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Questions have been raised in the media regarding Palin's views on the separation of church and state, given her support for the injection of religion into public education,<ref>Jake Mohan.[http://www.utne.com/2008-09-07/Spirituality/Sarah-Palin-and-the-Separation-Between-Church-and-State.aspx?blogid=28 "Sarah Palin and the Separation Between Church and State"], Utne Reader, September 7, 2008</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Kizzia, Tom|url=http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html|title='Creation science' enters the race|publisher=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|date=2006-10-27}}.</ref> as well as her comments that soldiers in the Iraq war are "out on a task that is from God," and in the same remarks, her assertion that "God's will" was responsible for the Alaskan national gas pipeline project.<ref>Steve Benen.[http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014624.php "Palin's beliefs draw closer scrutiny"] ''Washington Monthly,'' September 9, 2008</ref> |
Questions have been raised in the media regarding Palin's views on the separation of church and state, given her support for the injection of religion into public education,<ref>Jake Mohan.[http://www.utne.com/2008-09-07/Spirituality/Sarah-Palin-and-the-Separation-Between-Church-and-State.aspx?blogid=28 "Sarah Palin and the Separation Between Church and State"], Utne Reader, September 7, 2008</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Kizzia, Tom|url=http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html|title='Creation science' enters the race|publisher=[[Anchorage Daily News]]|date=2006-10-27}}.</ref> as well as her comments that soldiers in the Iraq war are "out on a task that is from God," and in the same remarks, her assertion that "God's will" was responsible for the Alaskan national gas pipeline project.<ref>Steve Benen.[http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014624.php "Palin's beliefs draw closer scrutiny"] ''Washington Monthly,'' September 9, 2008</ref> |
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Sarah Palin | |
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11th Governor of Alaska | |
Assumed office December 4, 2006 | |
Lieutenant | Sean Parnell |
Preceded by | Frank Murkowski |
Chairperson, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission | |
In office 2003–2004 | |
Preceded by | Camille Oechsli Taylor[1] |
Succeeded by | John K. Norman[2] |
Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska | |
In office 1996–2002 | |
Preceded by | John Stein |
Succeeded by | Dianne M. Keller |
City Council Member, Wasilla, Alaska | |
In office 1992–1996 | |
Personal details | |
Born | [3] Sandpoint, Idaho, U.S. | February 11, 1964
Political party | Republican (1982 - Present) |
Spouse | Todd Palin (since 1988) |
Children | Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig |
Residence(s) | Wasilla, Alaska |
Alma mater | University of Idaho |
Profession | Politician, Journalist |
Signature | ![]() |
Political positions of Sarah Palin | |
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (Template:Pron-en; born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.
She was on the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1992-1996 and mayor from 1996-2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006, becoming the first woman and the youngest person to hold the position in Alaska.
On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced that he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the first Republican woman to run on her party's presidential ticket, as well as the first Alaskan to appear on any major-party presidential ticket.
Early life and education
Palin was born Sarah Louise Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho, the third of four children of Sarah Heath (née Sheeran), a school secretary, and Charles R. Heath, a science teacher and track coach.[6] Her family moved to Alaska when she was an infant. As a child, she would sometimes go moose hunting with her father before school, and the family regularly ran 5 km and 10 km races.[7]
Palin attended Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska, a city[8] located 29 miles (47 km) north of the port of Anchorage. She was the head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school, and the point guard and captain of the school's basketball team. She helped the team win the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds of the game, despite having an ankle stress fracture. She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play, and was the leader of the team prayer before games.[9]
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant,[10][11] then finished third (second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant,[12][13] at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.[14] Palin admits to trying cannabis as a youth, during the time Alaska had decriminalized possession though she says she did not enjoy it.[15][16]
Palin spent her first college semester at Hawaii Pacific College, transferring in 1983 to North Idaho College and then to the University of Idaho. She attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term, returning to the University of Idaho to complete her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.[17][18]
In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska.[19] She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing family business.[20]
City council of Wasilla
Sarah Palin was elected twice (1992 and 1995) to the city council of Wasilla. Palin says she entered politics because she was concerned that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely.[21]
She ran for Wasilla city council in 1992, at age 28, running against John Hartrick, a local telephone company worker, on a promise to bring "my progressive, competitive attitude" to government.[22][23] She won 530 votes to John Hartrick’s 310.[22]
On the council, she successfully opposed a measure to shut Wasilla's bars at 2 a.m. instead of 4 a.m., even though she was attending a church that preached abstinence from alcohol.[22] After serving on the city council for three years, she ran for reelection against R’nita Rogers in 1995, winning 413 votes to 185 for Rogers.[24] Palin did not complete her second term on the city council, as she decided to run for mayor in 1996. Throughout her tenure on the city council and the rest of her career, Palin has been a registered Republican.[25]
Mayor of Wasilla
Palin served two terms (1996–2002) as mayor of Wasilla. At the conclusion of Palin's tenure as mayor in 2002, the town had about 6,300 residents,[26] and it is now the fifth largest city in the state.[27] Term limits prevented Palin from running for a third term as mayor in 2002.[28]
In 1996, Palin defeated three-term incumbent mayor John Stein.[29] During the campaign, she charged Stein with wasteful spending and high taxes[30] and introduced abortion, gun rights, and term limits as campaign issues.[31] Although the election was a nonpartisan blanket primary, the state Republican Party ran advertisements on her behalf.[31]
By the end of her first term, Palin gained favor with Wasilla voters. She kept a jar with the names of Wasilla residents on her desk, and once a week she pulled a name from it and picked up the phone. She would ask: "How's the city doing?"[32]
Shortly after taking office in October 1996, Palin eliminated the position of museum director and asked for updated resumes and resignation letters from top officials, including the police chief, public works director, finance director and librarian.[33] Palin stated this request was to find out their intentions and whether they supported her.[33] She temporarily required department heads to get her approval before talking to reporters, saying that they first needed to become better acquainted with her administration's policies.[33] She hired a new city administrator and reduced her own salary from $68,000 to $64,000.[31]
Palin fired Police Chief Stambaugh the same day as Emmons.[34] Palin gave a signed letter to Police Chief Stambaugh stating: "I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla..."[34] Stambaugh claimed that his firing was retaliation for his opposition to letting residents carry concealed weapons, and his opposition to letting bars stay open late at night,[35] citing Palin's statement "that the National Rifle Association (NRA) didn't like me and that they wanted change."[36] Stambaugh filed a lawsuit but the case was dismissed; the court concluded the mayor had the right to fire city employees for nearly any reason, including a political one.[37]
According to city librarian Mary Emmons, in October 1996, Palin asked her whether she would object to library censorship.[38] Palin later spoke publicly about the issue, saying she had no particular books or other material in mind for removal,[38] and ultimately no books were removed from the library.[39][36][40] Emmons recalls Palin raising the possibility of people circling the library in protest, to which Emmons replied that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would get involved.[38]
Palin fired librarian Mary Emmons on January 30, 1997.[34] She rescinded the firing of Emmons the next day after meeting with her and after what the Anchorage Daily News called "a wave of public support for Emmons."[39] Palin stated that her concerns had been alleviated when Emmons agreed to support Palin's plan to merge the town's library and museum operations.[34]
Using income generated by a 2% sales tax that was enacted prior to her election, Palin cut property taxes by 75% and eliminated personal property and business inventory taxes.[41] Tapping municipal bonds, she made improvements to the roads and sewers[42] and increased funding to the Police Department.[31] She also oversaw new bike paths and procured funding for storm-water treatment to protect freshwater resources.[41] At the same time she reduced spending on the town museum and blocked construction of a new library and city hall.[41]
Palin ran for re-election against Stein in 1999 and won;[43][44] the vote was 909 to 292.[45] Palin was also elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors.[42]
During her second term as mayor, Palin introduced a ballot measure proposing the construction of a municipal sports center to be financed by a 0.5% sales tax increase.[46] The $14.7 million Wasilla Multi-Use Sports Complex was built on time and under budget, but the city lost an additional $1.3 million due to an eminent domain lawsuit caused by a failure to obtain legal ownership of the property before beginning construction.[46]
She also hired the Anchorage-based lobbying firm of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh to lobby for earmarks for Wasilla. The effort was led by Steven Silver, a former chief of staff for Senator Ted Stevens,[47] and it secured nearly $27 million in funds. The earmarks included $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a rail project linking Wasilla and the ski resort community of Girdwood.[48] Some of the earmarks were criticized by Senator McCain in 2001 and 2002.[49]
Post-mayoral years
In 2002, term limits prevented Palin from running for a third term as mayor.[50] Instead, she made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor and lost, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way Republican primary.[51] The Republican ticket of U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski and Leman won the November 2002 election. When Murkowski resigned from his long-held U.S. Senate seat in December 2002 to become governor, he considered appointing Palin to replace him in the Senate, but instead chose his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, who was then an Alaska state representative.[52]
Governor Murkowski appointed Palin to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. She chaired the Commission beginning in 2003, and served as Ethics Supervisor.[53] Palin resigned in January 2004, protesting what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Republican members.[54][55][56]
After resigning, Palin filed a formal complaint against Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the chair of the state Republican Party,[57] accusing him of doing work for the Party on public time and of working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating. She also filed a complaint against Gregg Renkes, a former Alaska Attorney General,[58] accusing him of having a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement,[59] while Renkes was the subject of investigation and after records suggesting a possible conflict of interest had been released to the public.[60] Ruedrich and Renkes both resigned and Ruedrich paid a record $12,000 fine.[61][53]
From 2003 to June 2005, Palin served as one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.," a 527 group that was designed to provide political training for Republican women in Alaska.[62] In 2004, Palin told the Anchorage Daily News that she had decided not to run for the U.S. Senate that year, against the Republican incumbent, Lisa Murkowski, because her teenage son opposed it. Palin said "How could I be the team mom if I was a U.S. senator?"[63]
Governor of Alaska
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In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Palin defeated Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.[64] Her running mate was State Senator Sean Parnell. Alaska Senator, Ted Stevens gave a late endorsement to Palin and filmed a television commercial with her during the gubernatorial campaign.[65]
Despite spending less than her Democratic opponent, she won the gubernatorial election in November, defeating former governor Tony Knowles 48.3% to 40.9%.[66] Palin became Alaska's first female governor and at age 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history.[67] She is the state's first governor to have been born after Alaska achieved U.S. statehood, and the first not to be inaugurated in Juneau; she chose to have the ceremony held in Fairbanks instead. She took office on December 4, 2006 and has maintained a high approval rating throughout her term.[68] Palin declared that top priorities of her administration would be resource development, education and workforce development, public health and safety, and transportation and infrastructure development.[69]
Palin had championed ethics reform throughout her election campaign. Her first legislative action after taking office was to push for a bipartisan ethics reform bill. She signed the resulting legislation in July 2007, calling it a "first step" declaring that she remains determined to clean up Alaska politics.[70]
Palin promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), where such development has been the subject of a national debate.[71] She also helped pass a tax increase on oil company profits. In March 2007, Palin put forward an Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) to encourage building a natural gas pipeline from the state's North Slope.[72] In January 2008, Palin announced that TransCanada Corporation was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.[73][74] In August 2008, Palin signed a bill awarding TransCanada Pipelines $500 million in seed money and a license to build and operate the $26 billion pipeline to transport gas from the North Slope to the Lower 48 through Canada.[75]
Palin has sometimes broken with the state Republican establishment. For example, she endorsed Sean Parnell's bid to unseat the state's longtime at-large U.S. Representative, Don Young.[76] Palin also publicly challenged Senator Ted Stevens to come clean about the ongoing federal investigation into his financial dealings.[citation needed] Shortly before his July 2008 indictment, she held a joint news conference with Stevens, described by The Washington Post as being "to make clear she had not abandoned him politically."[62]
In 2007 Palin obtained a passport and traveled for the first time outside North America to Kuwait and Germany to visit with members of the Alaska National Guard.[77][78]
Budget and spending
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In June 2007, Palin signed into law a $6.6 billion operating budget.[79] At the same time, she used her veto power to make the second-largest cuts of the construction budget in state history. The $237 million in cuts represented over 300 local projects, and reduced the construction budget to $1.6 billion.[80]
Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet; a purchase made by the Murkowski administration for $2.7 million in 2005, on a state government credit account, against the wishes of the legislature. In August 2007, the jet was listed on eBay, but the sale fell through, and the plane was later sold for $2.1 million through a private brokerage firm.[81]
Palin lives in Juneau during the legislative session and lives in Wasilla and works out of offices in Anchorage the rest of the year. She does not use the governor's private chef, whom Palin transferred to the Lounge of the State Legislature.[82] Palin has instead charged the state a per diem for the 312 nights she has spent at home ($16,951 in total allowances) and for her family's travel expenses ($43,490, an additional $93,000 for Palin herself), mostly between Juneau and Wasilla.[83] In response to criticism of a practice that is unusual by any standards, and illegal in many places, the governor's staffers told New York Times that the practice was in line with state policy.[84]
While initially supporting $223 million in federal funding for the "Bridge to Nowhere," Palin backed off when Alaska's share of the cost increased. In February 2008, Palin's office sent a 70-page memo to Ted Stevens' office, outlining $200 million in funding requests for Alaska.[85]
"Bridge(s) to Nowhere"
Two Alaskan bridge construction proposals supported by Palin in her 2006 gubernatorial race have been derided as a symbol of pork barrel spending: a proposed bridge connecting Ketchikan to Gravina Island (population 50) where its airport lies;[86] and a proposed bridge ("Don Young's Way", named after Alaska's Congressman) crossing Knik Arm to provide an alternate route from Anchorage to Wasilla.[87] The nickname "Bridge(s) to Nowhere" has been used for the Gravina Island Bridge alone[88] or, more rarely, both bridges.[89]
In 2006, Palin ran for governor on a "build-the-bridge" platform,[90] attacking "spinmeisters"[91] for insulting local residents by calling them "nowhere"[90] and urging speed "while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist."[92] About two years after the introduction of the bridge proposals, a month after the bridge received sharp criticism from John McCain,[93] and nine months into Palin's term as governor, Palin canceled the Gravina Bridge, blaming Congress for not providing enough funding.[94] Alaska will not return any of the $442 million to the federal government[95] and is spending a portion of the funding, $25 million, on a Gravina Island road to the place where the bridge would have gone, expressly so that none of the money will have to be returned.[90] Palin continues to support funding Don Young's Way, estimated as more than twice as expensive as the Gravina Bridge would have been.[96]
In her nomination acceptance speech and on the campaign trail, Palin has often said: "I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' for that Bridge to Nowhere."[97][98] Although Palin was originally a main proponent of the bridge, McCain-Palin television advertisements claim Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere".[99] These claims have been widely questioned or described as misleading in several newspapers across the political spectrum.[100][101][102][103] Newsweek, commenting on Palin's "astonishing pivot," remarked: "Now she talks as if she always opposed the funding."[104]
Public Safety Commissioner dismissal
On July 11, 2008, Sarah Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan, citing performance-related issues, such as not being a team player on budgeting issues.[105][106] Monegan alleged that his dismissal was retaliation for his failure to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was involved in a child custody battle with Palin’s sister. Governor Palin stated on July 17 that no pressure had been applied upon Monegan to fire Wooten.[107][105]
In July, Palin's ethics advisor urged her to apologize for "overreaching or perceived overreaching" to get Wooten fired.[108] Palin publicly acknowledged in August that "pressure could have been perceived to exist, although I have only now become aware of it."[109] She also apologized to Alaskans for the distraction.[110][111]
On August 1, the Alaska Legislature hired an independent investigator to review the situation.[112] The investigation is scheduled to be completed in October 2008.[107] On August 13, after an internal investigation, Palin acknowledged that her staff had contacted Monegan or his staff about two dozen times regarding Wooten. Palin placed the Alaska Director of Boards and Commissions on paid leave as a result of one tape-recorded call. She stated that she had only known about some of the contacts, that many of those contacts were appropriate, and restated she had not fired Monegan because of Wooten,[113] who is still employed as a state trooper.[114]
On September 1, Palin's lawyer asked the state Legislature to drop its investigation, saying that by state law, the governor-appointed state Personnel Board had jurisdiction over ethics issues.[115] Palin also asked that the Board review the matter as an ethics complaint.[116]
Palin's choice to replace Monegan, Charles M. Kopp, chief of the Kenai police department, was named to the position on July 11, 2008. He resigned on July 25 after it was revealed that he had received a letter of reprimand for sexual harassment in his previous position.[117]
2008 Vice-presidential campaign
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On August 29, 2008, in Dayton, Ohio, Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, announced that he had chosen Palin as his running mate.[118] Palin had been under consideration since a private meeting with McCain in a February National Governors Association meeting; although this was the first time the two had met, Palin made a favorable impression on McCain. McCain was reportedly concerned about reclaiming his image as a "maverick Republican" and wanted someone to shake up the ticket. With this in mind, he called Palin on August 24 to discuss the possibility of having her join him on the ticket.[119] On August 27, Palin visited McCain's vacation home near Sedona, Arizona, where she was offered the position of vice-presidential candidate.[120] Palin was the only prospective running mate who had a face-to-face interview with McCain to discuss joining the ticket.[119] Nonetheless, Palin's selection was a surprise to many as speculation had centered on other candidates, such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, United States Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.[118]
Palin is the second woman to run on a major U.S. party ticket. The first was Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984, who ran with former vice-president Walter Mondale.[118][121] On September 3, 2008, Palin delivered a 40-minute acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention that was watched by more than 40 million viewers and was well-received by the crowd.[122][123][124]
Palin is scheduled to participate in a vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden on October 2, 2008.[125] The election is set for November 4.
Reception
Overall, the choice of Palin was well-received by potential supporters, with a series of polls suggesting that Palin gave a major boost to John McCain's campaign and excited the Republican base.[126] Since Palin was largely unknown outside of Alaska prior to her selection by McCain, her personal life, positions, and political record became the focus of intense media attention and scrutiny.[127][128] Some Republicans felt that Palin was being subjected to unreasonable media coverage,[129] and a poll found that slightly more than half of Americans believed that the press was "trying to hurt" Palin with negative coverage, a sentiment referenced by Palin in her acceptance speech. Polls conducted immediately after the speech found that Palin was viewed favorably by a majority of respondents.[130][131][132]
The choice of Palin polarized voters and energized the Republican base. The McCain campaign reversed its poll deficit, and Palin may have boosted support among white women.[133][134] A WSJ/NBC News poll taken September 9 indicated 34% of respondents were more likely to vote for McCain as a result of the Palin pick while 25% were less likely.[135]
Palin appeared on the covers of Newsweek and Time, which had been critical of the level of media access to Palin allowed by the McCain campaign .[136] Her first interview with the press, with Charles Gibson of ABC News, aired on September 12. In the interview, Palin answered questions about her experience, national security, and Iraq.[137]
Political positions
Palin has described the Republican Party platform as "the right agenda for America," because of its "respect for equality and respect for life and an acknowledgment that it is individual Americans and American families who can make better decisions for ourselves than government can ever make for us," adding that "individual freedom and independence is extremely important to me and that's why I'm a Republican."[4]
Palin is a social conservative. A lifetime member of the National Rifle Association (NRA),[138] Palin believes the right to bear arms includes handgun possession.[139] She also supports capital punishment.[140] Palin opposes same-sex marriage and supported a non-binding referendum for an Alaskan constitutional amendment to deny state health benefits to same-sex couples.[141][142] Palin has called herself "as pro-life as any candidate can be,"[141] although she says she is supportive of contraception; she is opposed to abortion except in cases where the mother's life is in danger,[143] and has supported bills to outlaw late-term abortions and to require parental consent for underage abortions in Alaska.[144] Palin opposes sex education and endorses the teaching of abstinence-only sex education in schools.[141][145][146] In addition, she supports gun safety education for youth. Palin also supports teaching creationism in public schools, though she does not believe it should be mandatory.[147]
As governor of Alaska, Palin pushed to reduce state government spending, including cutting $1.6 billion from the Alaskan construction budget.[80] She has not opposed the increased federal funding of construction programs for her state.[148]
Palin has promoted oil and natural gas resource development in Alaska, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).[71] She has opposed federal listing of the polar bear as an endangered species, warning that it would adversely affect energy development in Alaska.[149] She has also opposed the designation of the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species and, with the majority of Alaskans, has supported predator control initiatives such as the aerial hunting of wolves.[150][151]
Regarding foreign policy, Palin generally supports the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq[152][153], supports Israel’s right to defend itself, supports US military operations in Pakistan without Pakistani approval, and supports NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.[137]
Separation of church and state
Questions have been raised in the media regarding Palin's views on the separation of church and state, given her support for the injection of religion into public education,[154][155] as well as her comments that soldiers in the Iraq war are "out on a task that is from God," and in the same remarks, her assertion that "God's will" was responsible for the Alaskan national gas pipeline project.[156]
In October of 2007, she signed the "Christian Heritage Week" Proclamation[157] which reminds of the role Christianity has played in our heritage.[158]
Personal life
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In 1988, Sarah Heath eloped to marry Todd Palin, her high-school boyfriend.[159][160] Todd Palin works for the oil company BP as an oil-field production operator and owns a commercial fishing business.[161][162] The family lives in Wasilla.
The couple have five children: sons Track (b. 1989) and Trig (b. 2008), and daughters Bristol (b. 1990), Willow (b. 1995), and Piper (b. 2001).[163] Track Palin enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 11, 2007,[164] and subsequently was assigned to an infantry brigade. He and his unit are to be deployed to Iraq in September 2008, for 12 months.[165] Palin's youngest child, Trig, has Down syndrome, diagnosed prenatally.[166]
Palin announced on September 1, 2008, that her daughter Bristol was five months pregnant and intended to keep the baby and marry the father of her child, Levi Johnston.[167][168] The McCain-Palin campaign stated that John McCain was aware of Palin's daughter's pregnancy, and that it did not affect his choice.[169]
Palin was born into a Catholic family.[170] When she was 4 years old, her family joined the Wasilla Assembly of God, which belongs to a Pentecostal association of churches.[171] Palin attended the Wasilla Assembly of God until age 38. When in Juneau, she attends the Juneau Christian Center.[172] Her current home church is the Wasilla Bible Church, an independent congregation.[173] Palin described herself in an interview as a "Bible-believing" Christian.[170]
Palin was crowned Miss Wasilla in 1984 and also competed in the Miss Alaska pageant. She likes to hunt, ice fish, ride snowmobiles and eat moose burgers.[174] In 2005, she completed a marathon in less than four hours,[175] and is a self-described hockey mom.
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- ^ "Biographical Information John K. Norman" (PDF). Alaska State Legislature. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- ^ "Alaska Governor Sarah Palin". National Governors Association. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
- ^ a b Newton-Small, Jay (2008-08-29). "TIME's interview with Sarah Palin". Time. p. 3. Retrieved 2008-08-30.
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- ^ Johnson 2008, pp. 15–17
- ^ http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=82
- ^ Johnson 2008, pp. 27–31
- ^ "McCain surprises with Palin pick". MarketWatch. 2008-08-29. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
- ^ Peterson, Deb. "Palin was a high school star, says schoolmate," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 30 Aug 2008. Available online. Archived 01 Sept 2008.
- ^ "Miss Alaska '84 Recalls Rival's Winning Ways". Washington Post. Retrieved 2008-09-09]].
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- ^ Lerer, Lisa (2008-08-29). "Palin: She Inhaled". The Crypt. CBS News. Retrieved 2008-09-05.: “the self-proclaimed ‘hockey mom’ had some youthful indiscretions.”
- ^ "Palin education took her to five colleges". Associated Press via Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
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References
- Johnson, Kaylene (2008), Sarah:How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down, Epicenter Press, ISBN 0979047080.
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