The New York Times has a feature Sunday on Sarah Palin's governing style. Click the headline for the full article, a must read on the person John McCain picked to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
If the style sounds familiar it should, it is the way the Bush administration operates. Four more years, four more years!!!!
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
Ms. Havemeister was one of at least five schoolmates Ms. Palin hired, often at salaries far exceeding their private sector wages.
When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects.
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