Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.
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Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator, author, and reality television personality who served as the ninth governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009.
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Sarah Palin's was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee alongside U S Senator John McCain.
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Sarah Palin was elected to the Wasilla city council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996.
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Sarah Palin was nominated for the vice presidency at the 2008 Republican National Convention, shortly after her selection was announced by McCain's campaign.
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Sarah Palin's was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
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When Sarah Palin was a few months old, the family moved to Skagway, Alaska, where her father had been hired to teach.
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Sarah Palin's attended Wasilla High School, where she was head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and a member of the girls' basketball and cross-country running teams.
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In 1984, Sarah Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty pageant; she finished third in the Miss Alaska pageant, where she won the title of "Miss Congeniality".
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Sarah Palin's played the flute in the talent portion of the contest.
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Shortly after arriving in Hawaii, Sarah Palin transferred to Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu for a semester in the fall of 1982.
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Sarah Palin's returned to the mainland, enrolling at North Idaho College, a community college in Coeur d'Alene, for the spring and fall semesters of 1983.
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Sarah Palin returned to the University of Idaho in January 1986 and received her bachelor's degree in communications with an emphasis in journalism in May 1987.
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Sarah Palin was elected to the Wasilla City Council in 1992, winning 530 votes to 310.
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Concerned that revenue from a new Wasilla sales tax would not be spent wisely, Sarah Palin ran for mayor of Wasilla in 1996, defeating incumbent mayor John Stein 651 to 440 votes.
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Sarah Palin's ran for reelection against Stein in 1999 and won, 909 votes to 292.
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Sarah Palin's was elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors in 1999.
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Sarah Palin's oversaw creation of new bike paths and procured funding for storm-water treatment to protect freshwater resources.
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Sarah Palin stated this request was to find out their intentions and whether they supported her.
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Sarah Palin's temporarily required department heads to get her approval before talking to reporters, saying they needed to learn her administration's policies.
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In October 1996, Sarah Palin asked library director Mary Ellen Emmons if she would object to the removal of a book from the library if people were picketing to have the book removed.
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Sarah Palin said she fired Police Chief Irl Stambaugh because he did not fully support her efforts to govern the city.
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In 2002, Sarah Palin ran for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, coming in second to Loren Leman in a five-way Republican primary.
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Sarah Palin's joined with Democratic legislator Eric Croft in complaining that Gregg Renkes, then the attorney general of Alaska, had a financial conflict of interest in negotiating a coal exporting trade agreement.
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From 2003 to June 2005, Sarah Palin served as one of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc, " a 527 group designed to provide political training for Republican women in Alaska.
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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.
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In 2006, running on a clean-government platform, Sarah Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary.
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Sarah Palin's became Alaska's first female governor and, at the age of 42, the youngest governor in Alaskan history.
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Sarah 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.
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Sarah Palin's had championed ethics reform throughout her election campaign.
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Sarah Palin's signed the resulting legislation in July 2007, calling it a "first step" and declaring that she remained determined to clean up Alaska politics.
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In 2006, Sarah Palin obtained a passport and in 2007 traveled for the first time outside North America, on a trip to Kuwait.
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In 2008, Sarah Palin vetoed $286 million, cutting or reducing funding for 350 projects from the FY09 capital budget.
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Sarah Palin followed through on a campaign promise to sell the Westwind II jet, a purchase made by the Murkowski administration for $2.
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Sarah Palin has said that her decreasing support for federal funding was a source of friction between her and the state's congressional delegation; Sarah Palin requested less in federal funding each year than her predecessor Frank Murkowski requested in his last year.
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In March 2007, Sarah Palin's office announced that a bounty of $150 per wolf would be paid to the 180 volunteer pilots and gunners in five areas of Alaska to offset fuel costs.
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Sarah Palin told the Palins that there was nothing he could do because the matter was closed.
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Legislators stated that Sarah Palin had the legal authority to fire Monegan, but they wanted to know whether her action had been motivated by anger at Monegan for not firing Wooten.
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Sarah Palin's placed an aide on paid leave due to a tape-recorded phone conversation that she deemed improper, in which the aide, appearing to act on her behalf, complained to a trooper that Wooten had not been fired.
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Sarah Palin's said her resignation was influenced by her desire not to be a lame duck.
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Sarah Palin was largely unknown outside Alaska before her selection by McCain.
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Political scientists have debated the impact that Sarah Palin had on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election.
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Sarah Palin's team believed the attack was executed by Anonymous during Operation Payback.
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Gabrielle Giffords, Palin faced criticism for her SarahPAC website's inclusion of a political graphic that included a crosshair over Giffords's district.
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In November 2009, Sarah Palin released her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, in which she details her private and political career, including her resignation as Governor of Alaska.
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Sarah Palin said she took the title from the phrase 'gone rogue' used by McCain staffers to describe her behavior when she spoke her mind on the issues during the campaign.
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Sarah Palin traveled to 11 states in a bus, with her family accompanying her, to promote the book.
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Sarah Palin said Obama was weak on the War on Terror for allowing the so-called Christmas bomber to board a plane headed for the United States.
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In 2011, Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker at an annual tax day tea party rally at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, and a featured speaker at a Tea Party Express rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, at which Sarah Palin urged members of the Tea Party movement to avoid internal bickering with Establishment Republicans.
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In mid-2010, Sarah Palin positioned herself as a champion of conservative Republican women, calling for a "whole stampede of pink elephants" in the 2010 midterm elections.
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Sarah Palin's endorsed a number of female Republican candidates in primary elections, including Karen Handel, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor of Georgia in the 2010 election.
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Sarah Palin's spoke at a May 2010 fundraiser for the Susan B Anthony List, an anti-abortion political advocacy group and political action committee that supports pro-life women in politics, in which she coined the term "mama grizzly".
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Sarah Palin endorsed Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina three weeks before the election.
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In November 2010 Sarah Palin confirmed that she was considering running for the Presidency and was "having that discussion with my family".
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Sarah Palin's said she realised her level of experience could cause problems with winning the nomination and criticized the "lamestream media" for focusing attention on her personal life.
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Sarah Palin's had previously supported a referendum to repeal the tax cuts, which was narrowly defeated in August 2014.
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Sarah Palin was one of the three remaining of 50 initial candidates in the 2022 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election.
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Sarah Palin opposed the 2010 health care reform package, saying it would lead to rationing of health care by a bureaucracy, which she described using the term "death panels".
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Sarah Palin's has called marijuana use a "minimal issue" and suggested that arresting cannabis users should be a low priority for local police.
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Life Member of the National Rifle Association, Sarah Palin interprets the Second Amendment as including the right to handgun possession and opposes bans on semi-automatic assault weapons.
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Sarah Palin's attacked what she called "heavy-handed" environmental laws and cited her 2008 suit, as Alaska's governor, against the federal government to overturn the listing of polar bears as a threatened species.
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Sarah Palin's considered environmental regulations as an economic burden to businesses trying to recover from the recession and environmental activists as wanting to "lock up the land".
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Sarah Palin's supported the surge strategy in Iraq, the use of additional ground forces in Afghanistan, and, in general, maintaining a strong defensive posture by increasing the defense budget.
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Sarah Palin opposed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which placed limits on Iran's nuclear program, on the grounds that the treaty was not strict enough.
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Sarah Palin's youngest child, Trig, born 2008, was prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.
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Sarah Palin has eight grandchildren, three by Bristol, two by Track and three by Willow.
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Todd Sarah Palin worked for oil company BP as an oil-field production operator, retiring in 2009.
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Sarah Palin requested an equal division of debts and assets, and to have joint custody of their son, Trig.
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Sarah Palin's said it was because of abuses she witnessed involving other Republican commissioners and their ties to energy companies and energy lobbyists; she claimed to have confronted the industry when she raised taxes on oil companies as governor.
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In turn, others have said that Sarah Palin is a "friend of Big Oil" due to her advocacy for oil exploration and development including for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and for the de-listing of the polar bear as an endangered species.
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Since 2017, Sarah Palin has spoken out in support of Julian Assange and in 2020 she called for him to be pardoned saying “I am the first one to admit when I make a mistake and I admit that I made a mistake some years ago, not supporting Julian Assange, thinking that he was a bad guy, ”.
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