Sarah Palin lookalike contest climaxing on Oct. 29 has become a big draw at Anchorage's Blues Central club. Go to the Anchorage Daily News site here to see some of the results. A sample: H/T Liisa.......Tags: Sarah Palin
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Per diems: Palin may have to pay
Spin CycleIn an item on Monday, we reported on a conversation with Alaska finance director Kim Garnero, in which she admitted that any other state employee working most of the time away from her "duty station" -- as Palin did when......Tags: Juneau, Employees, Career and Workplace
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Barack Obama cruises through Denver
The Swampby John McCormick DENVER - If it feels like Sen. Barack Obama is trying to run the clock out, it's because he is. As the Illinois Democrat appeared this afternoon in front of a crowd that stretched from a local......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, National Government, John McCain, Republican Party
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Sen. Ted Stevens convicted
The SwampSen. Ted Stevens leaves federal court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008, after guilty verdicts were returned by the jury at his trial. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) by Frank James Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican, needed an acquittal in......Tags: Government, Ted Stevens, National Government, Election Day, Personal Service
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Sarah Palin: 'Consignment shop' wear
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarah Palin, campaigning in "old clothes from'' a "consignment shop in Anchorage,'' is criss-crossing Virginia today, in a bid to save a state that hasn't voted Democratic in presidential contests since 1964. The Alaska governor and...Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain, Neiman Marcus
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Obama endorsement: Alaskan newspaper
The Swampby Mark Silva Republican John McCain likes to call running mate Sarah Palin the most popular governor in America, but the Alaska governor's leading home-state newspaper has gone with someone else in its editorial endorsement: Democrat Barack Obama. In...Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Newspaper and Magazine, National Government, John McCain
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Ten for Monday: Homestretch
Spin CycleObama will spend the last week of the campaign on the attack in red states, while McCain plans to play a lot of defense and mount an aggressive effort in Pennsylvania. Obama continued to draw huge crowds yesterday including......Tags: Government, Long Island Rail Road, George W. Bush
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Ted Stevens in denial (not Denali)
The SwampSen. Ted Stevens, right, answers a question during a congressional debate in Anchorage, Alaska Thursday Oct. 30, 2008 as Democrat candidate Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich listens. (AP Photo/Al Grillo) by Frank James The freshly minted convict Sen. Ted...Tags: Regional Authority, Ted Stevens, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Politics
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Reid to Stevens: No felon in Senate
The Swampby Frank James I meant to get this one up earlier. Sen. Ted Stevens, who was recently convicted in federal court of failure to disclose gifts as required by federal law has his good friend, Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye of......Tags: Ted Stevens, John Ensign, Daniel Inouye, Upper House, John McCain
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