Tag Archives: Sarah Palin

You're looking very quitty, too

Last night while enmired in the seemingly endless (yet it ended, yay!) & repetitively nonsensical “Truth is not Hate” untruthful hate speech testimony of equal rights ordinance opponents (happily broken up by a lot of really good ordinance supporter testimony),  … Continue reading

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Governor's office admits errors on Palin spreadsheet

Sean Cockerham has posted a story in which Linda Perez of the Office of the Governor has admitted the spreadsheet they put together to prove Palin’s claim that ethics complaints against her have cost the State of Alaska $2 million — has errors. Really?

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Palin's $2 million ethics meme in context

Donald Craig Mitchell has given context to Palin’s claim that ethics complaints against her have cost the State of Alaska $2 million: Her $2 million dollar ethics complaints meme is really simply the excuse she was looking for to get out of a job she already wanted to get out of.

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Count me once, count me twice: Creative accounting on Palin's spreadsheet

An illustrated guide to the distortions in the spreadsheet that attempts to prove Palin’s claim that ethics complaints against her have cost the State of Alaska $2 million.

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More on Palin's spreadsheet

A walk through Sean Cockerham’s Anchorage Daily News article about the spreadsheet from the Office of the Governor that attempts to prove Palin’s claim that ethics complaints have cost the State of Alaska $2 million. I’ve also got a link to the spreadsheet itself.

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The nearly 2 million dollar spreadsheet

The Office of the Governor has a spreadsheet which “proves” Palin’s claim that “frivolous ethics complaints” have cost the State of Alaska $2 million. But… well, there are just a few little problems with the spreadsheet. Who’da guessed?

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The 2 million dollar meme

Sarah Palin’s fabrication about ethics complaints against her costing the State of Alaska 2 million dollars to resolve just keeps on replicating itself — thanks to the lazy reporting of mainstream media, & the cooperation of Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.

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Three things I did at lunchtime

This post has nothing to do with the Anchorage equal rights ordinance — aren’t you glad for a break? — but two of the things I did have to do with two of our staunch allies in that fight.  The … Continue reading

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WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays!

WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays.  Repeat: Wayne Anthony Ross will NOT be Alaska Attorney General. We fought the good fight, people, and we WON! The lima beans of the state are dancing. And so, I bet, are Alaska … Continue reading

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Alaska newspaper editorials against WAR

At least one of Alaska’s daily newspapers have come out editorially against the confirmation of Wayne Anthony Ross to be Alaska’s attorney general: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — “Reject Ross: Nominee for top legal post is wrong man for the job” … Continue reading

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