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At the very least, there was something fishy about Alaska Governor (and Vice Presidential hopeful) Sarah Palin's decision to speak out publicly against the state's Clean Water Initiative late last month. There may also be something blatantly illegal about her advocacy for defeating the ballot initiative, which ultimately failed to pass when 57 percent of Alaskans voted against it.
The law in Alaska forbids a governor from officially lobbying for or against a ballot initiative such as Ballot Measure 4. To get around the law, Palin exercised what she called "personal privilege" when she said to reporters, "Let me take my governor's hat off for just a minute here and tell you, personally, Prop 4-I vote no on that."
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9-08-2008 @11:37PM Bernie B said... Even before seeing this article, she strikes me as very anti-environment.
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9-09-2008 @1:44AM Michael said... I know you'd rather be writing for the NY Times, but please more food, less politics. And Bernie, I feel a lot better now that I know there are folks here who don't read before commenting.
Respectfully yours.
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9-09-2008 @8:10AM drstrangegun said... Hey, you forgot the recipe for the salmon.
You were going to post about food, right?
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9-09-2008 @8:30AM Thomas said... There is nothing respectful about that statement. It is snide, arrogant, and off-putting.
This blog is about food and anything relating to food - including politics. The decisions of the Alaskan government impact the choices we have as consumers in the salmon industry.
If you don't happen to like that fact, Michael, perhaps you should find a food blog that is in line with your restricted and more close-minded worldview.
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9-09-2008 @8:39AM LinC said... I found this very food related considering all the advertising for "wild Alaskan salmon" we've seen recently and the debate over mercury in ocean fish. Maybe wild-caught isn't the best choice after all if it comes from Alaska. Maybe Alaska's governor isn't the best choice either.
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9-09-2008 @9:08AM Bethany said... I liked this post. And Michael, it is food related. Oh, and Michael, Bernie never said he left the comment before reading. He expressed his feelings on Palin as they were *even* before reading the article. Learn how to read the English language, Michael. It's what about half of us speak in the America you claim to love. I hope you enjoyed being the d*bag to leave that comment!
Slashfood: keep it coming! Some of us don't mind articles that don't contain recipes, yet still relate to what winds up on our plates.
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9-09-2008 @12:56PM badfrog said... We will elect Gov. Palin as Vice President, not dictator. As the Alaskan populace demonstrated, an alert electorate, ourselves, is the best assurance of our liberty and environment.
BTW, I wonder what happened to the Chicago money earmarked for school lunches under the Obama-led $160,000,000 Annenberg plan that never were served. The plan that he worked on for four years with unrepentent former mad bomber Bill Ayers of the Weathermen terrrorists? Anybody know? Or is that not food enough related?
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9-09-2008 @1:00PM Saladbar said... I agree that this entry was highly relevant to the topic of "food"--which is why the source for this article was Gourmet magazine! I can get recipes from many sources on the web, but I view Slashfood daily for its complete coverage of the food industry. Great, eye-opening article--thanks!
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9-09-2008 @3:09PM Thomas said... badfrog:
You mean the plan whose Annenburg documents which are sealed by the CIC, and thus anything else is left to rampant speculation, just as you are doing here?
That's not food related.
The potential for toxins to be in something I eat, due to the potentially illegal actions of Palin (the action is factual and not based on speculation), IS food related.
Why can't some conservatives take any criticism?
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9-09-2008 @5:55PM totoro said... I'm glad Gourmet (and Slashfood) are reporting on food related issues and how we are affected by them.
Keep up the great work!
(And no, you can't just "take off the governor's hat for a moment", wtf?)
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9-10-2008 @10:47AM Mike said... Wow liberal hypocrisy at it's best. Yes David Estabrook is writing about food but his blog makes it pretty clear that it's just his avenue to push his liberal worldview. Quite frankly after reading his entries, you could replace Salmon with some other liberal catch phrase and it's all the same old tired arguments. Sarah Palin's family lives in the outdoors, they hunt, fish, camp. Hunters and Fisherman know that bad environmental policy screws the very thing they love. However, the liberal view of environmental policy is so extreme that the underlying view is that really people are the problem and we need to get rid of people. What my beef is as I said before, food is secondary to him pushing his worldview and I say this after reading through most of his articles.
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9-10-2008 @10:25PM mahalie said... Bush with heels, that is a change!
Anyone who doesn't see this about food doesn't eat fish. You like arsenic in your fish? You like Salmon to exist at all?
I would agree it may not be appropriate for this blog, however, based on the anti-political or just pro-republican comments here - may be off putting to many in the audience...
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9-12-2008 @2:56PM Nooneworthadamn said... I think the above comments are a perfect example of why slashfood posting about politics is a bad idea.
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